Garden Stuff

Earth day graphics

Eloine

Just sharing a couple graphics that I made recently for the upcoming earth day on April 22nd. One is for a plant sale and another is an awareness event put on my a sustainability committee. I used some clip are and did a lot merging.

The font I used for the writing on the pot is called “chalkboard” Kinda obvious huh?

For the image below I used puppet warp to get the ground to wrap around the earth and spherized filter to bloat the text a little. I made a selection of the text on the earth and then inverted the colors and overlaid the green color. There is kind of a dark quality to it that I think tells a little story about earth day or consequences of not caring about the earth.

 

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Double duty bokashi composting

Eloine

I have share a little garden update success. I’ve been doing bokashi composting (rapid composting) for a little while now and developed a routine that I thought I would share.

Bokashi is a method of composting that is basically fermenting kitchen waste with a mixture called EM-1 and then burying it in the ground to finish the composting cycle in about 28 days. It can vary of course according to the weather – in winter it takes longer than in the Summer but it’s safe to say when digging the soil back up after 28 days most of the kitchen material will be gone and you’ll have rich black fluffy soil in its place. (read an article about bokashi here).

The advice is to dig a trench in the backyard and bury it at least 8 inches deep after it has fermented. The deeper the better and given  I have birds and thick heavy clay soil I opted for another way of doing it.

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A little world

Eloine

As a little test for myself I thought I would photograph my beta. He doesn’t display often but I found he doesn’t like it when I wear black. Also he has a very  dark head so it’s hard to get enough light on him without it reflecting into the glass. I think I got it pretty good here with the help of my mother holding a flashlight over his head. All this took place while the snail cleaned the glass peacefully below.

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Elephant eared beta
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Beta companion – shot with my iphone