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Double duty bokashi composting

April 17, 2013Eloine

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.

Our Christmas tradition

December 25, 2011Eloine

Each year we decorate our friesian horses on Christmas Eve and cover them with sleigh bells so we can hear them jingle all through out Christmas day.

Mom and me with our friesians on Christmas Eve

Rim lighting

November 15, 2011Eloine

While taking a break at work today I took my new camera on a little walk down the halls. In front of me I saw a student with a marvelous glow around his body. Within a second he moved and it was gone but for moment I was able to capture it.

I have an oak!

September 27, 2009Eloine

I just discovered a volunteer oak in my garden! It’s growing in an old raised plant bed I had which would be the perfect spot for an oak except I have chicken wire underneath to stop the gophers coming from underneath. I am afraid that if I let it be the roots will get strangled by this and it will kill tree. However if I dig it up to transplant it I will kill it as well. Hard to know the right thing to do!?

In bloom today

July 10, 2009Eloine

I just noticed that my loropetalum was in bloom today. I actually didn’t know it had flowers. I posted an earlier entry of when I bought it. Not the prettiest flower but nice to have as an accent.

I took this photo with a Nikon D200, 70-200 2.8 VR lens and some extension tubes that my friend loaned me to try for close up some. I think I am am going to buy!

Bought a 1 gallon pot of Myoporum

June 13, 2009Eloine

myopora I got a coupon for Edan Plains Nursery and got this plant for free. I put it in a hanging basket in the Veggie garden.

It says it can be used as a lawn because it’s a good ground cover but I like how it seems to hang so I thought basket would be best.

I also fertilized the all of the veggie garden today.

Rock Rose

June 8, 2009Eloine

I bought this plant at Home Depot a while back and had no clue it would create such a beautiful flower. I almost didn’t put it in the ground because the leaves aren’t that pretty but the flower sure it. My photo club friend just ID’d it. Here is his picture of his flower that I also have.

And here is my picture. It’s no longer in bloom but I saved it to identify later.

Here is more information on Wikipedia about it.