We've got worms !!!
OK. Well firstly, Happy New Year and all the best for 2009 to anyone taking the time to read our blog and secondly, Surprise! I am still alive and am finally getting around to doing a post (after much nagging from Rob over the past year). Sorry, nothing personal. I've become a bit of an Internet hermit whilst I've been getting my head around teaching. I think I'm getting there although next year will no doubt throw up lots more challenges.
Can't complain - much - I am loving it and it certainly beats sitting in an office or staring at a photocopier all day, but as with all new things it takes some adjusting to and the rest of my life has been put on hold for a while. I have high expectations of myself which has probably meant I have done much more than is actually required of me in my first year and so it has been time consuming. However, I am sure all the time and effort has not gone to waste and I will reap the benefits in the coming years.
One of the things which has fallen by the wayside over the past year is our garden. We have plans to make large areas of it much lower maintenance this year with the cunning use of weed mat and gravel. As with all things there is a cost involved in this though so we are taking small steps. OK, let's be honest - I'm making plans and Rob has made a start on the hard labour :-)
I have managed to get on with starting growing herbs and veggies again and have several things happily flourishing on the deck at the moment as well as some pumpkins and peas growing around the back.
Hopefully the veggie patch will be dug over in the next few days (by the two of us) and I can set about planting more things to give us a nice supply of healthy food over the coming months. The challenge will of course be keeping on top of it this year but we'll see how it goes.
I'm not a big fan of chemicals - especially with all the animals running around and licking and chewing things - but I concede that veggies do need a bit of help to grow. So, I've invested in a worm farm to start producing fertiliser. The bins for it were purchased a few weeks ago but I only got the worms today. It's a bit weird having a courier turning up with a can of worms, inviting jokes about opening it, but it was strangely exciting (I'm turning in to a weirdo).
We put the worms in to their new home this morning and gave them some yummy scraps from the kitchen.
They seem happy enough so far - do worms feel happy?? They need to be fed every couple of days from now on - which is a further incentive to eat more fruit and veggies - and we should start getting good quality fertiliser from them in about 6 weeks and then every couple of weeks after that. Will have to see how it goes!
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