vermicomposting...

...I have wanted a wormery for such a long time and now we finally have one!  I wanted to make one, but we were lucky enough to be given one of these lovelies for christmas.

I'm a little anxious about the worms though, I'm really worried we going to over/under feed them!  But I can't wait to have all that fabulous compost and plant feed, if all does go well!  They are living under the kitchen sink at the moment, but once the worst of the cold weather seems firmly behind us, they will be going in the garden.

a very busy month...

...so I have been fairly terrible at keeping this up to date! In fact completely useless and it has been well over a month since I have blogged!

I have however been super busy planting seeds and tending to the seedlings and my terrace is beginning to look lovely indeed.

I currently have growing...

• tomatoes (a LOT of them)


• cucumber


• spinach


• carrots


• onions


• garlic


• strawberries


• various lettuce leaves


• beetroot


• cauliflower


• cabbage


• chilli peppers


• yellow bell peppers


• sweet peppers


• basil (green and purple)


• oregano


• thyme


• coriander


• parsley


• mint


• potatoes

Wow it looks like a lot when you write the list out like that.  As you can imagine my windowsills are looking very full at the moment.  I have set up a little table in the utility room in order to free up a little space but have still had to relocate some of the cucumbers, tomatoes and pepper plants outside-some are doing surprisingly well, others are suffering horribly.

I've also spent a small fortune on pots and compost-which has led me to look into vermicomposting.  As we certainly don't have room for a proper composter I think this will be a good compromise until I move in to a dream house with a huge garden.  If anyone has any experience of this I would love to hear about it.

I really want to keep a better track of my seedlings so promise I will be a more regular blogger from now on!