I apologise if your were eating... this is what goes on inside a rotten apple, inside my worm farm.
Today I've been pottering around the garden, preparing it for winter. There's been compost to spread around, donkey dung to collect, and crops to harvest. One job was to turn the contents of the worm farm. Doing this once every 6 months or so helps ensure the worms move around the whole farm devouring (processing) every scrap of food. Its an interesting job as you gets to see the inner workings of a worm society. In the photo above for example you can see how they go about eating an apple. This rotten apple seemed to be in one piece with skin intact, but on poke with the fork and it burst apart to reveal a fistful of tiger worms and not much left of the apple. Fascinating. I was also very pleased to see my minions have been working hard producing a large quantity of castings. The bottom half of the tub was solid, well processed soil conditioner, ready to go on the garden.
You may remember I was growing some potatoes in old car tires. These went pretty well. Of the three varieties I tried two gave good returns. They were what I think were the 'rocket' variety of potatoes, and an odd type of purple tuber that looks a bit like a yam. Although they look black they are actually purple inside. I grew all of these from one little tuber I got from a friends garden (thanks Anne). The best advantage about growing spuds above the ground in a stack of tyres is it makes for very easy harvesting. No digging required, just lift off the tyres and pick up the spuds.
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