Zen’s Winter Run 2025

[Zen_seeker]

Its one of the songs that sent me south in my early years. No every word of it by heart.

I know a lot of it by heart. It always comes to mind just before winter ever since I heard it as a kid.

Brave....With your wife...lol.....it would be a hard sell for me. Even outdoors she doesn't want rats around so no compost. I know a properly kept Compost would be fine but its a hard no with her, she knows me too well and it wouldn't be properly kept for long and turn into a smelly pile of garbage.

Once the mites got out the bottom spigot and the little cup had gotten moved so they landed on the counter top. They didn’t get far before dying. Think they got to dry.

That’s been the only time she’s complained so far.

Yeah we can’t have a compost either. Not because I’d get lazy with it, which I probably would after a while, but because of rats and raccoons. Her and my sister saw a bunch of rats in the public transit garbage, dozens, that possibly came from the food factory and mall down the street. She doesn’t want to see that here so no compost.

The worms I’m sure she’d allow outside but they wouldn’t survive our summer or winter. So inside was where I think I’d need to do it.

I only wanted them as 10kg bags of worm poop is about $20-$25 plus tax. Even with Willow we have a lot of food scraps that get tossed out, or fruit and vegetables that start to go bad, that I can use to feed the worms. It doesn’t take much or often.

I’ll keep going with this until it either fails and they die off or it does well and I upgrade. We’ll see if they make it to spring.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Maybe posting this here will help.

Keep forgetting to get new saucers. Mine are too large if I want the fan in there too. Steamroller’s suggestion is valid and I’ve done it in the past but I’ve been trying to keep things lower in the tents. That’s why no saucer and elevator, just the big green screen and the washing tray.

But getting runoff info is no longer useful as it could be from any of the plants including the sunflower which is on Fox Farm 6:4:4.

 

[steamroller]

Is there a safe way to kill the mites that does not jeopardize the worms?
I need to research this...

 

[Zen_seeker]

Is there a safe way to kill the mites that does not jeopardize the worms?
I need to research this...

I looked into making a new bed but how do I clean the worms. Some have a few riding on them. AI said putting them in water for a minute to clean them wasn’t a good move, to easy to drown them.

When I see a “oh shit” amount of them on any of the veggies or fruit I toss it. At least keeps their numbers down. It’s gross seeing one covered in these bugs. I swear one was still alive but IDK?

AI is only so helpful and often partially wrong so further research is needed. I’m just doing this blind with some YT advice.

Anything you do find let me know. AI said they shouldn’t go after living things but if hungry who knows?