Worm castings and composted steer manure

Our worm bin was full, so we harvested the castings and switched the tiers. There are tons of happy worms in there! We spread the castings, along with the composted steer manure I bought months ago, on the fruit trees. There's been plenty of rain this week and more is in the forecast. Hopefully, that will help soak these into the soil, not wash them away.

Our tiny Gold Nugget Mandarin tree has ripe fruit now that we're enjoying. I love the fruit, but I'd like to see this tree grow more this coming year.

Happy New Year 2022 is almost here. Hang in there everyone. 

Worm Bin

DH turned over the worm bin this weekend, putting the worm castings in the two mandarins, the back lemon, and in the North garden bed.  The smaller mandarin isn't looking too happy.  I need to check its water.

Wonderful worm castings!

It has been a while since I've tended to our worm bin in a substantial way.  We just keep them in a plastic tote in the garage.  A month or so ago I'd moved all the contents over to one side of the bin and started adding the new bedding and new kitchen scraps on the other side.  This gives the worms a chance to migrate out of the older bedding and scraps and into the new, easing but not eliminating the sorting of worms.  Today was harvest day from the old side.  In addition to finding a happy, healthy worm population with plenty of egg sacks, I harvested about 2 gallons (I'm estimating from my 5 gallon bucket) of fresh worm castings.  These went directly onto our sugar snap peas that are happily blooming.  Nothing like digging around in worm poop to really make your day.  Elizabeth, you said that it is pretty sad when good limas make your day.  Is worm poop sadder?  But it was really rich worm poop!  I'm linking an image from RedWormComposting.com so you can  see what I mean about the egg sacks.