My Littlest Helper

Here's my littlest helper, Chiara, with the worm scraps bucket. :0)

The First Salad...

This is the first salad I made using lettuce leaves from my salad box! I'm so proud!
Since then we've harvested leaves numerous times, sometimes in small amounts, other times I've taken enough for a main meal for 8 in one harvest. If harvested daily, it seems never ending, if a large harvest is made, it seems to revive in about a week, two at the absolute maximum. BTW, the salad was delicious!!!

Worm Bomb - Before...

Here are a few pictures of the worm-farm before the worm-bomb "went off" so to speak... I had merely added a the worm-bomb mix of castings and eggs, a few minute baby worms (I had to be careful and rinse out the container several times so as not to leave any eggs or worms behind, and a few larger worms. Keep your eyes peeled for updated pictures of the worm farm, as there are now so many worms that there are always at least 10 worms on top of the hessian bag used to keep them cool & moist, and usually even more amongst the food-scraps and weeds that we put in when you peel the bag back.

... GONE! The end result...

Getting Mulched...

A gaping hole... what a wound!

Flooded with light now... the new patch site.

What a difference in the amount of light we have in our back yard now... can you see the HUGE gap between the trees? See how the trees are twisted back away from the cavity? That elm also forced normally short poincianas to grow taller than usual, as well as the happy plants.... My washing is drying faster now, too!

The Huge Tree - Going... Going...

This is the Chinese Elm being removed.... It's sad that such a glorious tree had to go, but they are weeds, and they are invasive light hoggers!