Category: Composting

• Bringing home the goodness

  

  Some folks get rid of weeds. We don’t we bring a selected few home to make beautiful liquid compost teas as fertilizer for Ligaya Garden.

  ligayagardener

  August 1, 2021

  Composting, fertilizer

  chickens, compost, compost teas, fertilizer, Foraging, liquid fertilizer, weeds

• New compost tea presses ready to go!

  

  I spent part of yesterday afternoon whipping up two new 100 mm compost tea presses. They’re ready now to mount and make rich, nettle tea.

  ligayagardener

  July 27, 2021

  Composting, DIY, fertilizer

  compost, compost tea, compost tea press, DIY, fertilizer, liquid fertilizer

• Cleaning out the worms

  

  Every so often, the worms get a thorough clean out. Athena helps me as much as she can as we harvest all of the goodness created by some of the hardest workers at Ligaya Garden.

  ligayagardener

  July 21, 2021

  Composting, fertilizer, liquid composting, Reuse/Recycle, worms

  biodegradable, compost, compost worms, DIY, FAA, fermentation, fertilizer, fish amino acid, home compostable, mineral supplements, plastic, reduce reuse recycle, worm castings, worm farm, worm wee, worms

• Soil gold

  It’s time to add a heap of organic material to the front garden and to think about laying in supplies for the rest of the year.

  ligayagardener

  June 6, 2021

  Composting, Gardening

  compost, compost tea, compost tea brewer, compost tea press, fertilizer, greg's shared garden, hay, mulch, sheep poo, straw

• Training the Oysters to eat dog poo

  We’re getting lots of spent grain and woodchip spawn from Danny at Barossa Gourmet Mushrooms and have been building it up in piles around the garden. We’re benefitting from an extra flush of mushrooms and the critters in the garden are feasting madly on the mycelium, breaking it down into nutrients that the plants can…

  ligayagardener

  May 20, 2021

  aerobic composting, bacteria, wild fungi

  Athena, compost, dog poo, oyster mushrooms, wild fungi