My latest raised garden. I made the raised box out of up-cycled pallets. I filled the garden bed using the layering method explained in the garden fairy scavenger hunt. The excelent advantage of using this method is that you can plant closer together. I use the square-foot planting method utilizing companion planting. Plants have friends and like to hang out together. I enjoyed working with this client. She was supper excited to go on the garden fairy scavenger hunt with me. She is an empowered gardener now.

Turn your compost into an organic garden

In this picture I have been layering my compost with peat moss and attracting the native earth worms for 4 years. The layers of organic material I use are peat moss, compost, leaves, wood ashes etc. I have also used layers of worm castings, bat guano and manure etc. The best part of this layering process is I attract the native earthworms that live just 6 inches below the earth by providing a dark moist environment for them to come up to the surface and start eating, pooping, breeding and tilling.  Worm castings are the third best compost in the world and are so great for your garden. Worm castings are so great because the castings are full of beneficial bacteria, fungus and other microbial organisms for your plants to thrive in a balanced eco system which will attract the good bugs to eat the bad bugs. There are many other benefits to this style of gardening AKA lasagna gardening or also known as sheet composting. The benefits include:

retains water for a much longer period of time. Worms come to you. Very little weeding. No tilling. Your plants thrive.

Composting

The trick to composting is just doing it. At first, I had to adjust to an extra step in my day when I took out trash. Compost is good thrash. Keep it simple. You can compost these items:

• Cardboard rolls
• Clean paper
• Coffee grounds and filters
• Cotton rags
• Dryer and vacuum cleaner lint
• Eggshells
• Fireplace ashes
• Fruits and vegetables
• Grass clippings
• Hair and fur
• Hay and straw
• Houseplants
• Leaves
• Nut shells
• Sawdust
• Shredded newspaper
• Tea bags
• Wood chips
• Wool rags
• Yard trimmings

HOME ORGANIC GARDEN

Hello. After three years of not posting a thing. I now have something fantastic to post about. I have been organic gardening and composting for all of about three years. The amazing thing is I do this with ease and enjoyment. No need for tilling, little weeding and no need for heavy equipment. I am a mother of two, I work at home and I do not have a lot of time for myself. The key is composting using the native worms in my backyard. About every four to six months I will build a new garden bed. The method I use is simple and very cost effective. I am not a green thumb but more like a dirt farmer. In fact anything I grow outside of this garden box dies. I did not buy special organic soil from the store to fill up my homemade garden box. I built the soil using compost, peat moss, brown cardboard and my little shinning stars "native worms" from my backyard. Did you know that worm are 6 inches below the earth every where? Did you know that worm castings are an organic pesticide? well now you do. Freaks people out but get over it if you want the third best compost in the world. My compost and garden are full of worms and worm castings. I want you to know I did not buy one worm and I get the worms to come to me as well as the beneficial insects. Work smarter not harder people. This is easy and fun for your kids. My 4 Year old Ben loves digging for the worms. Over the years my family and friends have enjoyed the fruits of my labor and I have enjoyed benefiting from the return on my investment. Great returns and a little investment of effort, time, patience and dirt cheap to build.