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Worm World

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many landscape pots,  several  of the Gro Bags. *   All the pots….many worms,  all stages of growth.    This makes me so so Happy.   That what began as  not even soil, i don't know how to describe it,   stones and rocks,   now this.   Am going back to read Ruth Stout,   using scrap everything for mulch.   

Will continue every minute possible for the next week at least.   See if i can catch up some.   The whole place there has gone wild from all the Rain.   All the "naturally occuring plants"..weeds,   have tripled in number and at least that in zest.    Of all things,  there's Poison Oak!  A very different year than since i've been here.    

i cut holes in the bottom of some Gro Bags…see if the Worms will come Up into them….i don't much like them but Alyssia does and that matters.   

am having so many feelings about so many things and am not able to find words that might explain,   so i feel tongue tied.

*emptying out from last season into the various "beds".   Will fill again with mixture of garden soil  and Goat manure, feed scrap that is already partially composted and plant.  

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  1. deb Avatar
    deb

    I like the grow bags but I made the mistake of buying them too big. Impossible (for me) to move, even dry. I after digging out the dead remains last fall, I tossed the dirt as best I could and added more. I found a bag of peony roots and divided them among the bags. Indigo seeds in one. No ganja this year. Sunflowers, nasturtiums and some other, unknown things are sprouting.

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  2. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I miss being able to compost … living in a development where there are rats in abundance, I don’t want to risk attracting them to our property … and am grateful that our neighbors’ cats and dogs have a deterrent effect as well … vultures were winging overhead yesterday and I wondered what drew them in
    so this then, that I am grateful to walk your land here and remember the scent of compost and new-made soil, the “weeds” awakened from the seed bank … the poison oak not so much though … may you be safe

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  3. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I can smell the earth here !
    I am everyday continuing my Education of Life’s mistakes. No matter what I do, I must stop and question and listen to my gut instincts. I wonder if animals, worms, etc think twice…

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  4. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    Soil here in Maine is still too solid for any mixing and turning. Still cold below the surface.
    I don’t get many worms……I had hoped to encourage them in the two big compost bins.
    The soil here is barren and sandy. Erosion took all the good stuff…….

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  5. Victoria Avatar
    Victoria

    Interesting that you mention Ruth Stout. Just yesterday I was reading a gardening blog and there was a video of Ruth talking about how she started gardening and what her methods were. An interesting look at her——she seemed to be a real character and very funny along the way.
    Here is the link—-the video is at the bottom.
    https://awaytogarden.com/2010-resolution-a-no-work-garden
    Victoria

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    am having so many feelings about so many things and am not able to find words
    Sounds like you’re still grieving. We are never the same after heartbreaking loss .. yours came fast and unexpected the healing will take time. When I unexpectedly lost my mom it took a long time before I felt whole .. I lost a part of me that day. I’m happy that you have your hands in the ground .. I always find it healing to grow things come spring. New beginnings.. love you Grace😘

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think they are much more sensitive to their surroundings, to the reality of the moment in time, to what is possible and what is not?
    ?????

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    you know so much more about gardening than i do….but what i think i know is that there are worms EveryWhere. That old man in New Mexico that i used to take my hoes to for sharpening, told me that, when i was moaning about no worms in the desert. Said that they are there, you just need to do what they need and they’ll come. He was right. They did. and now here.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Victoria…Thank You for being here and for bringing this.
    i’ve watched once, will repeat before i sleep tonight.
    I first knew of her years and years ago, but have always
    clung to some kind of self defined aesthetic…now since me has become Everything, that no longer has meaning.
    am Ready. it opens a huge world of partnership with the earth.
    Thank You. and please….anything you’d like to share here

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    what i’m thinking now is that there is really no
    “healing”. you just get used to the New of how it now is.
    i can’t “heal” from Her not walking with me as i go about my day or lying at the door in the dark times. She is just
    absent.
    it’s that. and that it comes at a time when so much seems
    so heartbreaking in the “world”, things i’d never imagined for this time of my life…
    and then
    coming to terms with the Making thing
    these together. Wanting to push them away somehow but knowing that wasn’t what was needed. and this morning, Monday, Light came through and there is a sense that it will all be OK as it Is, that i can move within it, be of use in the ways i can and be gentle on the ways i cannot.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and
    Fukuoka One Straw Revolution
    how it takes some of us such a long time to
    see

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  12. jude Avatar
    jude

    not liking grow bags either.

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