Can I Brine My Turkey In My Well Washed 5 Gallon Worm Bucket?
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Comments (21)::laughing:: I love the park reclamation idea! I also love kiddie pools as an easy watering system. A soaker hose costs $7.99 and a timer is maybe $10. Plus you have them for years. If you use the hose for top-watering it's way more fiddly and takes more daily monitoring than filling the pools does. But if you have the soaker and timer PLUS pools underneath, so the soaker fills the pools, it can be pretty low-maintenance. May not be worth the setup and initial tweaking, though, compared to just filling the pools by hand. BTW, don't FILL the pools :). your plants would drown. I cut holes in my pools about 2" from the bottom, which makes it easy to fill to that depth and lets excess water from rain drain out. In a humid climate, and with small containers, it's not impossible that soaker hoses without reservoirs, e.g. on the roof, could be made to work efficiently. It depends on your tolerance for messing with the system for the first few months :)....See MoreUsing 5 gallon buckets as pots
Comments (15)I live in Virginia, zone 7. Last winter was really bad for here and this winter is supposed to be worse, though obviously neither will be as bad as up north. I had two tiny roses last year and they didn't get much "frost bite" so I'm confident these will live just fine if I keep them in the ground until spring. I might have to think of something next year if they'll still be in pots then, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. We don't know exactly where we'll live yet (we've picked 2-3 towns as possible, but the house itself is the deciding factor) but it won't be more than 15-20 minutes from where we live now, still in Virginia, zone 7. I'll try to update my info to say that all the time. This post was edited by Rosecandy on Sat, Oct 18, 14 at 9:28...See More5 gallon buckets as pots
Comments (13)I potted them using a mix of 'Just Natural' brand potting soil and mushroom compost (roughly 4:1 ratio), with a fair helping of bone meal mixed in. the potting soil has a lot of bark in it, and in my experience seems to be very well draining. I know I probably should use perlite as well, but that stuff is kinda expensive, so if I don't absolutely need it, it's an expense I can cut out. the wife is already complaining about how much I'm paying for the pots and soil. we are moving in 2 weeks and I'm giving up my well paying office job to probably work in the service industry while I'm in school, so every bit I can save is a plus. in this Florida heat (it's 90 degrees outside right now, and feels "nice" compared to the past few days of 95+) I think a bit of water retention is a good thing, my plants are under a tree and I still have to water at least every other day as it is, and the leaves are usually already really droopy by day 2 if it doesn't rain. but I've heard that hotter environments produce hotter peppers, so maybe it's a good thing. thanks guys for all the advice. I don't say that enough....See More5-Gallon Bucket Worm Composter Try
Comments (22)I do everything wrong but it's turned out right so far. I bought 5 lbs of red wigglers in Sept. Threw them in a rubbermaide tub with newspaper, cardboard and some peat moss that I soaked overnight. I feed everything from lots of coffee grounds, eggs shells, tea bags, rice, potatoes, tomatoes, bread, you name it except for meat or dairy and not much citrus. I never even bothered with drainage holes and still don't. I've harvested 2 times and now have 4 bins and ready to harvest again and add another bin. All I do is take the lids off each morning, throw garbage in there, cover up with shredded paper. If it's a hot day, I put in frozen jugs of water. If any seem to be getting too wet (which isn't often, I just add more dry paper or cardboard. Then put the lids back on before dark. One thing that might help this work, is that the bins are large enough that the worms can move to another location in the bin if they become uncomfortable, like too wet/dry, to hot/cold.I also feed in one area for a while, like a week or so, before I switch places. Anyway, just thought I'd mention that maybe we sometimes worry too much. My worms at least seem pretty easy going, and don't seem to mind that I have no idea what I'm doing. :-)...See Morezzackey
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