our challenge this past week was the capture of a rather large number of fruit flies competing with our worms for their dinner of strawberries and watermelon scraps. the kids and i constructed 8 traps using apple cider vinegar and strawberry tops for bait. the kids were enthralled with the growing number of fruit flies in our funnelled plastic cups.
on thursday we moved the bin to a storage area on campus to fully rid the child care center of the flying pests over the weekend. in mid transport i took the lid off the bin and released as many flies as i could. i also set a jar trap on the bin over the weekend and held off feeding the worms until today - monday.
when i went to feed them mango scraps today - i know, i know, but they love fruit! - the jar trap was full of fruit flies. i buried the scraps a little deeper per rick from salano farms' suggestion. the child care center is clean so i'm going to leave the worms in the air conditioned storage area this week, with traps.
next week i'm going to let the kids harvest some compost. while flipping the newspaper shreds, again per rick's suggestion, i noticed that we have a substantial amount of compost already! serious black gold. quite exciting. worm poop. castings. woo hoo! :)
and i did get the internship at ken singh farms, another yay. i'm very grateful - the gardens are just amazing. i dropped by their farmer's market this past saturday and came home with beets, basil, heirloom tomatoes, a gorgeous cucumber, and an equally lovely melon.
i'll post fotos of singh gardens as well as the harvest in my next blog.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment