Belgian Nightcrawlers

We have had our Belgian's on sale for awhile and we've run out of worms to sell. We've got to keep the rest of what we have to replenish our stock over the winter. We have plenty of Red Wigglers though.

Chickens and Green Beans

I can't get my green beans to grow :( My chickens keep getting in the garden boxes and they like the green bean leaves. Oh well, tomatoes, lettuce, radishes, carrots and onions are doing well.

Grasshoppers are crazy horrible this year, although the chickens do love them! It's so funny to watch the girls (that's what we call our flock of 7 hens) chase the grasshoppers. There is one chicken that gets upset when another hen gets a grasshopper, she tries to take it away.

We are getting eggs almost every day from at least three of them. They lay little ones and big ones. The big ones have all been doubled yolked so far. I'm sure it will all even out eventually. It's pretty funny looking in the egg cartons.

What a busy month!

I can't believe July is one day away from being over. It flew by. Chuck's been up to the Pioneer Park Farmer's Market every Saturday and has had a great summer so far. We have also changed the look and feel of our website Check it out! I have blogging capabilities from the new website, I'm debating whether to switch over. I might post in both places, just haven't decided yet.

Yesterday Chuck had to opportunity to be on the local Noon news. He did great and as soon as I can get the video online I will post it.

Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Wow, our little garden

is doing so good. Just about everything we've planted is coming up. In our first box, we planted green beans, lettuce, carrots. They have all surfaced. In our second box (planted 4 days later) we have lettuce and radishes showing. We have a couple of tomatoes starting on those plants as well. Yes, we have casting on everything . . .what else would we use?

We have lettuce

We finally got our little garden planted. 1/2 last Thursday and the other 1/2 this morning. As I was watering what was planted last week, I found lettuce poking through the soil. I was soooo excited. The package said 7-10 days but it poked up on 4.

The Farmer's Market Has Begun

This past Saturday was the opening day of the Salt Lake City Farmer's Market at historic Pioneer Park. Chuck and Makiya has a great time meeting up with our customers and providing them with worm castings and worm tea. We had a large number of orders for Red Wigglers as well. If you are wanting worms, feel free to give us a call (435)558-0826 by Wednesday proceeding the market you would like to pick the worms up at. We don't bring worms to the market unless they have specifically been ordered. This will help keep our worms healthy and happy.

For our customer's convenience, new this year at the market, we now take credit/debit cards right there at the market.

We are also in the process of updating our website to accept credit/debit cards without having to go through paypal. There will be a neat little shopping cart that we hope you fill up with our wonderful products. In the meantime, paypal is still available and we can also take your credit/debit card information over the phone. We accept Visa, Mastercard and Discover.

Happy gardening!

Getting Ready

Well, it is time to start getting ready for the Salt Lake Pioneer Park Farmer's Market that starts in a few weeks. Harvesting and everything that goes along with that is going to fill the next two weeks at our place.

It's time for the Natural Resource Festival

Hey, if you live in the area, it's time for the annual Natural Resource Festival at the SVC. Chuck will have a booth there and I'm sure there will be alot of other fun things for the kids to see. The Richfield Spring Home and Garden Show is this weekend as well. There's always fun at these two events at the Sevier Valley Center Friday and Saturday this week. No entrance fees.

So now what?

Wondering what to do with all those egg shells from the yummy colored eggs? Throw them in your food processor and grind them up, then put them on your worm beds. Worms will love you!

Got Garden?

The answer here is no.

I did go to a fun little gardening class on Wednesday night. There were some really fun ideas that I want to try. One of them was growing potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket (or even a garbage can). You plant your potato(s) in the bottom. When the plant(s) has grown about 8-10 inches you bury 1/2 of the plant with dirt. You keep doing this until you reach the top of the can. At the end of the season you dump the can/bucket upside down and it is full of potatoes.

The second idea was a sala bucket garden. This once again is done in a 5 gallon bucket. Drill drain holes in the bottom as well as a larger hole to put your tomato plant through. You will want to put some of the meshy screen you buy to keep out weeds in the bottom of the bucket to keep dirt from coming out when you water. Plant your tomato plant and then have someone hold the bucket while you dump in your dirt and then plant your peppers, cilantro, jalapenos etc out of the top of the bucket. Don't forget to top dress everything with worm castings! Then you hang it outside and you have what you need to make fresh salsa in a few months. The lady teaching this also mentioned a spaghetti sauce bucket using all the plants for the herbs you would put in your bottled spaghetti sauce.

The ladies also talked about the hanging tomato plant containers you can buy at stores and everyone said "do not use these." They aren't large enough for a good root system for your tomatoes. They all suggested 5 gallon buckets for the hanging tomatoes.

Still no garden

It is already April 11th and we haven't been able to even start gardening yet. I managed to get weeds racked up to burn and the next day when we were going to burn it was way to windy. By that evening my piles of weeds were lining the fences and it has rained/snowed every day since.

The sun is shining today, but everything is still wet from the snow we got yesterday. Hopefully by Thursday (when I will actually have time again) it will be dry enough to get the weeds raked and burned.

We got baby chicks last month. They are getting so big. Can't wait for fresh eggs later this summer.

Chuck is getting anxious for things to dry out so he can get harvesting all the castings that have been accumulating over this long winter. We need things to dry out! The local news is telling us that Utah is in for some pretty bad flooding this year. I remember the flooding of 1983 when one of the main streets in Salt Lake City was turned into a river to divert all the flood waters.

Belgium Nightcrawlers on Sale!

We have reduced the price on our Belgium Nightcrawlers. They normally sell for $36.00 per pound, we are selling them for the same price as our Red Wigglers . .$28.00 per pound. Give us a call 435-558-0826 or visit our website to order.

Lamb or Lion

March 1st was beautiful, 50 degree weather. Today, snow again. Oh the joys of spring in Utah. We decided to build boxes for our garden this year. Can't wait for things to dry out enough to put Chuck to work doing that.

Our Belgium Nightcrawlers are on sale. Call for prices.

Gardening

We are going to expand our gardening this year and would love your tips. We've always done the till up the ground and plant in rows, but we are thinking about box type gardening. What tips and tricks do you have for us? Have you done both? Which do you prefer? Why? How do you keep the dog and cat out of your garden?

Nice to have a couple of days of sunshine!

The snow is melting and the mud is increasing. Worms are warming up and so are we. It was nice to go out today without heavy coats.

So much for spring

Wow, talk about crazy weather. We had to deal with frozen pipes yesterday, I'm so glad we didn't have to deal with them on top of a blizzard like so much of the country. Stay warm and dream about a great garden this summer.

So Nice to see the sun!

We've had some sunshine the past couple of days and it's actually starting to be light when I take our 5 year old out to the bus stop. This morning we passed right by ours and kept walking to the next one. I finished the trip around the block. It was nice to not trip on anything because I could see haha.

Aww, I couldn't wait!

I have a couple of fun things we are trying this year.

First: We are having a little fun on our Facebook page. Every time we add 100 new members, we will hold a drawing (which will include ALL members). The winner each time will have their choice of a quart of Worm Castings or a pint of Worm Tea. Click HERE to join. If you have never used castings or tea on your gardens/plants, this would be a great chance to get started with this fantastic organic soil amendment.

Second: We have had several people call asking about worms for Science Fair Projects. We would love for those of you buying worms for these projects to send us a description of the project, the results and a few pictures. We will post them here and on our website: rottenapplewormfarm.com

Trying a weekly blog post

Even though it's freezing cold in central Utah. Our worms are snuggled warm in their beds, doing what worms do best, eating and well . . . um, creating castings. Starting February 1st we will start taking pre-orders for Spring. Visit our website: www.rottenapplewormfarm.com for more information on contacting us for your pre-order.

Coming out of hibernation

I can't decide if I'm ready to thaw out yet, or keep hibernating. I am getting so anxious for spring to arrive. This year we have set aside some money to do a new and improved garden. I'm going for a box garden and turning my back yard into a huge garden this year. With ever increasing grocery prices, we've decided that we've got the best products for a garden, it's time to expand and grow a lot of our own food to can and put aside for next winter.

We've sold a lot of worms this winter, I hope our customers have great castings for their gardens. come spring Remember though, if you don't want to raise worms on your own, we sell our castings and tea. Check out our website at www.rottenapplewormfarm.com Email us at rottenapplewormfarm@yahoo.com if you would like to be added to our mailing list and you can also find a link on our website for our Facebook page.