Comments on: Put citrus fruit into the composter http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/blog/garden-q-a/put-critus-fruit-into-the-composter/ Just another Patwelsh.com weblog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Jeff Kurtz http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/blog/garden-q-a/put-critus-fruit-into-the-composter/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Jeff Kurtz Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:57:13 +0000 http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/?p=237#comment-53 I tell my garden clients to keep in mind how big their compost area is, with relation to how much citrus should be added. If you are doing worm composting in a container, one orange can add quite a bit of acid to the mix. Not as much to be concerned about in a decent size outdoor compost bin. You think? Jeff I tell my garden clients to keep in mind how big their compost area is, with relation to how much citrus should be added.

If you are doing worm composting in a container, one orange can add quite a bit of acid to the mix. Not as much to be concerned about in a decent size outdoor compost bin.

You think?
Jeff

]]> By: Pat http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/blog/garden-q-a/put-critus-fruit-into-the-composter/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Pat Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:11:35 +0000 http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/?p=237#comment-37 I am so glad you enjoy my website as well as <a href="http://www.girlsgonechild.net/2009/11/treasured.html" rel="nofollow">Girls Gone Child</a>, one of the websites of my talented granddaughter Rebecca Woolf. Regarding the "Fairy Garden", my friend and Master Garden Volunteer Denise, helped me put a large Mexican terra-cotta pot upside down with drainage hole facing up. On this we placed a large dish-shaped pot—also terra-cotta. I already had these pots. I placed a piece of broken crockery over the drainage hole of the top one and filled with potting soil, mounding the potting soil in the middle and keeping the sides low. Then we placed a whole flat of Irish moss on top of the potting soil and shoved the edges down tightly into the pot all around the edges, cutting and fitting here and there. The final touch was to add the fairies and the toadstools that I purchased at a local nursery, that seem quite weather resistant so far. I find fish emulsion to be the best fertilizer. We made this arrangement while my 3-year-old great-daughter, Anushka, was still visiting us from Spain with her parents, Yvette and Ivan. Rebecca's and Hal's kids, my great grandchildren Archer, age 4, and Fable, age 18 months, who live in Hollywood, are enjoying it also. But Archer most enjoys running around on the paths and steps in my garden. I enjoy making my garden a special destination for them and for the grandchildren of friends who live in my neighborhood. My next project is a Hobbit garden, with some Hobbit houses in it. (See photos of the fairy garden at Nana's house—i.e.:me— on Rebecca's blog.) I am so glad you enjoy my website as well as Girls Gone Child, one of the websites of my talented granddaughter Rebecca Woolf. Regarding the “Fairy Garden”, my friend and Master Garden Volunteer Denise, helped me put a large Mexican terra-cotta pot upside down with drainage hole facing up. On this we placed a large dish-shaped pot—also terra-cotta. I already had these pots. I placed a piece of broken crockery over the drainage hole of the top one and filled with potting soil, mounding the potting soil in the middle and keeping the sides low. Then we placed a whole flat of Irish moss on top of the potting soil and shoved the edges down tightly into the pot all around the edges, cutting and fitting here and there. The final touch was to add the fairies and the toadstools that I purchased at a local nursery, that seem quite weather resistant so far. I find fish emulsion to be the best fertilizer.

We made this arrangement while my 3-year-old great-daughter, Anushka, was still visiting us from Spain with her parents, Yvette and Ivan. Rebecca’s and Hal’s kids, my great grandchildren Archer, age 4, and Fable, age 18 months, who live in Hollywood, are enjoying it also. But Archer most enjoys running around on the paths and steps in my garden. I enjoy making my garden a special destination for them and for the grandchildren of friends who live in my neighborhood. My next project is a Hobbit garden, with some Hobbit houses in it. (See photos of the fairy garden at Nana’s house—i.e.:me— on Rebecca’s blog.)

]]> By: Aenne Carver http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/blog/garden-q-a/put-critus-fruit-into-the-composter/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Aenne Carver Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:47:16 +0000 http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/?p=237#comment-23 Hi Pat; Love your web site updates. I really enjoyed seeing your granddaughters blog, and Archer in the Fairy garden. Can't wait to see more of it! Is that mood moss? Herbally yours, Aenne Hi Pat;
Love your web site updates. I really enjoyed seeing your granddaughters blog, and Archer in the Fairy garden. Can’t wait to see more of it! Is that mood moss?
Herbally yours,
Aenne

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