we've come along in our efforts to take the growth medium for grass that the university has created and turn it into soil...after adding a half-ton of compost and composted manure over the last six months, today we added a colony of red worms to the garden...they will loosen and aerate the soil and enhance its abillity to retain mosture...and their castings will fertilize the garden...all i have to do is provide an organic mulch and they'll do the rest...allies in growth...the pictures uploaded in an odd order but you can get the gist...i loosened the soil in an eighteen square inch area, dumped out the two hundred and fifty worms, and covered them with wet sections of the new york times...then i fixed the paper to the ground with landscaping staples because of the wind and covered it with a couple of lengths of bird tape to keep the ctitters at bay until the worms disperse ( a twenty four to forty-eight hour process) after that the guys are on their own in the food chain...the garden is doing okay...another potato is up..the yams are about ten inches tall( no leaves yet, but they will come ) the jerusalem artichokes and savory are fine...waiting for results on the asparagus...the tomatoes are coming along fine here at home and wheat grass goes in next month...teosinte is the last nut to crack...more equipment should be en route to help with that issue...soon we should be 100%.
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