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Thursday, December 04, 2025
Some time after W:\LandfallGardenHouse\Diary\Diary_2025_10.doc – the day I built two tubs in the kitchen – I made a pail with two ¾" wide slits in the bottom, dumped in paper, a gallon of food scraps, more paper, and rested it atop the smaller tub.
Since that time (three weeks ago?) I have tapped the coffee grounds into the pail.
This morning I raised the pai; and found worms crawling atop the tub. I believe that some worms have hatched into the tub.
If my theory is correct tben sorting through the tub should receal worms.
Otherwise spotting castings on top of the tub will confirm a worm population.
Otherwise placing the tub on a pail lid (or at a pinch a dinner-plate) should reveal castings on the dinner plate. We will see.
If this works then I have found an easy way to make colonies that I can give away.
I planted four orange pips in a single can for the porch.
By mid-day I have shoveled a clear path to the meter, and a narrow path to the Canion Bayley Glacier. I shook a second can of salt over the first half of my narrow path. My theory is that the saline melt water will self-distribute to the glacier.
Friday, December 05, 2025
I am settled into my sprouting. My (gherkin) jar takes in a half-cup of mung beans, soaks for 24 hours, then begins a week-long cycle of rinse-each-morning, by which time I have finished eating my bucket of salad (sprouts, beetroot, animal protein, grated carrot, …) and begin the cycle again.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Glory glory! By 1130 we are at 3c; the snow and ice is melting; the air is MILD! By 1415 the rain sounds like small pellets, but that might be only the acoustics of hitting the window panes.
Monday, December 22, 2025
I wonder what type of roof-top gardening I might pursue? I harvest rain water for drinking from about eight feet of my roof perimeter. My roof does not sport eaves-troughs. I think of pumpkin plants growing along the lower reach of my roof, with linear Dams channeling rain water past the tub. The pumpkins grow, the leaves cascade off the roof, and the pumpkins, once ripe, tumble to the soft earth that surrounds the house?