Worm Poop

It's been a while since I posted on here, I always say I will do better with keeping up with posting but then other things take priority or nothing particularly interesting is happening. It has been an exciting couple of months, filled with a lot of campaigning, conventions, busy weeks at work, a trip home, a cousins graduation, and my plants.

A couple of months ago I started growing strawberries from seeds at home. For quite some time I didn’t think anything was going to grow and I had somehow messed them up (despite diligently watering them every day), until finally little seedlings popped up. Now I have 4 plants that are growing pretty strongly, in fact I need to re-pot them into their own pots this week and 1 brand new seedling that just popped up last week. Very exciting! I am not sure how long it will take them to actually produce strawberries. Some people say that strawberry plants do not produce fruit the first year but the package of seeds I bought said they were the forever producing kind, so I think they should.

I also have 2 tomato plants that are doing extremely well. One is Amish style tomatoes that are the size of grape tomatoes. This plant is doing really well and already has several baby green tomatoes on it. The other will produce larger heirloom tomatoes that are yellow and red. That one has the flowers but not the baby tomatoes yet. I have them in pots on my deck, so no large garden (unfortunately!) this year. But my tomatoes and strawberries keep me busy every morning.

I found the best fertilizer for my tomatoes and plants- Worm Poop. It’s by a company called TerraCycle. A friend and I were looking for organic fertilizer for our tomato plants and surprisingly I found this right at Home Depot. Basically worms are fed organic matter or compost and their poop is turned into fertilizer. And the company sells it in recycled soda bottles, so its cutting down on waste too. They have a special fertilizer for tomato plants and then others for other types of plants too. The whole idea of worm poop is really very amusing but it actually does work! And when I went to visit Liz, I spotted a lot of worm farms in her area, something I had never noticed before. So if you are growing anything this season you should seriously look into getting some worm poop for your garden.