Well, this is our new garden! I really love it. We added some worms to the garden a few days ago and the girls loved this project. We had fun learning all the benefits of all the "good" and "beneficial" insects and so-called wiggly creatures that we can add to our garden to help us make the soil so rich and full of nutrients. Hopefully, with time, they will come on their own. But for now, we will have to help out some. We also added some worm castings ( worm poop! ) molasses and something called Anti Fuego for some fire ants I have already discovered. This stuff is comprised of molasses, orange oil and humate ( poop and organic matter ) that is a soil conditioner, but also organically, and safely deters those little guys out of there. Next stop, adding beneficial nematodes ( good microscopic worms that feed on the bad guys ) and just helping enrich the soil.. Ants usually like soil that has no nutrients, so the richer the soil gets, less ants we will see.
We placed the worms on the soil and then covered them up so they would not get burned by the sun the next day..we did find one little friend dried up the next day ( I think we forgot to cover him up since we were doing this and it was getting dark out!
We also had fun picking wild blackberries in our own backyard! They grown so well in Texas you can usually see them growing along fences and in pastures. What a fun day...
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