No sense crying over split horse manure tea...lol that does stink though.. hopefully you can make some more, an turn that frown upside down

Whew! Glad to hear it wasn't tea! I would have expected to hear cautionary comments by some of plants growing miraculously up through your garage floor!

Climbing down from that particular hobby horse...

This "horse manure tea": Was it "slurry", or "tea"? "Slurry" being to my mind like thick oatmeal and suitable for feeding worms, or "tea" being thin like, well, TEA, and suitable for 'feeding' plants. If it wasn't slurry, (I know, you wrote tea), I have to ask what you made it for. I assume from our conversations regarding "pre-prepared" food for worms - like puree - that you would have made the manure a slurry for feed to your worms. But if it was actually more tea-like in nature, I assume you were planning to put it on your garden/plants. ???

Paul

I started aerating horse manure in rain water as a way to keep the Worm Inn damp enough. As I am using up the last of my HM supply, on purpose, the batch that spilled was pretty dense:
2 gal manure 3+ gal water. I use it for all kinds of things, including watering plants, loosening root bound plants, and since I let the HM get dry, making tea wets it and breaks it down.

I had a rose that was suffering. Dug it up. Moles had tunneled
all around it. I soaked it right in the VC tea bucket while renovating the rose bed. The rose roots got a coating of biochar which has been bubbling in the VC tea bucket more than a week. Replanted the rose then poured a gallon of soggy horsemanure on top as a mulch.

BTW Paul, with a bin that flows through such as the Worm Inn,
some springtails come out with the draining liquid. I have powdered springtails in my catch basin.

PS I am keeping the Worm Inn more moist with burlap. I cut one of the burlap bags in half; dumped the Inn into a Bin, put the burlap bag in the Inn; dumped the worms back. So far so good. The Inn doesn't dry out anymore..

Warm weather, and encouragement from melon bowl orgies, has my bins needing harvesting or more bedding !

Love your posts, barbararose! I am keenly interested in how your rose ER tactics work.

There are many things about life in Alaska that I love, but the one aspect of "life Outside" that I truly envy, is the ability to garden, and I mean "garden" in the most general sense. I really don't care much for "gardening" per se, but I LOVE growing things - plants and animals alike. Doing either is a real challenge in Alaska, and all too often, very disappointing. Of course one can find exceptions, and always someone that would squeal like a stuck pig about my comments regarding growing plants in AK. But the TRUTH is, with precious few exceptions, it is a CONSTANT, uphill battle. Even the native plants have a 'tough go' of it from year to year. When native trees commonly have 50+ annual growth rings per inch of radius, it's clear that life in the arctic and subarctic is a "tough row to hoe".

Paul