I have toads. I like them, the spots and blobs all over them are great... The colors are dull and they always look grumpy, but on the inside I know they are chubby and happy. Look at this majestic brute, Ragnar.
He's just a toad. we let him out every summer and we house him for the winter. Silly, I know. But he's came back every year for the past few years. When it gets cold he hides under the hose reel and when we put the hose away we find him and house him lol
4 Toads, and 3 Frogs all live in the same tank. Its an ecosystem in there, a small one, with plant life, worms, "rain" and them. Everything we grow or make is eco friendly, all natural (as much as possible).
Vermicompost is the product or process of
composting using various
worms, usually
red wigglers,
white worms, and other
earthworms to create a
heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable or food waste, bedding materials, and vermicast. Vermicast, also called worm castings, worm humus or worm manure, is the end-product of the breakdown of
organic matter by an
earthworm.
These castings have been shown to contain reduced levels of contaminants and a higher saturation of nutrients than do organic materials before vermicomposting.
Containing water-soluble nutrients, vermicompost is an excellent, nutrient-rich
organic fertilizer and soil conditioner. This process of producing vermicompost is called
vermicomposting.
We use red wigglers, which feed to Toads and our talapia fish we have for our aquaponics system which grows veggies and food for my tortoises. Our main man, Ted. Look at this beauty...
There goes his chubby little butt off into the sunset. I love my animals, they are awesome. They are odd and a lot of others just don't get it, nobody wants to talk about my tortoise picking on my husband because he is jealous. Only because they don't know much about them, and lets face it.. which adult feels like learning something new? But who am I to say that.
Anyways, back to the vermacomposting, we have no trash. What cannot be recycled gets thrown into a Rubbermaid container full of coco fiber composting material, and that generates amazing nutrients for plant life. Think of it this way, we grow what we eat, and what we don't gets decomposed back into plant food. If what you grow is grown from "good" things, what you eat is good.
Lets say your favorite thing to eat is pumpkin pie, home made from actual pumpkins... Put some vermacompost soil with the plant that grows those pie pumpkins, and you can eat as much pumpkin pie as you want because it was grown from "the good stuff" Right? Basically, but not with pumpkin pie lol (though that would be awesome.) If you put the good stuff on anything that comes from this earth, its going to produce amazing plants, fruits, veggies, berries, and flowers.
Its not just that simple, yeah that's the basic idea, but what do you put in the vermacompost? whats "allowed"? any veggies, fruit or fish, which is really all we eat. If you put fish in it though, it smells horrible, worse than it already does. (it only smells bad because of the decomposing plants, but it smells like fresh dirt mmm) Don't put hamburger helper and stuff like that, with all the dyes and bad stuff in there... its not good for the worms, which makes it bad for everything else.
vermacomposting yay!
