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Since the water is for irrigation and not drinking, could you throw a goldfish or similar into it? It'd probably eat the skeeter larvae.

-Charles

I found this excellent page yesterday http://www.troubleatmill.com/wormbin.htm all about making your own wormery and it is from easily obtainable bits. Im going to give it a go at some point. That's essentially the same system that I'm using, except that instead of using wire mesh in the bottom I u...

I started because I was living in a townhouse with no other option for composting... and because it's fun. Cute little wormies. Uh, yeah, cute. I have to confess that I'm hoping the worms'll end up being multi-purpose (feed for chickens and fish). I must be cold hearted. Do you know the type of wor...

Howdy, Gardening was on my mind a lot over the weekend (it finally quit raining long enough to get some done), and while I was feeding my worms, I started wondering if any of ya also compost with worms. So, do any of ya compost with worms? It occurred to me that with this allotment thing, it might b...

Hilo...........was that where they had the Tsunami back in the '50s? Yes, in '59 or '60, I can't remember which. Destroyed the whole downtown area. IIRC, they rebuilt a bunch of businesses in a different area, but eventually they re-established the downtown area back where it was originally. I don'...

Thanks for the welcome! The state of Hawaii has a lot of variety. Oahu, which has Honolulu, our largest city, and Waikiki, our most well known tourist area, are pretty much what you see on Hawaii-5-0. I think the show was mostly filmed in and around Honolulu. It has beautiful warm weather all year, ...

Found this site by accident, but glad I did. I live in Hilo, Hawaii. I've set up some raised beds, which are doing so-so, learning to compost the regular way, and doing some worm-composting as well. This year I'm hoping to add some more raised beds, get some chickens this Summer, get my fig trees tr...