What is new om the Zombie Farm

Hi everyone,

Been a bit since I posted anything about the growing and hot sauce, but that doesn't mean something is not going on.  First we added a second bed.  I had a request to grow some sweet grass for basket making so after a few hours of thinking I realized I had a 6 foot long PVC fence post cover, I was originally going to use it to make a vertical tower for strawberries but said what the heck, so over a weekend I cut it open, plumbed it and filled it with some media.  I had to change out the valves and still trying to work out kinks in the drain but it is filling with tank water now, getting the bacteria  in there to make those nutrients for the plants.  Diane has located a distributor for the seeds so we need to get those ordered.

Spent one day looking for worms.  Yes worms in the house.  I know most of you are going ewwww, but they are needed for the grow beds to eat the solids and break them down for the plants.  We have not been able to locate any other than online and they only sell them in pounds not smaller, and they need to be vermicomposting worms, red worms.  No room for night crawlers and they don't like water anyways.  Either way I need to get some ordered.

As for what is growing, we have cherry tomatoes sprouting, celery growing, some habanero seeds have sprouted as well.  The basil is not looking well although the roots are doing great.  All the lettuce has died but I did not think it would stay since I did not plant em that deep.  The original jalapeno's are starting to sprout new growth as are the Portuguese Chili's.  The bush beans were slow but now are starting to get additional growth on them so all in all the bed looks great.  The fish are also doing well.  We started with ten and are down to four, and they are getting bigger.  They are up to 2 feedings a day even though the nitrites are high I am going to keep feeding them, unless the ammonia levels come back up, and we now have nitrates showing up in the water, that is a great thing.

Thanks to everyone who is following us on this journey, and remember we are only weeks away from starting the hot sauce bottling!