Vermicompost

 

The European nightcrawler, Eisenia hortensis or Dendrobaena veneta

wikipedia:

Dendrobaena worms reproductive rate

- 0.8 eggs per adult per week

- 1 baby per egg

- male and female reproductive organs

- net reproduction of 0.8 young per adult per week

- from egg to sexual maturity = 20 weeks

matokomposti 

komposti kotona 

 optimal temperature for worms + 18 C, range +5 C - + 29? C

on finnish site it says +5 C - +25 C

it's weird that people are so serious about this that they find out methodically the optimal growth rates and such. the first thing when i saw my worms was kääk! they were so creepy all my "save the planet, fertilise your plants!" thoughts went down the drain. :P

happy worming!

first i grew plants

now worms

where will i end up?

 

äitisuomennos: matokompostointi on hauskaa. mikset sinäkin?

ps. the white thing on the compost bin is expired modified cornstarch... i wonder if i'm not poisoning my worms? and i probably did the bin also wrong. can worms die of over eating? everywhere it warns not to feed them too much. :/

Ancestors, anyone?

- our ancestors were hairy and climbing on trees.
- not mine, they were the hairless beauties.
- haha! have you ever seen one of those hairless moles? they have wrinkled skin and they are ugly. :P



äitisuomennos: karvaton = kaunis?

Sun shining through leaves

sunday, sun shining through the first leaves in may 2012.


äitisuomenos: sunnuntain iloa...

Animal print

from south africa...

Twinter

Strikening!

Serene

Father's Day

SOO - Save Our Oceans!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fddYApFEWfY

i hate these embedded versions that are too big for my blog! :/ anyway, the link is worth watching.

(why has the 'insert link' button stopped working altogether as well??? - try to manage, so do i. nyyh ja kyynel. :/)

there's also a blog that deals with this refuse ideology: http://zerowastehome.blogspot.com/2009/12/here-i-come.html

äitisuomennos: ei kertakäyttömuoville.

Natural way of life

sometimes our days are like this:



but they can also be like this:


this is why life is so beautiful...


äitisuomennos: elämän jin ja yang.

Syksy

Kaksi vanhaa, vanhaa varista
nuokkuu hiljaa pellon aidalla.
Ruskea on rinta kaisliston
taivas harmaa. Sataa. Syksy on.

--


Höyhenihin niskat kyyristyy.
Sataa. Hiljaista on. Hämärtyy
yli pellon mustan kynnöksen
tuntuu riihen tuoksu etäinen.

Kaksi märkää, vanhaa varista
nuokkuu aatoksissaan aidalla.
"Täytyy tästä..." toinen havahtuu,
lentoon verkkaisesti valmistuu.
"Käyhän taaskin tarinoimassa.
Oli oikein hauska tavata."

- Lauri Pohjanpää 1889-1962 -

(http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lpohjanp.htm)

"Pastoraali"

6.6.2010

Iceland memories

Volcano + Iceland = Eyjafjallajökull

Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, April 2010 from Peter Cox on Vimeo.

Paradise

in every snake there's a paradise. 

Sydäntalvi...

winter solstice... (the heart of the winter)

Winter love

It's snowing outside...

äitisuomennos: lunta tuli ihan oikeasti!

...lying on the grass...

there's no ants in iceland! (and not only because of the season. :P)


äitisuomennos: hiphei! eipä ei, islannissa muurahaisia ei!

X-mas frog

i have no idea of the source of this photo but since it was too wonderful to be left out... i hope the photographer doesn't mind - it's christmas time after all (the marvelous fact can never be underlined too much!!!)


äitisuomennos: kas, joulusammakko! :)