1. What are the small white bugs in my worm compost that don’t seem to have any affect on the worms?
Springtails/white mites
(Reduce moisture in bin; did this by removing bottom (inch of delicious worm sludge and water) and emptying onto street trees. Expecting rain today!

2. What should I do with the Kobashi juice?
One part juice to one hundred parts water.
Source

KC and I cleared today. Onions on one end, lots of weeds on the other. Exciting stuff!

Peas in front beds (back of each)
Front: Burpee Dark Seeded Early Perfection (65 days=week of 0524)
Back: Super Sugar Snap (same time)

In front bed:
Three sets of beats (60 days=week of 0517)
Burpee Cherry Bell Radishes (22 days= April 15th)

It’s everywhere.

But it has the greatest nickname: Creeping Charlie.

I’m going to try and pull and put into pots. It’ll grow in shade, right?

SSE — Mizuma
SSE — Reine Des Glaces
SSE — Green Oak Leaf
Burpee x2 Winter Marvel (75 — first week of June?)
Burpee x2 Giant Caesar (70 — first week of June?)
Burpee Rougette de Montpelier (45 — first week of May?)

Packets from grandma:

The Butchart Gardens
Two Rows: African Daisy
Two Rows: Calendula
Two Rows: Cosmos (Sensation Mix)
Two Rows: Nasturium

I’ve never planted or intentionally grown flowers. We’ll see how it goes…

“Birds will take advantage of a tailwind, and when the wind is blowing the other way, they’ll hole up. They won’t exhaust their strength going against that wind for long when they’d make only a few miles a day or get blown backward. They rest, because if they rest that day and restore their strength, the next day they can more than make up what they lost by not going…They change their course year after year on the basis of the particular situation. They never come back exactly the same way twice because the conditions are never the same, but they always get to their destination. They have a purpose, a goal. They know where they are going, but they zigzag and they change tactics according to the situation.”

Myles Horton, The Long Haul: An Autobiography (New York: Teachers College Press, 1999),80.

Quoted in
Sapon-Shevin, Mara, and Nancy Schniedewind, Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush of Public Education. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012).
Full citation of article later…