Garden Medley

In his frustration with our recent failure of a garden, my husband is trying to figure out how to improve the soil for next year. His current idea, which we haven’t yet tried, is to save up veggie scraps and throw them in the blender with some water to pour into the planters.

I understand why he wants to do it - the nutrients should break down much easier in that form and improve the soil pretty quickly, but yuck! I’m trying not to think about what that could do to the blender, which we regularly use to make smoothies.

It’s a good blender… better be considering the price he paid for it back in college. One of the ones you see at fairs. Yes, good old VitaMix.

This wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that a new carafe would cost at least $100. Yes, I just went and priced them over at Amazon.

I’m thinking that I’m going to have to keep the scraps in the fridge for this one. No way I’m going to let disgusting, moldy scraps go into that blender. But if we keep things fresh it might not be too bad.

My other thought is to buy some cheap blender and let him use that. The current budget really doesn’t have room for unnecessary purchases, but I’d rather buy a cheap blender than effectively destroy the one we’ve got.

However, I do understand this can be quite effective. Takes something like a month for things to be ready for planting, so if we keep this up during the winter we might actually have some good soil by spring. Sounds good to me.

For those of you wondering how to make green soup for your garden, take one part compostable foods to four parts water and blend. Just make sure you think about how you’re cleaning up after.

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