Nancy Reading

Oh yes, that's aphids John! How did you get on in the end?

The trouble with ants is that they protect the aphids from predators as well as harvesting the honeydew, so I'm not sure how my favourite 'do nothing' approach works in those circumstances.

Thank you Benjamin,
I checked it this morning, and I think I do see a scummy layer on the surface! I remember it was full of bubbles when it was happy so I was looking for that.
I will do as you say and refresh with some fresh sweet tea. I have some saved just in case....I'll give a progress report in a few days.

Yes! In my 'secret garden'. This one didn't flower last year, but these (there are actually two flowers although the angle is wrong to see them) are flowering well. There were two previous flowers (seeds?!) and maybe a couple more to some. Other than the odd lavenderish coloured opium poppy self seeding from an ancient sowing in the old polytunnel, I only have the wild perennial Welsh poppies here I think. I'm not sure whether this one will turn out to be properly perennial. The first blue one I had died after flowering, but I'm ever hopeful!

I was wondering the same thing.... I think I may have killed my kombucha scoby through starvation. It was left a long time (mumble mumble) weeks without feeding. On the positive side I have some wonderful Kombucha vinegar!

I have now added some fresh sweet tea to the original scoby. It has only been a couple of days, and the room temperature is pretty cool, but there is no sign of life as yet.

Blue Poppies

Yury Smirnov,
I have merged your topic into this topic. I hope that helps.

I merged your stuff with the following thread. I hope that is okay by you.

Hi Alison, welcome to permies! How did you get on with your worm bin? I just found it too difficult to feed my worm pets the perfect amount, I'm not very organised I'm afraid!

My worm bin has now been converted to a doggy poo bin - I scoop the poo with newspaper, which protects my hands and gives a bit of dry brown to balance the poo as it all goes in the bin. It's a bit early yet to say how it is going, but with a big mastiff to tidy up after (before the labrador does - yuk!) the bin is rather full. I'm thinking of removing the shelf, or moving it down to give more room, putting soak material at the bottom and making a drainage hole.
For smaller amounts of green waste I think it would work well though.

Lawren - cool and moist environments I can do, Skye is good for that!