Gardening tips with your pal Chris Sharkey
Running a successful inner-city garden is not something to be taken lightly. In this go-go 24/7 world, fresh herbs are almost as important as water to sustain basic life. Without a regular supply of parsley and chives in your diet, you risk a certain early death.
Below are some instructions for how to set up your own pot to grow things in with a fresh supply of fertiliser brought to you by our garden friends, the worms. The idea is that the old fruit will attract worms who will break it down and fertilise the dirt.
Instructions:
- Clear an area in dirt where worms live. Worms are shy and tend to live below the ground. They are allergic to shell fish and all natural light (including strobe light) so under the ground is the safest place for them to live.
- Get a Styrofoam or other container and stab a bunch of holes in the bottom. The holes are for the worms to get in and for drainage. If you are having trouble stabbing the holes, just pretend the container is a Camry driver.
- Next, grab all your old and gross fruit from your fridge. I like to keep a supply of old and rotting fruit in my fridge at all times, but if you don't have any just put some fresh fruit in there and wait 1-2 weeks. Wrap the fruit in newspaper (or in my case the Inner-West courier) and put it into your planting container.
- Ok now fill it up with dirt. I chose to use organic potting mix (Note: organic things are a scam).
- Finally, plant your things. This time I planted baby spinach. See pictures of other things I have planted in the gallery above.
Well I hope you enjoyed my first gardening tip. As you can see above I run a thriving and successful inner-city garden. It makes me happy when my girlfriend Nicole and I water it each day. We even use tank water, check out our home-made* tank below:
*Note: tank is not home-made, it came with the house.