What's happening now

Ashlie has gotten bigger. ,lllllllllllllllmmmmmmmk (sorry that's what my cat Charlote has to say apparently) Rover looks like he got smaller but I don't think he did. I think Sweety has gotten bigger too.

Because Ashlie is a black widow spider I can't put more kitchen-waste in side the worms habitat so my mom has to do it. Ashlie's web is attached to the lid so she is a little-bit scared.

I haven't seen any worms lately, but I think they're still there.

Mosquito-hawk

I figured out that the mosquito-hawk is actually called the crane-fly.
(Just in case you we're wondering.)

A month later...

I added Maynard, the pitcher plant. It's a bug eating plant, but you can't really see it eat the bugs because they just get stuck in there. The gnats are starting to die down, but we still have gnats all over the house. I could sit there all day smashing gnats.





The kitchen waste layer is completely gone now. I did add more kitchen waste but it's all buried in the back in a pile rather than a long layer.

The sweet potato plant has grown so much bigger. The leaves are all the way across the terrarium now and roots are growing out of the stems. The leaves are coming up through the lid that my dad made and pushing up the plastic wrap that we put there to keep the moisture there. The sweet potato's roots are all over the place -- out of the stems, in the gravel, halfway across the terrarium at the bottom -- they're everywhere.

But we haven't been seeing very many worms, only one or two.

Yuck! I just saw a huge mosquito hawk in the habitat. And I noticed a couple of days ago that a black widow spider lives in there too. I don't know what to do about it. Oh well, it's also bug-eating, like Maynard. I'll call it Ashlie. I named the mosquito hawk Rover.

What's happening

I saw another fat juicy worm this morning.

There are way too many gnats in there.

Me and my Mom are considering splitting the cost of a bug eating plant to plant in there. We saw it at Trader Joe's. It's called a Pitcher Plant.

Signs of Life

I saw a big fat juicy worm in the grass-clippings layer today. It was about ______________________ that long. At first I thought it was a brown piece of grass, but then I looked more closely and it was a worm heading farther into the grass. I was happy to see it.


The sweet potato is huge -- it's almost to the other side of the tank or habitat or whatever-you-call-it.

My dad made a real lid. (Before we just used plastic wrap.) But now we use a metal net-type thing with plastic wrap over that to keep the moisture in.


The kitchen waste we gave them is almost gone. I don't think they are eating it, I think it's just getting buried by what they are eating, like, well, I don't know, but the level of the dirt in there has gone down and you can just barely see the dry leaf layer.

where are they?

I was digging in the worms' habitat. I didn't see any worms. I was surprised to see that they weren't there. I'm not sure they're not there. Maybe they just aren't toward the top or against the glass. Or maybe they just headed down to the middle because it's darkest there. But I don't know. I hope we find that they're alive and that we see them. If we don't I want to get more at OSH but Mom says we'll have to get them from our yard first because it's $12 a bucket at OSH.

Later I was looking around...just looking at the compost, and the lettuce was sprouting from the leaves which was kinda weird looking. I guess when you put a lettuce leaf in the dirt it just wants to grow. It's Romaine. I wonder if it grew roots too. But it's close to the glass and I don't see any yet.

freshly started...

A week later.......

Whoa!

I was looking at the photo in my last post and I scrolled down and looked at the image in Day Two and I noticed that the pinecone closed. I was very surprised. We kept that pinecone in a bin in our backyard for a couple of years. I'm surprised that it didn't change then, but now it's finally closing. It might be because of the humidity in there, but I'm not sure.