Are you fed up with all the spills and mess you make when refilling your tui feeder? If the answer is yes read on as this will brighten your day.
I’ve stop counting the number of times I’ve refilled the 3 feeders we have about the place but the thought has often occurred to me that [...]
Since purchasing my first bee hive in January, my fascination for bees continues to grow so to learn more about these amazing creatures, I’ve made this observation hive. Now I will be able to watch my Italian friends up close as they go about their many and varied tasks.
After undertaking considerable research on the web [...]
Back in September of 2009 I made two bathtub worm farms as I needed to increase my stock of tiger worms. Sales of my worms farms via the “Garden Shop” and Trade Me were going extremely well, however the demand had created a major problem.
Simply put, not enough worms.
Most folk don’t want to purchase a [...]
Do you ever wonder where all the bees have gone? It’ s no easy task to find bees whereas not many years back they were everywhere plying their all important trade.
I can remember many an occasion when one of our children would come storming into the house hollering that they had trodden on a bee [...]
Back in March when I erected the first tui feeder in our back garden little did I imagine how popular this product would become. As the orders steadily increased I have refined my manufacturing process so that they can be made quickly whilst retaining A1 quality. This is very important to me therefore every feeder [...]
Over the last month I’ve been thinking about designing a feeder that would cater for more of the birds that visit our garden.
Based on current sales the most popular bird feeder we sell is the standard 1.5 litre tui feeder but it has limitations as it only offers sweetened water. Don’t get me wrong, I [...]
Just over a week has passed since I fed my tiger worms so today it was time to see how they were faring.
Wow haven’t we been busy, the approximate 700gsm of food added last week has been consumed so it’s just a matter of adding a similar amount again. Each week the feeding area is [...]
Now that “I have worms” each weekend I have one more chore on my list of things to do. To some it may appear a “little yucky” but for me its a nice relaxing diversion and I find it fascinating to see these amazing creatures going about their business. Up until about a month ago [...]
Step One:
Get your hands on an old bathtub.
Shouldn’t be too difficult as there seems to be plenty of them for sale. Now that house prices are high many people are choosing to renovate rather than building new. I bought this one on Trade Me for $11.50.
Step Two:
Make up a frame to support the bath.
Raising the [...]
When I launched JustAddWorms six months ago I had no plans to get involved with worms as my sole intention was to blog about my new vegetable garden. Because of the name many people have asked me if I sell worms and until recently my answer has always been a simple “no”.
Now that’s all changed.
In [...]
