Hey Big Blender!

Not sure how many of you keep a little garden at home. We (mainly grandma and grandpa) wanted to have a little vegetable garden for supply of fresh salad green and herbs. So we converted our rooftop into some sort of experimental farms. Racks and flower beds were set up and we have quite a variety of plants. Besides of the usual herbs, we have tomato, chili pepper, ginger, garlic, scallion, onion, lettuce, eggplants, zucchinis, cucumber, strawberry and even watermelon. It's been working well and I have to admit that the vegetable from home tastes better than those from the supermarket.

The problem we had was to get good fertilizer. Grandma ordered a compost drum from the organic store in Sai Kung town. It is a slow process but was ok until one day, we found lots of mini-leech like worms on the roof top floor. Our maid must have put some meat part in the compost bin and the sight was very hitchcock (if you've seen "The Birds"). We were forced to seal all the holes on the drum with duct tape to kill the worms. In the meantime, we searched for "cleaner" alternatives. We are now experimenting but not sure if it will work as advertised. We basically collect all rotten vegetables, fallen leaves, fruit peels as before but this time, we simply blend them and apply with water.

I got a big blender for the blending but the thing started to smoke 2 minutes into our morning blending on the second day. Gotta go to the shop to exchange for a new one. Hope it is no reflection of the method itself!