I have been composting. This year I got one of those vermicast tray systems where you have a tray filled with a substrate (it comes with coconut fibers but you can use soil or manure). The bottom is grilled and moisture drains into a bottom drain. You put in earthworms and feed them kitchen veggie waste. The worms eat the waste creating compost and the moisture collects in the bottom tray. The moisture is rich in notrogen and you can draw it off, dilute it and use it as fertilizer.
Damaged or funky tomatoes from our plants go in whole. In a couple of weeks all you can find is the skin. But in a couple more weeks you have a bunch of mater sprouts. Works with other fresh produce scraps as well. Our watermelon seeds in the scraps sprout like mad.
So, next spring, I'm not gonna use the fancy tray sprouting system. I'm gonna sprout my seeds oin the worm-o-mat.
