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Midway City, California

In the begging of the season we had a lot of discussion on compost tea. I got into it myself and brought 1000 worms to help make good compost for the tea. I went by the book in feeding and housing the worms but the did not make much compost and the worms did not appear bigger nor did the population increase. SO I split the worms into two parts and transfered them to my two plants. I did make manure tea but I did not see any improvement in the soil or plants. My question is how did other growers do with worms and compost tea.

11/2/2004 6:17:57 PM

Hobbiton New Zealand

Water the worms should double in number about every 2 mths I no tknow what you have for a worm farm but they are a bit fussy about the right amount of moisture and heat. I have a couple of old bath tubs raised off the ground with a bucket under the old plug hole to catch all the waste run off. I have heard if you feed them to much citris fruit they do not do very well. The liguid that comes out the books say water down at about 20-1 but i put it on straight and the lettuce plants and tomatoes love it I guess the pumkins like it as well I put the same on all so did not have anything to compair to.

11/3/2004 3:51:21 AM

Montoursville, PA

If you will add humus derived from manures and compost the worms will arrive with no effort on your part. When you get your humus up to five percent or better the worms will populate the area in even greater number as your humus percentage improves. This assumes a PH of 6.5 to 7.0 has been achieved and synthetic additives or sprays with poison salts are in very low presense. The same is true of your effort to make compost. This is one improved gardening condition that even I can not screw up.

11/25/2004 8:58:35 PM