Thursday, March 29, 2012

New Lodgers

Yesterday afternoon I returned from the bank to find that our landlord had begged to leave two cows at our place. They are tied up below the school and are providing background music for the students studying. What can you say - more material for our worm bin. As long as they don't get loose and do a number on all our trees and plants. Only for a day????? We'll see.
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bookwormhank said...

wirpro adtinWe also have worm bins -- I tried the tower and found that it was easily inhabitable by flies so have reverted back to the bins covered with newspapers. We turned the worms from the tower loose into our raised beds to break down the chicken manure into soil to be planted in the late spring.

We use red wigglers for our composting worms. I have found that we can sell them for $20 a pint or pound and $15 a pint if they dig them. Shipping them is a little hard if I want them to arrive alive. iF the recipient leaves them in a hot mail box all weekend usually what they get is something smelly and dead.

We also are able to sell the worm tea for about $5 a pint and have found that when mixed 1 T tea to a gallon of water you can spray your plant leaves and water them with it and have healthy plants that are disease free and vigorous.

The worm poop or castings we use ourselves as our soil is red clay sand and needs amending.

I am interested in how you use your worms.

April 5, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Bryan said...

Dear bookwormhank.
I am so used to receiving no comments that I forgot to check. Just noticed yours.
Thank you for the tips, especially the one on worm tea.
Could you send me your recipe for making the tea concentrate privately to BwanaBB@yahoo.ca?
Right now, we are just getting a stock of worms to supply some other projects.

September 28, 2012 at 9:18 AM

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