Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

I haven't tried vermicomposting, but somebody, I think Harvey,

mentioned that worms for vermicomposting are not the same as

the ones in the garden.  In fact, worms used to the rich diet in

a vermicomposting facility probably won't make it on their own

in the wild.

 

As to the garden worms running away; I wouldn't worry about

that.  As long as they find good living conditions in you garden:

plenty of food (constant stream of organic matter being added),

constant soil coverage, enough humidity and little or no soil

disturbance, they will prosper and multiply, probably come from

the whole neighbourhood to congregate in your garden.

 

Dieter Brand

Portugal

> On Mar 6,
>  2008, at 11:43 PM, Dean wrote:
>
> > Right now we are vermic0mposting (just got started) to build up 
> > compost over
> > the winter. I would like to eventually move all the worms into the 
> > garden
> > and let them aerate as they fertilize. I would think, being the 
> > intelligent
> > critters they are, they would stay where it is the most comfortable 
> > for
> > them, i.e. not crawl out of the garden area. My biggest concern 
> > would be
> > with them goiing or needing to go so deep in the winter to aviod 
> > the cold
> > that they surface in places other than the garden. Any ideas on 
> > this or
> > other things i am not thinking of would be appreciated. Dean
> >
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