Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Michael Nevin <mikepnevin@yahoo.ca>]

Hi - I was not able to follow my own suggestion due to poor timing on my part and lack of space where I compost.. All of my worms in small bins - regardless of their hardiness - died in the -10C prolonged cold spell we had here in Toronto.Our soil was frozen.

 I want lots of worms to survive. Our gardens need the vermicastings.

Next year, I will try to use season-extension techniques to create warm patches for our worms.

Cheers, Mike in snow-battered Toronto.

Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com> wrote:

Worms are pretty good at adapting to circumstances.  They move down in the soil

when it gets cold, go dormant when it gets dry and, during rainy weather, I have even

seen some on top of upturned barrel 3 feet above the ground.

 

If you take special measures to protect them from the weather, you will favour those

that cannot adapt easily and will die whenever you don't have time to provide that

special protection.

Dieter Brand

Portugal

Michael Nevin <mikepnevin@yahoo.ca> wrote:

Hi - are you using surface or litter-feeders or are they worms that generally go deep? Could you use a cold frame to create a warm patch of ground so that your critters do not freeze? And feed them under the glass or plastic over winter?How cold does your area get?

Cheers, Mike in Toronto

Dean <andeanfx@midrivers.com> 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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