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Post by Spruance on Oct 28, 2006 18:55:32 GMT
Every year I plant my GH tomatoes in those terracotta effect plastic tubs like you can get from Wilko's etc. For the last three years, I have dispensed with anything to stand them in as they used to get waterlogged very easily. Anyway, this year I hit on the idea of lining the bottom of the pots with newspaper - about 3 sheets thickness -. This worked very well, and I shall certainly try this again. Today I have been clearing out the last of the tomato plants from the GH and have been mixing the spent compost into the compost heap. I was quite surprised to see that most of the pots contained as many as three or four fairly large earthworms! How could this be? The pots were originally filled with a mixture of new (bagged) compost, John Innes (also out of a bag) and chicken manure pellets. The newspaper liner in virtually all of the pots was still intact, and for the last three or four months, the pots have been standing on the solid concrete floor of my GH. There were no worms in the original mix, and there have been no worms in the GH. Have they beamed down from the Wormship Enterprise? Could there have been worm 'eggs' in the original compost mix? (Do worms lay eggs?) Answers on a postcard please! <scratching head smiley>  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 28, 2006 20:17:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2006 20:34:49 GMT
That's brill Sweetleaf! Not sure it's aimed at kids though, as it was right on my level  We I need more of this type of stuff! |
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Post by Spruance on Oct 28, 2006 20:41:52 GMT
That's very interesting sweetleaf. Must have been eggs in the compost then. Well done Aldi! Perhaps I should go into Aldi tomorrow and say "I bought something from here in the summer and now I have worms!"  ;D |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 28, 2006 20:56:43 GMT
Makes you think... worm orgies are going on right under your nose and you havent a clue Im rather glad our worms arent as big as those Australian ones though...and blue worms are just tooo strange for words. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2006 16:17:57 GMT
And the pots that have always been inside, and how do those worms live in such a small amount of soil and without making wormcasts?
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