Post by Jay Blair on Nov 5, 2005 12:03:45 GMT -5
While reading most all of our forums on worm farming , producing vermicompost as amendment and bigger and better worms, I see discussions concentrating on the worms and quality of the compost.
I seldom see discussion of the actual use of the vermicompost worms in farming and gardening. Mostly the references seldom exceed mentioning of watering with compost tea or "vermicompost makes a great fertilizer".
Over the years I have eliminated about 85% of the commercial amendmendts that I used to purchase for use in my gardens.
I have reached the point now that I no longer consider my worms as a separate project from my BISF garden and include it a a part of my season to season garden plan along with my BISF grown garden vegetables in the 3 raised beds I use.
Next season my outdoor worms will be concentrated in bed #2 with fresh harvest vegetables from bed #1 and luffa and peppers and tomatoes from bed #3.
Until the spring I will be first concentrating on my indoor maintained bin stock to produce the 150 cubic feet of vermicompost I have as a projection in my 2006 garden plan to help start seedlings and add to my raised beds in the spring as I harvest some of the established topsoil to further build up the low laying terrace of my property and keep my raised beds from overflowing their borders.
I have also began using my Eisenia fetida to amend the dumped kitty litter piles where I am transplanting the acidic soil loving tangle shrub to build a privacy hedge while disposing of the cheap kitty litter and cat scat / urine. Yes I prefer dumping to scooping
How big of a component does vermicompost make in your gardens?
So anyone else reached the point of viewing their worms as just another crop of their gardens?
Did anybody else read "Farmer in the Sky" by Robert Heinlein in their high school science fiction literature class?
Or maybe read of the Cuban solution to the loss of the agricultural support from the former Soviet Union. ?
I seldom see discussion of the actual use of the vermicompost worms in farming and gardening. Mostly the references seldom exceed mentioning of watering with compost tea or "vermicompost makes a great fertilizer".
Over the years I have eliminated about 85% of the commercial amendmendts that I used to purchase for use in my gardens.
I have reached the point now that I no longer consider my worms as a separate project from my BISF garden and include it a a part of my season to season garden plan along with my BISF grown garden vegetables in the 3 raised beds I use.
Next season my outdoor worms will be concentrated in bed #2 with fresh harvest vegetables from bed #1 and luffa and peppers and tomatoes from bed #3.
Until the spring I will be first concentrating on my indoor maintained bin stock to produce the 150 cubic feet of vermicompost I have as a projection in my 2006 garden plan to help start seedlings and add to my raised beds in the spring as I harvest some of the established topsoil to further build up the low laying terrace of my property and keep my raised beds from overflowing their borders.
I have also began using my Eisenia fetida to amend the dumped kitty litter piles where I am transplanting the acidic soil loving tangle shrub to build a privacy hedge while disposing of the cheap kitty litter and cat scat / urine. Yes I prefer dumping to scooping
How big of a component does vermicompost make in your gardens?
So anyone else reached the point of viewing their worms as just another crop of their gardens?
Did anybody else read "Farmer in the Sky" by Robert Heinlein in their high school science fiction literature class?
Or maybe read of the Cuban solution to the loss of the agricultural support from the former Soviet Union. ?
