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Comment on Primary Schools ‘Growing to Eat!’ by compostwoman

compostwoman — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:54:45 +0000

I help the children at my local Primary school with their Organic garden and we grow lots of lovely veg in there.

I can certainly recommend this book, and helping children to grow stuff is a delight to be involved with!

Comment on Worms, Worms and more Worms! by Trev

Trev — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:43:11 +0000

I had a wormery go “bad” on me (my fault for adding more meat than the worms could handle) and I ended up emptying the stinking contents onto my normal compost heap - worms’n'all. I’ve since restarted the wormery, hence my purchase of a kilo of worms from these guys a few months ago, and I now have the little wrigglers on a purely cooked vegetables diet and all is going swimmingly.

A side-effect of this was my compost bin, which nestles into my compost heap, is absolutely heaving with worms and the raw kitchen scraps & loo roll tubes are going down faster than ever before. I just have to keep my brother-in-law away when he’s on the hunt for bait for his fishing trips…

Comment on Sylvia’s Blog by Trev

Trev — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:17:20 +0000

Leftover bread… I like the breadcrumb idea. Mostly the half-eaten breakfast toast and odd end of stale loaf goes to the birds. The bunch who hang around our garden usually demolish the lot before any “vermin” get a look-in. We occasionally go to brain a duck or goose at the nearby lakes, but mostly find they’ve been fed to apathy by 10am and the water looks decidedly unhealthy from the festering excess of bread.

This morning I half heard a mention on Radio 2 about the RSPB asking people not to feed bread to birds as it has “little nutritional value for them, wastes their digestive enzymes and fills them up with junk-food” – or words to that effect. So, do I now expand the worms’ diet to include bread. Currently they’re a strict cooked vegetables (no sauce) diet, I had a previous bad experience with meat in the wormery.

Comment on Sylvia’s Blog by Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:06:11 +0000

What do we do with bread? Any surplus that we can’t eat is either turned into breadcrumbs and stashed in the freezer for making crumble topping, bread sauce or similar - or much more likely is crumbled a bit and put out for the birds. OK, so it also feeds the occasional long-tailed field mouse and field vole - but live and let live!

Comment on Worms, Worms and more Worms! by Rod

Rod — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:17:05 +0000

So my earthworms are safe where they are for now! Well from me but I’m not sure I can speak for the birds. I can see I’m going to be reliving childhood memories this weekend digging around in my compost heap looking for stripy worms - and the kids are going to love joining in! At least if I don’t find any, I know where to come - I predict yet another basket of washing coming on.

Comment on Worms, Worms and more Worms! by recycleworks

recycleworks — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:33:44 +0000

Rod

Earthworms as their name implies, like to live in the soil and are should not be added to your compost bins. They will recycle the organic matter in bed, improving the soil structure etc.

If your compost bin is open at the bottom, you will find that naturally occuring compost worms will find their own way in.
You can always recognise compost worms by the stripes on their bodies.
S

Comment on Worms, Worms and more Worms! by Rod

Rod — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:58:54 +0000

I was in the garden last weekend putting the finishing touches to a large bed I started preparing for the winter last November! I was amazed at how many worms I was unearthing. Big juicy ones and small tidlers - I would love to know more about which worms work best for your compost heap and whether the odd transfer of common earth worm from flower bed to compost heap might do the trick? One thing for sure is that I dont currently have worms in my compost heap and it shows as after two years there is still compost material not fully broken down. R