Comments on: Terracycle Challenge http://www.redwormcomposting.com/announcements/terracycle-challenge/ Red Wiggler Worms, European Nightcrawlers and loads of helpful Worm Composting Information Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bentley http://www.redwormcomposting.com/announcements/terracycle-challenge/#comment-500 Bentley Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:21:54 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/announcements/terracycle-challenge/#comment-500 Hi Alison, Thanks for reminding me that I totally forgot to keep everyone here up to date with the Terracyle Challenge. I DID do it, but I provided coverage on my EcoSherpa blog (http://www.ecosherpa.com). I will write a post here at RWC about it soon. The composter tomatoes are growing very well - almost a challenge to get in at the composter now with the jungle of tomato plants surrounding it. Re: adding red worms to soil, you will definitely need to add a LOT of organic matter to the soil as well (and continue adding it if you expect them to survive) - they are not adapted to live in regular soil. Hi Alison,
Thanks for reminding me that I totally forgot to keep everyone here up to date with the Terracyle Challenge. I DID do it, but I provided coverage on my EcoSherpa blog (http://www.ecosherpa.com).
I will write a post here at RWC about it soon.

The composter tomatoes are growing very well - almost a challenge to get in at the composter now with the jungle of tomato plants surrounding it.

Re: adding red worms to soil, you will definitely need to add a LOT of organic matter to the soil as well (and continue adding it if you expect them to survive) - they are not adapted to live in regular soil.

]]> By: Alison http://www.redwormcomposting.com/announcements/terracycle-challenge/#comment-493 Alison Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:45:47 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/announcements/terracycle-challenge/#comment-493 Hi Bentley, did you do this experiment? If yes how is it going? How are the naturaly grown tomatoes going? The ones growing out of your bin? I am just about to start my seeds for this years vegetable garden and I am going to use some of my vermicompost mixed with something.I don't know if I should use some store bought seed raising mix or not.I would rather not because they put cemicals in it but I have tested my garden soil for microbes and it is pretty lacking but maybe that is because while we were away they had a severe run of very hard frosts down here and maybe it takes a while to get cranked up, another more likely possibility is that I have killed the microbes with store bought fertilizer. ( I won't be doing that again) I am becoming much more aware of the dangers of that) I have used old manure and sawdust (full of worms )on my vegetable garden with fantastic results but the following season it wouldn't do as well and the worms would be gone. I would blame that on various things like " ran out of food, soil got to dry etc " and I am probably right but the microbes should still have been there busy living,working and keeping the soil healthy.I have also started my two worm bin today.How is yours doing? I didn't put any vermicasts with them in case I put some eggs in with them. Hi Bentley, did you do this experiment? If yes how is it going? How are the naturaly grown tomatoes going? The ones growing out of your bin? I am just about to start my seeds for this years vegetable garden and I am going to use some of my vermicompost mixed with something.I don’t know if I should use some store bought seed raising mix or not.I would rather not because they put cemicals in it but I have tested my garden soil for microbes and it is pretty lacking but maybe that is because while we were away they had a severe run of very hard frosts down here and maybe it takes a while to get cranked up, another more likely possibility is that I have killed the microbes with store bought fertilizer. ( I won’t be doing that again) I am becoming much more aware of the dangers of that) I have used old manure and sawdust (full of worms )on my vegetable garden with fantastic results but the following season it wouldn’t do as well and the worms would be gone. I would blame that on various things like ” ran out of food, soil got to dry etc ” and I am probably right but the microbes should still have been there busy living,working and keeping the soil healthy.I have also started my two worm bin today.How is yours doing? I didn’t put any vermicasts with them in case I put some eggs in with them.

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