Comments on: Vermi-Seeds?

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:06:04 +0000

Had to chuckle ruefully at Antonette’s comment (#5) as I had the same thing happen to me a few years ago. I “treated” my worms to the pulp leftover from running my tomatoes through a food mill to remove seeds & pulp prior to processing them for canning. Wow… some months later I started new beds for the worms and proudly saved all that lovely worm compost in a bucket until time to start spring plants and to repot/rejuvenate my houseplants, etc. come spring. Oh, dear… Lesson learned! Now I pre-cook all that pulp really well before adding it to my bins! (Same with squash & cucumber pulp!) But it took several years before I stopped finding seedlings popping up here & there in my spider plants & geraniums, etc.! It seems tomato seeds can be buried quite deeply and still eventually germinate…
I purposely left an avocado pit in one of the bins (oh, my, how those wrigglers adore avocado flesh!) and later, when it grew, potted it up. It grew a few feet tall over a couple of years before I finally had to just let it succumb to the cold outdoors as I had nowhere in the house to keep it over winter.

By: Antonette Lobo

Antonette Lobo — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 05:01:26 +0000

I have hundreds of tomato plants in many of my house plants, guess they are from the worm poop that i added to the pots a few weeks ago. I dont know what kind of tomato plants the are and dont want to weed them out either.I am in edmonton and have still 2 more months to wait if I want to plant them out.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:38:18 +0000

Hello! I recently added some butternut squash guts and an old pomegranate to one of my 7 bins. A week later, I had a forest of squash sprouts, and what I think is a pomegranate sprout growing out of the bin. I pulled them out, planted them, and put them in our grow house where we grow hot chili peppers. The squash is going crazy, and is about to flower, and the pomegranate (?) is on its 3rd leaf set.

We’ll see where it goes…pretty stoked.
😉

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:15:19 +0000

Speaking of tropical plants Bentley, did you realize that papaya seeds are considered potent de-wormers. They are supposed to be powerful for getting rid of intestinal parasites. By the way the worms I ordered from you arrived in great condition and needed no defrosting.

By: John Duffy

John Duffy — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 03:46:06 +0000

I never knew that fruit flesh would act as a germination inhibitor.( makes perfect sense now that I think about it) Thanks for keeping my brain cells stimulated. I really enjoy learning new things and YOU have taught me volumes. Have a great weekend!

By: IanE

IanE — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:14:02 +0000

Interesting! Can’t wait to see how the results turn out.