Tomatoes and the patience of worms!

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We are back and we are growing!

It's taken a while, but we realise now that the amazing work of the worms is slow! No instant results here! But when the results start to come! Wow!

Camden Council have featured us on their Environment and Composting web pages! We are very honoured.

You can see their page about Composting with a Wormery HERE.

You are all very welcome to come and see how our Wormery is developing here at CRC. Do get in touch and watch this space.
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I have planted five Tomato plants in the garden attached to the centre here. They have been planted in a grow bag to which has been added material from the bottom tray of the wormery.

The plants are doing well in the rich soil and provided they are watered regularly they will be all right. It is advised to remove all the side shoots from the tomatoe plants. If this is not done it will reduce the amount of tomatoes. It is also advisable to give them some potash fertiliser.
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Hoping to have a good crop.

Tomato image sourced from HERE

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Vermicompost

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Vermicompost is the resulting rich compost that is generated by our wormery. There is a very interesting article about it all on Wikipedia Click HERE to see the article

If you are wondering what you can put in the wormery we have discovered that the following guidelines work best.

Our wormery loves the following:

• Fruit
• Vegetable peelings
• Uncooked kitchen waste
• Tea bags
• Coffee grounds
• Torn-up paper
• Torn-up card

It is not happy at all with the following:

• Cooked food
• Onions
• Citrus fruit
• Fish
• Bones
• Bread
• Pasta
• Cheese

The image above is sourced from HERE

With a wormery- Patience is needed!

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My wormery is very slow in producing compost for growing tomatoes etc. I am slowly dicovering why this so ... Also the material in the trays is very wet but I guess this is because the tea leaf bags are sodden. I have being putting absorbant paper into the trays to absorb the moisture, but otherwise they are well

All the best

Sean

The trouble with worms and birds!

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What a wonderful series of diary entries
by you Sean!

It made me think of the new ways contemporary poetry is written! :)


They are fine
Fine
They are munching all of the tea bags
Seem to be thriving
Fine
Munching away
Doing well
Fine
They could eat for England
Fine
They are thriving
Munching away
Good


Hoping all your worms are protected from the Early Birds! :)

Posted by your snooping and keeping an eye on things webmaster! CM :) ps. Keep up the good work!

Cartoon sourced here

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My Wormery Diary - 10th Sept 2008

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Latest Updates!!!

10-8-08 they are fine
13-8-08 fine
16-8-08 they are munching all of the tea bags
18-8-08 seem to be thriving
22-8-08 fine
25-8-08 munching away
29-8-08 doing well
01-9-08 fine
03-9-08 they could eat for England
05-9-08 fine
08-9-08 they are thriving
11-9-08 munching away
14-9-08 good

Wormery Update

Recently, I had a good look at the progress of the wormery and these are my findings:

The bottom tray is almost ready to be emptied in spite of the fact that there are still some worms present. These worms will I'm sure move on very soon to the upper tray.

When I take the material from the lower tray we will use it in the Centre's garden to enrich the soil. This compost is very rich and is excellent to help grow healthy fruit and vegetables.

The bottom tray is ready as I have said, but I am somewhat surprised that it has taken nine months to mature. Perhaps we need faster worms!

It is important to note that you cannot just throw any rubbish or scraps into the wormery. The worms are very fussy and they really only like to engage with the following:

Fruit, vegetable peelings, uncooked kitchen waste, coffee grounds and tea bags especially Earl Grey :)

They do not like fish and chips!

That's the latest update from me and the worms. Watch this space!

Up on the roof!

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The roof of Camden Town Hall is covered in tomato plants, nourished by the waste from staff lunches that worms have made into compost. Tom Fewins, Public Affairs Officer, explains how this mini-ecosystem came about.

Thus begins the article on the website of the Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA).

This article was brought to my notice and I thought it a good IDEA! to post details here on the Blog.

Our Centre also gets a mention in the article!

You can visit the article on their website by clicking here.