Friday, 5 June 2009

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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Saturday, 24 January 2009

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