Saturday, August 27, 2005
Massacre
The inhabitants of our wormery haven't been so active of late. I've tried adding lime mix, in case it's too acid for them. Still noshing slowly. Same story with added worm treat to help them get their appetite back.
Today Andy asked if we'd had much plant feed from them yet. This is liquid compost that builds up below the trays. There is a tap to let it out and a ramp so that worms who drop into the pool by accident can crawl back up into the veg.
We put a bucket below the tap and, GUSH: dark brown, rich, smelly compost water came pouring out and pouring out and pouring out. Much excitment until we noticed that the liquid was thick with worm corpses, big and small, and just kept on flowing. In all, two bucketfuls came out and many dead worms.
I had no idea we were steadily drowning all the worms - awful. I've left the tap open now.
Today Andy asked if we'd had much plant feed from them yet. This is liquid compost that builds up below the trays. There is a tap to let it out and a ramp so that worms who drop into the pool by accident can crawl back up into the veg.
We put a bucket below the tap and, GUSH: dark brown, rich, smelly compost water came pouring out and pouring out and pouring out. Much excitment until we noticed that the liquid was thick with worm corpses, big and small, and just kept on flowing. In all, two bucketfuls came out and many dead worms.
I had no idea we were steadily drowning all the worms - awful. I've left the tap open now.
# posted by Liz @ 5:23 pm 
