For the last three years I have had tomato blight, I am giving up hope of ever growing tomatoes, I have tried the grow bags. a friend told me I might have to leave the ground for 7 years before I can grow tomatoes again, is this true
hello I met you at the Garden Museum for the recording of GQT. Thanks for taking the time to have a chat with me. I felt quite honoured to be there for the recording. I have seen your comments on the wormery. I am just waiting for you to have it in the Gardeners World Mag on special. i do have 2 compost bins which are full all the time and full of worms.
Thanks Santosh. Very pleased to meet you at the recording of Gardeners' Question Time where I was invited on the programme as a guest. The programme will be broadcast on Sunday 27th December at 2.00pm.
Yes, I've been taking photographs of setting-up this new wormery for a feature in BBC Gardeners' World magazine next year. We'll hopefully develop a special offer for one at the same time.
I have recently started composting, and got lots of information through various web sites. Having filled up two compost bins and adding Garotta as instructed to the layers,I then added some worms which I took from a patch of ground I was digging as I thought this might help. Unfortunately when I looked in the bins several days later, I found all the worms dead on the surface where I had put them. Obviously I made a boob, but why did this happen?.
My compost bin has a good number of brandling worms but my garden has very few earthworms, possibly due to New Zealand flatworms. If brandling worms are put onto the garden amongst the compost do they survive and will they improve the soil?
Firstly, I haven't heard much about New Zealand flatworm for some time. In which part of the country do you live, and how much of a problem are they?
Brandling worms can live in leaf litter and compost, but do not burrow down into the ground like earthworms. I really don't think they would survive for long on the surface of most soils. The blackbirds would love the meal, too!
I live in Callander, Perthshire,in Central Scotland. When we moved here 3 years ago very little of the garden had been dug over. It was mainly mossy lawn, heavy clay soil and quite a lot of paving slabs. We found the flatworms and their eggs under slabs and rocks. Having squashed all we found we now just find a few in undisturbed areas. Having put in field drains, dug a lot of 'council' and garden compost, the soil is much better but I still see very few earthworms when digging/planting so I'm not sure whether the flatworms are still at work.
Creating a composting wormery is a great way to speed up the composting process, and to recycle organic wastes and food scraps into usable and potent fertilizer.Nice post anyway!
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Desperate to grow tomatoes of Devizes
i do have 2 compost bins which are full all the time and full of worms.
Yes, I've been taking photographs of setting-up this new wormery for a feature in BBC Gardeners' World magazine next year. We'll hopefully develop a special offer for one at the same time.
I will buy it over the internet (I have not seen them here in Spain) so it is important I get the right one.
Any other advice would be welcome as well
Firstly, I haven't heard much about New Zealand flatworm for some time. In which part of the country do you live, and how much of a problem are they?
Brandling worms can live in leaf litter and compost, but do not burrow down into the ground like earthworms. I really don't think they would survive for long on the surface of most soils. The blackbirds would love the meal, too!
A very informative one!