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Sunday, October 09, 2005

Tomato seedlings and The New Worm Palace

The tomato seeds have come up in my mini-greenhouse. The Seed Raising Mix experiment is going well although unfortunately the AJ (Andrew James) mix isn't going too well (50:50 Worm castings:sand), i think only one has sprouted. Andrew, I reckon you would have thought differently when you saw the texture of the mix because it clumps together and also form a bit of a crust on the surface when it dries a bit. If I had been able to keep the moisture even it would have been good because i have some seedlings that have come up in pure worm castings i a margarine container on the window seal of my bedroom.

My worms have now been move into their new "Worm Palace". The Worm Palace is the commercially manufactured worm farm which has three stackable compartments and so the worm can move upwards when they fill up the bottom tray, then eventually i can take this away and it should be full of worm castings with no worms or food remaining in it. Yay! I think the worm will be happy to have more room to move.

2 Comments:

At 2:12 AM, Blogger Andrew James said...

good work! bummer about the AJ mix, maybe it only works well for pot. glad you liked the photos. can you add some to your site of the tomatoes?

 
At 11:27 PM, Blogger Yvonne said...

i'll see what i can do about photos.
i just ate leek & potato soup tonight with leeks dug up from the garden (which was good timing to make space for the tomatoes)

Other gardening news: the granny smith graft on the apple ree has sprouted a few leaves and my friend has also grafted in some non-curly leaf peach variety onto the nectarine tree (which is otherwise in a sorry state)

 

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