Over the last year as I blogged about birds, worms and bees I often imagined how much easier it would be if I had a good video camera. No longer would I need to take 30 or 40 still shots to get the images I needed for my next post.
After frustrating almost every camera store [...]
Upon passing out my card I’m often greeted with the comment “I had some worms once but they all died”.
“Was it something I fed them?”
There may have been other reasons why the worms died but my intention here is to summarise their dietary likes and dislikes.
Tiger worms (Eisenia fetida) also known as compost worms, manure [...]
When I wrote to the NZ Gardener recently to make them aware of my bumper crop of tomatoes I certainly didn’t expect my letter to be made into a full page feature. You could say I almost “fell off my ladder” when the neighbour dropped by to show me their copy (details are on pages [...]
It was just 365 days ago that I wrote the first post for Just Add Worms, how time flies when you’re doing something that you enjoy. One year and 63 posts later, the blog and garden are both flourishing. The photo below shows the garden as it was back then.
This photo shows the garden as [...]
Its been about 14 weeks now since I planted my first tomatoes and at last, they are ripening in reasonable numbers. I picked the first of the tomatoes about 3 weeks ago but they didn’t compare to yesterday’s harvest. I’m tickled pink (as in Brandywine Pink) with the results so far, since these are just [...]
Back in September of 2009 I made two bathtub worm farms as I needed to increase my stock of tiger worms. Sales of my worms farms via the “Garden Shop” and Trade Me were going extremely well, however the demand had created a major problem.
Simply put, not enough worms.
Most folk don’t want to purchase a [...]
Now that the Christmas and New Year’s festivities are over I thought it time to see how my two trial tomatoes are progressing. Since my post of the 18th of December all the tomatoes excluding the one below have received another generous dose of worm juice however I’m now applying it with a watering can. [...]
It’s been almost six weeks since I planted my main crop of my tomatoes and now that the warm summer weather has finally arrived they’re racing away.
My post of the 5th November “How to grow bigger and better tomatoes using worm juice“ covered the subject of using this as an organic fertiliser. Since then [...]
For the 30 years I’ve been growing vegetables tomatoes have always had pride of place in my garden as I enjoy growing them and love eating them. As mentioned in a previous post, this season I have planted six different tomato varieties so hopefully some bumper crops are not too far away.
With two bath tub [...]
Just over a week has passed since I fed my tiger worms so today it was time to see how they were faring.
Wow haven’t we been busy, the approximate 700gsm of food added last week has been consumed so it’s just a matter of adding a similar amount again. Each week the feeding area is [...]
