Ok. I cant seem to find it now but I did read a posting about earthworms in containers. I dont remember why but apparently its not good. I guess that is my question. Why isnt it good?
Now my confession. I went hunting for, and found numerous earthworms in the vineyard behind my house. It seemed like a really great idea to put them in my half barrels.
Then I found this site and that posting. Can someone tell me what I can do? What I should do! Thanks
High Sarah. Good ? Is my most favorite restaurant in the entire universe still in existence? Highway 29 Cafe - um, ah, ummmmmmm, ahhhhhhhh! :x Welcome to OG.
Sarah, yes, dump the dirt, not our Dirt from OG but your container dirt, into the compost and start anew. What happens is the worm castings end up upsetting the balance in the container dirt.
Hey, if they're good in the ground it would make sense "to me" that they'd be good in a pot! But then I'd a saved them for a wormcasting omlette! :_| :_| Yep, I'm fine!!!! Really, I AM FINE!!!! Why do you ASK? I'M FINE!!!!!
AAAHHHHHH yes, the Highway 29 cafe, where the plates are the size of a tractor tire!! Yes I think its still open. I live up valley from there, where the plates are large and the portions arent!! (In fact I work in one of those places!) :^O The only race track I can think of would be the Calistoga sprint car track. FUN, FUN, FUN to be had there!!
Here's a message on this board from last February about problems with worms in containers. It's the first I've heard of it, but they seem to have problems with it:
"kimisdad
Posts: 5 Registered: 2/23/05 Re: Earthworms in plant containers Posted: Feb 24, 2005 2:58 PM Reply
"I had a out of control hobby that has turned into a nursery raising plumeria here in Southern California. The issue with worms in the containers is that they work the soil and then the soil washes out of the pots when it becomes castings. In addition the worms will actually loosen the soil so much that the roots will not stay in place or keep a firm root ball when the person who purchases the plant transplants it. We always have over one thousand plants in containers from 5 gal. to forty five gal. specimens. These large specimens are effected more as the plants grow in the same contain until sold which can be up to three or four years. Also this article I'm referring to in Organic Gardening was fifteen years ago or more. Also the article had no information as to sterilizing soil. I experienced the baking soil bit about fifty years ago and will never forget the smell.
Jack "
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We were attacked by a spammer today who quit at post-count 666 on Easter Sunday.
We were sick of looking at his/her posts so we bumped everything up. That is, brought pages and posts back up to the front from the back. You can only do that by posting a reply and sending, so we just write "bump" so people know. The spammer had filled multiple front pages of most of the OG forums with junk. Scott has to deal with the rest of it tomorrow.
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