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Mari
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 worms in potted plants - 2006/05/10 20:23 Hi--
I'm new to vermiculture and this forum--I'm glad this site exists! I fear I may have done my worms a disservice and want to find out quickly! I'm about to move from a place with a big compost pile to one where I will only have (outside) potted plants. I potted some plants yesterday using a mixture of 1/2 potting mix and 1/2 compost (filled with worms)--but now I'm worried maybe one shouldn't put worms in potted plants. Can they get enough to eat? Will they overheat in the black plastic pots? Shall I unpot them?
Thank you!
Mari
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 Re:worms in potted plants - 2006/05/10 21:06 Most likely the worms will not have enough to eat. If they are sitting on the ground they will exit through the bottom. Susan Quinby-Honer
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Richard
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 Re:worms in potted plants - 2006/05/10 22:28 I have done this for a long time and the worms will be just fine so long as you use natural liquid additons such as seaweed, molasses, compost tea and apple cider vinegar and not the blue fertilizers such as Miracle-Gro or some of the other liquid fertilizers. The salts in these will kill the worms.
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