wormwrangler
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Re:Half planter and half worm pit. - 2008/05/14 15:56
Well we have found after many different experiments with mixing castings with potting soil and regular ole dirt, that a 1/3 castings to 2/3 potting soil or just plain dirt is about the best mix. Now these castings are from mostly feeding the worms horse manure. I believe there will be a difference in castings make up by what the worms are fed.
You know the old saying...garbage in...garbage out LOL.
One of my good friends is a master gardener with a public broadcast garden show, and he was so impressed with the results of our experiments that he brought out his video crew. We had at the time 3 HUGE spider plants with hundreds of babies hanging off of them.
So for his cameras we mixed the castings and potting soil, and planted 20 spider babies all about the same size in the mixture. Then we planted 20 more in just potting soil. All the spider plant babies were pretty close to the same size and all watered and treated the same.
He returned in 90 days with his video crew in tow to see and show the results.
The spider plants in the mixture looked like full blown adult spider plants with babies already shooting out, and they were flowering.
The ones grown in just potting soil had grown also, but were 2/3's smaller than the ones grown in the mixture. He held up a plant from each side by side for the camera, and it was obvious to everyone that castings wins hands down.
From those 2 television segments our casting sales went through the roof.
This was over 10 years ago, and we have lost the video, or I would put it up on youtube to show everyone. I even asked our master gardener friend for a copy, but he says that is long gone as they use the same tapes over and over darn it.
I do believe that everyone here will get the same dramatic results if they try it themselves.
I hope this helps.
Wormwrangler
P.S.
I will try and find the photos and scan them. Then put a couple here to show what im talking about.
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