Worm casting experiment
Kayla picked up this free sample of worm castings
at an agricultural conference last weekend. The producers had some
pretty hefty claims --- they promised that if you spread the contents of
their packet around a single plant, it would produce twice as much as
its sisters. "That sounds like an experiment for your blog!" Kayla said.
I let her pick the most
average-looking strawberry plant from from my recently weeded bed. (In
case I lose my notes, it's the second one from the southeast corner.)
Kayla then sprinkled the entire packet around the lucky winner, after
which we laid down a newspaper-and-straw mulch around every plant in the
bed.
I'm dubious of the
producer's claims since I add so much organic matter to my beds in the
first place. But time will tell! Here's hoping Kayla, I, or one of you
thoughtful readers will remember to make me measure yields next May and
June. The hard part will be keeping myself from eating the evidence....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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