I have been doing a comparison of compost tea and wormcast against commercial fertilizers since reading about the Cuban wormcast project to replace commercial fertilizers by producing stronger organics. What experiences have some of you have had with the commercial liquids? Thanks.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 24, 2002

Answers

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

I do not use any of the blue stuff! The worms don't like it! It drives them off with the salt content.

I feed them and my plants compost.

-- julie f. (rumplefrogskin@excite.com), May 25, 2002.

I have a bin of 10th generation worms that I have acclimated to a 20 percent saturation of blue stuff in the moisture mix.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 25, 2002.

Jay, I haven't used Miracle Gro since I deceided to go organic 10 or 12 years ago. I've found that liquid fish and seaweed emulison such as Neptune's Harvest works as well as Miracle Gro used to.

-- Murray in ME (lkdmfarm@megalink.net), May 26, 2002.

No gardener or farmer should use inorganic fertilizers. They are not needed. Use green manure/cover crops. Leave everything on the surface of the soil. Never till it in. Make compost only when there is a surplus of materials.

-- ken hargesheimer (minifarms@aol.com), September 14, 2002.