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Watertown S.D.

I bought a 10 pound bag of worm compost from the soil soup people late last summer never got around to using it put the bag in my basement this winter and then opened it up this spring. Warms are alive and look good. My question? is this compost good , better, or the same as compost I would order this spring. Thanks in advance for any input.

5/31/2008 10:32:57 PM

Minnesota

I don't know for sure, 2nd year grower, I bet it is perfectly fine.

6/2/2008 3:17:29 PM

Elliot Lake Ontario Canada

The worms are african night crawlers. Just put them in a 5 gal pail of dirt and keep it in your basement. (don't have to be refrigerated.... just cool. Every few days... there'll be about an inch of worm manure on top. Sprinkle it around your plants. Best compost around.

6/15/2008 8:51:31 PM

Minnesota

African Night Crawlers, I thought they were red wigglers. Do they work better.

6/15/2008 11:54:24 PM

Seattle, WA

Did you buy worm compost or worms? How many worms are left in the compost? If there's a lot, I would consider adding some more organic matter for them to process and setup a worm bin.

If its the compost and not chalk full of worms (maybe just a couple in a handful of dirt), I would add some alfalfa meal and baby oatmeal to it and see what happens. If the material gets consumed in the next 7-10 days, then you probably still have some good active biology. Best thing to do would be to look at it under the microscope if you have access to one! Does the compost have any sort of odor? If it doesn't smell bad, it probably won't hurt anything to use it.

Red wrigglers are the species of worm most commonly used in vermicomposting.

6/16/2008 12:57:21 PM