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[andrewo]

Came across this wonderful tip today. Wish I'd known this earlier and is a real boon for those with bad backs. When taking on a new allotment don't bother to dig it over if it is overgrown. This is what you can do:

1. Buy lots of worms, place them on the soil at equal distance.
2. Use cardboard, recycle from local supermarket etc and cover your entire plot.
3. Cover cardboard with a couple of inches of manure.
4. Cover manure with black plastic sheets.
5. Plant potatoes or courgettes through the plastic, via a slit.

The cardboard will rot down in 5-6 weeks, the worms will take it down and at the end of the season you can take off the plastic and your plot should be a lovely turned piece of land.

Be interested to know if this works!

Andrewo

[sewer rat]

Buy lots of worms, place them on the soil at equal distance.

How do you kep the worms still whilst you measure the distance between them????

Rat

[Jaxom]

Farming worms

I spent all day today going through my compost bin getting all the worms out to put in my wormary.
I haven’t gone mad .... Honest... I was emptying the bin in readiness to build my Vegetable raised beds, as my compost bin is pull to the top and no longer sinking. I wanted the tiger worms that are good at eating rotting vegetable matter to stay in my bins and wormary rather than lose them in the new beds, where the normal earth worms will have a field day with my newly made organic compost.

[andrewo]

Tacks

I find tacks or bluetack will keep those pesky worms still as you measure them out!!!!

That or staples.

Andrewo