Environmentality 19 March 2014, Jodi Jackson, My Everyday Garden

Worms, Worms, Wonderful Wriggly Worms

We need lovley wriggly worms in order to have healthy, productive gardens.

Thanks to our regular monthly garden gnome, Jodi Jackson for spending some time with us on Wednesday, as usual it was an informative and slightly strange show!  LISTEN TO THE SHOW

Worm farms are a great way to compost your kitchen scraps and their castings are sooooo good for the garden.  It really is pretty easy to set up worm farm, all you need to start is:

A vessel - this could be an old bath, laundry sink, polystyrene box or big plastic tub with a drainage hole cut in it to let out all that lovely worm juice.

Compost or manure to make a bed on the bottom of your vessel

Worms (which hopefully you have been gifted by a friend) or you can buy them from your local nursurey

Pop your worms on top of your bed of compost add a few cups of shredded lettuce or greens to get them started and then cover with a lid or hessian sack to keep out the birds.

Make sure you put a container under the vessel to catch worm juice.

If you are unsure of what to feed your worms, The Green Life Soil Company has a great factsheet

QUESTION OF THE WEEK - WHO CAN TELL ME WHAT COLLOIDAL HUMUS IS?

Also on the show today, Ahmed enlightened us about the antics of a satirical protest group called The Yes Men you can find them on twitter and of course facebook and if you google them you will find lots of their material on You Tube - have fun!

Music played today was

Whitaker, Piano Song (One of Ahmed's favourites)
Matt Corby, Resolution
Herman the Worm
Reggie Watts doing a cover of Van Halen's Panama, which if you listen to this you should watch it as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xetZZLmmEw8 and finally a tribute to the Rolling Stones who have had to cancel their tour, Paint It Black

NEXT WEEK - KEVIN FROM ENVIROSHOP JOINS US TO TALK SOLAR PANELS.
Make sure you have your questions ready!