--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Scott Alexander <daylily_at_b...>
wrote:
>
> Another worm story . . . . . Early this year I bought 60 cubic
yards of poultry manure/sawdust litter blend to use to make a huge
compost heap. Things didn't work out the way I planned so i left the
heap to "cool down" for 6 months before using a thin layer of it as a
mulch. During that six months some kikuyu grass had grown up onto the
pile and when i took the manure from there I saw the most amazing
thing. Under the grass and amongst its roots were 1000's of big
native worms but elsewhere there was not a worm in sight. What were
the worms "eating"? Roots? Decomposed manure? Bacteria?
> Scott Alexander
> Maleny. Queensland
> daylily_at_b...
Scott - Great stories, full of info. On the Kikuyu grass I'd bet the
worms were there because the grass was using up Nitrates that are
toxic to the worms and allowing the worms to get at the other
microbial foods available, probably including a lot of Mycorrhizal
activity associated with the roots as well as the compost.
Dave
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Received on Tue Oct 21 2003 - 11:22:23 EDT