Repost from Lounge -- where the gardeners must be out for dinner. [View all]
Oh, the carnage. Warning: Too many earthworms died for this post.
So the time came when I had to go wash some rocks. Specifically landscaping rocks that I used for a pathway that is also an essential drainage area for the yard. It's about three inches thick with decorative rock, probably more than I need, but I learned quickly that only the surface looks clean. Everything else is dirt.
It occurred to me as I tried to pick out the bruised earthworms from the rocks that came up with a shovel, that the dirt was actually worm castings. That's at least 7 to 5 years of castings. So I collected the "dirt" and applied it to my ornamental plants. But I wondered if I could also use it for my edible plants, though I'm not sure that fertilizer could have washed down to the path from the higher part of the slope?
If you grow your own edible garden, how would you handle it?
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