Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Common problems and questions1) Compost bin or worm farm is full of little white worms and moreI often see a compost bin as a miniature version of a perfect ecosystem.Anybody who’s job it is to break down organic matter will live there – first the “shredders” of waste material: millipedes, slugs/snails, slaters, roaches, beetle larvae, some maggots – even mice and rats.Their waste (excrement) is broken down by the next group of “composters”: fungi, amphipods (litter hoppers)Next lot is the extremely numerous springtails and tiny fruitfly larvaeThen come the mites (minute), bacteria and other small “finishers”. sometimes fungal, some worms.Even worm farms should have all these in them at some stage and that’s how Nature runs the show2) Leafcurl on stonefruit/peaches/plumsFungal disease that started last autumn when infection began; The new buds that were formed in autumn and during early winter got the fungal spores on them and it manifested itself as leafcurl in spring and early summer.Prevent next years’ inf