Worms as Therapy
A true tale, more or less, of the influence of red worms on daily life

By story teller Mary Ellen Conoway

Red worms live in my house
In black trays next to the water heater.
When I open the lid to feed them I hear cracks and pops
As they eat vegetative materials from the kitchen.
These worms don’t roam out of their container,
Content to make "tea" and castings for the house
And the outdoor garden plants
It’s great recycling (with a modest form of calming therapy)
Requiring little time or care as worm "goo"
Replaces chemical fertilizers and spares the community
Sewer system pounds of waste.

RED WORMS EAT MY GARBAGE

An Ode To Recycling, by Mary Ellen Conoway

Red worms make "tea" for house plants and castings for the garden
In dark, warm and moist soil, all in seeming worm bliss
They are creating growing energy for plants and savings on electrical energy
As they munch, crunch, and squirm in their black bin
It’s perfect recycling, easy and nearly care-free no home should miss
Bringing to your life and community near-perfect synergy.

"This is your soil at work....their vegetable beds were outstanding....but the outdoor living room adds so much to the use of their home. It's your soil that saved them from a messy, cakey, clay backyard."

--
Pat Fox, Native Plant Farm

August 15, 2005

We have been planting tomatoes at our Minden home in the Mackland Subdivision for several years now and have had some success.  This year we decided to do a "Raised" garden area.  We raised our planting area by 10", removed several inches of the old soil and filled the area with 75% garden soil and 25% Soil Essence Elite N+ from Full Circle Compost and again planted one "Early Girl" tomato plant and one "Super Early Girl" tomato plant.  Both have done very well, but the “Super Early Girl” has really outdone itself, we have never seen a tomato plant grow like this; it is now over 6 ft. in height and still growing!  The base of this plant is close to 1 ½" in diameter and several branches are over 1".  We have had several tomatoes from both plants and they are delicious! 

We can only attribute the super growth of this tomato plant to the use of Soil Essence Elite N+ from Full Circle Compost.

Smith and Smith Farms
Organic Farm in Dayton, Nevada

We have sandy soil and this season we used Full Circle Compost's compost on some ground we hadn’t cropped before.  Summer squash was planted to this area and I harvested good yields from that planting for the entire season!

Thanks,
Brenda

June 28, 2005

I went to the business expo at the Douglas Fairgrounds and received a sample of the Elite N+.  I put it on my Aloe Vera plants and they are going crazy!!!

Bonnie Keesecker

“As a Nevada native and a college student majoring in Environmental Chemistry, I am aware of the unique and fragile ecosystem of the beautiful Carson Valley. The familiar scent of sagebrush in the dry wind reveals the reality of the natural condition of the high desert environment. Many locals could attest to the difficulty the native soil places on attempts to establish desirable plants and a lawn worthy of neighborhood bragging rights. Full Circle Compost provides an ecological and environmental solution to these inherent landscaping problems. I first discovered the benefits of their products as a groundskeeper for a local school district. I had experienced problems with athletic fields suffering from overuse from physical education classes encompassing the full school day followed by soccer practice. The field suffered from compacted clay, resulting in sparse grass coverage and insufficient drainage. I was motivated to find a solution and comply with the local water restrictions. The standard practice of heavy applications of chemical fertilizer along with daily drenchings of water needed to be revised into a sensible and more suitable practice. I contacted Craig Witt of Full Circle Compost and, after several discussions, decided to apply humus to the area in poorest condition during the only two months when the field was relatively unused, mid-December to mid-February. I aerated the middle of the soccer field and filled the gaps with humus and made a second application a month later. The beneficial effects were obvious: the greening and growth of grass in the treated areas emerged much earlier than the surrounding fields.

A couple of years later I applied Full Circle’s humus to an old garden. The garden needed renovation due to the fact that it was left abandoned and was drained of nutrients from years of weathering. Even the weeds left the old crusty top layer alone! The first year after applying the humus I discovered the reemergence of an old, long-forgotten asparagus plant! The shoots were the first sign of plant activity and allowed my imagination to picture the rewards of the vegetable garden I would soon be reaping. My tomato plants also produced loads of fruit! After the garden donated the last of its bounty, I spent cool fall nights baking pumpkins into pies, cakes, and pudding.

I believe a green thumb is possible in the gray Northern Nevada desert landscape if Full Circle Compost soil amendments are applied. I just found out about the Gardnerville Ranchos GID implementing their water metering program and if I desire to keep a lawn or a garden in the natural river rock basin the Ranchos are built on, I will require the benefits of moisture containment by usage of the products from Full Circle Compost!”

Daron Overturf
"A successful gardener thanks to Full Circle Compost!"