Interesting experiments and thank you for allowing veiwers to watch for this is one of the things i been wondering about and so many ingredients and measures to soil so this is beneficial to the grower and gardening in pots.🪴💜I've heard about toxicity build up at times from wormcastings or bad mixes too and no soil testing or for acidity spikes that sometimes shows toxic levels happening more toxicity the more acidity mixture get for example from old zchool growing information.?
I have an expensive worm bin and the worms didn’t like it at all. They kept trying to get out. And would literally cluster all over the underside of the lid. So I just relied on worms in my compost bins and it was great for about 2 years… loads of worms. This year 2024, no worms in our organic garden or in our organic compost bin. Last year tons of worms. I don’t use anything toxic…no pressure treated lumber, no sprays of any kinds…just weeds and kitchen waste. Up to last year, I was using cardboard with very positive results as mulch on very weed challenging areas. After eliminating all the causes for no worms I’m left with cardboard use. I’ve done it for years with better than good results. But this year, I can only conclude that chemicals used in the recycling and manufacturing of cardboard is hurting the worms. Although I’ve read that studies have shown that worms can neutralize toxins in soil, they can only do so much. I will add that friend who have not used cardboard have no worms either.
Worms want to eat what you want to eat. Would you appreciate a diet of paper? No way. They want fruit and veggies like you do. Recycle your paper elsewhere Feed your worms real food, they will reward you.
Iv nvr bought worms I started with just throwing a bunch of worms in a old cat litter box with a strainer for the cat litter and left that bitch out side and threw dog shit dumped water in to it when I cared and when I found a worm it got thrown in and then I also had compost piles for my dogs shit and found some worms in one of those and kinda slowly made them in to their own bucket but still had that first bin still randomly throwing food and shit in it and then I got more in to this so I took that bin and slowly cleaned it up stop putting shit in it and I kid u not it’s now turned into my main bin I care for have nvr added a single worm to it since caring for it and it’s nothing but red wigglers and I also have a tote of a bunch of worms with every back yard species and I run like a red wiggler worm farm and started fluffing it up and not having that thick mud layer at the bottom and since then iv noticed it’s getting more populated with red wigglers and less of the earth worms at the bottom due to not having a watery layer for them to go to but I now have 2 huge totes one with all red wigglers the og one and the other One that I made from trying to do a worm farm while still throwing the worms I find out side in it and iv nvr bought a single worm and I can now start to take some for breeding soon when I find another tote to use iv not bought one thing during this process
I ordered 1000 European night crawlers they are 500 to a bag .I have a 27 gallon tote set up for each bag which will be 500 worms.Will this be plenty of room?
Great video! A long trommel is one of two good designs I’ve seen. The second design is a shaker table with like 1/8” mesh on the first three feet and then a few feet of 3/16” or 1/4” on the end portion. It was couple grand for the shaker table so I didn’t buy one but it was a good design for separating worms. Worm eggs, and bigger material using two different sizes of mesh and then collecting the worms at the very end.
next time just mix either in a bathtub for big bulk or a giant wok or rubber maid container. We don't need to see your explicit macro details of mixing. One example, then all your ratios to be tested, and final results. too much unnecessary. thx for making the vid, but I essentially skipped to the end because my time is money. trying to help you on making your content more concise and loaded with powerful material. thx.
Dear, thank you for teach us. How about other animals, as mouse, snakes in the place you work. I'm trying to buil a place like yours in Brazil, but lot's of that and the wether here in june and july is cold. Not like there, but it can kill the worms? Thank you
Thank you for this video! I thought i had parasitic worms my Canna bed soil, and I was pretty freaked out. Now I see that these critters im dealing with are almost certainly harmless, and even good for the soil.
Thanks for your videos. I hope you’re still going strong. Especially the microscope. You could use the worm tea that drains from your bins to feed your plants and vegetables. I regularly pee on my compost. It’s the magic ingredient for composting! 🇬🇧 🪴😎
Thank you for the copper tape tip! Just got my worms and they are crazy escape artists! Did not realise they can climb so well. Hubby was not impressed 😅
OMG thank you! I’ve been trying to figure out what the little white wormy guy was who’s trapped in my sealed terrarium for over a month now! And last night i noticed that there was at least one other smaller white thing too
An easy way to keep your worm tray going without having to sift worms out is doing the wedge method. It’s a hole lot better and less work for you and time.just feed the working end of of the tray fed and moist and the worms will migrate themselves and the other end keep dry and just move your castings down towards the dry end to sift out. Hope this helps 👍🏻
