Jump to the following parts of this episode: 00:24 Growing African Nightcrawlers in a Garage 01:16 African Nightcrawler Worm Castings Have a larger poop 02:17 How to Multiply the Benefits of Worm Castings 03:10 Don't Feed Food Scraps to Your Worms!! 03:55 Optimal Temperature to Keep African Nightcrawlers 04:26 Three Pallets of Buckets of Worms 05:32 3 Gallon Buckets Full of the Best Castings 06:29 Large African NightCrawlers 07:00 Harvesting Castings Every 2 Weeks 08:00 Making Special Worm Food for African Nightcrawlers 09:25 Feed Superfoods to Your Worms to have Supercharged Castings 10:06 2.5 gallons of Worm Food Prepared for New Worms 11:45 The Challenge of Growing African Nightcrawlers 12:25 African Nightcrawlers in Black Bucket System? 13:15 How to Sift out Your African Nightcrawlers, Cocoons and Castings 14:45 Automatic Compost Sifter to Sift larger volume of Worms, Cocoons and Castings 15:20 He does not ship his African Night Crawler Castings 16:10 Have the proper moisture content when feeding your worms 16:50 Grow Your Own Worms and Make Your Castings Learn more about this farm at Poppy's Vermiculture Farm, Inc theculturednightcrawler.com/
I live in Alaska and I can say because of the dryness of the climate and seasons it’s easy to harvest most types of worms up here. We have Alaska bull worms and I promise on my dead mom that these worms will get up to 12 inches long and about half inch in diameter thick.
Pro worm bin tip go to local mushroom farm use spent blocks in bin aswell as kelp meal basalt neem and Karanja cake and the secret weapon malted barley use these and you will have castings better then 98% on the market not many people use this stuff I use it and this way I don’t need to do any amendments and stuff the castings have it all in them black leaf mold is a huge component of a good vermicompost but it takes a few years to get finished product the castings i mentioned also takes 2 years minimum but you can’t buy better castings if you make them this way
John , I have a local worm casting seller and buy a 50 lb bag each year. The hemp farmers buy from him. This is one of the best investments in my garden! The crazy thing is since using the castings I grow less of one variety of plant, but the amount harvested stays the same ! This opens up space for things like celery!
Night Crawlers can survive in Missouri. They are in a lot of them in southeast. They are hard to find because they tend to tunnel deeper into the ground than the red wigglers that tend to stay near the surface.
Good post John. I’m in Henderson Nevada so not far from you. I had really great success with nightcrawlers that I picked up at Bass Pro shop. Threw them in my raised beds and the following year, they were still thriving even after the winter.
We used to have a really nice worm farm about 20 miles from us where we could get good quality castings at a fair price. He got truckloads of horse manure with bedding from the fairground, composted it, and then fed it to the worms. Unfortunately, he retired this spring, and sold his entire operation to another worm farm in another state. I stocked up on worm castings at his "going out of business" sale, but there won't be any more. 😒
If the worms are happy they will not leave your bin. Worms tring to leave the bin means you have a problem to dry, to many worms for the bin, to wet, ect....
Could worm cocoons in the castings pass into my garden soil and hatch and populate my land with exotic worms. This may compete with naturalized worms here already and Speeding decomposition of leaf litter in the forrest. Leading to faster bare spots?.. i am in zone 7 and worms survive the winter in the ground. Also and i like my worms and castings to be peat free if possible.
Worms do not eat the food, the slime breakdown the food and they exude the smile off there skinn that breakdown the material into sludge which then they consume
@12:00 importing animals makes no sense when one can use native Worms suited to the soil in your area. It's not difficult to raise worms. I'm glad people are using castings in general - but it's rather absurd to mail order something that exists everywhere under your feet. Good for them though. we have a successful worm farm near by but they just serve the area of the province.
John, buy a new camera man. Buy 3 new cameras... You have a million subscribers on this channel alone, and it looks like we're watching you through a foggy window. It's a tax write off. Jesus...
