Roz's wasted wormery!

I've got a large compost pile in the corner of my yard which must be moved to my wife's garden. I will do a bit each day and i'll be watching for new 'native worms' as I clean up this pile, probably about 2 cubic yards of non canna compost! I'll run these native worms in separate bins, to add to my wife's greenhouse and garden. This should increase the sucess of the live worms I'll return to native soil.
There's always something new to try!
 
Rozgreenburn said:
I've got a large compost pile in the corner of my yard which must be moved to my wife's garden. I will do a bit each day and i'll be watching for new 'native worms' as I clean up this pile, probably about 2 cubic yards of non canna compost! I'll run these native worms in separate bins, to add to my wife's greenhouse and garden. This should increase the sucess of the live worms I'll return to native soil.
There's always something new to try!
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Do you live coastal ?
 
Rozgreenburn said:
No, I live as close to the center of the USA as one can be. After all the misery brought by IAN, I feel good that I resisted the urge to live by an ocean. We do have super clean rivers and lakes here, and we are well above sea level.
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Nice . 90% of our population live on the coast . Would be nice to have the option but desert isn’t very livable . Sounds like your in a good place ?
 
very instructive thread! thank you!

for about a year now i have been adding ewc to perlite as part of a media mix in a recirculating, closed-loop hydroponic system, the ppk.

initially, i was worried about some kind of bacterial bloom occurring because of the ewc but, so far, none have occurred.

the plants love it, i think it helps them in so many ways. i am sure the beneficial bacteria is helping nutrient uptake as well as helping to add a usable cation exchange capacity to perlite.

also, between the use of ewc and diatomaceous earth pre-mixed into the medium i'm not seeing any pests.
 
meangreen said:
I have a blender in the garage and any veg scraps - egg shells - go into the blender and then dumped into the worm bins and dirt where my plants are growing
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I've moved on for the time being... doing worm piles now. The past couple years haven't really been conducive to giving something like bins the attention they need. Once I get settled somewhere I'll start some again.
 

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I've fired up 2 of my bins and feeding them almost finished compost that has cooled and they are loving it. I'm also adding some oyster shell grit and a little basalt powder to the mix.

I'm definitely going to go grab some African night crawlers as they seem the best fit for our summer with higher temps.

I set up a Johnson Su bioreactor last month with all the coco/perlite mix from the last of my bottle fed runs I've added a heap of horse stable waste (horse shit and sawdust) from the local high end racetrack. It seems nice and cool now and I'll add in some worms soon to get to work.

I'd like to start one of these a week but realistically I'll shoot for one a month and then leave them a year. The next bin will be aged wood chip compost with the horse waste.
 
I have fire ants trying to move into one of my bins.
I’m not really interested in using poison, even on the ground around the outside.
Read cornmeal or keeping it real moist?
Apparently they won’t kill the worms, but can eat the eggs, so that’s a problem.
 
Caddis said:
I have fire ants trying to move into one of my bins.
I’m not really interested in using poison, even on the ground around the outside.
Read cornmeal or keeping it real moist?
Apparently they won’t kill the worms, but can eat the eggs, so that’s a problem.
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Oh no!

I use a mix of borax and honey for keeping ant infestations out, not sure if it would work on the fire ants though.

Diatomaceous earth might help too.
 
Thanks, I’ll look into the borax.
Not sure DE would work on ants, tough on worms though?
I’m going to try eliminating food sources that might attract them, straight rabbit manure?
Do ants eat poop?
 
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