Feeding Worms Part 1 Key Recommendations
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Feeding Worms Part 1 Key Recommendations
Three important areas to know about for feeding your worms. Will cover manures in a subsequent part 2 video.
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5 KEYS TO RAISING WORMS
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What to Use for Worm Bedding
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Make a Quick Easy Plastic Tote Worm Bin
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Why buy worms - raising worms for profit
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Free Worm Bin & Easy Castings Harvest
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Three important areas to know about for feeding your worms.
Buy worms at:www.GreenGregs.com
Green Gregs has teamed up with True Leaf Market to bring you a great selection of seed for your spring planting. Check it out: www.pntrac.com/t/TUJGRklGSkJGTU1IS0hCRkpIRk1K
Awesome deals for long term food supplies! Click here to support my channel (other prepper supplies too): My Patriot Supply and Green Gregs: mypatriotsupply.com?rfsn=2290541.c1c9cd
5 KEYS TO RAISING WORMS
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What to Use for Worm Bedding
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Make a Quick Easy Plastic Tote Worm Bin
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Why buy worms - raising worms for profit
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Free Worm Bin & Easy Castings Harvest
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How to Quickly Harvest 1 Pound of Redworms
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How to Brew Worm Tea for Your Garden
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I MISSED YOU MR.GREG. AND WITH AL THE EARTHQUAKE S I WANTED TO GRAB MY SPECIAL BABY. MY PREPS N GO FIND YOU.HAHAHA
Hey there. I am about to start my first worm bin. Stupid question: Can I raise red wigglers and euro night crawlers in the same bin?
it is happening to the people too, sterilized
Lol, when I was in the air force it was, "If it ain't raining, we ain't training".
Excellent Video As Always. 💯👍👍😎🇺🇸
USMC....wtf is rain? Just another day. Semper Fi
Thanks Greg.
I have watched my farm that was inherited go from worms almost literally every couple of inches to literally worm free. The people who leased the land used and probably overused chemical substance. I'm going to attempt to get more started in the fields. I'm in the process of getting involved in worm farming. Great video Greg!
Great stuff, Greg, thanks for sharing. I'm currently on my fourth worm bin now, lost the previous three due to negligence (well technically there's a story behind why each bin failed but I digress), needless to say I've learned a LOT since my first bin. My current bin is doing absolutely FANTASTIC! I've developed a system that seems to be working really, REALLY well. I feed my worms a very diversified diet, the more diverse/broad-spectrum of feed inputs you can provide them the better your castings will be. Essentially, all of the amendments you would use to make a high quality "Super Soil" (IE: alfalfa meal, kelp meal, feather meal, rock dust, etc, etc, etc....) goes into my worm feed. What you get from your castings is directly contingent upon what you feed your worms, you won't get a miracle out of them unless you put a miracle into them, so to say. I won't share my whole feed recipe as I have plans to take this to the next level and start selling my castings, however, I will share a couple tips. #1) Chitin. While paper, toilet paper, tissue paper, cardboard etc. does contain chitin, the amount and especially the quality of that chitin varies WIDELY throughout. One of if not the best sources of chitin that you can give your worms is Insect Frass. Not only does it contain more chitin than paper, its MUCH better quality chitin as it hasn't been through any processing, not to mention that its full of other beneficial elements/pro-biotics. #2) Oyster Shell Flour. Oyster Shell flour is an excellent alternative to dolomite lime. While there's not really anything wrong with using lime in your worm bins, it serves its intended purpose, however, oyster shell flour will do the same as well as provide some trace phosphorous, not to mention it encourages microbiology better than lime. #3) Diotomaceous Earth. About once a month or so I will sprinkle a thin layer of DE on the surface of my worm bin (I lay some news paper down first, that way the DE can dry out and do its job without drying the worm bedding out too much), the I let the surface dry out for about a week or so (just the very 1/4" surface of the bedding), DE provides several benefits, however, for it to be effective at killing pests it MUST be dry to do so, by doing it this way it helps keep the unwanted pests out of your bin, all the while providing some "grit" for the worms little "gizzards", as well as silica for the castings, a win, win, WIN! Thanks again, Greg, take care and keep up the good work brother. ONE LOVE!
Thanks for the great knowledge you have shared.
Thanks Greg!!
Great to see that you are close to getting 3000 subscribers. Thanks for sharing.
Great video Greg 👍
Helpful information
Great video great information thank you for sharing
Came back to this video because people in my Facebook gardening group said "tests showed" that coffee grounds were worm killers. Glad to see this is not true.
Thank you, Greg!
Really like the pony tail.👍
Greg I just got my worms today man l was so happy with them they was almost jumping out of their box they look so healthy thanks for them I will be ordering more you can bet on that thanks and have a very blessed day
A few weeks ago I put a filleted catfish carcass in my red wrigglers bin, I was expecting to be able to pull the cleaned skull out...they ate the entire thing, skull, backbone, everything.
I smash up crawdad shells after a feast, dry and smash up crab shells when they are in season, bloody slimy water from the fillet bucket, homemade hydro slate from salmon carcass ...they love it all, anything fish in any form is ok in my book
Thank-you....will be ordering worms end of this week or beginning of next!
Howdy Greg! Great info as usual. Can you, however, talk to how much and how often you should be feeding a bed the size of yours?
i found out my worms lOVE mango. I cut up the peel which still has some fruit on it and they absolutely LOVE it.
Thankyou gregg
Great advice! I'm doing things right..
Grant - I know you are!!!
GMO free is the way to go. Preach on Green Greg.
First time to see your channel; I was/am impressed. Liked & subscribed!
I don't know if you know about amaranth , there are two types vegetable and grain , bread can be made with that grain so I would think worms can eat it . yo plant it one time and it reseeds urself every year . I'm planting a few acres in the spring . there is a market for the grain as much as 20000 per acre . one cucumber farmer uses it for a goat plant and cucumber beetles like the amaranth better than the cucumber leaves , increasing his yield .
thank you for the videos,, theyer a great help
Knows what he is talking about!!
You should get some chickens.... they can run wild in your woods..... we have some in our neighborhood that were abandoned, or got loose... they live in the fringe woods between apartments and the commercial section. It’s fun to see them.
Aloha! Thank you!
Thanks greg..
fantastic info! Thankyou, gonna get some chick starter. Great idea
My Friend... The worms will eat plastic??? I'm assuming that's what the bag is made of... If that's the case, why aren't we trying to take care of ALL our plastic issues this way??? Thank you for showing us how... I love you, as I do ALL, unconditionally and for eternity 🤗🤗🤗
NO - its a PAPER BAG!!!!
Great tips Greg thanks for sharing :-)
Black Soldier fly is high in Chitin also, many organic growers are using as a soil enhancer that stimulates the systematic immune response in Plants, I don't remember if it was ground up mature BSF or the Larva either way the info is not hard to find and their are good videos on composting with Black Soldier Flys also. Thanks for the info.
They probably eat the larvae in China as a supplemental protein.
Thanks Greg , what about moistened rabbit manure ? , some say rinse the pellets off and soak overnight to make a thick slurry.
I let it age a bit an use it directly.
@@greengregs Thanks will try
Rabbit manure, I have a ton of it. Will that work to raise earthworms?
How about bear grain
Im useing rabbit food for my worms is that ok
How do you extract the worm casings for use in the garden without disturbing the worms?
A bunch of good stuff regarding alkaline/acidic, how worm can get sterile. I eat grapefruit everyday so I need to watch the acidity.
You should be fine eating it!
citrus has citric acid but when consumed...they alkalize the body. However, High sugar citrus, like oranges have more sugar than a grapefruit for example therefore oranges become acidic by nature...when consumed. And grapefruits are awesome..they break up mucous as well. Check this...www.getoffyouracid.com/blogs/acidic-foods-to-avoid/the-truth-about-fruit-is-it-good-or-bad-for-your-health
You mention great stuff as always. What was the cotton or gin trash you mentioned above that used to be great for worms but now is toxic? I’d love to read about that. I try to be open minded and learn from everyone cause no one is right all the time on all things. I’ve been reading about poisons and pesticides. It doesn’t surprise me that roundup may cause cancer, but what I don’t understand is that most of the people I’ve read about suing is from the city. Farmers that use the stuff should be dying and suing not city people. I’ve been trying to see how to reconcile that or perhaps why that is cause logically it doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe someone here knows the answer and could explain it to me. My dad did tell me that he’s noticed most farmers spray maybe a quarter of what they sprayed forty years ago. So it’d interesting to see if the pesticides have gotten dangerous from long term use or if the big companies have made them more dangerous. Most people in my area in central Utah got cancer because of the federal government. My grandpa told me stories of being at a scouting jamboree in Nevada and he could see the atomic bomb cloud then that stuff came to Utah. There’d be uranium readings everywhere which is why there’s a ton of Old uranium claims. Then it slowly dispersed and people found out a lot of places were radio active because of the nuclear bomb fallout. Pretty crazy a bomb clear in Nevada could leave much of Utah radioactive. Well thanks for the good videos and worm info.
Greg have you ever had pot worms before if you did how did you get rid of them
green greg be my sensei i be your grasshopper
I had just one question, what is a super red worm.
Can I use Azomite in substitute of dolomite? And where do you recommend to look for the water soluble pellets?
Can you mix wood chips in worm bin?
No more worms for sell?
Doesn’t chick starter mostly have soy which is a gmo?
As long as its organic it is not allowed to be Gmo
@@bobkernahan6340 soy bean itself “organic” or not is a genetically modified bean that has many side effects on humans especially men it dramatically lowers our testosterone so I don’t think it’s ideal for anything IMO.
Thanks for another dose of good information Greg! My worms have gotten settled in to their new TN home. My purpose for raising them is the health of the living soil for my garden and I'm looking into starting a small hemp farm. Which leads me to my question, would it be a good idea to feed my worms some soil amendments, like blood meal, bone meal, alfalfa meal, rock dust etc. etc. What's your opinion, would it be beneficial, or would it be better if I add those to the soil? Thanks Greg!
Jonathan McCoy I feed mine all those amendments and more, like kelp meal, azomite, biochar, seabird guano, bone meal, fish meal, fish bone meal, shrimp meal, crab meal...all of it is good for them. They especially love the seafood meals.
I just gave my red wrigglers a filleted catfish carcass and they ate every bit, flesh bone skull and all...
Dear Greg,
How much dolomite lime to apply in plastic worm bin (like the gray one you used in Making Worm Bin tutorial video)
I am adding 2 handfuls everytime I feed (every 3 weeks), how is that sounds to you?
Appreciate your advice
Hi Ramy, my advice would be a little less than that. If you're adding more acidic food add more dolomite.
Hope that helps
Marty Ware (agri horticulturist)
@@martysgarden Thanks for your respond Marty, well, my bin is not acidic as far as I know ,maybe I try to make it not wet as much as I can (although my European night crawlers like it wet) but I am doing this and I am using Dolomite to cut pests and critters off my bin ,as I did a mistake by the very beginning when I got my worms by adding some of my compost that has ROOT APHIDS ,so that, I am trying to get rid of them out of my cast by dolomite Lime + Diatomaceous Earth.
Between ,I watch some of your videos ,I find them useful
Let me know if you have any further solutions for the root aphids ,I already got rid of them in one of my indoor plants (watch my video)
@@ramyali2782 I think coffee grounds would get rid off them,,worth a shot. I have never heard of root aphids before. Maybe they have a different common name?
@@martysgarden Negative, Coffee has nothing to do with them ,google Root aphids, its a pain in the ass ,only thing that worked with them is DE
@@ramyali2782 DE is not hurting your worms?
How do you know if there are too many works in a space
Sorry trying to get all the info before I jump in and I plan on buying your worms!
Just Subscribed to your great channel I have one question Do fruit flies do any harm to a worm bin Cheers
Hi Greg, thanks for great content and the precious advices.
you talked about acidity being harmful for worms; I don't think we have limestone available on the algerian market , so can I use burn wood ashes as an alternative to balance the acidity ?
Not sure but egg shell powder is perfect
Just feed less and give it more air and time. Why do you need to balance anyway ?
i put cracked corn in for them and it sprouted in 2 days. is it bad to have lots of corn spouts in my beds?
I wish you were my neighbor 👍
Greg. Just have to say your skin looks so great what do you use?
I'm pretty sure he just rubs dank worm castings into his beard, then lets it sit for half a moon wane before rinsing is dolomite.
BSFL makes great compost & a lot faster than worms Worm casting is just a better grade of compost
I noticed in a bag of DuMOR Non-GMO Egg Layer Mini-Pellet that it has DE in it. Is this a concern to worms should I get this?
Greg i have access to spent grains from a brewery. I know when i add them wet to my compost bed they heat up very quickly. When the compost cools down i find lots of worms in the compost. After watching this video again i was windering if i dried the wet grains could i fees them to the worms without worrying about them getting hot. I would like to be able to use the spent grains either for making a compost mix to bed the worms in and to feed the worm bed. Is there any negatives in feeding the worms dried grains? Am i thinking in the right direction? Thank you for your time. I appreciate what you do.
Wondering about dried tree leaves for worm food?
Yes, and I use them as a bedding material.
Have you ever had opeas pyrgula snails in your worm bins?
No - I don't get those where I am.
Are they harmful or just annoying? Seems l only have them when it rains a lot. I cover my worm beds with plywood to keep out excess rain. Any recommendations? Thanks.🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
Wow so pest are repulsed by a slightly alkaline environment. Good to know. What other products besides dolomite are available as safe for alkalinity? I’ve seen people put ash around their tomatoes. That’s rather harsh isn’t it?
Hardwood ashes are a “home-made” source of potassium.
Potassium is an important nutrient for overall plant health.
Use egg or ground up oyster shells.
I like to keep some corn meal on hand. If I don't have much in the way of vegetable scraps, I'll toss in some corn meal which is pretty cheap.
My reds like it, but Euros did not.
Can I use grass clippings and leaves to feed worms? I don't think the wife and I produce enough "kitchen scraps" to keep a worm bed alive. I'm not looking to raise worms to sell, I'm just wanting to harvest the castings and make "tea" for hobby garden for now.
1100wing Definitely. They may not thrive, but they'll absolutely survive and produce some tea for ya. Good luck!
@@jsaabnh Oh, I thought they were supposed to eat leaves and grass. I hardly throw any food in there. My bin is cinder blocks on the ground. They can leave if they want.
Saw your name on fb in a worm group, what do you think is Mazuri feed?
Hey Greg, I know this video is 2 years old but maybe you will see this somehow. One question. Is it okay to use just all my yard trimmings, I don't have grass, too loaded with plants, fruit trees, especially avocado, and especially plumeria trees, the Hawaiian flower. But the leaves, from all kinds of trees, no black walnut, ferns, weeds (actually i don't think there is such a thing), etc. I'm living alone so I don't generate much kitchen waste, actually i eat most myself. haha. Thanks hope you can answer when you have time. I appreciate your channel, Im subscribed.
Yard trimmings should be fine!
Granular dolomite lime it’s ok or it’s better i crush in powder? last question How often do you use it ? Thx !
Powder is best - sprinkle lightly
what are the things i call thousand legged worms....i don't know the formal name....they don't seem to hurt the red worms,should i be worried?
Centipedes, millipedes
Some of those chickens were lost to the red hawks in the area.... raise more than you need.
Greg I've only got a small spot to work in and I'm planning to grow Soldier Flies and Red Wigglers side by side would the lime keep the Soldier flies out of my worm bin? Or am i going to just pick one and forget the other.
Then add lots of shredding paper in with the bedding as soldier flies don't like the
paper. Cover the worm bed with cardboard too!
@@greengregs Thanks.
Hi are you still selling worms? Try to check out your page but it’s not working
How much dolomite do you put in a 4 x 8 worm bed?
Just a light dusting
If worms don't like acidic things, I guess they wouldn't like pineapple peelings or the core?
They will eat it, just add a bit of ph buffer such as dolomite when you add acidic feeds. Best to feed just a little bit,,here and there is okay.
@@martysgarden - Thanks! I don't have a worm bed per se, but I have a compost pile that is full of worms. I wasn't sure about the pineapple so put the tailings into a separate pile. Next time I'll mix some dolomite in with them. I used to put citrus in the compost pile. I never noticed citrus bothering the worms, but I didn't like the mold that would grow on it, so now citrus peels get ground up in the garbage disposal.
Is there anyway to grow or make tour own chicken feed?
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I think chickens can live on micro greens like barley and buckwheat. They aren’t a ruminant animal so I don’t think they need roughage/dry matter and micro greens could probably cover all their nutritional needs.
Absolutely. Chickens eat grass. They can turn and eat from your compost piles. You can cut hay for winter feed. You can grow corn or sunflower or buckwheat or sorghum for scratch grain. Then ferment those grains for better protein availability. You can give em greens from a winter greenhouse. You can plant bushes and fruit/nut trees for them. We even have a ton of toads right now. We catch em and throw em to the birds.
Rabbit manure? Horse manure? Cow manure? Chicken coop duff? What say?
Rabbit is best and cow is great, just feed to the side so the worms can get away when it's hot. Horse is good - but horses don't leave as much food value in their manure as cows and rabbits. Stay away from chicken as it is too high in nitrogen. I'd avoid pig and dog. Can be done but requires special protocols.
Green Gregs : Thank you sir. I recently visited Redstone. Nice country east of Big Cove.
Melons! Worms want melons!!!
Yes - they love melons - as much as I do!
Confussion; Don't put powered egg shells in worm beds?
Powder or puree egg shells
@@greengregs Don't or Do?
@@daledurbin2354 Do!
Why not just make your own feed??