Good morning Ann, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸 We are still high 80's and 90's% humidity. I love watching you massage (irritate) your worms 🪱 ❤Peggy❤
Hi Ann, your worm tower reminds me of the decks on the Titanic, with the upper deck eating the best and the dregs fed to the bottom, but everybody knows the bottom deck is the most fun! Shadow has some big paw prints to live up to with all that grand heritage! Good dog! ~ Sandra
Gardening in Canada just did a video on garlic... Sulfur, loose soil, adequate spacing to keep the bulbs from pressing soil into each other, plant early enough to get root development and mulch\snowpack insulation for any greens that peel through
There is a local garlic grower here in WI Keene Garlic, they have an awesome website of garlic growing tips. Last year I soaked my garlic cloves in a compost/worm casting extract, ended up with some nice sized garlic. Go to a local farmers market to buy garlic to plant, a lot cheaper You could collect some of the cucumber seeds and save them to plant next year. Your dog looks so cool! Stay Well!!!
I did not participate in the breed guessing game... but since I don't know anything about dogs, I probably would not have done too good :) Congrats to those who made good guesses!
2 year garlic experience - Deer like very early garlic sprouts. Build a fence. Groundhogs like to tear up early garlic beds (worm hunting?) and then leave them alone. Build a fence.
Here when I live it is the darn squirrels that are a menace. I'm trying to figure out how to put hardware cloth over the bin ( it has rounded edges) thanks for the tips👍🏼🪱🙂
the lower level looks like it has hardly been touched and you started with the top level which looked like it had been finished with castings, does this mean that the worms are travelling up form the lower levels to the top? or are you just rotating the trays when you see that the majority of food has been eaten? I've got a similar tower, but the worms don't want to travel up and stay in the moisture laden lower level.What am I doing wrong. I imagined that all you had to do was fill the lower level -, once that was full put another tray on top and put the food there. Why do you need " bedding" don't the worms just live in the food? thanks for your help Steve.
The bottom is where the new paper bedding goes and ages with the food drips. I feed the people food on the top. The cardboard bedding is actually food but it keeps the scraps from composting and heating up. The worms go up and down. I don't know why.🪱👍🏼🤔
The worms need mostly carbon bedding and as much nitrogen-rich food such as kitchen scraps they can handle. The bedding doesn't have to be cardboard. I use part finished compost, coco coir, as well as shredded card and paper. Don't get hung up on the worms heading upwards, they go wherever the heck they want to. Putting the new bedding at the bottom just lets the moisture from the food etc. drip down and start the breakdown process. Cheers!
If the temperature of the bedding is 95 for more than a few days, I would expect them to go dormant or die. The text books from Clive Edwards indicate that the species I use like reds euros won't take that heat. Blues and ANC might take it for longer. Keeping it very moist will help them.👍🏼🪱🙂
Good morning Ann, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸
We are still high 80's and 90's% humidity.
I love watching you massage (irritate) your worms 🪱
❤Peggy❤
Wow that is crazy humidity. It won't be long and I will be living vicariously through you while I'm up to my neck in snow and ice. 👍🏼👍🏼😁
Hi Ann, your worm tower reminds me of the decks on the Titanic, with the upper deck eating the best and the dregs fed to the bottom, but everybody knows the bottom deck is the most fun!
Shadow has some big paw prints to live up to with all that grand heritage! Good dog!
~ Sandra
He has some big paws...so I think he is ready 🪱😁🐾👍🏼
Very fun, interesting results from the doggie DNA tests!! And wow, there are some dog experts watching!! Worm tower levels are looking great Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
It does explain his obsession with squirrels. Lol 👍🏼🪱🙂🐾
Gardening in Canada just did a video on garlic... Sulfur, loose soil, adequate spacing to keep the bulbs from pressing soil into each other, plant early enough to get root development and mulch\snowpack insulation for any greens that peel through
I love that channel 😍 🪱👍🏼
Great feeding Ann! Neat seeing the hand ripped cardboard tray. I haven’t heard of most of the types of dogs that make up your dog. 😂
I had to break out the Google myself. 😃👍🏼🪱
There is a local garlic grower here in WI Keene Garlic, they have an awesome website of garlic growing tips. Last year I soaked my garlic cloves in a compost/worm casting extract, ended up with some nice sized garlic. Go to a local farmers market to buy garlic to plant, a lot cheaper
You could collect some of the cucumber seeds and save them to plant next year.
Your dog looks so cool!
Stay Well!!!
Thanks for the idea for a source of garlic. I use Mi gardener now. Pretty cheap per bulb.😁👍🏼🪱
I did not participate in the breed guessing game... but since I don't know anything about dogs, I probably would not have done too good :) Congrats to those who made good guesses!
I know a little and I would not have won. Lol. Like many people I would have thought -mastiff, boxer, lab, great Dane. 👍🏼🪱😃🐾
2 year garlic experience - Deer like very early garlic sprouts. Build a fence. Groundhogs like to tear up early garlic beds (worm hunting?) and then leave them alone. Build a fence.
Here when I live it is the darn squirrels that are a menace. I'm trying to figure out how to put hardware cloth over the bin ( it has rounded edges) thanks for the tips👍🏼🪱🙂
Wow😮, thats definetly a whole lot of dogs in one dog, my girl is a Boxer Doberman mix, but she is more Boxer than Doberman regarding temperement
Yes, I can't think it was on purpose lol. There are 17 different breeds identified. He is a good boy. So that works for me.😁🪱👍🏼🐾
i heard garlic likes sulfur so i'm going to add some elemental sulfur (since i have it on hand) to my garlic beds this month.
Great idea. I think I have some too.🪱👍🏼😁
Great dog breeds. Expect NO burglars at your house ❤
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the lower level looks like it has hardly been touched and you started with the top level which looked like it had been finished with castings,
does this mean that the worms are travelling up form the lower levels to the top? or are you just rotating the trays when you see that the majority of food has been eaten? I've got a similar tower, but the worms don't want to travel up and stay in the moisture laden lower level.What am I doing wrong.
I imagined that all you had to do was fill the lower level -, once that was full put another tray on top and put the food there. Why do you need " bedding" don't the worms just live in the food?
thanks for your help Steve.
The bottom is where the new paper bedding goes and ages with the food drips. I feed the people food on the top. The cardboard bedding is actually food but it keeps the scraps from composting and heating up. The worms go up and down. I don't know why.🪱👍🏼🤔
Worms need a combination of carbon(bedding) and nitrogen (food scraps) to be healthy
The worms need mostly carbon bedding and as much nitrogen-rich food such as kitchen scraps they can handle.
The bedding doesn't have to be cardboard. I use part finished compost, coco coir, as well as shredded card and paper.
Don't get hung up on the worms heading upwards, they go wherever the heck they want to.
Putting the new bedding at the bottom just lets the moisture from the food etc. drip down and start the breakdown process. Cheers!
Is 95F too hot for a worm bin?
If the temperature of the bedding is 95 for more than a few days, I would expect them to go dormant or die. The text books from Clive Edwards indicate that the species I use like reds euros won't take that heat. Blues and ANC might take it for longer. Keeping it very moist will help them.👍🏼🪱🙂
Can I make a 50 gallon. Glass fish tank into a worm bin. It be dark 99.9 %of the time
It might be very deep but half full should be ok.👍🏼😃🪱
@PlantObsessed thank for your reply
do you use coffee grounds john tasmania
Back when I could drink coffee yes. They loved it, nowadays they get tea. 👍🏼😃🪱
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