How the Best Worm Castings are Made that Can Double Your Harvest
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- John from www.growingyour... goes on a field trip to Organic Garden Solution in Southern California to share with you how they make the best worm castings that can double your harvest.
In this episode, John will visit Organic Garden Solution, the creator of the best earthworm castings I have found so far that doubled my pepper harvest when compared to another brand of worm castings.
You will discover how they raise worms on a commercial scale, and what they feed their worms to make the best castings.
You will learn how you can duplicate what they are doing on a small scale to keep your own worms at home that can eat your food scraps, and make one of the most important organic soil amendments for your garden.
You will discover some of the secrets to creating the best worm castings sold today.
You will get an education about raising worms and creating the best worm castings that can increase your plant health and harvest at the same time.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
0:02:20 Best Place to Keep Worms to Make Worm Castings
0:03:10 Support Me By Purchasing a GYG Tee Shirt
0:03:45 Have a suitable container for keeping your worms
0:04:48 Perfect Reusable Tote to Keep Worms
0:06:30 Main Bedding and Food Source for Worms
0:07:42 Screening Bedding to Save Space and Create Higher Quality Castings
0:10:15 Additional Ingredients to Feed Worms
0:12:54 Specific Ingredients to Feed Worms
0:14:20 BioChar
0:14:37 Spent Coffee Grounds
0:15:14 Kelp Meal
0:15:50 Rock Dust
0:17:25 Soil Humates
0:17:53 Crab Shell Meal
0:19:18 Ratios of Ingredients
0:20:01 Mixing the Ingredients into the Bedding Material
0:20:47 Fluffer to Make Nice Bedding Material for Worms
0:21:42 Filling Totes with Bedding Material
0:22:52 How the Proper Worm Density
0:25:20 Worms being grown in a protected environment
0:27:12 When to Harvest Worm Castings
0:31:23 How to dry castings to the perfect moisture percentage
0:33:40 What a good dried worm castings should look like
0:35:27 Finished Worm Castings
0:35:27 Bagging up the Worm Castings
0:40:29 Other Products besides 100% castings
0:41:02 Superchar - Castings and Biochar
0:41:33 Growers Blend Potting Soil
0:42:01 Organic Solution Ambrosia - Worm Casting Tea
0:42:47 How they Make Ambrosia - Worm Casting Tea
0:44:47 Making a Raised Bed out of Produce Totes - Testing Castings
0:46:41 Always ask for Food Soil Web testing Report when Buying Worm Castings & Compost
0:53:37 Interview with Brian
0:53:50 why did you decide to start a worm casting company?
0:56:22 What kinds of worms are you using? What kind did you use?
0:57:57 why are the Worm Castings so valuable to Gardeners, Farmers and Landscapers?
1:01:22 Will you share the proportions of the different ingredients to add to make your castings?
01:03:35 What are some ingredients people might want to add to their worm bin?
01:07:47 What is the most important tip for raising worms at home?
01:10:22 What is the difference between Worm Leachate and Worm Tea?
01:13:27 Why should someone by the Ambrosia instead of Worm Castings and Make your own?
01:15:22 Why it's not a good idea to feed a single stock (manure) to worms?
01:18:22 How would test results look for a manure based casting?
01:20:02 How should your worm castings be used?
01:22:52 Any Special Offers for my GYG Viewers?
01:24:13 What is your website and contact information?
After watching this episode, you will learn how the best worm castings are made including the specific bedding and amendments they are feeding to the worms, as well as how their raise, harvest, dry and bag the worm castings and much, much more.
Referenced Episodes:
How I Doubled My Pepper Harvest without Pruning
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Jump to the following parts of this episode:
0:02:20 Best Place to Keep Worms to Make Worm Castings
0:03:10 Support Me By Purchasing a GYG Tee Shirt
0:03:45 Have a suitable container for keeping your worms
0:04:48 Perfect Reusable Tote to Keep Worms
0:06:30 Main Bedding and Food Source for Worms
0:07:42 Screening Bedding to Save Space and Create Higher Quality Castings
0:10:15 Additional Ingredients to Feed Worms
0:12:54 Specific Ingredients to Feed Worms
0:14:20 BioChar
0:14:37 Spent Coffee Grounds
0:15:14 Kelp Meal
0:15:50 Rock Dust
0:17:25 Soil Humates
0:17:53 Crab Shell Meal
0:19:18 Ratios of Ingredients
0:20:01 Mixing the Ingredients into the Bedding Material
0:20:47 Fluffer to Make Nice Bedding Material for Worms
0:21:42 Filling Totes with Bedding Material
0:22:52 How the Proper Worm Density
0:25:20 Worms being grown in a protected environment
0:27:12 When to Harvest Worm Castings
0:31:23 How to dry castings to the perfect moisture percentage
0:33:40 What a good dried worm castings should look like
0:35:27 Finished Worm Castings
0:35:27 Bagging up the Worm Castings
0:40:29 Other Products besides 100% castings
0:41:02 Superchar - Castings and Biochar
0:41:33 Growers Blend Potting Soil
0:42:01 Organic Solution Ambrosia - Worm Casting Tea
0:42:47 How they Make Ambrosia - Worm Casting Tea
0:44:47 Making a Raised Bed out of Produce Totes - Testing Castings
0:46:41 Always ask for Food Soil Web testing Report when Buying Worm Castings & Compost
0:53:37 Interview with Brian
0:53:50 why did you decide to start a worm casting company?
0:56:22 What kinds of worms are you using? What kind did you use?
0:57:57 why are the Worm Castings so valuable to Gardeners, Farmers and Landscapers?
1:01:22 Will you share the proportions of the different ingredients to add to make your castings?
01:03:35 What are some ingredients people might want to add to their worm bin?
01:07:47 What is the most important tip for raising worms at home?
01:10:22 What is the difference between Worm Leachate and Worm Tea?
01:13:27 Why should someone by the Ambrosia instead of Worm Castings and Make your own?
01:15:22 Why it's not a good idea to feed a single stock (manure) to worms?
01:18:22 How would test results look for a manure based casting?
01:20:02 How should your worm castings be used?
01:22:52 Any Special Offers for my GYG Viewers?
01:24:13 What is your website and contact information?
Thanks for posting this great Digital Table of Contents !! 😍 👍
Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens how can do this at home?
Thanks for your hard work. Rarely do i see time stamping!!
Thanks, John ! it's great that you're allowing people to 'zero in' to exactly what they want to hear by showing your time stamps for different parts of your videos.
Soil from near gold bearing rocks is good for the worms.
Summary (for info mostly relevant to home growers):
1. You can keep them in your raised beds, or standard produce tubs/totes. Density < 1 pound of worms per square foot. Round barrels not great.
2. Bedding: functional bedding of active wood/leaves compost screened to an 1/8 inch. Full of microbes and value-added product.
3. Food:
1.Biochar - important for microbe space
2. Spent coffee grounds locally grown
3. Kelp adds trace minerals
4. Rock dust for gizzards, and 70+ trace minerals
5. Soil Humates (least important)
6. High kitenase ground exoskeletons, shrimp/crab shell meals, hair, nails, etc.
Used coffee grounds, newspaper, REALLY love cardboard. No meats, fats, etc.
4. Fluffer: fluffs earlier food and adds air and space for microbial activity.
5. Don't put your worms in a greenhouse, etc. And ensure temperature regulation similar to what YOU would also be comfortable in.
6. Harvest: Horizontal migration or upward migration is good strategy.
7. Dry castings if they are too moist, as it stunts microbial activity. Shouldn't be sticking together, or like dust. Barely balls up, like 1 day dried chocolate cake
8. Bagging: Have airflow in your bags (not sealed containers/bags)
9. Use casting products to produce other products, like tea/ambrosia, but only buy castings and don't waste your money on others, if buying.
Interview:
What worms: started with African nightcrawlers, but too hard to regulate humidity and temperature. Now use red wigglers. Use worms that are native to your region.
Thanks, very usefull comment, regards bro :)
Much appreciated!
You're the MVP, Moosa Ali.
Hugs to you!!!
Thanks!
I'm confused. What is "kiten"? Kitenaise?? Am I hearing it wrong?
Chitin
Meat is healthy, matter of fact organ meats are the most potent food hands down ... I always roll my eyes when people think eating plants is automatically healthy 🙄
Just as long as you keep your worm gizzards clean!
@@RockKnocker17 lmaoo
“Meat is healthy” is just as bad as anyone generalizing about a plant diet. There’s many different types of meat that’s raised many different ways with tons of different antibiotics and hormones, etc. if you knew anything about a healthy diet you wouldn’t be lumping in all meat together.
@@SeanMc8181 you know darn well what meat im referring to , grass fed grass finished free range open range organ meats. That is not something any plant can do . Not one vegetable or vegetables picked or grown organic or not can come close to the nutrition of meat. And i would prefer a basic ground beef to any assortment of veggies you could give me. Ever watch the show Alone?
You get your prime perfect example how your body was made . You die on plants and you can die on protein. A human needs FAT and fatty meat and organ meats are it. Period no ifs and or butts about it.
Kinda like climate change , its four seasons and you cannot control how close the earth is getting to the ☀️ sun.
Hair and nails are keratin, not chitin. Chitin is most common in arthropods. Some readily available sources of chitin might be shrimp shells, meal worms, or dead bees (if you keep bees).
Crab meal is a good source of chitin
Optiveg
Dead bees? I have my first worms ever. I also get dead bees in my uncovered pool once in a while. Out of curiosity, can I put it in my worm bin instead of chucking it into the yard?
I believe fungus actually contains a lot of chitin, or at least some fungus, I'm not sure about the fungus mycelium though.
@@melodylamour6123the pool water has chlorine in it. Probably not a good idea to use bees soaked in chlorine. It may evaporate but I wouldn’t chance it.
Thanks John and Bryan! John I discovered your channel many, many, many years ago as I was contemplating container gardening. You have provided a wealth of information. I like that you leave no stone unturned, no need for questions you give us all the information upfront. As far as the trolls that complain of long videos, nevermind them, let them go to those short videos that leave us with lots of questions that you may or not get the opportunity to answer. Why are they here? They must find your content interesting. Everything can't be consolidated into a tweet form, emojis aren't a very intelligent way of communicating. Keep doing you! Most of us appreciate it. Blessings!
you derserve a thumb up from the youtuber
Brief means edited and edited means information removed to achieve being brief. I agree with you.
Masters secret to any worm bin malted barley 👍👍👍 some of the best plant food too
Someone being interviewed was wearing one of your tshirts on the latest episode of the BBC's Gardener's World.
I live right next to a big coffee shop where I get my coffee grounds for free and I live right next to a big-time restaurant where I get all my egg shells for free and rotten vegetables and I go to the side street vegetable stands and get everything for free and use it to feed my worms. So far. My worms have been breeding like crazy.
We use depleted mushroom blocks as our base, it makes the best castings IMO. The Worms LOVE the mycelium
@Tyler Durden
You heard extremely wrong.
The fungal sugars produced by the mycelium have anti bacterial properties, which breeds more resilient worms. There's hundreds of thousands of bacteria for every microgram of soil that fungi compete with. When you inoculate your bin you are selecting for more cooperative, Areobic, forms of bacteria within the soil food web of your bin as fungi will out compete anaerobic bacteria within the deeper substrate of your bin.
They also predigest the sawdust and substrate mix, making for easier digestion for the worms.
Thanks to the growth of the mycelium spent mushroom blocks have an almost 1:1 green to carbon ratio & low ammonia balance making it ideal for worms.
The mycelium once inoculated in the bin also helps break down the waste, bringing it to more soluble form for your worms faster.
I also innoculate my bin with Glomalin producing soil fungi. Glomalin is a protein produced on the outside of the hyphae strands that acts as a glue, "glomming" the soil & creating combed soil structure, also known as a Loam.
Worm bins that have low fungal activity produce lower grade castings, with a less balanced NPK ratio and higher concentrations of anaerobes,.rather than the Areobic organism's you produce castings for.
With less enviromental stimulation the worms are not as active, causing worm breeders to over feed their worms coffee grinds, producing high nitrate castings that will give a high-yield of foilage growth without any actual production from ones plants.
Giving the illusion of fertility, with a much lower fruiting yields.
Sunflowers are in particularly sensitive to this disbalance, and are ideal for control trials. when you see people with massive sunflowers that never form a flower head it's because they've given their plant too much nitrate. this happens to people who use worm castings that have been given too much coffee grind to speed up the rate of break down within isolated worm bins.
You don't need as much coffee grind when you have fungal pre digesting the bin for the worms.
In nature these worms are natural partners of Fungi.
Who ever told you this produces " the worst" castings is completely ignorant of myco-vermiculture & the natural ecology we pulled these organism's from.
@@libraryofpangea7018 what kind of mushrooms? I was thinking about that or inoculating wood chips and cardboard.
@@mansoor2020
Any works, it's a good way to handle the waste stream of producing any kind of Mushroom.
You can take the blocks from indoor grows, compost them with the worms, then feed those castings into your outdoor mushroom beds for indoor/outdoor co production.
@merph1
Both, we make our own but we also go and pick them up from other cultivator's. Contamination of molds and bacteria is Always a risk when doing lab work, so alot of growers will just toss out their spent or contaminated blocks because they don't know how to handle the waste stream. Alot of cultivator's will give them away for free, which we then go get.
This has been the most unexpectedly interesting thread. I’ve never wanted to sub to a reply author before.
The reason we need the liquid solution is to be able to amend really large spaces like pastures. Using physical castings would be way to expensive for amending acres of land
Amazing....after watching the first video..I bought the Organic Solutions for our Peppers in Florida.....now, I am so excited to understand how it all works together...our peppers were huge..just like John said....
Please never stop creating content man your so awesome. I would give you a TV gig in a second
So if I buy warms for fishing and put them in my garden how it’s works? I do have warms in my garden but I can add more.
Compost worms are much different than regular earthworms
Older comment but great idea any worms are better than none the different types dwell in different depths and have different dietary needs so the red wigglers live closest to top of soil where they will be composting plus feeding and the earth worms are deeper so they can help with aeriation of the soil for your deeper roots while also helping to feed your plants with their castings
I'm just getting into worming, and this is the best video on the subject I've ever seen. Big thumbs up!!
26:29 Yeah we had that discussion... no worms in the bedroom, except if I prefer to cuddle with them🙄
John,
I really appreciate this video. I have a fledgling worm farm using a flow though reactor (which I spent a lot of money on and doesn't really work all that well). Had I seen this video six months ago I would have followed this model to the T. But its never too late to make improvements.
Binyamin from Galil Soil Farm
Which system did you buy?
Awww, I am so happy to listen to someone who feels bad when worms die! Well, I agree. I am a bit nervous about trying to grow worms, but I will continue to watch your videos. They are excellent, you have so much knowledge. Thank you for what you do!
It is REALLY hard to kill worms. You will do just fine.
@@jesshansen1397 People kill them every day by turning over their soil with shovels.
Might be a silly question.. is there any worry about plastic chemical leaching overtime into the castings that you use for your plants?
I’ve actually purchased organic solutions worm castings literally as soon as I saw John’s pepper video. Granted I’ve never used any other company, but the stuff works amazing! Definitely going to get more when I run out!
Rabbit poop, Neem Meal, Malted Barley, and Kelp Meal. The best castings you will ever have.
Try some high quality basalt in your bin too
@@antoniovenezia2988 What does it do?
@@hosoiarchives4858 good way to add essential minerals to your castings, also good for worm health
What about fish meal
Chicken poo baby!!
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you John & Bryan 🌶🍆🥕
Use feed bags or potato sacks to store the castings in
I used to bring worm farms indoors during winter but now I keep them in the dog house (insulated 8x12 shed). The key is maintaining temp >50F with a small NG btu heater. With only the pilot light on is enough to keep it comfortably heated during the winter months here in NJ. In summer I cover worms with moist paper and if really hot put ice cubes on top. Friends/family save me their veg scraps and I shred paper bags, paper, and cardboard. I think worms are very easy to care for. They recycle and provide worm tea and castings for the garden.
Organic solutions charged my card $200 last week and hasn’t returned a single email or phone call of mine. My order of worm castings hasn’t been processed and I’m wondering if they are still operational and how I can get either the worm castings I bought or my money back. Pretty disappointed with organic dictions thus far and if it was t for this video I would immediately assume they are a scam company
Anybody who can talk this Long about wormcastings has got to be a master worm caster
So, so very interesting. I will no longer quibble about the price they charge - lots of work and good quality.
is any kelp tested for Fukushima radiation?> It took a while to find a local edible food nursery that carried worm castings without kelp. And I figure, I would rather use woody and green plants fro land anyway, I grew up in Newport Beach and no plants we had, and I lived lucky, the ocean broke across the street from my house, and no plant ever ate any kelp though it washed up across the street all the time lol I like your channel thanks for all the info. I decided to make over a raised planter that has mostly clay with some sand, and crushed rocked 2 or 3 inch diameter, under. I put in 3000 red worms, a large bag of top soil, box of volcano rock dust high in potash and calcium, aded fungus, and I differ from your 2016 show on LA City "mulch" as it depends where you go. I live in Los Feliz so, .5 miles from where your show was done, but I go to a small pile next to the LA River bike path. It is called mulch, but, it is layered, and they add to it all the time. Today, I found rich black layers with well decomposing woody chips, and soil or broken down materials, it was like stratum, I had to mine it. It also had fungus and I want more, there is some, I found when clearing, but the clay has never had a lot of roots through it 0- hence the worms, and I planted flowers, native coastal California form Learners? And milkweed seeds, but also, strawberries and melons, inland ten herbs plus local garlic. Newbie I learn a lot form you, cheers
It's pronounced CAM A REE YO, Calif. Good vid, tho, dude. Thanks. (from a southern californian - El Cajon)
Reno Green's nailed it! I don't care how long or short the video is either - it's quality of content that counts! Thank you! 😎
They use a trammel to separate the compost. Very cool and so very efficient.
Thank you so much for posting this, John! I've been looking for a good source of worm castings. Love your videos! (P.S. For those who complain they're too long, try watching at 1.5 speed)
So sweet your sad when the worms die
How do you support you I already subscribe to your videos
Hi John, I love your shows and bought your growing your greens t-shirt. Have you heard of VermisTerra? They’re known for their organic worm castings and tea. Can you do a episode on them?
Waw❗That was amazing... 2 years ago. What. I better get watching your newest video's. Thanks John you got some good stuff.
These castings are incredible, I always get some when in southern CA. For those in northern California, there's also a place in Oroville that seems to have similar quality.
This episode has some editing challenges when it was originally uploaded. It has now been corrected. So dont skip any sections or you will miss parts.
What happens to the worms once the soil freezes
@@syrenecrowell7378 Freezing isn't really an issue in California, but worms survive where it's cold by burrowing a little lower. If you have your own worms in a container where it's cold, you may need to bring it inside.
@@peterjsmith5918 thNks for your response. I have a large compost bin outside and right now the temp is 30
Degrees
where do they get their bags from along with the printing on them?
How often should I ad worm castings to my pepper and tomato plants? What is the best way to add the castings?
When I bought my house, the entire yard was all concrete. We decided to build a raise bed all along our fence and filled it with 100% compost soil from a local nursery. I'm not sure where all the worms came from but I couldn't believe the amount of worms that resulted in my raise beds. My soil is rich in worm castings and that results in amazing production of plants for me.
John, great video as always! Worms do have gizzards just like our farm 🐓, so they need the grit for their digestion.
A fun video. I looked at the length of the video and tried to figure how you were going to go that long. Glad I watched the whole thing. Very interesting. I'm in Pennsylvania and there are groups here doing the worm composting. I haven't used the casting idea in the gardens yet but maybe next summer I'll experiment.
Thanks so much for all the info!!!
I’ve never used and will definitely be getting some of it for my newly set up beds.
Great video John! Beginner here. Should I even concern myself with NPK vs just focus on using worm castings given how effective these worm castings seem to be? If I am missing something (?) maybe you can talk about the relationship between those two things, how to effectively be thinking about them and work with their relationship in my garden in a future video. Cheers...
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I have learned SO MUCH about gardening by watching your videos, John. You are amazing. I have 82 different types of vegetables growing in my garden right now because of you, in Allen, Texas! In the city!!! You should come see!!
Thank you for all you do for all of us gardeners out here in JohnKohlerLand!!!!
LUXE Wellness Center then you are really awesome gardener. I like u
Oh JON , COM to Montreal and I'll show u my zucchini ! You obviously don't have a life , or a mind !
Organic Solutions seems to possibly be out of business? Im trying to buy a large quantity and cant find it anywhere. I tried Boogie Brew as well without success. Do you know of somewhere else that I can purchase OS castings? If not, can you recommend another company of high quality castings? Thanks for your amazing content!!! Im a fan for life
Would the worms break down the biochar? Do you recommend just mixing biochar and worm castings together so the biochar isn’t broken down?
I know this is a late reply, but worms can't break down biochar. The biochar gets innoculated with bacteria, enzymes and nutrients as the worms eat around it. I add biochar to my compost bin, and then feed that compost to my worms. Works great
Hey, I’m watching this video in Florida, and love the info. But when I go to the link you provide for this company, it says that this website is unsafe and is stealing your personal info! Idk what is going on. But it does the same when I like them up directly on the internet. Maybe you can reach out to them to let them know? Thanks for all your doing to inform us newbies to growing. Thanks John! Stay Blessed! You’re very good at explaining the info. ❤
Camarillo Brillo …🎶 People can do their own work to figure out ratios. I’m sure all the info is available online. Just have to learn to read research papers.
Ok...you're completely wrong about the meat/keto diet. I've been eating this way for 2 years and feel awesome! No , more joint pain....no more sugar & grains!..never felt better.
Is this the farm u talked bad about?
U mentioned it in ur newest video about the Arizona worm farm.( how they didn't like it or w.e)
I'm curious as I live in cali
I respect u did that tho cause that's real transparency . And them asking u to take the video down or w.e don't know if u actually did but thats not cool that they asked u
How about condensation after you seal both ends. Maybe a 3M type of breathable tape to put "below" so panel can release moisture, allow air etc.. maybe>?
Rootz organic is visibly superior in quality(at least for worm castings). Costs more, but every grain is a perfect casting. Uniform and consistent.
@33:41 my question." by drying in sunlight might be killing almost all microorganisms and all the remaining one get might remain just good fluffy soil. Is not it on a safer side to let it remain over moist as in the bounded form @33:46 ?" Thank you John for tonnes of information in good details.
If the power of worm castings is the microbiology that results, why is it so critical to add all those other products? Defeats the purpose of trying to produce a sustainable fertilizer product.
Always really like the way you drill down on all the details we need to be extra successful gardeners!!👍
Can you give a recommendation for the best rock dust, sea kelp, and chitin for worm mixture
Why not just feed the worm that are already in the soil ? What is the growth rate difference between worm manure/$castings$ and animal manure?
Thanks for your videos. Please talk slower and spell the names for the items you are talking about.
Nails and hear do not contain the same material as crab shells, nails are made of keratin, and crab shells of chitin....apples and oranges...
i got the best castings. organic compost fed including ground avocado seeds, pineapple, orange, banana peals, apples, coffee grounds, etc, leaf mold, ground toasted egg shells, some bokashi compost, mushroom wash after a day in the sun to collect vitamin d from microbes i guess, cooked rice for more microbes, etc, and why not some azomite. one thing i don't have, but i would love, is a cow manure.
Worm castings dont have much worm urine aka pee so that is not quite the same as just soaking castings in water to make tea. Fresh is always best.
Good morning I am very newI am just starting my worm bin my question can I use mushrooms as food. I bought some to use but for got them in the fridge.
Talk less--focus on facts and details--you could hold my attention--blah blah blah
did you have the kelp (west coast kelp) tested for radioactivity from Fukushima? I finally found a local brand with out kelp. When I needed an iodine supplement, health practitioners directed me to Icelandic kelp, rather than local California kelp.
This video could have been edited down to 1/4 of it’s length. Kind of boring.
Thank you John and Bryan for teaching us to have so much important information to start off with a healthy vege garden bed/soil.
Ehat is this term he keeps saying. "Saylaise degraders?". Hiw is it properly spelt
Hello do you have a promo code for organic solutions. Thank you
I called them and they didn’t answer just got a text back saying no more deals pretty crappy service
Paul Rhodes lol, pretty crappy service? You expect perfection during a pandemic shutdown? You must be fun at parties.
I wish I can do worms right in raised beds but I’m in a rental house. I have yo use grow bags
Thanks for yet another good presentation on best castings. I'm in South Africa have my own backyard worm farm since 2008. Not serious on the business however, on course to get into business.
how to raise the cost of gardening 200 times, for double the yield.
can i use peat moss as bedding for the worms
I have used a mixture of 2/3 damp sphagnum peat and 1/3 steer manure for years. My red wigglers do fine in it.
Rabbit manure bedding and food is good enough for me. I grow super hot peppers that grow to about five feet tall and about that wide. Their production rate are super too.
What are HE-Mates ? stated as part of the worm food but I don't know what it is.
I have a worm bin. From time to time I'll get a handful of castings (worms and all) and add it to one of the tubs or big pots that I grow plants in. I've been thinking of composting stuff before feeding it to the worms prior to seeing this video.
Just subscribed. Great info on worms and other gardening tips. I'm about to order red wigglers for the first time for my compost bin and garden. Thanks.
Don’t grow things high in $Value,grow what you actually eat
Thanks for this info. In Europe we don't have the same choice on soils and work castings. I already have a worm pile working but i plan to make it bigger and better.
Thank you John for doing this video. Love the pepper video and bought 2 large bags of Worm casting from Organic Solutions after watching it. 🌶
Can you put worms in raised bed with potato plants or will the worms eat my potatoes
COBS R US potato spuds sprout up in my worm bin and don't seem to get eaten if it's rooted/living. I think worms only eat rotting stuff.
Worms do not eat living roots or tubers.
Soil matters! Love it! You are what your plants eat! Thanks for taking the time for these videos John
Hi All, Would you please let me know what is the name of the company (web site) that makes the grain mixer? Lovely video!
Make sure you’re totes or tubs are FOODSAFE!
Camarillo is pronounced KAM-ə-REE-oh. Two "LL's" are pronounced as a "Y" in Spanish/Mexican.
Lol I was going to post the same. Funny the little things we comment on. But other than that great info .
I’m thinking about feed my worms a Alfalfa & Kelp mix in addition to other ingredients shared in this video hopping for a super charged castings... Have someone tried this before or have experience using alfalfa meal in worm bins?
I have used alfalfa pellets. I soak them in water to get them rehydrated and add this to my worm bin.
Wow im genuinely impressed by your video bro. Im a rapper and businessman thats recently converted to gardening.
This video is everything you want for a “how to” guide. Literally feels like i was there getting a company tour. Good job by you and the cameraman/woman
He’s been great for a long time :D
Thanks, they don't ship to Japan so this is great for me.
Thanks John for all of the videos you do for us. you always have great info. I appreciate that you yourself leave politics out of your videos.
Surely worm castings are in your own compost?
Bone meal and egg shells are a good thing to feed worms
I've watched some people use alfalfa pellets as well.
In the interest of healing the land, people and the planet, if it were my worm casting farm I would not hesitate in sharing the 'secret recipe'.
Hey u r REALLY AWESOME!
Thanks for the inspiration in every one of your videos. When I have time I try and watch them all the way through.
John your the man thanks for showing castings, I’m learning with my peppers
In an hour and a half long video not a single worm was shown.
Is worm casting better than compost
Happy environment day to all farmers, gardeners and nature lovers.
This video is so thorough and I really appreciate it! I have a worm bin that's doing really well but there's still so much to learn.