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They're fire ants.just matters if the ants are really a enemy to u or your garden
They're fire ants.just matters if the ants are really a enemy to u or your garden
That's awesome. I love being able to pass on castings to growers. I use a mix of species. Do you have African night crawlers?I keep plugging along with my worm endeavor. I won't have to buy EWC for the foreseeable future! I wish composting worms were larger. I could sell all I could raise if they were 40% larger. Not really a big enough revenue steam to concern myself. But everybody gets plenty of EWC, and I have nearly no fungus gnats. That's a win in my book!
I am using red wigglers and super reds. I tried Africans but the others worked better. EWC for the win!That's awesome. I love being able to pass on castings to growers. I use a mix of species. Do you have African night crawlers?
Hey @webeblzr, It's been nearly 3 weeks since this post. How are you doing in the world of vermiculture? The shredded paper is a great way to control bin moisture.Excellent thread!! Thank you for all your in put!! I've been printing the recipes also!!
Well I'm starting into this worm wrangling thingy myself.
I fell in love with EWC many years ago, when it was cheap, well at $30.00 a bag, it's game on now!
Since I run my indoor garden is a perpetual fashion, adding a wormery, should be just part of the flow.
Kind of a kick in the nether regions, but Jim's is like 20 minutes from my house, and I still can only have them shipped. Ok done whining.
Over the past few months, been reading up, scavenging for stuff to use, then I pissed off the paper shredder, and it gave me the finger!
So, I got a nice gift card for helping some folks out with a paint job, a while back, and Amazon delivered to me a very nice and much bigger PS, a 16 or 18 pager!
Worms are ordered, medium is soaking, and just a quick run up to pahydro, to get a few Down To Earth items, and I'll either slaughter a bag, or will have some EWC by springtime, I hope anyway.
I've also started a bokashi totes, and got my LAB's halfway started, and will inoculate 10 lb's of bran this week sometime.
So, this old dog is learning some new tricks.
My full blown fantasy, is to combine, the bokashi composted material, the EWC, after all my stalks/stems yellow out, run them through an electric chipper, to become medium, and soak the matter in some LAB's, like you would with bran. Like I said, a dream.
Right now, I'm growing in coco husks, large chunk perlite, and bale of Sunshine Mix #4, with a couple of bags of Jims EWC.
I do save, and reuse my medium as long as it is not breaking down, as many times as I can now.
Do you have dogs? Guess what gets those nightcrawlers fat for fish.....In for knowledge.
I'm trying to do a worm bin, but for nightcrawlers for fish bait. Had bug and odour issues with the first go but this one is doing well after a couple months. I don't produce a lot of food waste but I like the idea of turning it into something useful.
I only raise bait. I have minnows and nightcrawlers.Do you have dogs? Guess what gets those nightcrawlers fat for fish.....
Guess what gets those nightcrawlers fat for fish....
I'm interested! From what I've read, nightcrawlers are not ideal for composting, but since it sound as though it's working for you, I will follow along. I've got 3 - 12 gallon totes each of red wigglers, and Super reds. They are great for composting, but I like a bigger worm for fishing. It's all good, my primary goal was a steady supply of fresh EWC. I just replaced a dead refrigerator and, if I get ambitious, I'll bury it up to the hinges under a large walnut tree. That would be the place for me to try nightcrawlers this spring!In for knowledge.
I'm trying to do a worm bin, but for nightcrawlers for fish bait. Had bug and odour issues with the first go but this one is doing well after a couple months. I don't produce a lot of food waste but I like the idea of turning it into something useful.
I'm not expecting them to be efficient as proper compost worms. I just want to keep them alive and reproducing because it's cheaper than buying bait.I'm interested! From what I've read, nightcrawlers are not ideal for composting, but since it sound as though it's working for you, I will follow along. I've got 3 - 12 gallon totes each of red wigglers, and Super reds. They are great for composting, but I like a bigger worm for fishing. It's all good, my primary goal was a steady supply of fresh EWC. I just replaced a dead refrigerator and, if I get ambitious, I'll bury it up to the hinges under a large walnut tree. That would be the place for me to try nightcrawlers this spring!
Great Philosophy! I actually use both. 'You whinie old bastard' or 'have a whinge why don't ya'I only raise bait. I have minnows and nightcrawlers.
I don't want anything in my house that can whine at me.
(Do you guys say "whine" or "whinge"? I know you use a lot more Pommy slang while we have the Yank influence.)