Boost Your Vermicompost with This Easy Worm Chow Mix!

[@brianseybert192]

I did not start really using "worm chow" until last winter. Picked up a bag of organic chicken crumble and have been using it in my CFT bin, the worms are gigantic. I now pulverize eggshells, shellfish shells, seed heads from the garden, large seeds like luffa, birdhouse gourds and pumpkin, basically anything I can easily dry out and pulverize. The key to me is to add as much diversity in nutrition and biology as possible to my vermicompost. Stay Well !!!

[@simplifygardening]

Having chow really helps when time is tight and you just need to give them something

[@wormweirdo340]

Great recipe. All of our expired dry pantry items go into my chow with some garden amendments like kelp and crab meal, azomite, alfalfa pellets and neem cake.

[@tammybrazeau1213]

Great recipe, Shaun. I also dehydrate banana peels and grind them with my egg shells. Don't know if it helps any, but I have a ton of them, I use them.

[@VermiChump]

Thats a good addition! Getting in that Potassium. Problem is we don't really have bananas in the house, the one food Mrs CC hates!

[@melissalechuga7349]

How much do you feed them and how often?

[@dean-Conjured-Vaporz]

Worm feed therapy!! Definitely the right price to keep oneself grounded!

[@WD-41469]

Nice information, thanks!

[@dnawormcastings]

Great video 🇦🇺🪱

[@VermiChump]

Thank you!

[@memyselfandeye1234]

weetabix .... Your Breading Super Worm :)

[@chrissiehart22]

How do you look after them over winter

[@VermiChump]

You don't need to do anything special. They will survive fine, but go dormant. Or you could do what I show in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3nGY5iKd76ZoZY

[@chrissiehart22]

@VermiChump so I did watch it but you have large containers and they are inside. I'm glad I didn't rush into setting one up this year as now have lots of questions and will be following you to learn more. I worry that they would have less protection in a box the size of a shoe box and would die rather than go dormant in the outside elements and and can't go down to keep warm.

[@WD-41469]

@@chrissiehart22all of those assumptions are correct. Indoors is the way to go, if you can. My apartment is tiny, but a simple rubbermade tote is both deep enough and large enough to support a decent population.

[@tankerpeti]

So you add calcium carbonate, then you add eggshells which are 95% calcium carbonate. I guess those shells aren't "powdery" enough?

[@VermiChump]

I add the calcium carbonate when I don't have enough egg shells available.

[@tammybrazeau1213]

Imagine that😂

[@linkinparkfanforever2728]

So if I have worms then I will definitely make the food myself, I also make the food for my cockroaches and isopods myself.