How the Best Worm Castings are Made that Can Double Your Harvest

John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ 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.
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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?

[@kan-zee]

Thanks for posting this great Digital Table of Contents !! 😍 👍

[@kateshungi8945]

Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens how can do this at home?

[@johnnyb1093]

Thanks for your hard work. Rarely do i see time stamping!!

[@pauldominic2150]

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.

[@sebastianstewart6894]

Soil from near gold bearing rocks is good for the worms.

[@MoosaIslamic]

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.

[@ExemplaryLigas]

Thanks, very usefull comment, regards bro :)

[@melissab8500]

Much appreciated!

[@BrendanMcGinley]

You're the MVP, Moosa Ali.

[@kathys7283]

Hugs to you!!!

[@erbauungstutztaufgnade1875]

Thanks!

[@smoothiehealth2810]

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!

[@blacklabel130]

you derserve a thumb up from the youtuber

[@lupejauregui2]

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.

[@fozzyozzy1030]

Please never stop creating content man your so awesome. I would give you a TV gig in a second

[@furkids4ever]

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! 😎

[@sreykimsear]

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.

[@renogreens4273]

Thank you for all your time and effort for producing these videos John. I do not care how long or short they are to get the quality of information composed in them. Great videos indeed every time.

[@LakePenelope]

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....

[@RNcelia]

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.

[@arizonanative7409]

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!

[@jesshansen1397]

It is REALLY hard to kill worms. You will do just fine.

[@patriot20000]

@@jesshansen1397 People kill them every day by turning over their soil with shovels.

[@dovregubben78]

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).

[@trentondexter3889]

Crab meal is a good source of chitin

[@MrJavier0103]

Optiveg

[@melodylamour6123]

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?

[@RockKnocker17]

I believe fungus actually contains a lot of chitin, or at least some fungus, I'm not sure about the fungus mycelium though.

[@williambock1821]

@@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.

[@goldenages7089]

I'm just getting into worming, and this is the best video on the subject I've ever seen. Big thumbs up!!

[@katrinaschultz8493]

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

[@georgegreek834]

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!

[@banhit75]

Someone being interviewed was wearing one of your tshirts on the latest episode of the BBC's Gardener's World.

[@leowilson7545]

Thank you John and Bryan for teaching us to have so much important information to start off with a healthy vege garden bed/soil.

[@brerrabbit4265]

I don't blame him at all for not disclosing all his info... It was great of him to provide the information that he has. Great video. I learned alot. Thanks

[@libraryofpangea7018]

We use depleted mushroom blocks as our base, it makes the best castings IMO. The Worms LOVE the mycelium

[@libraryofpangea7018]

@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.

[@mansoor2020]

@@libraryofpangea7018 what kind of mushrooms? I was thinking about that or inoculating wood chips and cardboard.

[@libraryofpangea7018]

@@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.

[@libraryofpangea7018]

@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.

[@ericcarve4476]

This has been the most unexpectedly interesting thread. I’ve never wanted to sub to a reply author before.

[@susantellez6421]

So, so very interesting. I will no longer quibble about the price they charge - lots of work and good quality.

[@gardengrrlWendy]

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)

[@jacobc1567]

Thanks for the inspiration in every one of your videos. When I have time I try and watch them all the way through.

[@AlvinMcManus]

They use a trammel to separate the compost. Very cool and so very efficient.

[@d3s1r3dpk]

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

[@PIXELSURPRISE]

He’s been great for a long time :D

[@Anthony-oh6sl]

John your the man thanks for showing castings, I’m learning with my peppers

[@nolaborrego9983]

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.

[@tonybowsnowy]

Waw❗That was amazing... 2 years ago. What. I better get watching your newest video's. Thanks John you got some good stuff.

[@sherruns]

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!!!!

[@koundinya75]

LUXE Wellness Center then you are really awesome gardener. I like u

[@heresbigmike]

Oh JON , COM to Montreal and I'll show u my zucchini ! You obviously don't have a life , or a mind !

[@gvas7560]

Yes!!!! Please go back, thanks for rearranging that great deal $$ Will be calling them. Thanks so much for sharing this video 😊👍

[@littlenugs9942]

Ty again John. I truly appreciate your u-tube channel. I enjoy watching with my morning cup of coffee. Nothing like starting the day off with knowledge and java

[@surfcitybusybee]

Awesome video! Thanks so much for the amazing tour & interview. You've inspired me to step up my worm bedding set up, and I've already gotten started today! 👏 👏

[@plants4ever48]

Always really like the way you drill down on all the details we need to be extra successful gardeners!!👍

[@binyaminklempner2153]

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

[@dewy330]

Which system did you buy?

[@beebob1279]

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.

[@Mrjboomseedco]

Masters secret to any worm bin malted barley 👍👍👍 some of the best plant food too

[@gjbowens13]

John, great video as always! Worms do have gizzards just like our farm 🐓, so they need the grit for their digestion.

[@izzzzzz6]

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.

[@Michael-zn2jc]

I saw your pepper video and I have been like crazy looking for worm castings and how to make my own since they’re so expensive.

[@robertevans8024]

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.

[@kennethyoung9032]

Thanks for your hard work John 👍👍

[@hannesaltenfelder4302]

26:29 Yeah we had that discussion... no worms in the bedroom, except if I prefer to cuddle with them🙄

[@georgegrout6995]

Thanks for doing what you do

[@DiligentProsperous]

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. 🌶

[@ittybittywtf9333]

Hi, I wanted to mention how important your videos have been to my first year of gardening in Las Vegas, I never thought in the 12 years I've lived here that gardening would be an option, but I was wrong, I have a small space around my patio and have been able to grow a good bit of veggies, so wanted to thank you for the knowledge that you've been so generous in sharing with me. Thank you

[@scottfoss716]

Great information John.

[@moringausa]

Soil matters! Love it! You are what your plants eat! Thanks for taking the time for these videos John

[@gewgulkansuhckitt9086]

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.

[@barbrathompson9798]

Wow, you give so much in your talks,, thanks Barbra South africa

[@bigdaadio.K2WW]

Love the spelling of your name!!!

[@jabulanimbelesouthafrica6808]

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.

[@peterjsmith5918]

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.

[@growingyourgreens]

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.

[@syrenecrowell7378]

What happens to the worms once the soil freezes

[@peterjsmith5918]

@@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.

[@syrenecrowell7378]

@@peterjsmith5918 thNks for your response. I have a large compost bin outside and right now the temp is 30

[@syrenecrowell7378]

Degrees

[@a.kay.c]

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.

[@robotfighter3124]

Use feed bags or potato sacks to store the castings in

[@koundinya75]

Happy environment day to all farmers, gardeners and nature lovers.

[@zippyzipster6863]

Great video John, thanks.👍

[@gilbertcouto8537]

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 🙄

[@RockKnocker17]

Just as long as you keep your worm gizzards clean!

[@gilbertcouto8537]

@@RockKnocker17 lmaoo

[@cyay918]

Very awesome and informative video.

[@shihtzusrule9115]

40 years ago my dad tried raising African Nightcrawlers for bait but they were hard to grow and red wigglers got into his beds from some dirt he added and took over but after watching this maybe they just survived the food and the climate better. he kept them in the basement where it was fairly cool. He also fed them sewer sludge. which probably had a bit of protein in it. The beds looked like raised beds but were up on tables, at least 3 x6 maybe bigger. The basement had a dirt floor, I guess it was a cellar. But he would dig a trough in the center of the beds going lengthwise and put the food in the trough so they could come and go from the food. He also fed corn meal. He gave up on the nightcrawlers.

[@erbauungstutztaufgnade1875]

Thank you.

[@checkersx3556]

Very informative!

[@regaeontop]

Great video!

[@BomJimmy]

@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.

[@Follydogdog]

Great Video John! Thank you. Did you mention in the video how long it takes for one bin to mature from start to finish? I am going to watch it again to try and figure it out.

[@Jason33784]

Interview was very good :)

[@Dude-Smellmyhelmet]

Wow this is a long one. I'll have to watch it in pieces

[@michaelcerda5514]

great video

[@ivegotheart]

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.

[@krustysurfer]

We have discovered observed something that will interest you John,. Hope your season is swell, aloha

[@hakenly]

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?

[@BrandonAbel01]

awesome! thanks!!!

[@Zencannabonsai]

Awesome

[@greengrowcer2419]

Rock Dust is my number 1 go-to

[@johncampbell2573]

Rabbit poop, Neem Meal, Malted Barley, and Kelp Meal. The best castings you will ever have.

[@antoniovenezia2988]

Try some high quality basalt in your bin too

[@hosoiarchives4858]

@@antoniovenezia2988 What does it do?

[@antoniovenezia2988]

@@hosoiarchives4858 good way to add essential minerals to your castings, also good for worm health

[@JesusisLord78]

What about fish meal

[@why67152]

Chicken poo baby!!

[@vermiman]

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.

[@davey369]

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...

[@davey369]

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[@FknNefFy]

Works are cool. I concur🤓

[@neal.w.awesome]

such a great youtube channel!

[@fritzwilhelm8258]

Outstanding video John. one question. How much does the volume of the compost reduce as it is turned into worm castings?

[@doncasera2436]

Favourite word of this dude, even from his other videos is “whatnot”...

[@roygoodlaxson9681]

How often should I ad worm castings to my pepper and tomato plants? What is the best way to add the castings?

[@dennisbuckleyable]

If you ad BioChar to the worm feeding area some of the worm castings nutrient will be absorbed into the bioChar for the long term betterment of the soil you grow in.

[@seansohi2024]

where do they get their bags from along with the printing on them?

[@mikenewell9217]

Anybody who can talk this Long about wormcastings has got to be a master worm caster

[@ppacal1098]

Can you give a recommendation for the best rock dust, sea kelp, and chitin for worm mixture

[@briansakurada2823]

Thanks, they don't ship to Japan so this is great for me.

[@melodylamour6123]

I've watched some people use alfalfa pellets as well.

[@RimmPurple]

THX bro yes i yes i stay loved buddy

[@marydiscuillo142]

Fantastic solutions. Will be ordering as i live in so cal. Please please plrase do a video on worm tea. Im at that point and could use your expertise. Hey if we went to Camarillo can u buy castings from them directly.? I live pretty close. Thx again!!!

[@Iskcon_ambikapur]

Hey u r REALLY AWESOME!

[@ahwaz1986]

Hello, instead of kelp meal what can be used? Thanks for your videos

[@geraldinevanbuskirk1610]

Hey John, I love your channel and the fact that you tell it like it is, so there is a kinda new channel out there called IV Organics, his name is Charles, and I was wondering what you thought of the channel? because he tries to teach the same things like you

[@gavan1988]

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.

[@yahwea]

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.

[@4BelcourtPlace]

I have made 4 -5 gallon red wiggler worm bins and do get the worm tea from each. It appears that my larger worms have disappeared but can see many small baby like worms. Did I do something wrong or is this a natural part of the evolution. Was it something in the products I was composting? Would appreciate your insight from you and your group.

[@Xbandit27]

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?

[@anitamunoz9599]

I have used alfalfa pellets. I soak them in water to get them rehydrated and add this to my worm bin.

[@EmomBerks]

Thanks, was wondering if cutting all my worms in half would double the amount. Hahahaha great vid.

[@LakePenelope]

Hi John, I live in Redington Beach, Florida and I have been following your videos. I purchased the worm castings from Organic Solutions... when I planted my peppers..they took off....the first crop were gorgeous and big! Bigger than any peppers I have grown in the past!.....But....here is the caveat....after one crop was picked the preceding crops became smaller and smaller...do you have any suggestions....all peppers were coming from the same originally planted pepper plant.

[@MIKEKELLEY12000]

I bet you need to fertilize between crops to keep production up. A side-dressing of vermicompost would be fine, as would a foliar spray of tea made from worm compost.

[@austinbellanich5675]

Might be a silly question.. is there any worry about plastic chemical leaching overtime into the castings that you use for your plants?

[@markizanochi65]

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.

[@bigdaadio.K2WW]

Compost worms are much different than regular earthworms

[@lauriehaley8591]

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

[@leandrogonza]

I was the 1k thumbs up !

[@nelsonolivera8059]

Hi All, Would you please let me know what is the name of the company (web site) that makes the grain mixer? Lovely video!