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[@enricoquintavalla1278]

Love your work but my empirical experience is that both the casting and the juice give fast results on plants. The juice particularly can have almost immediate results on garden plants, so something good is indeed happening here. I personally consider it quite magical, given the empirical results I see.

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[@DavidMFChapman]

My small backyard composter functions as an outdoor vermicomposter-I put fresh kitchen scraps (mixed with dried leaves) in the top, the worms are very active somewhere in the middle (it never gets hot) and I harvest the product through the door in the bottom. There are very few worms in the product. I remove the product mostly in the spring. The worms survive in winter as the temperature in the centre stays at 10°C (Zone 6).

[@patkonelectric]

Could be a good winter project. In spring dump the whole thing in your garden beds. Then in fall collect the worms and put them in your basement bin. Rinse and repeat.

[@Tillettforct]

I've started worm farming 🚜 and I use a combination of junk mail cardboard and the potting soils from my old hanging planters and any leaves that have fallen on them... This will help revitalize the soils with castings and the scrap foods reduces what we're bringing to the dump Will be using the sifted soils castings mixture to fill my hanging planters this year and see how it does with the azomite and blood meal added to the soils with the worms working on everything from this winter

[@jdawg1835]

"Pet care" describes it perfectly. I consider them employees that I pay in room and board.

[@GARDENER42]

I breed _dendrobaena hortensis_ worms in one of my compost bays, as they're almost £20/kg to buy& I can get through ½kg in a five hour fishing match. I reckon to harvest at least 10kg a year from a 0.75m³ bay & by that time, the worms are by that time migrated into the material in the next bay once it's cooled. Oddly enough, I've found dense concentrations of these worms in decomposing material that is still at around 32°C/90°F but never juvenile worms, which appear to prefer significantly cooler conditions. On those occasions when I have a particularly well worked worm bay, I reserve, then riddle (10mm²) the material & use the result mixed 50/50 with my garden soil as seed & potting compost which invariably performs better than commercial offerings.

[@AnnieDog-arfarf1]

Fantastic video. Thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge and experience.

[@gsdggasgs1799]

Finally a gardening youtuber who is actually scientific and not producing clickbait crap about how "you need to do xyz abc look at me growing bananas in zone 4 guys!!"

[@dougbas3980]

I am zone 5a and waiting for global warming to grow bananas 🤣

[@killabeez321]

I never see those people.....maybe you click the wrong links.

[@dougbas3980]

Great info and some new to me. Thank you.

[@cliveburgess4128]

Great info as always, Thank you!!!

[@lorrainedurgee1761]

I just love your ideas & scientific ways of gardening - looking for different ground covers for zone 5 in Colorado …box .. stores don’t seem to carry different flowers - they don’t change the types of perrentials … I do go to nurseries also. I use alfalfa pellets in my compost which bring worms ….to help decompose .

[@dnawormcastings]

Great video 🇳🇿🪱

[@nejcmeister]

thank you for making this videos. What is your opinion on fermenting compost material like one would do with Bokashi method. Is it worth it?

[@user-ed2uo8gr4o]

Well I walk my worms and my neighbors love it when they poop on their lawn.

[@NanasWorms]

🤣🤣

[@vicroberts9876]

Thanks for your excellent in-depth analysis of vermicomposting. I have a 140 sq yard vegetable patch here in Oxfordshire UK and have been researching whether vermicultture would be useful to me. .I was interested in starting a wormery but your piece has made me think again! I have 2 compost bays on my plot made from pallets. They hold (A) 1 cubic meter of current season raw materials and all the kitchen green waste and paper, cardboard and grass cuttings. And (B) 1 of maturing compost from the previous eason. This shrniks down by half and enables me to compost half the plot each season.. I am happy with the quality and get good results. Once mature compost is spread in the Auutmn (A) get turned into (B) Do you think my decision not to bother with a wormery is the correct one give my circumstances? Thankyou and Best Regards

[@brianseybert192]

Been raising worms going on 5 years now, one question. Over this past winter I stopped giving my worms peals we do not commonly eat, like citrus, pineapples and bananas, mainly for potential pesticides in those peals, am I being over protective? I do use these materials in my hot compost, figure the heating process stands a better chance of degrading any pesticides that may be present. Stay Well!!!

[@johnkehoe8368]

i have a question for you sir i have outdoor gardens i have a few worms now after a couple years should i add red wigglers to my outdoor garden or let the worms in my garden just do there things i use topsoil and manure sheep or cow which ever they have at the time should i just keep doing this ?

[@XCrystalXMoonX]

It's it true that nutrients in worm castings are more accessible to plants? Because that would change the interpretation of the npk. Also people don't use as much castings as they would for other compost, because the nutrients are presumably more water soluble. Is it true that it's effective in small amounts?

[@colbykinney5633]

Not all vermicompost is created equally. High quality vermicompost from someone like Colorado worm company is vastly different than what you get a the hardware store. Not to mention something like a Johnson Su bioreactor which is basically a year old vermicompost has a bunch more diverse microbe community. I think if they compared regular compost to some quality vermicompost the outcome would be different.

[@johnharvey5412]

What would distinguish good from bad? Is there enough research to know?

[@colbykinney5633]

@@johnharvey5412 didn't say bad I said there's a difference. Microbial count and diversity is the main difference .most store bought castings are just worm turd colored peat or Coco. It needs time to cycle everything into fine castings

[@Changing_the_game]

What episode is this one?

[@iqtidarbaig8532]

P is an element, so what is the sourse of this extra P.

[@miguel5785]

It depends on what you feed them, I guess, basically? Compost and vermicompost results there were averages of very different inputs and practices.

[@rwally3able]

I am probably skipping ahead but can you use night crawlers.?

[@patkonelectric]

In my opinion only. Any worms will work. He is just focusing on the best one to use.

[@jeil5676]

Not really. They are not as effective as red wigglers and the types used for composting. I heard night crawlers like to go deep and cool and eat secondary waste. If you want them for fishing, theres probably a great way to culture them but it may not be as effective at making compost as wigglers and such would, or so I've heard.

[@ramakrishnak3548]

Is there any objective way to measure the percentage of compost in the castings - in other words, is there any objective test to asses the quality of compost!

[@jerryclark5725]

You debunk commonly held ideas. Have you heard, and what do you think about: Mixing some fresh cow manure in water to use as liquid fertilizer?

[@ftoftheX]

If all the worm "myths" are truly bunk, and If they don't do much compost, then what benifits do the really have?

[@Hapotecario]

Yes. This is my question as well...

[@MiklosTapai-pz4sf]

These “Compost Worms “ not much, other than they are really efficiently bioaccumulate heavy metals in their body and castings. The regular garden worms are a different story. Have you noticed how all the fallen leaves disappear by spring time? Where did they go? The worms pulled them down into their tunnels. The walls of the tunnels are covered with their slime full with fungi and bacteria. In winter these microorganisms breaks down the leaves, and the worms eat this later. Then the worms mix this food with soil bacterias in their stomach and deposit this rich, slow, organic compost in the early spring on the surface. Now, that is real fertile stuff. On an undisturbed piece of land you can count 75 of casting deposits per 3 square feet, early spring. That could be a few Tons per hectare of high value of organic, slow release fertiliser for free…if we didn’t destroy their tunnels by digging or ploughing. But, we liked to steal even their food in the fall and collect all the leaves in bags like we were told. Garden earthworms are the true soil creater heroes….not the red wrigglers..

[@eleanoraddy4683]

Use it in your seed mix and you won't get damping off. 20%

[@johnharvey5412]

Sounds like the nutrients in the casts are pretty similar to compost, and they can quickly break down some things that take a long time to compost, such as cardboard. You can also do it in a fairly small space, without having to worry about having a big bin that will get hot enough. Both systems have their place, IMO.

[@billiebruv]

This guy is a bit of a muppet, just reads a script, notice he didn't say how he does it, look at the urban worm comany, Wormgear/michigan soilworks, and nutrisoil, and join a vermicompost forum or two

[@markr.2781]

Is it okay to mix walnut leaves into compost?

[@dontknowdontcare2531]

i think the problematic chemical juglone gets decomposed by time, so probably yes

[@markr.2781]

@@dontknowdontcare2531 Thank you. I will start mixing more into the compost.

[@GARDENER42]

Worms love cold, cooked mashed potato.

[@macardona5]

Is it not true that worms dont eat the organic waste but the microorganisms that are eating that material?

[@NanasWorms]

Yes, that's true. Different forms of organic material grow different microbes, too. ~ Sandra

[@patkonelectric]

I heard that worms like coffee grounds.

[@NLF123]

They thrive in coffee grounds! Although I don't recommend it, for a few yrs I raised worms entirely in coffee grounds... Only trouble I had is that the casts all lumped together, and it wasn't a crumbly vermicompost. But the worms certainly survived and reproduced in that environment.

[@patkonelectric]

@@NLF123 Why would you entirely only feed them one thing and expert them to survive. Can you entirely eat one thing and survive?

[@MysterChaser]

They do love grounds, but mine also love cardboard! They seem to love the nooks and crannies.

[@NLF123]

@@patkonelectric I disposed of loads of coffee grounds, lots of worms, and I was experimenting with "lazy vermicomposting" - That was back in the day, before all this talk about worms also having a soul.

[@gsdggasgs1799]

As to getting worms, why not just go to a bait shop though

[@johnharvey5412]

You sure can, as long as they have the right kind.