WE'VE WAITED LONG ENOUGH! | Our First Homemade Compost

[@mattshepherd8586]

Travis im so glad i found your new channel. The other one isnt the same without you. Im excited to binge watch all your wisdom. Ive become a far better gardener because of you. Thanks for all your work.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Glad you found us Matt! Welcome!

[@sethelrod9099]

Ditto Matt

[@SouthernLatitudesFL]

33 cubic feet!!! That would save a lot of money for the suburban gardener. Plus it is attractive enough. I love supporting American made! I'm buying one ....or two!

[@fiorevitola880]

I have used compost bins and geo bins for years now to add to my other compost about 20 tons of horse manure mixed throughout the composting operation, between that and cover crop it's made my soil amazingly productive. Good tips Travis!

[@bethsands7665]

It is nice to see homesteaders taking pristine care of their precious flock.Yay for U.S.A. built supplies ! Good job with your growing knowledge on composting and listening to wise viewers and reaping the benefits and teaching us all.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Beth!

[@rickthelian2215]

Great to see the chickens on the new plot. I would suggest to build a lid for your worm farm that stop the rain water. The worm tea is usually a cup per watering can for the worm tea leach..

[@Nurse_Lucy]

When we bought our house there was a metal drum. I've been putting almost finished compost from our tumblers in it to finish, and using a long auger on a drill to turn it

[@Christian-jx3nx]

Try it on some things including seedlings in various dilutions

[@evilroyslade2491]

Real-world is Better than a garden book.

[@stevefromthegarden1135]

AJ's Green Topics channel is pretty much dedicated to raising worms. Lots of good info there. Your homemade compost will make a nice addition to the new raised beds. As your worm population grows and you get the next compost bin close to full, add some worms into it to improve the compost even more.

[@detectivemikevarnado7515]

You are a funny man. The only thing that tops humor in your videos is the information I gleam from watching. Great family man loads of fun. The two young fig trees I bought from Lazy Dog Farms produce some delicious huge fruits. First-year! Can't wait to get some more varieties from you. Thanks,

[@LazyDogFarm]

That's awesome that they produced in the first year! Sounds like you kept them very happy.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

Thanks! In my raised beds I'll go to my local bait shop and get several fresh lively containers of red wigglers and divide them up, earth worms are very important to a healthy garden. Cajun Boiled Goobers are the bomb!!! Here's a few bucks to get you some fresh green peanuts to boil if yours don't turn out. Gotta support those Dawgs emotionally any way you can.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks! We'll have a peanut update coming Monday!

[@charleselertii6187]

Thanks Travis. Good job again Sir! Chuck in Jensen Beach, Florida.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Chuck!

[@amyschmelzer6445]

I can’t believe it’s been a year already. Time flies.

[@jackstone3870]

Red worms love corn cobs

[@DC-rd6oq]

Three of those GeoBins are equivalent to about 100 bags of Black Kow. Ask me how I know🤣

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haha!

[@grandmaatthefarm125]

You never fail to teach me something new that I can apply to my homestead. Thank you for being such a great teacher of all things gardening.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for joining us!

[@flatsville1]

Worm death begins around 40 degrees. If your bin is big enough, the mass (and heat) may sustain them out of doors. It's prolonged cold outside that gets them when the mass isn't large enough. There's a guy raising red wigglers in leaf mould bins 4ft high by 10-12 ft across outdoors. That size insures there will be some pocket above 40 degrees where they can survive & continue working.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Are you talking about a 40 degree air temp or 40 degree soil temp?

[@flatsville1]

@@LazyDogFarm From my reading, it is "bed temperature."

[@j.reneewhite915]

When you put your raised beds in cut some 4 inch pipe, cap the bottom and drill holes in the pipe, sink it into the raised beds and throw your kitchen scraps in and cover the top. the worms will go in to feed and back out to the soil. easy peasy! I'm not easily distracted but your new sunglasses have a perfect mirror effect so I can't help but to fixate on your arm and camera showing up in your glasses. I'm trying to listen to what you are saying and keep going back to the image in the glasses. IDK if it's just me but I thought I'd send you a shout out. Have a great week. If you use the worm leachate you need to make sure you don't spray it on any food you are going to harvest in the next couple of days and for good measure wash your food well. I always dilute 1 to 10 and pour it at the base of the plants. It's wonderful for that. I also use it as a foliar spray if I have pests. I've learned my gardens do better if I house the worms in a more natural state. My big draw back is the worms attract the moles and underground pests. Use the castings for your seedlings. Especially the ones more prone to dampening off disease like the tomatoes, peppers and basil. It has been suggested that the agents in the castings kill the fungus that causes the disease.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yeah I try to remember not to wear that specific pair when filming because they reflect so bad. My apologies.

[@willchoate7072]

I built a trammel from a blue plastic barrel last year for sifting compost. It's also great for sifting worm dirt and harvesting the worms.

[@articmars1]

Lol. I told you, you would like raising them. Check out green gregs a well as others. And the tea is anaerobic. Dilute it 10 to 1 and aerate it for a bit.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks!

[@michaelwandel5865]

Also with you compost that’s a bit chunky, add it to your worms and they will turn it into super compost

[@jaredmccutcheon5496]

I’m a huge fan of worm bins. I’ve been raising worms for a couple years and have found that theres not too much they won’t eat. I have a paper shredder at home and I got another one for my office at work and all my paper and cardboard boxes get shredded and fed to my worm bins. I put all kinds of veggies and non veggies in them and then cover with a layer of shredded paper and cardboard and they devour it all in like 1/10 the time of natural composting techniques and more completely break it down. Avocados are always cool because you will pick up a half of avocado skin and it’s generally a cup full of solid worms, lol. Bananas and pineapples are always favorites, basically any high sugar fruit will get eaten up quickly. I run dried egg shells (from my chickens) through a coffee grinder and sprinkle them on the food items for grit. Basically nothing gets wasted and I get free high calcium fertilizer in return. My son has some crested geckos in planted terrariums and we even put a few red wrigglers in each one and they eat the gecko poop, lol, and keep the plants happy in the process.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I agree. The worms are so useful and so fun.

[@robinmiller1783]

With the worm tea I go little and often. You have to play around as concentration can vary. 1 cup in a gallon of water should be a good jumping off point.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Robin!

[@travisevans7502]

I started making compost 4 years ago and I wouldn't hesitate to use that stuff you have right now if you needed it now

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yeah it might actually help with moisture retention if it was a little "unfinished" like it is now.

[@catherineparsons20]

I just fed my worms today. Your video was timely!

[@LazyDogFarm]

That's awesome!

[@thebiosoilcompany]

Worm tea jugs I’d recommend first deciding where you’d like to apply, then diluting enough to cover that area. As long as you’re not drowning an area it’s basically impossible to over apply same on other end you can stretch that a long way it’s just down to effort and time. Best to water over leaves and soil drench in early morning on cloudy or days with light precipitation. Stomata on leaves are most receptive at that time and condition. Apply once every week or two for best results.

[@lisagallegos1685]

One word on chickens since I have raised many over the last 12 years. You may already know they can't eat long stringy grass. It gets stuck in the crop and causes impacted crop. If you can't clear it they won't live. I have had 2 or 3 that I couldn't get it cleared when I let the grass get too tall. I felt terrible about that.

[@dabeav1317]

Not an expert, but I have an idea. Get a 5 gallon paint strainer to get solids out of liquid. Add it to your liquid feeder on your drip tape. Would cut with water at first and you can work it up to make stronger. Worm tea would go directly to were your plants are at.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I think that's a great idea!

[@dabeav1317]

Need to do an experiment. Grow 2 rows of the same crop. Use worm tea only on one row and see the outcome.

[@davidsinclair4138]

Feed your worms on one end at a time and worms will move to the food. Then when you clean out feed on one end and clean out the other end.

[@summerbeemeadow]

That mulch in your new bin looks like a good candidate to use a trommel to sift out the chunks.

[@SlackerU]

The coolest place I've found red-wigglers was 60ft up in a hollow tree that had a few years worth of woodpecker, flying squirrel, or raccoon nests inside of it.

[@LazyDogFarm]

That is pretty cool!

[@KajunHomestead]

I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF THE WORM BED. THINK I MIGHT START ONE. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO

[@LazyDogFarm]

You should!

[@Hardlyable]

Travis I tried my wigglers in buckets centered in my raised beds here in South Carolina this summer. Even with the aerated tops and shaded they got to hot and the bedding dried to quickly in the heat so I lost mine. It looks like your larger volume bed under the shade tree made the successful difference with your GA hot summer.

[@LazyDogFarm]

The shade tree is definitely a must. I doubt I could keep them alive anywhere else unless they were under the barn.

[@bcwindowcleaning7360]

I keep mine in the laundry room no smell no mess keep the top covered with 5 inches of paper shred in a plastic tote with holes drilled on bottom and around the top of tote. Setting on a lid with spacers so it can drain

[@stanleywheat1340]

Awesome

[@briankubik4252]

Bok. BOK! Let get it on!!!!

[@douglasledford2769]

I found the way to go is to use the urban worm bags you open the bottom and harvest your castings

[@priayief]

I've never raised chickens and I probably never will. But I'm fascinated by the way you feed the chickens, use them to provide fertilizer and move them around your garden plots. You mentioned that from time-to-time you must supplement the crops they are grazing on with chicken feed. I'm wondering, how can you tell when they need supplemental feed?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I can just watch them and tell. Some cover crops like the clover ... they absolutely start destroying as soon as you move them on a fresh spot. Others like the sorghum and millet, they casually graze. They also have a way of letting me know when they're hungry. They act like little puppies sometimes.

[@KenJohnsonUSA]

Worm tea is worm castings that you steep in water in a 3:1 or 4:1 ratio. I've seen people do up to 20:1 but that was for daily spraying in larger organic gardens...which seems like too much work for nothing to me. A lot of people worry about anarobic bacteria, so some people use a cheap aquarium stone bubbler to aerate the tea. Usually, 24 hrs of soaking and bubbling is sufficient.

[@oh2bon2r]

Any chance you have a coupon code for the Yardfully Geobin?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Not currently. They are supposedly setting up an affiliate program for their site, so hopefully we'll have one soon.

[@leahness3588]

Your compost looks amazing. 😎👍

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Leah!

[@justacountrygirl8750]

I’ve been contemplating moving to these. I’ve been waiting to see how yours turned out. I’ve three compost bins we made out of pallets and one large black tumbler. I generally don’t have to buy compost as we’ve been able to make enough to feed our beds but now that I’m moving to in ground I may need to get a dump load.

[@donp9492]

Really enjoyed this show

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Don!

[@donp9492]

@@LazyDogFarm no, thank you.

[@matthewking2209]

I would dilute 1:3 the salts can be high. I move the worm food in a clockwise rotation and when the food and bedding looks good I put food over on one side and let the worms move over. Once they kind of move after a few days I harvest the castings and put some new bedding in. Then I start adding food to that side then let them move over and harvest the castings and add new bedding to that side. I have seen people put lemons, cotton blue jeans, candy all kinds of stuff to see what the wouldn’t eat. If you’re putting something questionable then put it in one spot not over the whole bin so the worms can get away from it. They will move in once the bacteria and fungi start to break it down and it’s favorable for them. Keep an eye out for the worm eater with their hammerhead.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yeah I haven't noticed any hammerheads here yet, but a friend of mine in Auburn, GA had some show up the other day.

[@sljepson4082]

Have you ever watched PLANT ABUNDANCE on KZbin? He has several videos on his worm tub. The one think that I can quickly say is he only feeds have of his tub at a time. When he wants to take the castings from the one side, he starts putting the 'scraps aka worm food' on the other side. Waits a bit and all of the worms move to the other side where the food is, then he can empty the other part of the tub.... Better to watch what he does, and he also has information regarding the liquid too... Hope it is helpful for you.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

Nice man! I’ve been busting tail in the garden!

[@MontsFamilyHomestead]

Never thought about using soybean as a fall cover crop Travis, Just might just have to try that on our garden next year We are still thinking about the worm farm but just not ready for it yet. We made a pallet compost ben last year and they are doing well but I really like the rod bens you have. Y"all have a great weekend and God Bless. .

[@LazyDogFarm]

Those Laredo soybeans work really well as a warm-season cover crop. I'd highly recommend.

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

Have you tried swamp water made from chicken poo and weeds pulled from the garden? It stinks to high heaven but the plants don't have noses. According to David it needs to sit for a couple weeks with a lid on it to keep flies and skeeters out of it. I've tried it and the plants love it, but I can't tolerate the smell.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I haven't tried that. We don't really have a good way to collect chicken poop. All of it just goes straight into the garden.

[@franzb69]

the worm juice you got you can dilute it down to 1:5 or 1:10 depending on the concentration. just do a test spray on a few plants before finding out how strong it is. it's gonna be a lot like the stuff you use to fertilize your seedlings, the fish fertilizer

[@Pepper5655]

I thought I remembered it being a 10:1 ratio also.

[@Pepper5655]

Ok now along with using the worm tea, you can also use compost tea and spray your plants or Drench them. Perfect thing to use your compost over all the garden beds. Also have you heard of using fermented plant juice on your plants as well?

[@ronaldcummings6337]

I looked at those compost bins and thought that they looked pretty good.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I've really liked ours. I probably should have flipped them more often, but I've only flipped them a few times in the last year and we've got a decent product it seems.

[@charlenejutras1595]

Love your videos! Go Dawgs!!!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Go Dawgs!

[@LittleCountryCabin]

Don’t ya just love raising worms?!!!❤️. They’re amazing!

[@LazyDogFarm]

They sure are!

[@apiecemaker1163]

Could you use a tractor and take The whole top layer of soil off the new raised bed area and put it on one of the other spots? Would seem like a good idea because your going to need everything killed back to put the mulch down between the beds. Just a thought.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I think I might just use my compost shovel and scoop some of it into the beds to top them off.

[@apiecemaker1163]

@@LazyDogFarm wonderful! It just seems like such a waste of all your hard work to not use it. I raise bed garden and love it as I’m legally blind and it gives me borders and boundaries. I have cattle panels over some of them to create an archway to walk thru and pick my green beans. It’s a wonderful haven from this AL heat when in full bloom. I add wind chimes, little statues, a water fountain, flowers, and other things amongst my herbs and vegetables to make my garden a pleasant place to be. I look forward to this adventure with you guys. Make it fun.

[@tnjon66]

Hi Travis check out how to build a flow through worm bin. Kind of the next step in growing worms . John S.

[@gitatit4046]

Another good informative video Travis. We've been procrastinating about starting a worm bed but since you're so excited maybe should get on with it. 🤔😂

[@LazyDogFarm]

You gotta try it!

[@chrisfisher3900]

Think I might need one of those geo bins. Current situation ain’t getting it done

[@LazyDogFarm]

They're fun and don't require that much effort. Just gotta keep them moist.

[@sherrymilen4172]

Hi Travis, I don't believe you mentioned if the the golden cherry tomato you planted this year was less crack resistant and tasted as good as Sun Gold. Would you address that in your next video. Thanks

[@LazyDogFarm]

Here's a video where we talked about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHLLq3tnltZon7M The variety is called Toronjina and it's definitely one I'll be growing again.

[@miggity803]

Worm tea is different than what you have. You have worm leachate. Leachate is anaerobic and should not be used on edible parts of plants, but could be used in your siphon bucket in the greenhouse for starts other than leafy greens or other plants that you eat the parts that were in contact with the leachate. Worm tea is completed worm castings bubbled in water, so it is aerobic and normally used in a ten to one ratio to extend it's usefulness, not because of fertilizer burn issues.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for the clarification!

[@miggity803]

@@LazyDogFarm The diluted leachate (ten to one) would be perfect for your orchard drip system if filtered so as not to clog your emitters. EZ-Flo friendly too.

[@mutantryeff]

I'd think a full glass of ice before you pour the worm tea into it. Not sure what it'll taste like.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Sounds like a belly ache! lol

[@bennywalsh2038]

Be careful. Worm tea and worm leachate are different. Leachate is anaerobic and not recommended to be sprayed on anything you plan to eat. Use as a feed for root veg. Worm castings are a different story. Use in make aerated tea or passive extract.

[@borracho-joe7255]

I cut Worm “leache” 1 part worm juice to 10 parts water and water my garden with that. BUT, you are going to get all types of advice.

[@jasonkirkland7587]

add the worm tea to your syphon system.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I like that idea.

[@theplanelife4097]

I layer my worms with an area to move up to. Then I harvest their compost after they move upstairs. You need to build a second story to their home.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Hmmm ... now my wheels are turning ...

[@theplanelife4097]

@@LazyDogFarm just add an area to the top with holes for them. Put their new food in it. Once all the stuff in the bottom has been composted they will move up. Harvest their bottom layer. Always best to have a two story home. Harvest the bottom and rotate.

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

You’re hilarious! (Go, Dogs!) (And Go, Chickens too I guess!) Thanks for the laugh! 🤣 As far as worms go, when my uncle was a young man, he sold night crawlers to fishermen; I know nothing about worm tea. Come to think of it, my grandmother had the best garden in the neighborhood, which I thought was due to their cow manure. Maybe it was worm tea all along!?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Maybe it was!

[@that9blife465]

Id apply the tea to cover crops only. To much involved with the aeration and all that. Build the soil from above and below at same time. Home depot has an above ground planter with a drain valve. I have 2 for worms only and they get all our table scraps minus citrus and onions

[@elizabethpulido5735]

Make sure your worms don’t crawl out of your drilled holes!! Apply mesh or screen over the holes

[@rlbgardener6465]

Hey Travis, I’ve been watching a KZbin channel called Captain Matt worm farm. His bins are a flow thru bin, they are pretty awesome.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I'll have to check that out.

[@johnmullis6589]

I haven't done the warm thing yet but I have a composter identical to yours and what I'm planning on doing is transferring my compost into my worm bin and filling it full of worms and let no worms finish my compost for me my compost is a little different than yours I have a small yard so I can't have a chicken tractor so I have lots of chicken scratch mixed in with pine chips I take that with my lawn clippings and combine them together for my compost seems to be working pretty good my bed is just about full and I'll be ordering some worms soon so keep us posted on your worm tea experiments very curious I haven't done this yet either

[@LazyDogFarm]

Will do! I think that's a great idea to let the worms finish the compost.

[@ladyryan902]

Good info. Now tell me how to get this sand turned to soil😊

[@LazyDogFarm]

Lots of compost and cover crops. Our soils are sandy and don't hold organic matter well either. So you have to constantly be adding it.

[@txhawk23]

How did the Johnson Su bioreactor experiment go? Worth doing, or just the geobin?

[@LazyDogFarm]

It does seem to speed up the composting process some. I think it's worth doing if you have some extra pipe laying around.

[@freepress6665]

Aerate the worm tea , one cup , per 2 gallons , Aerate 24 hours

[@sethelrod9099]

I don’t think that it is so much that worm tea is hot, but more about the type of bacteria that is within it. If I remember correctly there is a large amount of those types of bacteria and they are hungry and that’s what can harm your plants.

[@InHarmsWay2009]

Travis, might I ask where you purchase your compost? I'll be relocating to your neck of the woods next week and have to get after setting up my new garden this fall.

[@LazyDogFarm]

There's a cotton gin in Lenox, GA that has some really good stuff. They have it bagged or you can get a bulk load.

[@bradjohnston8687]

OK, So you have a hole to drain into a bucket. THere is NO need to put a spicket in. Maybe add some screen on the inside of drain hole.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Sometimes the drain bucket fills before I realize it. I was thinking a spigot could provide a more controlled drainage.

[@jefferybarron929]

16:00 With your 10 plots and the abundance of compostable matter you have available, after a year of turning, moving around and waiting, this relatively small amount is the main reason home compost bins isn't for me. I have a 25 x 70 inground garden and 4 - 6 x 9 raised beds. Compared to your system, My system might yield a 5 gallon bucket full. So, I chop, drop, till & tarp. 😁😁😁

[@LazyDogFarm]

That's what we do in most of our plots as well. The compost bin is just an easy way for us to put less stuff in the garbage can.

[@scottfelson289]

So may be a dumb question but do you put the worms in your raised beds as well or just the castings and worm water If I don’t have a worm bed is it worth buying some worms and just put them in the raised beds

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't screen the worms from the castings, so I usually add worms and castings at the same time.

[@wwsuwannee7993]

When you get ready to harvest worm castings, only feed 1/2 of the bin for a month or so and not the other half. Most of the worms will move over to the food side, allowing you to harvest 1/2 the bed with minimal loss. There's bunch of methods but this is the simplest one. This is what I did with fishing worms when I was kid. I don't know much about worm tea, sorry. Those geo bins have sparked my interest, Ill check em out. COME ON COOL NIGHTS :) gg.

[@brittaneepruitt3707]

Did you do a video on starting the worm bin?

[@LazyDogFarm]

We have a reel on our Instagram page showing the process. We also talked about it on a YT video a couple weeks ago once we had it done.

[@tracihenry9034]

Travis, Do you have a recommendation for a fall cover crop that will raise PH? (5.5)Small plot, Monroe, Georgia.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't think that a cover crop is going to raise your pH. You're going to need to add lime. Here's a great article that tells you how much to add per area based on your soil type: www.bakerlime.com/how-much-lime-apply/

[@EarlybirdFarmSC]

Man everything is looking great. I use those black geo bins too. I like how you have your plots laid out. Do deer get in them? I made some boiled peanuts last week when watching my Gamecocks play! I used the instant pot and that is a game changer!

[@LazyDogFarm]

We're surrounded by hundreds of acres of commercial farmland, so the deer would have to travel a long way through open spaces to get to our gardens. As such, we don't have any issues. We do have lots of deer in our county though.

[@EarlybirdFarmSC]

@@LazyDogFarm I got ya. Makes sense.

[@bennywalsh2038]

Check out Meme's Worms in Valdosta.

[@creative227]

Worm tea should be made from the castings. It takes about 3 months for the worms to create enough castings to harvest. I have done extensive research on vermicomposting. Captain Matt is the expert I trust most. Find him on KZbin.

[@kylefamilyhomestead7007]

Great stuff Travis! I mentioned to you over on the gram that my son and I did one after you talked us into it. I’m having some worm die off and trying to figure it out. Keep up the great content brother. BCSMike on the gram.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks!

[@b.p432]

I wonder if you could screen/filter the tea and run it through your drip.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I certainly could and probably will.

[@rickjay4639]

I think you should use your compost to fill up your next worm bin. Worms love compost and it makes very good castings. If you haven't tried putting melon rinds in with your Worms you should try it they love it. Lay them flat on top then take a look in a couple days half your Worms will be under them rinds. The worm tea I just take a quart of worm tea and a 5 gallon bucket and water whatever plants look like they need a boost, not scientific I'm just an ockie. Have fun with them Worms I sure do

[@LazyDogFarm]

We've been putting melon rinds in them lately and they do seem to love it.

[@JilisheGarden4021]

Check out the plant obsessed KZbin channel and specifically the videos on the 55 gallon "blue" container, it may give you ideas on how to approach the harvesting of your worm bin when the time comes.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Will do.

[@joshsparks6915]

Hey Travis had a question or two about fertilizers... Difference in urea and nitrogen... We sell a 46-0-0 urea, and a 33-0-0 (nitrogen as asked by customers) I know more nitrogen but other than the number what would be the difference? Can't wait to see the raised beds up and going.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't know much about those high nitrogen fertilizers. I know some formulations are more volatile than others and you'll lose some of that nitrogen to leaching, so not all of it gets to the plant.

[@michaelwandel5865]

Dilute the worm liquid 10:1 What you have is leachate not worm tea

[@mamagsprepngarden]

@lazydogfarm can you give me the specifics of your tripod sprinklers?

[@LazyDogFarm]

This is the one I use: amzn.to/3KXetIZ

[@mamagsprepngarden]

@@LazyDogFarm Oh my goodness. Never thought I'd get such a quick response 🤣🤣. Thanks so much! The hubby and I got such a kick out of your "let's get ready to rumble" bit..... 🤣🤣🤣 He said, That boy ain't right, God love him. 🤣🤣

[@charleswhite426]

HBTD / Elite 😉

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yes sir. The Mailman delivered.

[@not1moreinch332]

How long has it been since you planted the soybean cover crop?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't remember exactly. We did a video on it. Seems like it was earlier this summer. It's a good long-term cover crop that you don't have to worry about going to seed really fast. Works well for long summers when you can grow much else.

[@Chris-op7yt]

did compost for ten years, increasingly bigger scale...no thanks anymore. no more compost problems and turning it, and the incidental/creep of costs to do with it. all waste goes to green council waste. cheers.

[@stevensunsera8727]

as others are saying here that leachate youve collected is anarobic. please be carefull using around food crops. when you are ready to make worm tea use an air pump and a bubbler as for fish tanks so you are growing araboic microbs and your garden should enjoy that. i realy like your channel and look forward to your progress.

[@allantrafford6262]

What's the dimensions of your chicken tractor? I think I'm gonna build one this weekend.

[@LazyDogFarm]

6'x8' is the footprint. Any bigger and it could be tough to move by hand.

[@allantrafford6262]

@@LazyDogFarm thank you.

[@Nurse_Lucy]

Rockwood shi*fer!

[@murraywelden2076]

is that compost on your deck???

[@amypage8141]

What are you going to do to keep those worms alive when it gets cold? I want to start with worms but we get a few cold spells here. I think it would break my heart if I killed off my worms in the cold.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't think it will get cold enough here to kill them. We rarely get below 25.

[@amypage8141]

@@LazyDogFarm you need to start workin on your worm bin cozy just in case. 😆

[@randalljarnigan5897]

What is the name of the insecticide that you use?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Azera

[@dwaineterry3945]

You probably get asked this a lot, but do you sell those little triangle chicken coops?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't. I wish I had plans for it because I get asked that all the time. But we just built it from scratch with an idea in our head of what we wanted it to look like.

[@karenzorn773]

Hey Travis check out Hey It’s a good life on KZbin and online, Natalie teach’s a worm farming course and has info about diluting Worm tea. I’ve bought worm castings from her. She is very knowledgeable.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Karen!

[@vlunceford]

Great video - I’m trying to learn about how to use cover crops in my smallish raised bed garden. About the worm farm, checkout Plant Abundance on KZbin. He has several really good videos on setting up your worm farm, feeding, and harvesting the castings. I’m going to set up a bed using his plan with 2 heavy duty totes. I enjoy your videos a lot, especially since I’m from a place not terribly far from you - Dublin, GA. - although I’ve been in Atlanta and now the NW Georgia area for many, many years.