Vermiculture anyone doing it?

I started a worm been a while back I havent harvested and worm castings from it yet but I am sure I will need to real soon. Anyone try this with any success, seems to be a way to keep the cycle of life going for anyone who has a garden and has things to compost.

Peace

I used red worms in a compost heap operation for quite awhile. Learned to spot their eggs real quick. Worms are great in organics as they aerate and fertilize at the same time.

So when you spot the eggs what do you do with them do you leave them? or do you like incubate them ?

Peace

leave the eggs...they will hatch if the soil isn't already saturated with worms. if it is saturated, start another bin

Homemade EWC is probably one of the best amendments you can have, period. Actually, I wouldn't even consider it an amendment - I would consider it a necessary component to any soil. The benefits are endless...

Quality humus = quality flowers. Heres a quick quote from my man CC:

"Humic substances and clay will hold ions where they can be exchanged with other cations for uptake by the roots.

That's how humic substances and clay play the role that they do in maintaining the pH (too many free Hydrogen ions without a home to land at)

That's what it always comes down to - quality humus.

Trying to amend one's way to a successful garden is basically an attempt to apply the concepts of hydroponics to soil."


You're on the right track...

Sativa Dragon said:

So when you spot the eggs what do you do with them do you leave them? or do you like incubate them ?

Peace

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Extra good on Ritz crackers. "Everything's better when it sits on a Ritz"

JK

Do as Cann says and leave them alone and they will hatch all on their own. If you have plenty of worms AND eggs, I take handfuls of vermicompost and *seed*, the garden, flower bed, compost heap, wherever. Or, start a new bin.

Wet