ruined vermicomposting area
Last spring when I plant my tomatoes I put louse castings in each hole before I put the plant in . Worm cast are a pattern of compost that are from ( do I make bold say it ? ) WORM POOP ! I pay off $ 25.00 for a 5 lb bag for this POOP at one of our local nurseries and I thought , next year I ’m going to do this myself and save the money . Plus you do n’t have to become it like veritable composting ( now there is an mind I care - less work ) ! Worm castings protect the plant life from soil borne diseases , conditions the stain and is a mild raw fertiliser with 1 % Nitrogen . citizenry also use it in their compost teas for their plants . I created a vermicomposting area a few week ago in my abundant devoid time ( lol ) ! Here ’s how I did mine .
I found out we involve a certain type of earthworm called a Red Wiggler ( adjudicate not to show the worms - not a pretty hatful ! ) . It is a different from our steady earthworm ( although they are great in the soil as well ) . This ruby wiggler worm has a huge appetence and will eat manure , peanut hulls , oak leave , humate and other ingredient such as kitchen scraps - non centre - they are vegetarians ! ! lol
Finished vermicomposting area
I put together an outside vermicomposting area in good order next to the chickens so they can go to work ! Some citizenry put them in special bins inside their people house ( not chicken house ) so they do n’t freeze . Forget that dissonance - although if you do n’t mind …
I decide to use stubble bales to ‘ frame ’ my outside field . I heard they will go into the straw in wintertime and lay their ballock and they come back ( I recollect they freeze and their babies come back ) when it ’s fond but I had this soil cable that will keep the soil about 70 ° F and decided to try it to keep them from immobilize this wintertime and keep them work . ( collapse that whip ! ) We ’ll see if it work this winter . Here I put the cable length down ( above pic ) .
Then I put some hardwire cloth over it and wire it on with some twistie linkup from my food waste bags . check that the wire isunderneaththe hardwire cloth . I did this so when I shoveled the compost out after , I wo n’t accidentally cut the telegram .
Next I cover the conducting wire with husk and newspaper to make a litter for my raw sinuate friends . I wet down the area so the material were moist but not soaking wet . Worms like their environment moist but have n’t learned to float yet !
After that I put some solid food down for them . What else but pumpkin ! I have lots of that ! Looks like they wo n’t hunger this winter ! ( I heard they love pumpkin - good thing ! ) I wonder if someone talked to them and the dirt ball said , “ We love pumpkin ” . I mean how do we know for certain ? ! ! I also put in some old chicken manure , crush and burnt umber footing for multifariousness ! Then I had a Quaker give me some of these wigglers and I put them on top of this so they would tunnel in and feast ! I forgot to take a word picture of this and when I go back less than 1 minute later to take a image they were already ‘ down under ’ this stuff .
Last I put more straw over the whole pile and wet it again so everything was moist . Now I check every workweek and pull up the top layer of chaff and sum up more ‘ solid food ’ as need . Also be sure to keep pile moist so spatter with water sporadically . This winter when the hose are flash-frozen I will take a sprinkling can out to wet it . If you do n’t get a territory cable length , do n’t vex , just follow the balance of this post .
One last affair to make it easy to split the worms from their casting next spring , I divided my vermicomposting area in half and put a plug-in between the two section - you could see this in the very first picture at the top of this post . They are in the left section now and later when I see the castings I will stop feeding them on the left side and put the intellectual nourishment on the proper bridge player side . The worms will migrate over to the young nutrient germ leaving the castings for me to take ( at least that ’s the theory ) . I hope they are take this too !
So now I ’m a worm farmer ! I ca n’t await till next leaping to get my very own free worm poop ! YEE HA ! !
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