I hear ya bro ! straight up compost on hard pan clay over even 6 months And you’ll will find significant changes to the soil profile ! What’s going to be placed in there eventually?
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Vegetables. I think mostly leafys and maybe a tobacco plant. It’s in a very high sun area.
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Did they jack your water rates down there as well? Going to make it hard watering the grass this year ! That dido to you @Blowingupjake ?
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That’s a beauty! 
Is that butter head lettuce?
I haven’t checked the water rate. I know we’ve been downgraded to “moderate drought” since that big snowstorm. Back yard might have to suffer this year.
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@lefthandseeds you never cease to impress my friend. Nice work. There is nothing better than a nice, rich garden spot. Especially with your own compost.
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Nice Lettuce head @Tinytuttle woah.
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Since I’m new to worm bins and such, how exactly do I figure out when is it time to harvest the worm poop to use on my gardens 
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I also checked on worms today, still Bannana peels and worms in there. Also moved the location into my new “Caged Garden” instead of inside the grow tent.
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I’m no expert friend. I’ve had a bin going for like 12 years, and have done it the lazy way.
I used to add a layer every year or two, and never harvest at all. Since I’ve got back into growing, I’ll add a layer every six months or so, and just harvest the lowest level. I use a stackable bin.
I finally got down and made a bin out of a 15 gallon fabric pot. I’ve had it going about 8 months. I run it like a pie, adding “slices” in a circle, until I start overlapping the oldest place. I haven’t harvested any yet. I’m just gonna take a good bit when I do.
Some people feed a whole bunch on one side, then feed opposite weeks later. When the majority of the worms move to the other side, they harvest the first side.
Clackamas coot will load up a 100 gallon fabric pot with barley hay, comfrey, dry ammendments, and like 8 pounds of worms (plus other stuff). A year later he has 20 lbs of worms and a bunch of super high quality castings.
What do you want? A few castings to top dress with? Bucket fulls? What’s your goal?
Man, you made me go check out my bin.
They seem pretty scattered in this bin, but bigger than the inside one.
I use the skewers to mark the pie.
Inside, I have a top layer of just peat, and I top feed, right below that layer. It makes it easy to harvest the top bit.
Man, you got me going. 
I think alot of people use a net pot to strain out any bigger stuff. #10 comes to mind, but that may be something different. 
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I do it the lazy way too. Mine is just a box that goes directly onto dirt. I just chuck stuff in haplessly and worms come up from the ground. Today, I pulled the whole unit up and scraped off the un-digested layer sifted the lower layer into a can, and piled the rest back into the bin.
There were a lot of worms in there, and a lot of crawlers too. It’s an ok low effort method for compost for outdoor gardening.
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Haha your funny bro @Badger
Mine is not nearly as big as yours lol
I just wanna get out some top dressing nutrients from this bin and of course maintain healthy worms & environment for them… So far, so Good.
Today I actually grabbed another paper seed growing outta the wormbin. I know it’s a pepper because the seed head was still attached haha.
I also had some Lava Rocks in the worm bin since it’s started, today I removed alot of them & used them to “seed microbes” Into the new yellow cups I planted.
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Free starts 
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@Badger you made me go get the worm bin 
Quick video —>Quick Share Of the microbes living in this bin…
Actually super cool video to see, I did this with my cellphone on 4x zoom.
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Right? Cool idea for sure.
Paybacks 
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Hi,
I have two (smallish) tubs as wormbins.
I dig a hole and bury the food in it. (top layer gets mixed in)
How do I know when the soil is rich enough for plants and not under/over rich?
Leaving the food on top has been ruled out due to risk of mold and risk of smells.
There are designs where there is a bottom tray for worms. Is there a risk of worms escaping? Is there a risk of mold in bottom tray? ( I gather that it must be moist and that there is little or no air movement … which means fairly ideal place for molds?)
Or is there some better way to collect worm castings to be used as fertilizer in soil mixes?
Thanks for taking the time to read my questions!
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You could be right on that one ! Others Iv grown are black seed Simpson , lettuce bowl I think it’s called that but it would r my first guess.
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You can probably do an entire bin harvest in 4 months or so but a quick 2-3 lb snag of castings you can use a hydro pot one of the larger ones 1/2 gallon size works well for me
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That’s very impressive!! I hope one day I to can have my clay soil at that point. Lots of minerals in clay… looks killer!
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I’ve had mold, no worries just mix it in.
This is what I’m using 
None have escaped in a year 
no smell at all.
When it looks done - it’s done, I add up to 20% EWC (earthworm castings) by volume to the final soil mix. The NPK is about 1.5 .2 .2 (ish), the numbers look low but it all available to the plants.
The big deal are the microbes that are mixed in, very beneficial for the plants! That’s why (for me) it’s the last ingredient to go in before using.
Cheers
G
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