Quick question… if I’m growing in a 15 gallon fabric pot, is there benefit to putting worms in them?
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@Ghgrower Are you ROLS’ing?
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Fed the worms some leaves, barley, egg shell, and kashi for a little kick. This batch will be close to done after this feeding. Happy wormin’ y’all!
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Did my first collection of castings at the weekend.
It’s a bit of a work in progress haha, think I need a wider bucket to spin the mesh bin in. 
But worked well enough to get a decent pile of casting which I added to a fabric pot for for growing veggies.
Fed the worms afterwards too, broccoli, mushrooms, banana skins, powdered oats, egg shells and a 1/4 cup of amendments blend that I make up for topdressing.
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Wow they go ham for avocado eh.
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Avocado, mellon, squash, pumpkin… 
There’s a time lapse of a pumpkin slowly disappearing on Youtube that’s pretty cool.
Cheers
G
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This is my 300 gallon smart pot worm bin. All our food scraps go in here. I also am adding inputs to build the highest quality worm castings possible. I’ve added Kelp, Oyster Shell flour, Alfalfa, Comfrey, all kinds of meals, cannabis scraps, limestone, barley, corn, the list goes on and on.
Oh I have a little tip I’ve discovered. Barley makes the worms go absolutely bonkers under the alfalfa mulch layer. I did this all over our garden last fall and I’ve never seen so many worms as we have this year. There’s something in the barley that makes the worms proliferate like crazy it seems.
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That is mint. I should ugprade from my single tote. Yours is a worm palace, mine more of a bungalow.
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Wow! That’s cutting edge shit right there! You might be on to something! There’s probably some chitin in there from their shells! You could just take a cup per gallon and make a tea. I bet it will work great.
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I started with the tote. Then upgraded to the bin. I pretty much mixed up a soil and then have been adding to it. I’m going to let it get nice and broken down by all the worms and other critters and then grow in it.
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I can’t seem to find a definite answer on this one, wondering if any of you Worm Wizards can help out!?
Can you feed curds (from making LABs) to a worm bin?
I’ve seen a lot of things saying no dairy, but then I’ve seen people say you can compost the curds?
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Compost, yes indeed. worm food, I have my concerns. I avoid all dairy, and as much citrus as possible. I also try to exclude onion and garlic waste in the worm bins.
I go heavy on eggshells and spent coffee grinds. Then avo, pumpkin, squash, and all canna prunings.
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Yeh thats what I’m thinking, I’ve tried adding them and after a day there was a worm or two in amongst them when I lifted the lid this morning.
I’ll keep an eye and take them out if it looks like it’s going bad 
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One thing I don’t have is coffee grounds, I’ll have to source some from a local shop.
I add egg shell and powdered oats/tortillas with every feed (usually some veggies scraps and banana skins) I also add in my camomile, mint and nettle from the teas I drink and a scoop of topdress amendments every other week…
They eat better than I do 
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Sounds like you are dialing it in. One thing to not forget is gizzard care. Worms have this thing about needing tiny bits of grit to make the whole thing work. I use greensand, so when they are done processing it, the mag is ready to go directly into plants bloodstream 
I just sprinkle it on every so often.
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Do you pulverize the eggshells? When I ran bins, the eggshells pretty much stayed eggshells. I started pulverizing, but never could tell where the dust went. Would pulverized eggshells provide grit?
My grandfather kept worms for fishing, the only thing he ever fed them were coffee grounds. We caught plenty of fish, lol!
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Yes. I stick them on low heat in the oven till they are brittle then hit them with the mortar and pestle.
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I just tossem in, sometimes i will hand crumble them. The shells are great places for the worms to hang out and breed;)
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I do that too, but only when I can open the windows, lol!
Upside down sections of the cardboard eggs cartons are great for that, too.
I wish I could post the Martin Mull song “Eggs”, he sums up eggs nicely, lo!
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