Vermiculture

[Volker]

I didn't want to post anything until I had it going a while, but I made a worm box back when I started the tubgirls project. I used a kitty litter bucket, cut drainage holes in the bottom, and filled it halfway with syrofoam chunks. I then shredded some newspaper into strips, and covered the styro w/ ~0.5" of shredded paper strips. Then I threw in about 2 cups of soil, and a dozen "dew worms" (earthorms) from the bait store. I simply threw the worms on top of the dirt. I mist it a few times a day with my plant mister. There is no odour I (or my visitors) can detect.

I throw in used tea leaves, used coffee grounds, vegetable trim, anything that's vegetable matter.

Then, next grow, I simply move most of the worms to a new bucket, and transplant sprouts into the "old" worm farm full of worm castings, refuse, & a few worms, and so on.

[CaliJay]

I think I will do this to deal with my pruning vegetation.

[Perp]

Nice idea to use the old bucket as the pot for the new grow. If I were you, though, I would ask your baitshop owner if he can get a worm called 'red wiggler'. It will compost alot faster than the common dew worm. The owner will probably know where to order some even if he doesn't carry them.

You could get several buckets going and plant a couple of clones in each one. You probably wouldn't have to fert till flowering.

[Volker]

If I were you, though, I would ask your baitshop owner if he can get a worm called 'red wiggler'.They have omething called a "trout worm". Dunno.

I picked the dew worms more for the size of the boreholes they leave in soil than for composting. I grow in dirt and include live worms in my soil. In a side by side a few grows back, the worm soil performed so much better! I put at least 3 earthworms into every bucket. I used 8? 9? in the 10gal Tubgirls project.

This worm farm is just the next step in this process, I think. Athough I may be asking for trouble making my own "fertilizer" outta "garbage" in buckets... we'll see. But it seems like it a "duh!" thing, like using aquarium gradoo from yer partial water changes to water yer plants.

[Perp]

They have omething called a "trout worm". Dunno.

I picked the dew worms more for the size of the boreholes they leave in soil than for composting. I grow in dirt and include live worms in my soil. In a side by side a few grows back, the worm soil performed so much better! I put at least 3 earthworms into every bucket. I used 8? 9? in the 10gal Tubgirls project.

This worm farm is just the next step in this process, I think. Athough I may be asking for trouble making my own "fertilizer" outta "garbage" in buckets... we'll see. But it seems like it a "duh!" thing, like using aquarium gradoo from yer partial water changes to water yer plants.

Ya, they are used for trout cause they are smaller. They will compost much more scraps than the dew worms. While the large boreholes of the dew worms are good as they allow more oxygen to reach the roots, it's the castings you want as they contain all the nutrients needed by the plant.