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JCO
03-01-2009, 06:55 PM
Take a look at what one man has done with the wiggly critters

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badflash
03-01-2009, 07:14 PM
Yep, if you don't have a worm bin or two, you are missing out. Worms are very efficient converters of waste to worm mass. The castings are the best soil you can get for conventional gardening, and the liquid that comes out "worm tea" works wonders on just about any house plant.

I have 3 bins in the corner of my basement. Very little work, and you'd never know it was there. No smell, no noise. I'll be soliciting garbage soon.

JeffW
03-02-2009, 02:29 PM
Worms need to be front and center once again and I love to see peeps involved
with any thing to do with them. They are the most effient composters on planet
earth hands down.

Brad Morgan is a friend of ours and wow talk about diving in! He had a diary farm and got
out of it. Now he has a composting biz and makes a great living! He is now in the worm
developing business PLUS they sell the verimicompost as an organic grow material.

Check out pics of compost biz http://www.dairydoo.com/MorganCompostAlbum/index.html
and youtube video of his worm biz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U27Aizi64Wg

Worms....aquaponics and worms is all we need :lol: .....well almost :mrgreen:

badflash
03-02-2009, 05:11 PM
I just saw that video last night! Yep, he's jumping in with both feet.

JeffW
04-01-2009, 04:31 PM
Another try at finding the stripped wigglers today we got tall boots on and crawled into horse stables out by the barn at low side (wet crap) and omg the reds were so thick we were giggling about it. Yes it's a mess but the worms were burgundy red and talk about spunky! Making another separate bin for these babies because they are not same as the ones I got out of the compost bin outside here at home, these worms came from the farm and are the real honest to goodness poop worms! :lol:

Last night I heard a sound :? stuck my head in the bin in the shop and lo and behold I was hearing worms feeding :o I am not kidding they really do make some racket. :D

wolfracer
04-01-2009, 06:27 PM
I am definitely going to move into this arena after I get my system established. This just makes sense!

JeffW
04-01-2009, 08:17 PM
you know how people talk about getting addicted to the aquaponics?
Well this is happening to me with worm bins now ;)

Last Sunday wife and I see robins in the yard after the worms.
I said "look wife that robin is after worms"
She said "good why don't you send them to your shop then" :shock:
:lol:
oh crap!
I saw this worm castings in the park this morning and just had to get a close up snap shot
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JCO
04-02-2009, 07:54 PM
You're begining to scare me a little bit there Dude....you're taking pictures of worm poo...how sick is that? :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:

JeffW
04-02-2009, 08:14 PM
all my life I saw those and thought that was from ants :lol: today I saw them and smiled thinking.....ah ha I know what that is! :D

JeffW
01-18-2010, 02:01 PM
I am trying to build this unit...it needs a cable pull through or hydraulic bar that can slide at the base of the material. I know the BIG ones use hydraulics.
http://dirtmaker.com/14sqft_wormbin_manual.html

Here is a big boy http://oregonsoil.com/products.php

JeffW
01-29-2010, 07:53 PM
[attachment=1:33cn3u0j]IMG_0025.jpg[/attachment:33cn3u0j] Yep I am taking worms serious..worm castings are the future or at least for us that want no chemicals in our food. Lot of cancer popping up around here,brain tumors,people with knees falling apart and the list goes on.

We must start eating real food again or human race will fade away in state of illness and dread. For me the facts are this...I am growing and canning real foods that we are eating all winter from the garden. We are eating food that is growing in soil that was sprayed with compost tea. Eating foods that were harvested in gardens full of sheep compost and worm castings.

I put free tomatoes out on table last summer for free, the joggers and walkers from local
sub division near by would grab some. Later one day some people stopped and asked me if those were my own home grown bandy boy tomatoes. I said yes and they smiled and said well we wanted you to know those were the best they ever had. Well I told them "thank you, those were grown in a 18 year old garden that never had a chemical in it".

No bug issues and no disease. They say compost tea helps prevent disease and if a plant is healthy and strong it is less likely to be invaded by critters. Don't know but lot's of people I know lost all their potatoes, had such bad gardens they tilled them up and quit for the year. These people are not bad at it they just forgot what it means to have healthy soil in a garden.

Looks are not important, food can look great but suck inside, even have GMO genes that might not be something you want in your body ;)

Three 5 gallon "blue" worm bins on the floor left side stacked up. These are selling out fast along with 10 gallon bins. Soon I teach class at this store on gardens and composting. It has 6 people signed up already, and they class is not until not until Feb 20th. This is cool the network alive and growing along with our future.

It is going to be a good year...ain't got not choice it has to be 8-)

dufflight
01-31-2010, 01:17 AM
I think with a lot of these tea's its increasing the micro activity in the soil and on the plants. We use a spray called dipel for some insects. And all it is a BT bacteria. A lot of insects don't like laying eggs on healthy plants that have a lot of micro activity.

JeffW
01-31-2010, 11:18 AM
Your right!

I sprayed ACT (bacteria based) on garden last summer, many I know that had gardens had a tomato disease and the plants died. My broccoli grew over 2 feet high with zero failure rate on any plant in the garden. I found a FREE 200 gallon sauna and pulled a air blower out of it then made tea with rain water and sheep compost. Sprayed it on garden,lawn and some young trees.

2010 I updated this thread
I see yet another business advertising hydroponic plant food using bottled worm tea? Or what ever it is :roll: so far I am not convinced that it works in water based systems.

Seems better to have worms already in the bed producing castings that turn into a food as the water breaks it up and dilutes it than to try and use a the worm tea product as the only nutrient for growth. Besides it will develop a film slim inside chambers of the system.

Wormswork Liquid Concentrate
http://www.wormswork.com.au/home_garden/index.html