worms in my bed

[sanford.in.belize]

Has anyone put red wriggles right in the ebb n flow gravel beds?
just wondering if there is a natural way to get rid of old root systems from crops already harvested. also my stones are sorta getting sealed up from fish poop and duckweed roots(the little hair bit).
I wanted to try putting the worms right in the beds, not used for fish feed but as a cleaner of sorts. has anyone done this already? any advice?

[stucco]

Worms are the way to go. I think they prefer slightly larger gravel than the hydroton or small river rock, but it will still work. If the rock is close to the top of your bed they can escape. Good luck, stucco

[badflash]

Be sure to have a good flood drain cycle. They don't do all that well if they are flooded full time. I hope TCLynx checks in on this. I'm pretty sure he has some good experience with it.

[davidstcldfl]

Badflash, FYI...TC is of the 'female gender'

[badflash]

I'll be damned.

[davidstcldfl]

I'll be damned

I hope not !

I hope TCLynx checks in on this. I'm pretty sure he has some good experience with it.

Badflash, I thought 'maybe' you just left the 'S' off. I'm the last one that should say anything.... 'You all' would be laughing if you knew of my typing skills... I check and re-check AND STILL get stuff wrong ! My poor spell check, most times can only show ... what the ? ...

I am thinking of putting some reds in the grow beds, once I get them finished.... I would like to hear more about doing this too.

[JCO]

Curse me if you will, but there are posts "SOMEWHERE ON THIS FORUM" about just exactly that. The poster had and recommended the use of worms in the grow bed to eliminate waste. If I could ever get the search section at the top to work , you could probably find it

[TCLynx]

Yes add worms to the grow beds!!!!!! They live very happily in flood and drain media of just about any type so long as they get enough moisture to stay wet and enough aeration to still breath through their skin. That leaves a very wide margin since worms are pretty adaptable.

I got lots and lots of worms living in my grow beds and I only added perhaps a small hand full of worms to each bed originally.

Yep, I am female but on a forum of this sort, that kind of info is sort of beside the point so no worries.

[sanford.in.belize]

and thats why people who need to know come here. thanks yall

[elaidlaw]

I had a small system with lava cinders in the GB that used a timed flood and drain. I just enlarged my system and found no worms survived in the growbeds. Has anyone else used worms in cinder beds?