How to use Worm Castings in your Garden -European nightcrawlers
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- / @plantobsessed
In this video I show the care of the ENC bin and how I use worm castings in my garden.
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See description below-I purchased 500 Cocoons in 2019 from ETCWL and was given 1 pound of adult ENC from NE worms The bins were started in July 2021 I am an Amazon affiliate. The items below are the Amazon affiliate links for the items I use in my wormery. The cost is the same to you.
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I could hear your heart today and I know the feeling. You do so great and this is just one of those things.
Yeah... Nature isn't always kind. 😔🪱👍🏼
Amazing looking Garden, Ann 👩🌾👍🍃🌱🍃👍
I love when you give us an outside tour.
❤Peggy❤
It was a bit weedy but it is still my happy place. 😁🪱👍🏼
Love seeing how you use the worm castings!! The garden looks amazing...everything grows so fast in the mid-west!! Also love the huge feeding you gave the worms!! 🪱🪱🪱
Thank you. The constant rain and 85 degrees weather for a month didn't hurt. Thank you for watching 😃👍🏼🪱
Everything looks so healthy
It looks much better now that they have had some worm tea. It is about time to do it again. 👍🏼😁🪱
Lovely garden Ann. The plants are enjoying the vermicompost.
The squash is going crazy. I may need to cut down the amount of castings they get. Lol thank you for watching 😃🪱👍🏼
Your garden looks really great, 🌳, all the plants look healthy and thriving, huge feeding for the worms i suspect with the next check in we might see a worm ball
Fingers crossed for a worm ball.🪱👍🏼😃
Wow your vegetable garden looks great!
Thank you 👍🏼🪱😁
Shame about the worms but like you said with the right conditions they will explode again. Garden looks great Ann. I am enjoying container gardening and grow bags. New raised beds look good too.
Thank you. I started using the bags a few years ago and I really like them.🪱😃👍🏼
Best thing I did when I started my garden 4 years ago was also starting a worm bin. It is so awesome to be able to grab a 5 gallon bucket of worm castings at any time of the year.
I usually top dress before a heavy rain, which we have had only 1 since mid May, terrible drought in my part of WI.
Have been giving away a bunch of everbearing raspberry plants, I rinse off all the soil (because of the jumping worms) in a sun warmed worm casting extract. So far, everyone has said the berries are doing well, I think that extra step is key.
Enjoy your videos! Stay Well!!!
Thank you. Yeah we are through the drought here in Illinois but now we have the mold from all the rain. That and the smoke from Canada which I swear is making my tomatoes ripen slower. Or maybe I'm just more impatient than usual. Lol 👍🏼😁🪱
@@PlantObsessed My tomatoes are way behind also. But I think it is because when I filled my raised beds, I used some crap that had no soil in it, so called raised bed mix at a premium price. I know this because under he microscope I have nothing but organic material and microbes.
So now I am amending my tomato bed with dirt, lol. Give the microbes something to work on.
@@brianseybert2189 yeah I did the same with some of my bags. There was so much woody material it was sucking the nitrogen out. Live and learn.. in my case the hard way most of the time.
@@PlantObsessedYeah, me too. Considering tearing out everything in those beds this fall and starting over. I hate to do it with the beautiful blanket of thyme and oregano I am using as a living mulch. Unbelievable draw for the pollinators.
Those grandpa peppers are cool !! I like how simple it is !!
Beds look great Ann !!
Cheers J&C 🌱🤞👍👍👍👍
Yep, it can be as easy or complicated as you want to make it. Now I have to keep an eye out for tomato seeds growing 😔🪱🪱👍🏼
Grandpa pepper is a tree. WOW
Yeah he is a beast. I keep him shorter so I can still pick him up and take him in for the winter. He would be 6 ft easily.
Sorry about the Possum eating many worms.
Lovely looking plants enjoy them when ready to harvest😊
I have already harvested some yellow squash. The worms castings are doing their magic. 🪱😁👍🏼
@@PlantObsessed glad to hear😀🇦🇺
Oooh! I love your bed layout. I have a 5ft space against a LONG fence that I've resented being so deep. Never once occured to me to make short beds 90 degrees to the fence.
Plus the dog will have spots to visit the neighbors from 😂
Yes I'm trying to go vertical to try and save my space on the sunny side of the house. Yep my pugs do like peeping at the neighbors too.
I'm on my very first year gardening so obviously totally clueless but everything is easy when you grow it with added worm castings 😂❤
That is why they invented you tube 😂 🪱😁👍🏼
Your loss is the baby possum's gain. I love the size of that 1st pepper plant that you showed... everything in the garden looks terrific 👍🏻 I did a little bit of top dressing with castings a few days ago - but with all the rain we've been getting, I suspect that my plants are ready for some more soon :) Oooo - those arched trellises that you showed at the end are so cool. I have all those materials sitting around unused. I might have to build one of those if I can find a spot for it
It is a 2 person job for sure. I bought some metal zip ties to keep the cattle panel steady. We have some severe wind here. Grandpa pepper is a marvel. I am grateful for every pepper I get from him.
Next year I might have to grow a few pepper plants in pots with the intent of bringing them indoors and overwintering them. My one try at overwintering peppers started out OK... but somewhere around February or March they all suddenly died. I had no idea what did them all in - but it was a major bummer....
@@A-V my pepper plants all have worms in them. I think it has helped him through the winter.
Certainly can't hurt 👍🏻
Have a great week.
Thank you. Do you guys have smoke in the air from Canada over there? It looks pre tornado all day here with the yellow haze.
Yeeeeah, possums def eat worms. What a shame, but what a good attitude about it.
Really loving your channel, learning a lot. Thanks for sharing.
They eat stuff outside that hurts my garden so I figure nothing is free. Lol. Good thing about worms, they double every few months. I might be more angry if I made money from selling worms. Thank you for watching 😃👍🏼🪱
@@PlantObsessed Yeah, they're my favorite wild critter, what with all the ticks and other nasties they eat. As for the worms, yeah, it's *wild*. I had no idea how fast they reproduced. I started with a handful of red wigglers in a bucket that a friend's son gave me around this time last year, and just from that I'm up to a 3 bin stack of rubbermaid tubs full of worms, and that's after giving a bunch away to other people. Love them!🪱
I think that's smart. Put it in solution- dilute it. plants need a little bit, not bucko much. You can add Alaska fish emulsion, masalas, bubble it with paint strainer bag from Menards, 24 hours at 70 F. The temp is important for micro flora (good bacteria) You're on your way!!!!
I have a recipe for the full brewed worm tea. I'm going to do that this week. My squash and melon need it. All this rain has the bugs and disease in high gear.
@@PlantObsessed I've heard that too. with the pests using worm tea. But leave it to the experts-YOU!
Where are you located? Your garden is looking wonderful. I’m in north central Texas. It’s hot
Central Illinois. It has been 85-90 for a month. Nothing like Texas heat. This is rain and mosquitoes as big as sparrows weather. Lol.
I am starting a 10 gallon tote with about 4 inches of bedding how many and are medium size good??? Would one pound work of European night crawlers ty
Yes one pound will be enough. They multiply quickly. Probably 500 to 800 a pound.
Here in 30 minutes
Thank you for watching 😃👍🏼🪱
Im glad you still have a few pounds left. I also added straight castings to one of my pepper plants. (the trinidad maruga scorpian pepper) that I'm hoping that will produce some fruit this year. Your garden is looking good, have you got a lot of rain over the last week like I have?
Thank you for watching 😃 🪱👍🏼 Yes it has rained every few days for a few weeks. It is nice after 2 months without rain at all.
Interesting..
I'm new in here watching from Malaysia 🇲🇾..
Btw.. does your worm bin has holes..
No the bin doesn't have bottom holes. I regulate the moisture with the paper bedding.
@@PlantObsessed thx
Where is a good place to purchase worms and what kind?
Memes worms have a yt channel you can follow the link to. You can see her whole operation.
I keep watching loads ov videos on worms. Torn between one bin and a tiered type. I need to be able to move it in bad weather, so I'm leaning towards a tier type. I haven't taken the plunge yet tho. 😧
Check out Vermicomposting Learn By Doing for a tier system that seems to really work.
I've modified a smidge by putting my "pre-harvest" tray at the bottom to dry out. When it was just below the active tray it got first dibs on all the moisture
@@lindaspellman2108 thank you! I'll look it up. And thank you for the tip.
Yes the off the shelf tier system seems durable enough to move around, I'm not sure how heavy it is. Patrick at the VLBD channel should have a good playlist. My stacked system would not stand for it.
@plant obsessed, this would be a diy tier system. My practice bin seems to lean towards the dryer side, so I'm wondering if just a single level system would work...I could just do two of them, maybe. I'm in the Kansas City MO area, can't keep the little buggers outside, but I don't have a basement either. They'd have to try and survive in the enclosed garage... On a plant heat mat if anything else.
That stinks about the racoon. I just had a huge decrease in work population because I was dealing with a horribpe toothache, on top of a busy week at work & in the garden... 😢
One week should not have caused a problem. Get them hydrated again and recheck. Might not be that bad
That stinks about the racoon. I just had a huge decrease in worm population because I was dealing with a horribpe toothache, on top of a busy week at work & in the garden... 😢
I hope the little guy keeps doing his job outside and I won't be mad much.👍🏼🪱😃