Brilliant presentation - ====================================== the best Bathtub Method on UA-cam I have seen! My worms chomp through large quantities of brown cardboard, with help from sluigs, snails, and woodlice. I grow potatoes in tubs, and mulch the surface, adding as many worms as I can find. Amazing how you can transform poor quality soil simply by using sieves, and as you add earth to the tub, include dry twigs cut short, and small bits of cardboard, so there is food deep down, until you reach the top, and mulch. When the worms get hungry, they seem to look everywhere in the tub, and what seemed to be pretty solid twig, has vanished by harvest time. And the Earth just feels so good in the hands! /
Having given up on the food waste collection (Doheny's say I have to move to a mahoosive 140l bin, like I'm running a restaurant!) I might have to change to this for the stuff I don't want to put on the open heap. I have a galvanised bin with a lid against pests, which I could fit a drain in. Could I hit you up for a tubtrug of donkey dung to start it?
Thanks for sharing. Another video saved to my gardening playlist for future reference.
Cheers Penny!
Brilliant presentation -
======================================
the best Bathtub Method on UA-cam I have seen!
My worms
chomp through large quantities of brown cardboard,
with help from sluigs, snails, and woodlice.
I grow potatoes in tubs,
and mulch the surface,
adding as many worms as I can find.
Amazing how you can transform poor quality soil
simply by using sieves,
and as you add earth to the tub,
include dry twigs cut short,
and small bits of cardboard,
so there is food deep down,
until you reach the top,
and mulch.
When the worms get hungry,
they seem to look everywhere in the tub,
and what seemed to be pretty solid twig,
has vanished by harvest time.
And the Earth
just feels so good in the hands!
/
They're amazing little creatures! Thanks for the compliment and feedback.
Do you have any suggestions for other starting materials for those of us who don't have access to fresh dung?
I did one a few years ago with just regular compost, and it worked well. You might need to feed them with kitchen scraps more regularly, though.
Having given up on the food waste collection (Doheny's say I have to move to a mahoosive 140l bin, like I'm running a restaurant!) I might have to change to this for the stuff I don't want to put on the open heap. I have a galvanised bin with a lid against pests, which I could fit a drain in. Could I hit you up for a tubtrug of donkey dung to start it?
For sure, I can sort you out with some donkey doo! Drop into us Friday if possible.
Hmmm. Now to find an old bath 😂
You'd be surprised how many of them turn up once you start looking! 😅 I can see myself making another 1 or 2 of these when I get a chance.