I started doing worms in my containers awhile ago, and it works well if they are large containers because they don’t dry out fast like the small containers do. I use leaves from the fall or garden debris as mulch on the top between the plants so that the worms have a constant source of food. A bonus is that their little tunnels help aerate the soil. I do mix in some real garden soil with the potting mix and compost because I don’t think the worms are comfortable in only the bagged potting mix from the store, and I want to treat my little garden friends well. They do so much for me, so I do my best to try and observe and learn what they like best. They dislike citrus and onion type foods I think. Have fun experimenting! This is what I’ve figured out so far. Hope it helps someone.😊
Have you found that the Worms live over harsh winters ? I've been wanting to put some in but,didn't want to do that to have them freeze to death🤔. JO JO 💞
@@joanneganon7157 As long as you get snow you will be fine. I have loads and loads of worms in my pots and raised beds. The raised beds have a plastic liner underneath because I fight roots from the surroundings so it is like a large container. I have lots of pots of flowers. All of my pots have added worms, and everything gets heavily mulched with leaves every fall and I have done it for years. I live in upstate NY near Buffalo. Cold & snowy.
Jess, this video is perfect timing. Today, I thought of you when I was feeling frustrated and burnt out trying to refresh my Greenstalks. They've been stacked and unstacked to fill, moved in the shed and out because of frost constantly the past 2 weeks. I was thinking "Is this really worth it?" But then I realized I hadn't stopped to actually enjoy my deck at all this season. I haven't sat out with my coffee and been at peace. I decided tonight I will make sure I sit and be grateful for how lovely it will be to have strawberries in my greenstalks, plus blueberries and raspberries in my planters. Taking a note from you on actually using the chairs I have set out; then being thankful I can use this deck as a waiting room to learn while I dream of having a home we're saving for. I'm going to be so ready to edible landscape my future yard if I keep running the race. Keep being persistent. Keep dreaming. Keep heart.
You are a wise woman with a joyful heart. Love your videos which are both educational and uplifting. Phooey, on all those tiresome and self-serving Negative Nellies. Thanks for sharing your life!
My one year old son was scared of worms at first, but he’s been out with me in my garden a lot this year, and every time I see a worm I say, “Hello worm!” And tell my son they’re friendly. The other day I heard him saying, “Hello worm! Friendly!” Over and over again as he dug around in my garden bed and I was so proud 😂
Earth is a modest lady. We need to help her keep covered where we work her. Thank you for reminding us of how to care for our containers in a concise package.
You really helped me improve my gardening when you taught us to feed the soil, not just the plant. Hubby thinks it's weird that I watered all my raised beds, not just the ones I had plants in. I told him that just because you don't see anything growing doesn't mean there isn't something alive in there. Thank you for teaching us the "why".
Thank you for these awesome videos that make gardening knowledge accessible and most of all, affordable. So many UA-cam channels encourage their viewers to solve problems the other way - buy, buy, buy! I've gardened for years in-ground but last year was my first year extensively using containers so this video is timely!
You made me chuckle when you said you'd throw in a part eaten tomato to feed your worms... You know this will lead to volunteer plants and more food for you guys too 😀 genius. We lugged 3 ton of soil from my old property to this one. It all came out of my old planters from my rental house. Man I was not going to waste that soil because it was full of worms and goodness that I'd been nurturing for over 6 years. This new place is a new build on totally clay soil, so we brought the worms with us and all the goodness too. Plus we've added fertilising soil improver and mushroom compost for the benefits it brings to the garden. I have volunteer plants popping up in my flower beds now, veg and fruit all from that old soil. So it seems I did something right and the garden is coming to life ❤️🙏
Awe...I was just opening YT to find you today.. And looky, here you are! Love getting thru my day with your smile, heart and wisdom! Thanks Jess for all you share! I'm thinking I'm going to get one of my GreenStalks up soon!
Thank you so much for discussing the topic of fertilizer. I’m fairly new to gardening and when I ask the question about how often to fertilize, I get lots of “ it depends “ answers. You were very straightforward with the answer. Thank you
I changed my phone notification sound to a turkey gobble back in March (Turkey season here in Florida) and right at the beginning of this video as well as periodically through several of your videos, there are random gobbles that make me think I've got a text message. Not the intended effect, but very funny.
Thank you Jess for those great ideas! As an 80 year old gardener with 3 Green Stalk planters I have struggled with disassembling them every spring to refresh the soil. This year since the soil was down about 2 -3 inchs I simply added good soil mixed with compost. I do worm casting tea and gave each pocket a dose. I do this about every 2-3 weeks. My plants seem to be doing well. We've harvested lettuce, pak choy, spinach and now strawberries. Mary Born, ND
Jess, this was such a great video!! Thank you so much! I have thought about getting worms for my containers, too. It just sounds logical. 😊 Praying for your health and your sweet family! God bless.
I use oval shaped tuff stuff tubs from tractor supply. They use them for horses, cows etc. I buy 50 and 100 gallons whatever I am planting. They work well
my dad, bless his heart, only used miracle grow fertilizer in his garden. i took over his house when he passed and am having to amend everything all the time. the soil has no life in it
I live in northern Canada and this past fall I put my container soil into a sealed tote and left it in my shed. I was pleasantly surpised this spring when I opened it up and there was moist, healthy soil! Obviously it still needed to be ammended as I used it last year but the soil I left in pots without mulch got hydrophobic. I did this out of necessity for space but will be my go-to method now as I exclusively container garden 👍🏻 and it got to -50°C for multiple weeks this year!
For large amounts of container soil, you can put them into inexpensive garbage cans to keep moist. That's what I keep my finished compost in. Keeps it moist and the soil stays alive until I need to use it.
Jess, I pulled my Green Stalks into the house this winter, to try to keep my Peppers alive. I HAVE PEPPERS Already!!!!! Yes!!!! Just putting it out there for you in case you want to try it. yes I planted new in the yard too, but really wanted to try this to see if it worked. did lose a few, but mostly it worked really well.
Just caught up with your latest videos. I've had an incredibly busy May as well. So happy to have you back yet so glad you took some time off. Thanks for this video! I feel better knowing that I've been doing it well. I love the other video you posted recently that talked about how you have basically "all the favorites" lol I feel the same. I love it all. It's all my favorite! Life is my favorite! I feel you!!!
Thank you sooooo much for this video! Very helpful as I have a few Greenstalks now and still search for answers how to successfully keep the soil healthy. You answered my questions- you’re awesome! ❤️
I had hydrophobic soil a couple years ago. I learned to wet down then stack my containers in fall. They containers on top act like a mulch keeping the soil moist and use as many water trays as I can find to over the soil in the top containers. This has helped me so much when the rush of spring activity comes along since we usually go into drought in March. Soil is moist and worms are abundant. Once you go through hydrophobic soil, you never ever want to repeat it again. It’s a lot of work to restore it if you have a lot of containers.
This is SO GOOD! Thanks for the tips, Jess. I started my worm farm just shy of 2 months ago and it's thriving. Hoping for enough castings to top dress around our 8 week mark for this year's garden! 🥰👏🏼
Honest to my heart, I really appreciate the videos you post. It’s been my dream since childhood, and in adulthood working out the details with my husband. Watching you has helped me avoid the common mistakes and taught me to be creative in permaculture for what works for us! Thank you for your wisdom with the many years you’ve been learning and growing yourself and your food!❤
Thank you very much for this! I got soil from a local landscaping company and was unimpressed. I specifically told them it was for gardening containers and it looks like soil for backfilling foundations. I can only work a bit at a time because of cost, but I am determined to upgrade it from backfill to actuall soil. This really helped because I forgot about my friends, the worms! ❤
Try putting a thin layer of grass clippings on the top of it everytime you mow your lawn. This will bri g worms. They will aerated the soil and pull the green matter down into the soil and also create worm castings.
Containers need potting mix. For cost saving make yr own. Alot of other UA-camrs have recipe but mostly 2 parts peat moss/coco coir, 1 part compost, 1 part vermiculite/perlite, fertilizer, worm casting. That's the main stuff. You can also add Epsom salt, blood/bone meal, gympson & lime (esp for tomatoes)
Great information. I did some of the things you suggested without knowing i was doing those things the right way. But the extra things like worms and fertilizer to get things working correctly before planting is a huge help. Now, to get those containers out in the open.... thanks Jess.
This is a very informational piece that you’re talking about and well done,Jesse. I know you don’t have time to watch the things that I do such as Martha Stewart gardens and monte don gardening on prime in UK. Martha Stewart always says on her channel of gardening we eat and so should your plants. Monty Don says you have to feed the soil make sure you have enough compost. And also when you reuse your pots that are made of plastic, you should wash them out with soapy water in case they are infected with blight or diseases. Blight can ruin box, shrubs, and many plants such as tomatoes because of too much wetness especially in containers when they sit in water, you could get blight. A friend of my son Toby in Thailand raises worms for worm casting to sell to farmers, because worm castings help the Earth to grow good things. All important.
Thank you Jess! Made a huge mistake with my 3 #Greenstalks I cleaned out the dead plants then covered with 30 gallon black leaf bags! Hugs Mistake should have unstacked and let the snow fall on them! Lesson learned!
Could you make a video that covers more of your worm farm? How to keep it thriving all year long. Harvesting, when to harvest and when/where it’s best used? Those type of things?
Thanks Jess, for the “Soil Refresher 101”. I just went out to check my beds and containers.🪴For the most part they look pretty good but I’ve got to “juice up” my green stalks a bit before planting. I’ve been watering them but not real consistently. Here on the central CA coast it’s still kind of cool🌥️ but my tomatoes 🍅will be going into the beds finally, this week! I keep hoping the worms 🪱will find their way up into my beds! In the meantime I guess it’s castings, sea kelp and fish emulsion. I use coco coir chips for mulch. It’s a little spendy but it really helps with the moisture. I even use it around my strawberries🍓in the green stalks. I fed one tower throughout and just cleaned off the dead 🍂leaves and I have breakfast berries every morning. I’m digging the ones in the bed up to put in another tower. It keeps the bugs or slugs at bay. Me 1 Pests 0. As always, from CA 🏖️take care.
Thank you - I had that issue in my greenhouse soil, I have emptied it and given it to the chickens for a dust bath! Revamping the greenhouse and just using containers in future - already have a polytunnel with containers, so putting the pots outside overwinter is a fabulous idea. Not so sure about the gleeful slugs though! LOL!
I have worked diligently to create and maintain healthy soil in my raised beds and the large, upcycled food grade barrels I garden in. Red Wiggler worms in all of them. Aged, meadow grass fed cow manure combined with aged grass clippings, chopped aged straw and leaves top all of my beds for our cold and snowy winters. The tilth of the soil is fabulously dark and loamy.
I love hearing youre putting worms in your containers. Ive been doing that since i started gardening in 2021. Whenever i, dig one up i toss him in the nearest one!! Now im going to be more mindful about feeding all of them scraps. I think i will chop and drop my bolting lettuce!!
I often laugh as I gather the worms and get excited but now that I'm reading it I guess it's a worm prison and I'm an evil overlord holding them captive and making them reproduce
I have raised bed gardens and last year my soil became super hydrophobic, and nothing produced well at all. I ended up pulling everything and ending my season early then added a good layer of manure plus a thick layer of leaf mulch to each bed. This year I see the soil is nice and black, and even has some mycelium! Here’s hoping I have a better year! I will never make the mistake of not adding to my beds at the end of the season going forward- lesson learned ✅
I will say that the raised beds where the worms can freely move in from the native soil, for me has been a game changer versus pots and vertical planters which worms can live in, but not necessarily survive if it gets super dry. When my raised beds got dry in the winter, I started watering the bear soil, and then when I was planting my peppers and tomatoes, there were worms everywhere! I was a little shocked.
Thank you to all of the fire departments ! Seeing so many different departments travel to come help touches my heart. 💜 ♥️
I started doing worms in my containers awhile ago, and it works well if they are large containers because they don’t dry out fast like the small containers do. I use leaves from the fall or garden debris as mulch on the top between the plants so that the worms have a constant source of food. A bonus is that their little tunnels help aerate the soil. I do mix in some real garden soil with the potting mix and compost because I don’t think the worms are comfortable in only the bagged potting mix from the store, and I want to treat my little garden friends well. They do so much for me, so I do my best to try and observe and learn what they like best. They dislike citrus and onion type foods I think. Have fun experimenting! This is what I’ve figured out so far. Hope it helps someone.😊
Have you found that the Worms live over harsh winters ?
I've been wanting to put some in but,didn't want to do that to have them freeze to death🤔.
JO JO 💞
@@joanneganon7157 As long as you get snow you will be fine. I have loads and loads of worms in my pots and raised beds. The raised beds have a plastic liner underneath because I fight roots from the surroundings so it is like a large container. I have lots of pots of flowers. All of my pots have added worms, and everything gets heavily mulched with leaves every fall and I have done it for years. I live in upstate NY near Buffalo. Cold & snowy.
@@chriskat646 thanks so much!
What kind of worms?
JO JO
My friend in Thailand raises worms for worm castings for farmers big business for earth well done Karen it’s a good thing
@@gypsygirl731 Thank you!
Your "long answer to a simple question" was exceptional! Very well thought out and information heavy! Thank you! ~Darrell
Glad it was helpful!
Yes! I love your smile and heart and wisdom, a wonderful teacher! I appreciate you being like a friend!
Love all your videos but the instructional ones like this one are my favorites. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom
Jess, this video is perfect timing. Today, I thought of you when I was feeling frustrated and burnt out trying to refresh my Greenstalks. They've been stacked and unstacked to fill, moved in the shed and out because of frost constantly the past 2 weeks. I was thinking "Is this really worth it?" But then I realized I hadn't stopped to actually enjoy my deck at all this season. I haven't sat out with my coffee and been at peace. I decided tonight I will make sure I sit and be grateful for how lovely it will be to have strawberries in my greenstalks, plus blueberries and raspberries in my planters. Taking a note from you on actually using the chairs I have set out; then being thankful I can use this deck as a waiting room to learn while I dream of having a home we're saving for. I'm going to be so ready to edible landscape my future yard if I keep running the race. Keep being persistent. Keep dreaming. Keep heart.
I love it when hubby goes fishing… he always comes home with left over worms that go into my garden beds/pots! 😂 💚
Gardening in Canada is an AMAZING channel to watch about soil health. She is a soil scientist and is a wealth of knowledge.
Ii agree!
Thank you for the recommendation
You are a wise woman with a joyful heart. Love your videos which are both educational and uplifting. Phooey, on all those tiresome and self-serving Negative Nellies. Thanks for sharing your life!
My one year old son was scared of worms at first, but he’s been out with me in my garden a lot this year, and every time I see a worm I say, “Hello worm!” And tell my son they’re friendly. The other day I heard him saying, “Hello worm! Friendly!” Over and over again as he dug around in my garden bed and I was so proud 😂
Earth is a modest lady. We need to help her keep covered where we work her. Thank you for reminding us of how to care for our containers in a concise package.
You really helped me improve my gardening when you taught us to feed the soil, not just the plant. Hubby thinks it's weird that I watered all my raised beds, not just the ones I had plants in. I told him that just because you don't see anything growing doesn't mean there isn't something alive in there. Thank you for teaching us the "why".
Thank you for these awesome videos that make gardening knowledge accessible and most of all, affordable. So many UA-cam channels encourage their viewers to solve problems the other way - buy, buy, buy! I've gardened for years in-ground but last year was my first year extensively using containers so this video is timely!
You are always so thorough in your explanations. Great teacher!
You made me chuckle when you said you'd throw in a part eaten tomato to feed your worms... You know this will lead to volunteer plants and more food for you guys too 😀 genius.
We lugged 3 ton of soil from my old property to this one. It all came out of my old planters from my rental house. Man I was not going to waste that soil because it was full of worms and goodness that I'd been nurturing for over 6 years. This new place is a new build on totally clay soil, so we brought the worms with us and all the goodness too. Plus we've added fertilising soil improver and mushroom compost for the benefits it brings to the garden. I have volunteer plants popping up in my flower beds now, veg and fruit all from that old soil. So it seems I did something right and the garden is coming to life ❤️🙏
Awe...I was just opening YT to find you today.. And looky, here you are! Love getting thru my day with your smile, heart and wisdom! Thanks Jess for all you share! I'm thinking I'm going to get one of my GreenStalks up soon!
I use pepermint castile soap which helps with pests as well
This has been one of the most useful gardening videos I've watched so far. Thank you!
Thank you so much for discussing the topic of fertilizer. I’m fairly new to gardening and when I ask the question about how often to fertilize, I get lots of “ it depends “ answers. You were very straightforward with the answer. Thank you
I could listen to this video over and over again for a month and not be disappointed.
I love your explanation and your passion for all things living.
Great analogy of your pasture being relatable to the container. Never thought of it that way.
What a fantastic way to explain soil health and synthetic fertilizer!
As always Jess you speak to my gardening heart 💚💚
I can listen to you all day! Thanks for sharing your knowledge
I changed my phone notification sound to a turkey gobble back in March (Turkey season here in Florida) and right at the beginning of this video as well as periodically through several of your videos, there are random gobbles that make me think I've got a text message. Not the intended effect, but very funny.
Thank you Jess for those great ideas! As an 80 year old gardener with 3 Green Stalk planters I have struggled with disassembling them every spring to refresh the soil. This year since the soil was down about 2 -3 inchs I simply added good soil mixed with compost. I do worm casting tea and gave each pocket a dose. I do this about every 2-3 weeks. My plants seem to be doing well. We've harvested lettuce, pak choy, spinach and now strawberries. Mary Born, ND
Thank you! Good review , even for us old timers! Always trying to learn something new 😊
An excellent explanation, thanks Jess 🙏🏼🩵
That Bear is always in the background. Always with you!
Words of Wisdom
Jess.
Preach it ❤
Jess, thank you so much for this! Exactly what I needed to hear when I needed it!!! Luvusomuch 😘😘
I just so totally enjoy your presence Jess,
no matter what the topic is ❤❤❤
Fantastic tutorial !! Thank you for reminding me of what I should never forget ! Big Love Jess !
Fantastic presentation and excellent information! Thanks Jess!💚🙏🏻
Another epic help...Thankyou!!! ❤❤
Feeding your container worms fruit will generate lots of volunteers!
Thank you Jess. I appreciate this information. Blessings!
Thank you Jess! This has been the best explanation on how to do this. Thanks for all you do 😊❤🇨🇦
Thank you Jess. Bless you & your beautiful family
Jess, this was such a great video!!
Thank you so much! I have thought about getting worms for my containers, too. It just sounds logical. 😊 Praying for your health and your sweet family! God bless.
I use oval shaped tuff stuff tubs from tractor supply. They use them for horses, cows etc. I buy 50 and 100 gallons whatever I am planting. They work well
Thank you!
Lovely! Thanks, Jess!
my dad, bless his heart, only used miracle grow fertilizer in his garden. i took over his house when he passed and am having to amend everything all the time. the soil has no life in it
Thank you Jess for giving us such a great refresher course. Always appreciated 💖👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Jess, you are a treasure ❤
So so helpful!!!! Thanks so much sweetie
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I was literally wondering this exact thing(s) this week. This answered perfectly!!! Love your videos!!!
Lovely, succinct & informative chat! I loved it and feel like you added the perfect amount of information and guidance! Thanks Jess!!!❤
Great advice Jess💞. Thank you for being willing to share your experiences with us.
With experience comes knowledge.
Many blessings to you as always💞
Cute overalls 😊 LOVE that color on you!
I’ve always wondered about putting worms in my beds. Thank you so much for affirming this!
Never been first to a Roots video! My lucky day
Thanks, just the refresher I needed this time of the year.
Oh my gosh I just was researching this!!!! Perfect timing.
Thanks Jess.
I live in northern Canada and this past fall I put my container soil into a sealed tote and left it in my shed. I was pleasantly surpised this spring when I opened it up and there was moist, healthy soil! Obviously it still needed to be ammended as I used it last year but the soil I left in pots without mulch got hydrophobic. I did this out of necessity for space but will be my go-to method now as I exclusively container garden 👍🏻 and it got to -50°C for multiple weeks this year!
For large amounts of container soil, you can put them into inexpensive garbage cans to keep moist. That's what I keep my finished compost in. Keeps it moist and the soil stays alive until I need to use it.
@@francestaylor9156 great idea, thank you!
Thank you so much Jess. The way you explained this is so helpful.
I'm so excited to watch this! I was just looking at ideas to fill our new deck with containers!! ❤
As a new gardener, this is the best explanation I have heard about why I need to incorporate worm casings into my soil😊
Thanks so much Jess.
This is going to change my gardening season this summer thank you Jess
Jess, I pulled my Green Stalks into the house this winter, to try to keep my Peppers alive. I HAVE PEPPERS Already!!!!! Yes!!!! Just putting it out there for you in case you want to try it. yes I planted new in the yard too, but really wanted to try this to see if it worked. did lose a few, but mostly it worked really well.
Awesome teaching thank you. I would luuuuv to see the geese, ducks etc around your pond and where you planted fruit trees please 😊
This video was perfect timing! I got my first greenstalk! Can’t wait to fill
It!
Super helpful Jess. Thanks so much. I am starting my container garden journey right now
Have been doing the worm thing for years! Not just in containers, also in ground and raised beds. Big, huge fishing worms! Happy planting!
Just caught up with your latest videos. I've had an incredibly busy May as well. So happy to have you back yet so glad you took some time off. Thanks for this video! I feel better knowing that I've been doing it well. I love the other video you posted recently that talked about how you have basically "all the favorites" lol I feel the same. I love it all. It's all my favorite! Life is my favorite! I feel you!!!
Thank you sooooo much for this video! Very helpful as I have a few Greenstalks now and still search for answers how to successfully keep the soil healthy. You answered my questions- you’re awesome! ❤️
I bought one of the chicken garden lights like you have in your raised bed behind you. I love it!
It’s my fav. So cute ❤
Thank you Jess.❤️✝️🙏
Great info. Thanks Jess God bless 🙏😘📖
I had hydrophobic soil a couple years ago. I learned to wet down then stack my containers in fall. They containers on top act like a mulch keeping the soil moist and use as many water trays as I can find to over the soil in the top containers. This has helped me so much when the rush of spring activity comes along since we usually go into drought in March. Soil is moist and worms are abundant.
Once you go through hydrophobic soil, you never ever want to repeat it again. It’s a lot of work to restore it if you have a lot of containers.
Great idea!
This is SO GOOD! Thanks for the tips, Jess. I started my worm farm just shy of 2 months ago and it's thriving. Hoping for enough castings to top dress around our 8 week mark for this year's garden! 🥰👏🏼
I learned more in this one video than I have in a long while. thank you
GREAT! Long answer, Jess. I learn a little bit more each time I tune in, thank you.
This is the first time I caught the video the second it was posted 🤣. I was so excited to see the vid!
Honest to my heart, I really appreciate the videos you post. It’s been my dream since childhood, and in adulthood working out the details with my husband. Watching you has helped me avoid the common mistakes and taught me to be creative in permaculture for what works for us! Thank you for your wisdom with the many years you’ve been learning and growing yourself and your food!❤
This is very helpful! 😃👍Thanks 🌿
Great answer! Perfect timing as I ordered my first Greenstalk during the sale and I will be putting it together today.
Perfect timing for this video. Thank you for all your wonderful informative videos.
Thank you very much for this! I got soil from a local landscaping company and was unimpressed. I specifically told them it was for gardening containers and it looks like soil for backfilling foundations. I can only work a bit at a time because of cost, but I am determined to upgrade it from backfill to actuall soil. This really helped because I forgot about my friends, the worms! ❤
Try putting a thin layer of grass clippings on the top of it everytime you mow your lawn. This will bri g worms. They will aerated the soil and pull the green matter down into the soil and also create worm castings.
Containers need potting mix. For cost saving make yr own. Alot of other UA-camrs have recipe but mostly 2 parts peat moss/coco coir, 1 part compost, 1 part vermiculite/perlite, fertilizer, worm casting. That's the main stuff. You can also add Epsom salt, blood/bone meal, gympson & lime (esp for tomatoes)
Great information. I did some of the things you suggested without knowing i was doing those things the right way. But the extra things like worms and fertilizer to get things working correctly before planting is a huge help. Now, to get those containers out in the open.... thanks Jess.
This is a very informational piece that you’re talking about and well done,Jesse. I know you don’t have time to watch the things that I do such as Martha Stewart gardens and monte don gardening on prime in UK. Martha Stewart always says on her channel of gardening we eat and so should your plants. Monty Don says you have to feed the soil make sure you have enough compost. And also when you reuse your pots that are made of plastic, you should wash them out with soapy water in case they are infected with blight or diseases. Blight can ruin box, shrubs, and many plants such as tomatoes because of too much wetness especially in containers when they sit in water, you could get blight. A friend of my son Toby in Thailand raises worms for worm casting to sell to farmers, because worm castings help the Earth to grow good things. All important.
Thank you Jess! Made a huge mistake with my 3 #Greenstalks I cleaned out the dead plants then covered with 30 gallon black leaf bags! Hugs Mistake should have unstacked and let the snow fall on them! Lesson learned!
Could you make a video that covers more of your worm farm? How to keep it thriving all year long. Harvesting, when to harvest and when/where it’s best used? Those type of things?
Can you please talk about the benefits of tarping sections during the off-season?
THANK YOU!!!
Thanks Jess, for the “Soil Refresher 101”. I just went out to check my beds and containers.🪴For the most part they look pretty good but I’ve got to “juice up” my green stalks a bit before planting. I’ve been watering them but not real consistently. Here on the central CA coast it’s still kind of cool🌥️ but my tomatoes 🍅will be going into the beds finally, this week! I keep hoping the worms 🪱will find their way up into my beds! In the meantime I guess it’s castings, sea kelp and fish emulsion. I use coco coir chips for mulch. It’s a little spendy but it really helps with the moisture. I even use it around my strawberries🍓in the green stalks. I fed one tower throughout and just cleaned off the dead 🍂leaves and I have breakfast berries every morning. I’m digging the ones in the bed up to put in another tower. It keeps the bugs or slugs at bay. Me 1 Pests 0.
As always, from CA 🏖️take care.
Thank you so much, Jess 🌻
That was a great compilation 🎉
Thank you - I had that issue in my greenhouse soil, I have emptied it and given it to the chickens for a dust bath! Revamping the greenhouse and just using containers in future - already have a polytunnel with containers, so putting the pots outside overwinter is a fabulous idea. Not so sure about the gleeful slugs though! LOL!
My yard has lots of green but underneath is just sand. I'm using mushroom substrate to add some texture and absorbtion.
Thank you and God bless you.
I have worked diligently to create and maintain healthy soil in my raised beds and the large, upcycled food grade barrels I garden in. Red Wiggler worms in all of them. Aged, meadow grass fed cow manure combined with aged grass clippings, chopped aged straw and leaves top all of my beds for our cold and snowy winters. The tilth of the soil is fabulously dark and loamy.
Good talk💜🐝
Thank you. I needed this information
Valuable information, thanks Jess ❤
I love hearing youre putting worms in your containers. Ive been doing that since i started gardening in 2021. Whenever i, dig one up i toss him in the nearest one!! Now im going to be more mindful about feeding all of them scraps. I think i will chop and drop my bolting lettuce!!
I often laugh as I gather the worms and get excited but now that I'm reading it I guess it's a worm prison and I'm an evil overlord holding them captive and making them reproduce
I have raised bed gardens and last year my soil became super hydrophobic, and nothing produced well at all. I ended up pulling everything and ending my season early then added a good layer of manure plus a thick layer of leaf mulch to each bed. This year I see the soil is nice and black, and even has some mycelium! Here’s hoping I have a better year! I will never make the mistake of not adding to my beds at the end of the season going forward- lesson learned ✅
I will say that the raised beds where the worms can freely move in from the native soil, for me has been a game changer versus pots and vertical planters which worms can live in, but not necessarily survive if it gets super dry. When my raised beds got dry in the winter, I started watering the bear soil, and then when I was planting my peppers and tomatoes, there were worms everywhere! I was a little shocked.
There you are. I missed you.