oooooh i'm a pepper fan as well! jalapenos for breakfast and habaneros for lunch heh. grew over 200 varieties one year. thanks for the vermicomposting tips!
Wow, 200 varieties of peppers is very impressive. I've tried probably 30 different varieties and got my top 10 peppers I like to grow. But, since you did grow that many different varieties, I would love to know what your most favorite peppers are. And I don't like the Habanero. It's just a different kind of spicy, if you know what I mean. Thanks for watching. Hope you have a great day.
Fed my worms some wheatgrass last winter, thanks for the tip on adding worm chow, the grass lasted quite a while without. I use pulverized oyster shells also, mainly for the high source of chitin. I triple rinse the shells 1st to remove as much salt as possible. I am on a kick to stop using peels from bananas, citrus, pineapples, basically any peel we do not eat that may contain harmful pesticides, all that stuff is delegated to the hot compost. I am also trying to feed mostly foods to the worms that come from my yard and garden. Just froze a couple bags of weeds from the flower beds. This adds a diversity of local biology to the bins you will not get from store bought produce. New subscriber, Stay Well!!!
@@HarleysWorms Me either! Ever hear of rinsing coco choir? Long story short. Four years ago I had several straw bale gardens, fertilized with inorganic fertilizers, gardens did OK. I saved all that straw over the winter and not one worm was to be found in the entire pile the next spring. As it turns out, inorganic fertilizers are loaded with salts, which are bad for microbes, which are bad for worms. I am not a chemist or biologist, but I do have a curious mind and a microscope, the soil below the straw bale gardens were full of salt crystals. I put an oyster shell to my tounge and could taste the salt. Triple rinse, not a big deal, necessary? who knows, just me. Stay Well!!!
Great video! I love listening to your calm voice while watching those little wigglers do their thing. Your worm chow looks like pure powder! If it isn't a secret recipe, mind sharing? If it is a secret, all good! :) keep those videos coming brother!
Thank you for the positive feedback, and I appreciate you telling me I have a calming voice 😂. It's the first time I've ever heard that one. And the worm chow is ground down to a fine powder, and it is for sale on our website. And I do feel like it is a great product and a great value. Thank you for watching. I hope you have a amazing day!
Who would compost salt? It never expire or go bad? I never had this problem, but i would use it in the dishwasher if it was not pure enough to eat. I must say that i have broken most of your rules, (i compost all thongs that have been alive) but my process is generally to compost first and let the worms work on it later when compst bacteria have worked on it a bit. And yes, sometimes my pile smell a bit. And a source of lots of flies...
Your worms look great! I feed cabbage to my red wigglers all the time. I do pressure cook it first so that might make the difference. My worms eat it fast and I do take care to bury it under the bedding. I agree about being cautious about unknown manure. I want to try the wheat grass pads! 🪱🪱
@@dnt7805I use shredded cardboard, lots of coffee grounds, eggshells, and kitchen slurry and mix well. I’ll let it sit for 1-2 months and go through multiple heat cycles before feeding.
The centipedes in Germany love avocado seeds. I put them under flower buckets between the bucket and the earth. And in this way they do also eat banana peels in 1week its gone but here earthworms do help.
@@HarleysWorms Wooflices even eat holes into wood if you put it under pots with plants which you water regularly as well. Chickens then love to eat them - great nutrients.
We don't open source our worm food recipe mostly because I've been working on it for three years to get it down to a perfect food for the worms and so we have it for sale on our website and I do believe it's worth it. Thank you for watching and for the feedback I hope you have a great day.
This is very informative and I am soo amazed of the amount of worms you have in your bin but your video made me dizzy watching it as it is too shakey. Maybe next time you can put your camera on a steady stand or a camera holder. :)
$22 on our website harleysworms.com I would also recommend our other mix as well if you want similar results. The worms we sell are also the reason our bins look so good. Thank you. Call me for more info at 2056126934
Great video on what to feed your worms,I tried bread crumbs the other day big mistake because the yeast in the bread crumbs fermented and heated up all my bins luckily I noticed in time 🪱🇳🇿
Those are freshly hatched red wigglers I’m 99.9 percent sure. It is still going down below freezing at night. Critters and pests don’t come out until March in Alabama.
I just put a cabbage in last week. Sure it stank up the basement but they demolished it in a week. It was boiled. I had to put like 3 inches of shredded cardboard on ot to keep the smell down.
oooooh i'm a pepper fan as well! jalapenos for breakfast and habaneros for lunch heh. grew over 200 varieties one year. thanks for the vermicomposting tips!
Wow, 200 varieties of peppers is very impressive. I've tried probably 30 different varieties and got my top 10 peppers I like to grow. But, since you did grow that many different varieties, I would love to know what your most favorite peppers are. And I don't like the Habanero. It's just a different kind of spicy, if you know what I mean. Thanks for watching. Hope you have a great day.
Fed my worms some wheatgrass last winter, thanks for the tip on adding worm chow, the grass lasted quite a while without.
I use pulverized oyster shells also, mainly for the high source of chitin. I triple rinse the shells 1st to remove as much salt as possible.
I am on a kick to stop using peels from bananas, citrus, pineapples, basically any peel we do not eat that may contain harmful pesticides, all that stuff is delegated to the hot compost.
I am also trying to feed mostly foods to the worms that come from my yard and garden. Just froze a couple bags of weeds from the flower beds. This adds a diversity of local biology to the bins you will not get from store bought produce.
New subscriber, Stay Well!!!
I have never heard of washing the oyster shell flour before.
@@HarleysWorms Me either!
Ever hear of rinsing coco choir?
Long story short.
Four years ago I had several straw bale gardens, fertilized with inorganic fertilizers, gardens did OK. I saved all that straw over the winter and not one worm was to be found in the entire pile the next spring. As it turns out, inorganic fertilizers are loaded with salts, which are bad for microbes, which are bad for worms.
I am not a chemist or biologist, but I do have a curious mind and a microscope, the soil below the straw bale gardens were full of salt crystals. I put an oyster shell to my tounge and could taste the salt. Triple rinse, not a big deal, necessary? who knows, just me.
Stay Well!!!
You can never be too careful!
Great video! I love listening to your calm voice while watching those little wigglers do their thing.
Your worm chow looks like pure powder! If it isn't a secret recipe, mind sharing? If it is a secret, all good! :)
keep those videos coming brother!
Thank you for the positive feedback, and I appreciate you telling me I have a calming voice 😂. It's the first time I've ever heard that one. And the worm chow is ground down to a fine powder, and it is for sale on our website. And I do feel like it is a great product and a great value. Thank you for watching. I hope you have a amazing day!
Who would compost salt? It never expire or go bad? I never had this problem, but i would use it in the dishwasher if it was not pure enough to eat.
I must say that i have broken most of your rules, (i compost all thongs that have been alive) but my process is generally to compost first and let the worms work on it later when compst bacteria have worked on it a bit. And yes, sometimes my pile smell a bit. And a source of lots of flies...
Your worms look great! I feed cabbage to my red wigglers all the time. I do pressure cook it first so that might make the difference. My worms eat it fast and I do take care to bury it under the bedding.
I agree about being cautious about unknown manure. I want to try the wheat grass pads! 🪱🪱
Thank you. Great ideas!
I pre-compost my coffee grounds and the worms love it. I have had huge success with that method.
Any specific method?
@@dnt7805I use shredded cardboard, lots of coffee grounds, eggshells, and kitchen slurry and mix well. I’ll let it sit for 1-2 months and go through multiple heat cycles before feeding.
Thx! You find the worms process the material significantly quicker?
The centipedes in Germany love avocado seeds. I put them under flower buckets between the bucket and the earth. And in this way they do also eat banana peels in 1week its gone but here earthworms do help.
That is wild. I have never fed a centipede unfortunately. 😂
@@HarleysWorms Wooflices even eat holes into wood if you put it under pots with plants which you water regularly as well. Chickens then love to eat them - great nutrients.
Maybe blending peanut shells and cabbage? It would speed up the decomposition process.
Did. You leave a recipe for your chow? I'm new some do
We don't open source our worm food recipe mostly because I've been working on it for three years to get it down to a perfect food for the worms and so we have it for sale on our website and I do believe it's worth it. Thank you for watching and for the feedback I hope you have a great day.
This is very informative and I am soo amazed of the amount of worms you have in your bin but your video made me dizzy watching it as it is too shakey. Maybe next time you can put your camera on a steady stand or a camera holder. :)
Thanks for responding most people don't. How much is it?
$22 on our website harleysworms.com I would also recommend our other mix as well if you want similar results. The worms we sell are also the reason our bins look so good. Thank you. Call me for more info at 2056126934
Organic all the way! :)
I ran out of shredded papers, can I use toilet plain paper and paper towels, napkins?
You can use anything for their bedding, but the regular shredded cardboard breaks down the fastest.
@@HarleysWorms
Thank you.
Do worm eat soy meal (Okara)?
I haven’t tried it myself but worms will pretty much eat anything.
@@HarleysWorms i see people feed chickens feed and the main ingredient are soy and corn
Great video on what to feed your worms,I tried bread crumbs the other day big mistake because the yeast in the bread crumbs fermented and heated up all my bins luckily I noticed in time 🪱🇳🇿
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You have a lot of potworms in there, isn't that bad?
No, other insects help the composting process.
Those are freshly hatched red wigglers I’m 99.9 percent sure. It is still going down below freezing at night. Critters and pests don’t come out until March in Alabama.
I just put a cabbage in last week. Sure it stank up the basement but they demolished it in a week. It was boiled. I had to put like 3 inches of shredded cardboard on ot to keep the smell down.
@dustin6599 Yes, Red Wigglers will pretty much eat any food.
@@HarleysWorms seems that way. You're right tho that cabbage stanked