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Worms need a few basic necessities to compost food scraps, if they are given these few basic things, your worms will compost faster, and be more productive in general. Worms have gizzards, much like chickens. and they need something to move the soft food through their gizzard, and in a normal environment sand and other bits of course material. That all goes in to their gizzards. But when you have a worm bin, those things are absent, and rarely thought about. so it is key to add them so your worms can feel comfortable and eat and pass food easier.
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Can I store used starbucks coffee grounds in fridge for a month or so, taking a little out each time? I have the grounds sitting outside in the garage at 80F and they have mold on top only after a couple days. Is the mold okay for the worms?
Amazing, living on a tropical country you don't really care about anything on a worm farm, but it seems I had been doing it wrong for many years
Besides the coffee grounds, eggshells, and sand, I will occasionally use ground oyster shells, diatomaceous earth, and fossil flour.
I typically use crushed oyster shell flour
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Earthworms loves unwashed egg shells….no need washing them
So if you want to add acidity to let’s say blueberries. Use coffee grounds fresh not used? Lol caught that point when you were talking about coffee grounds
I believe if you offer your worms egg shells cleaned and microwaved (what isn't better after being microwaved…) and egg shells that have not been cleaned, you know the eggs you just ate raw or cooked they will be in the egg shells with egg left on them for the protein, might not smell as nice but man alive they love the stuff. Do a test, see what happens, also saves you time and money, your worms will thank you.
Can cornmeal be used instead of coffee gains or egg shells? Thank you for your video.
Can I use rabbit hay for my worms?
Is it ok to use silicon sand ?
Mostly feed them almost finished compost or leaf mold, barley, kelp, neem meal, alfalfa and basalt dust with some food scraps mostly for the water content
You can actually feed the worms the grit anytime. You do not have to add it every time.
I use azomite rock dust
Hello l add rock dust, which l buy on line from wiggly wiggly it also contains essential minerals and trace elements. My worms love it . I live in the uk & l am vegan so this is great From pearl
Hi I use coffee grinds, chopped banana , chopped potato peels, grind egg shells, apple peels and seeds, Is there anything else I could add. I only had them like exactly 10 days. I’m new st this.
Get a bag of crushed oyster shells. Very cheap. Get a spice or coffee grinder then you can make them into powder. Grinder will also turn egg shells into powder.
i have been mixing green sand hoping it wasnt to fine, but it sounds like the finer the better!
I would like to start one of these worm bin is it possible that I could use shredded white paper or newspaper and make sure it's moist before adding the worms
Why the egg shells need to be washed? What‘s the issue when simply dry and blend them to powder?
Your castings look stunning!
Cornmeal
Jim Carrey called he said he wants his hair back
I use coyote dung
Kiln dried sand boys https://youtu.be/3RVPhw0u6C0
can i use salt?
Get to the point. So long winded.
This is a very interesting and informative video. We run our Wormfarm since end of February, last week I took my first wormcasting. I´m very happy how it works. We also have chicken, and now we have use for the eggshells as well. Win-win. Greatings from germany 🙂
This is craziness, under no circumstances would I ever wash egg shells before throwing them in the worm bin. I have never whitenesses first hand any negative effects and I doubt anyone else has either.
would cornmeal work?