Grab an Urban Worm Bag: https://bit.ly/2ybjJbb I get this question A LOT: “Can I just add earthworms into my bad soil to improve it?” The answer is…not really. Worms are the consequence of good soil, not a way to fix bad soil. It makes a bit more sense to start adding organic matter (food for worms and other soil life), allowing that soil life to proliferate, and then worms will start coming back to your soil.
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waiting for you to come to my home to fix my soil problems 😛
Would love to see you cover isopod use in soil! They are wonderful for dealing with breaking down compost and i credit them for saving my potted orange tree from root rot
Can you put chunks of clay in vermicompost bin and turn it into earth?
WTF! I cultivated that like button 6 months ago and you're still a no show!
I just built a new home. They soded the front yard . The back yard I'm supposed to seed. They've got to be kidding. I have builders clay soil. It takes 2 days for the water to penatrate. I cannot add and till compost 15000 sq. ft. How do I get the soil good enough to grow grass without tilling?
personally i dump dead soil into my worm bins and by the time that same soil gets to the bottom, it's full of castings and leftover organic material that i've dumped into the bin over time. Worms can actually fix dead soil, but you'd have to add materials the worms can eat.
Thank you for this video, I was thinking about doing this exact same thing. Go to a bait shop and buy some worms for my dry dead AZ soil
Today one of my tomato plant just got sick like its has been pulled out.. I was pretty sure it will die so i pulled it out.. Then found that a bunch of large earthworms about 7-10 were colonizing between the roots… And i didnt see any other possible cause.. Just worms.. It was so sudden..
just make some worm resturaunts in various places around your yard.. build them underground.. connect them with little worm subways and canals.. make some worm museums and cafes occasionally, worms like reading books and looking at worm art
I don't know if I've just had strange circumstances, but my Red Wigglers have always lived all throughout my 16-inch deep bins. I've went out of my way to try to attract them to the top, but most of them hang out at the bottom where its really moist.
I've also done some testing of mixing multiple worm types. I had one bin of pure red wigglers, and one with every type of earthworm I could find in my yard along with red wigglers. Believe it or not, the mixed bin devoured waste almost twice as fast as the pure red wiggler bin. I've only done the one test, and I didn't exactly count the worms one by one, so if anyone else out there has experimented with this, let me know!
Thanks. Really informative. Soil or different types of soil have to be amended in their own way. This being said, your home made compost is the best way to start putting microbiology so worms can be put to good use, providing of course that circumstances allow it to happen.
At 2:28: 25% air, is it by weight or by volume. You seem to make this far more complicated than it is.
Good afternoon freind am in zone 10 port st luice Florida we have sandy soil so what i use is oak leaves after been broken down along with food scrap
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Can't hurt
So dumping worms in dead dirt is like dumping fish into a dry aquarium.
Has anyone considered buying red wigglers live bait? It is cheaper
I like his pumpkin friend 🙂
Kevin is always on the boujier side of things but also down to earth. Heh.
Is it ok to give my worms mouldy cinnamon sticks?
People crow corn and grain for reason if they got bad storms ect it compost fast for fertilizer be gone by next year sell some fertilizer and corn is easiest thing to grow then it fastest plant to compost to boost soil fast and u should grow stuff in pots or rasied beds then take soil out pits or beds Evey year or 3 add it to original soul and add grass clips tree clips and ash from fire pit in there once it not hot and add wood chips I like un stained much in my dirt for worms and if u have a fish tank drain it out side not on top plants dig s hole fill it to point it goes towards roots and put grass clippings in in hole and fire pit ash use fire wood to make a border don't burn it it will slowly decay over years and for rasied beds fallow me to my comments
Like adding lions to a prey-less savanna
Hi, love your video, very helpful. I want to start my own herb garden. How could I save worms they came out of the garden into my porch, is starting raining and is getting cold here in Concord, CA. What soil could I buy to save them.
I plant a winter mixed cover crop in my raised beds. In early spring I cut them down and use them on top as mulch. I am always surprised at how many worms I find.
Can I add fishing worms to my garden? The kind I can buy at the store.
Excellent video.
I understand the general concept of converting dirt into soil by starting at the bacterial and fungal level but I don't understand excluding adding worms to dirt. Looking for feedback:
• You say worms are likely to die if added to "lifeless" dirt. I agree. But what about in-ground worm farms/bins — isn't it true that adding an in-ground worm bin solves the problem of providing food for worms even in "lifeless" soil?
• And if the worms are able to survive because of the in-ground bins, wouldn't the worms then be able to aerate the soil and add organic matter UNDER the surface (vs simply adding organics to the surface)?
• And if this is true, wouldn't the subsurface aeration and distribution of worm castings go a long way in encouraging deeper root growth (vs shallow, sprawling rooting)?
I can't help but feel like this sort of hyper-focus on starting at the microbial level is causing us to overlook, ignore, or exclude reasonable solutions to creating/restoring soil and the soil food web.
I'm all for emphasizing bacterial and fungal health as a fundamental element of soil health but I don't see how that would cause me or anyone else to discourage using worms as one among many tools to help reach that goal. Am I missing something here?