st0wandgrow
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Haha! He is a cute little thing isn't he?!?!
Vermicomposters Unite! Official Worm Farmers Thread
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st0wandgrow
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We let our bunnies finish off our veggie garden once everything is cut down. They clean things up a bit and shit all over the place which becomes fertilizer for next years crop.
They're working on a little herb plot made out of a recycled hydro reservoir here...
They're working on a little herb plot made out of a recycled hydro reservoir here...
Dr.D81
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The 2 years is for laying hens. Rabbits you get to the size you want and kill it. Most every animal you want as young as possible so it is tender. The two year old hens are tuff and only suitable for stew and stock.
Dr.D81
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Yea slow is the key to tuff meat
Scroga
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What's with bunnies and cables? Found out after they where gone that mine loved to gnaw on the various extension cords and stereo wires in the house. . Most cables were fair game. .Mrs Mo said she had a bunny in college that used a litter box and lived in her appartment. So when we had James Dean, she would let him loose in the house.
He loved my spendy monster cable!
Cheers,
Mo
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Javadog
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Great stuff Doc. I am thinking of raising meat too.
As to the French and tricks for tough meat, check out the
Confit ("Cone-Fee"). By this technique, the meat is baked
in a clay pot. I had it at a restaurant. Nice.
JD
P.S. That was a very rough depiction of what a confit is...
...I looked it up...it was a method of preserving foods too.
As to the French and tricks for tough meat, check out the
Confit ("Cone-Fee"). By this technique, the meat is baked
in a clay pot. I had it at a restaurant. Nice.
JD
P.S. That was a very rough depiction of what a confit is...
...I looked it up...it was a method of preserving foods too.
Dr.D81
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I collected some castings today to top dress my led garden, and put some on the tomatoes i am trying to keep threw winter. When i was getting them i told my 4 year old girl that was worm poop, and then i scraped some with my had. With out missing a beat she said " eww you touched worm poop " 
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Bueno Time
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Its only been a month and my worm bins are looking great. Digging in yesterday I was surprised the bedding is almost all turned to casting already and looks much better than any casting I have bought. Probably another month and the bins will be almost pure casting. Tons of baby worms and seems like there are more mature worms than I started with unless they are just fat and healthy now but I grab a hand full of the bedding/cast and there is a load of worms in it. I think they are tearing through the bedding and food so fast because of the high density of worms in my little bins. Still laying cocoons and hundreds of babies in the bins so apparently they arent too worried about living in a small space and not over populated.
Should be able to use some homemade ewc on my next cycle coming up in a month or so.
Should be able to use some homemade ewc on my next cycle coming up in a month or so.
greasemonkeymann
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wormbins are so addictive, i'm in CA, and we are having historically huge rainfall, and I've rescued about 45 earthworms from puddles and such, I hope they like their new redworm neighbors
Chronikool
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Depending on how deep/big your binz are...i suspect the earthwormz wont like it
greasemonkeymann
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yeah I think you are right, but considering their alternative was slowly drowning in a huge puddle, they should be thankful damnit!
my bin(s) are about 18-24 inches deep
ekim046
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looks just like mineNice, made it through the whole thread now. I started my worm bins before finding this thread, Ive had my worms for a week and they seem to be doing well. They love pureed veggie/fruit with a little coffee grounds. Fed them a little corn meal/oatmeal/crab shell mix and they swarmed that too. Planning to feed them small amounts of dry amendments like some are doing, have to order some more amendments anyway, all I have is a half cup or so of crab shell right now and a couple tbsp of dolomite lime.
Im feeding on one side of my bins, I saw someone else posted in here how they do their bins half at a time, might do something like that with mine. Right now I am trying to gauge how fast they work the food I add so I havent added much food since I see more posts about bad things from adding too much food rather than too little (they will eat the bedding or cycle their own castings/bacteria/fungi if food is short/gone).
I started with 2lbs red wigglers from uncle jims. I was going to start 4 bins but just split between two and when the population grows I will split into the 4 seperate bins but for now the bottom bins are to catch any leachate. In a couple months I should be able to use some fresh homemade castings on my plants.
(Already posted these in the ROLS thread but I figured Id put them in here in the Vermicompost thread.)
home depot?
ekim046
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I've looked around and it looks like nobody really uses mushroom compost!
I grow gourmet mushrooms as another side hobby and am always left with alot of mushroom compost.
If there are any other Mycologists or would be mycologists out there, I really recommend to not throw away the mushroom leftovers.
Paul Stamets himself said that mushroom compost is a wonderful amendment for soils and should not be overlooked.
Here is a quick mushroom compost 101 vid I found on youtube:
I grow gourmet mushrooms as another side hobby and am always left with alot of mushroom compost.
If there are any other Mycologists or would be mycologists out there, I really recommend to not throw away the mushroom leftovers.
Paul Stamets himself said that mushroom compost is a wonderful amendment for soils and should not be overlooked.
Here is a quick mushroom compost 101 vid I found on youtube: