What are all these creatures in my cooking soil?

mouse1818

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I have my soil cooking in the sun and there are bugs everywhere. I found a little green wormy thing at the top of the soil and there are these flat silver fly's on my soil is this bad? The soil also smells like earth worm shit still and it takes forever to dry out even with tons of drainage. I did find a worm in the ground and put it in my soil could this green thing be its offspring?

It may look dry from the top but when I flip the soil around it is still moist. I'm not sure if i will be able to grow indoors if the smell is like this.
 

greasemonkeymann

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looks like you may need a lil more aeration, and remember with no plant to suck up the water the soil is totally dependent on the ambient temps and humidity to control it's moisture.
also wormcastings smell good... just like dirt. Is that what you are smelling?
Maybe go buy a bag of perlite or lava rock, or better yet add some biochar.
I don't know tis to be a fact but I prefer to age my soil in a more flatter way, exposing more surface area to oxygen, and I REALLY like to plant a cover crop of legumes on it, you will visually see when your soil is ready, the legumes will explode in growth once the nutrients have been aged
 

mouse1818

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Yea my worm castings smelled horrible I had to keep em outside cuse they were stinking up the garage. Perhaps I got bad ewc and now my soil is screwed? I put a ton of aeration and there is plenty of drainage under the soil i think that it retains too much moisture and the ewc infected it with a virus.
 
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