m4s73r
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Are we talking about worm piles being ate by worms. How are you moving all the worms? Im just making sure our lingo is the same here is all. I run a worm bing indoors. so Im not familure with worm piles outside? Shutting them down? I mean once their a pile of shit dont the worms just go to a new food source? Im interested for sure. Tell me more about this process. Id like to do the worms outside if i could. Does it freeze where you live? How do you handle winter? Im going to be honest, never looked into any of this so point me to a article i should read and im all about it..Been at composting a long time pretty much all my adult life. I just never tried leaves in bags. Interesting idea.
Aware of leaf mold. We have several acres of woodland. With may tree species. Thinning out the black walnut but I'm good with the leaves. They compost fine.
Our vermi-bins we let cook over winter and fill them all spring summer and fall. We let one go dormant and it finishes off by spring planting time. The longer the vermi-bin goes dormant the better the compost. We run 2 vermi-bins and rotate each winter. Shut one down and start using the empty one and repeat.
So are you saying that that neem that i have mixed into my soil mix and top dressings will not have the same insecticide properties as neem oil does? I thought that was the point of neem. Tell me more. Shit I never did much reading into it.Neem Cake is what remains after oil is extracted. They do not have the same properties and Neem Oil will not feed your plants.
Keep in mind that I also water with aloe. Now as a wetting agent that makes it so all the peat in your soil mixes takes that water in. Now dont get me wrong. Late bloom, ive been known to go back and give them an extra 5 percent straight from the tap. But I never EVER accede 10 percent. EVER. Let me say that again just to make sure everyone is listening. We dont EVER go over 10 percent lolNice stuff. I wondering about a water % after first time built soil. You think it’s close to that 5%. Sometimes I swear it take so much water to get soil to saturation
Thanks for the tips !