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Just mulch is more than fine. *I* don't do cover crops at all indoors and pretty much not at all in containers outdoors. Wind blown weeds do just fine for that. Cover crops are intended for soil BETWEEN food crops and I will cover crop my raised beds between seasons, but even then, not every...

Start the second bin. I have 3 'year round' bins sorta used as nurserys and during the growing season expand to 6 bins to handle the the excess food from the garden and such.

Without meaning to, you've just explained why no-till in containers is more of a buzz word than an actual real thing. Eventually, it IS spent and has to be broken down and redone. Basically ROLS but with longer intervals. I call large containers that are too heavy to easily move, no-tills and...

Do NOT try and turn your growing containers into worm bins! It will become a 'too much of a good thing' sorta deal. VOE on that. You get more than enough worms from top dressing fresh VC with the cocoons, baby worms and missed worms in the fresh VC. You want some worms in with your plants, but...

No, specify Laying Mash. There are several 'grinds' like crumbles and I think, pellets for different feeders or methods of feeding. There is also several types of chicken feed with different purposes, but I don't know about them. Laying Mash is geared towards egg production and amended to that...

Basically, it's just chicken feed and is mainly ground up corn. The 'mash' part refers to the consistancy itself, there is also 'crumbles' which is coarser/larger The mash gives the best results as it's pretty fine, just a bit coarser than corn meal. I learned about it from bait worm farmers as...

That ^^ I know ignoring them is hard when first starting out with worms, at least till they become 'old hat', but that's what really gives you the best results. You sorta summed up the whole problem in the second sentence of your first post, 'too much fruits and over feeding'. Remember that...

Totally normal. NOT showing pre flowers is what happens sometimes and the 2 times it happened for me (I mainly grow from clones), both turned out to be male. But the females from seed always showed pre flowers when 4 to 6 weeks old.

From long time users, once everything is settled in and cranking, you end up harvesting 1 tray/month for ~2 1/2 gallons of VC. Myself, I use the DIY 18gal Rubbermaid totes and have 2 that I use as 'nursery' bins to supply worms for other bins (6 total). Anyway, both of those bins were started...

Smart move on doing your research first. Worms are super easy if you start out right. Not so much if you're trying to correct mistakes or omissions after the worms arrive. I would really suggest a visit to www.redwormcomposting.com for some very informative reading. When Bently started in the...

Palm size sounds good since most of it is top dressing dry amendments. Plus, my hands aren't large and RA doesn't help at all. For new mixes I have a 2 1/2 cup scoop and mix 2cf at a pop (wheelbarrow full). The re amends is where it gets interesting, and trust me, you aren't the only one...

Seems like the longer you do organics and construct your own mixes the less important exact measuremens become and you rely more on "eyeballing" stuff, along with "handfuls" of this or that. But, just how much is a 'handful' and more importantly, your particular handful? Have you ever measured...

Kinda is right.

Did you add any dry amendments to the ProMix? Teas alone just aren't going to cut it and Promix has next to zero nutes in it. Get something like Espoma Plant Tone or Garden Tone, a dry all puropse organic fertilizer or something similar and top dress it and just plain water for a couple of...

If you're using dry amendments and top dressing (sounds like you are), not more often than every 2 weeks for the first 4 weeks (2 feedings), and then monthly. Besides other stuff my main P and K sources are bone meal and kelp meal and some EWC on top of the top dress as per @Yodaweed

That's where I keep mine as well, 6 bins going ATM and they've done well for over 7 years. Outside, there are just too many things that find worms tasty besides birds and being trapped in a bin there is no place to escape to, or the weather by burrowing deeper or finding a warmer spot. Have...

Top dressing with the dry nutrients is about the easiest and simplest way of adding nutrients there is. I haven't bothered with teas in years, just top dress with the dry componets of whatever you were going to make the tea with and done. No experience with Happy Frog per se, but have used...

They are decomposers and they belong there. The population explodes from overfeeding, so slow up on the feeding. And bring them back inside, bad things happen to wormbins outside, just slow up on the food and water. It's bad when you DON'T see any other bugs in the bins, they are really what...

I've used the same basic mix for around 45 years now (peat moss, perlite, pne bark fines, lime), and it works equally well with Jack's Classic or organic amendments. With that as a constant, it's easier to tell the effects of different amendments and/or amounts for your particular situation...

Make that 2TBL per gallon. If you're going to figure this shit out at least use the proper amount. You might also find a shortage of P when you go to flower since there is no bone meal in Coots mix. The lack of lime and bone meal has been commented on by more than a few growers using this...