African Night Crawlers' Preferred Bedding
African Night Crawlers- They have become my carbon work horses eating cardboard like baby food. HUGE HARVEST OF WORM CASTINGS
/ @plantobsessed
The ANC are in my Vermibag little mammoth. In order to keep them big they will get spoiled. I have a plan to treat them like the breeders do with new bedding and food to promote the large growth.
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Good early morning, Ann ❤🪱❤️ Nice mix and info on harvest and mix the same species. Oh, that Patrick. What clever new names will be come up with? Avacondo Wormtropolis Wormominium Take care and have a great week ❤Peggy❤
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
Yep he has a very creative mind. We will have to see. 👍🏼🪱😁
I love that all the worm channels watch each other’s videos, and are so friendly to each other. I watch 4 of you guys and it feels like a big happy family. I asked Patrick a question one day, and he thought you might be of more help, so he sent me to ask you. All of you have taught me so much and I am so thankful that you do this! I have had worms for 6 years, and I never knew what to do after feeding them. Everywhere on the internet only gives you the beginning information. One day, about a month ago, I finally figured out that there are worm people on KZread 😮. I am so excited!!!!! Now I want to up my worm composting game. Again, thank you so much!!!!
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
We are blessed that we all are not just about our own channels. We are worm farm enthusiasts. I am always trying to learn better ways to take care of my worms. Welcome to my worm family 🪱👍🏼😃
Nice Ingredients. 😎
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
Thank you 😊🪱👍🏼
Great point about avoiding transferring cocoons to other bins. We put corn and sunflower stocks in last fall. By spring, they were gone !! "Courgettaminium"😂😂😂 Let's gooooo Cheers J&C 🌱🤞👍👍👍👍👍
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
Nice. Worms rule🪱😁👍🏼
Use home made EM-1 it helps to start breaking stuff down just make sure eggshells or chalk/ calcium carbonate calcite or oyster shells is in your feeding routine to help keep everything 7.0PH . I put rockdust alfalfa and kelp in my feedings too. I feed them pulverize with a hammer dry dog food also, workz great 🤷♂️ they almost instantly turn it into castings 5-7 days tops and it's gone turned into black gold ....
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
That is great. I have wondered about em1. I'll have to check it out.👍🏼🪱😃
👍👍👍🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱❤ дальнейших успехов тебе и твоим друзьям)
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
Thank you 👍🏼😃🪱
If you’re looking for seedless summer squash try Tromboncino or Rampicante. It sprawls and it grows great on a trellis. Resistance to squash vine borers is why I tried it and wasn’t disappointed. Huge prolific fruit with the seeds on the opposite end from the flesh. I grow mine on a cattle panel.
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
Nice I will check it out 👍🏼🪱😁
I call them zucchini huts or squash wigwams lol😂.
@PlantObsessed
7 ай бұрын
Edible housing for worms. Our million dollar ideas for the pet industry lol 👍🏼🪱😃
You're making a worm 'deli' salad! 7.99/ lb Now you have to cup it in quart clam shells for them! lol Just joking.. hey at least I watched! -Brian
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
Thanks Brian. I wonder if people would like worm salad?😃👍🏼🪱
@ClickinChicken
10 ай бұрын
@@PlantObsessed ah, my guess is they'd take the Chicken cashew wild rice salad over it.. three times on Sunday. I'm a Deli Clerk my job.
Bedding looks great Ann! Ooh round zucchini 🤔 what is the name of it? I was wondering how long the ANC worms were going to stay large for.
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
It is just called Round zucchini... 🪱👍🏼😁
@GardeningwithBarchuckin
10 ай бұрын
@@PlantObsessed already looked it up and will see about getting for next year. 😁👍
או בוקר טוב מישראל😊. שוב אין תרגום בעברית. היו כמה סירטונים שכן היה בחדש אין😢. שוב תודה לך על כל ההסברים. את אלופה!
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
That is unfortunate. KZread is the one that adds the auto translation. I have checked and I don't see where I can request a specific language. I will keep looking. Thank you for letting me know. 🪱👍🏼😊
And you are welcome…I did your bedding now what happened to my cheeseburger? 😅
@GardeningwithBarchuckin
10 ай бұрын
😂
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
In yaa belly
Zucchondo seems too easy, how about zucchinium, condocchinium or zucchondocchinium...ZuCo for short 😀 Love the formula you've come up with for your ANC bedding!! I can see why they go absolutely wild for your bedding!! I chickened out and put my Brussels sprout stem in my regular compost!! I should have been more brave!! Excellent video Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
I love the zucchinium. I knew I could count on you to add to the common verminacular. 😁🪱👍🏼
@Vermicompost
10 ай бұрын
@@PlantObsessed Vermi-nacular...I love it!
@clivesconundrumgarden
10 ай бұрын
Courgettaminium 😂😂 Zuke-hole-tell Zuke-airbnb-ni - is my favorite 😂😂😂
@clivesconundrumgarden
10 ай бұрын
@@VermicompostI spent entirely to much time thinking about this 🐿 😂
@Vermicompost
10 ай бұрын
@@clivesconundrumgarden Those were some good ones!! We couldn't let Ann down!!!
Hey, question for you! Probably not something you encounter with your bag system, but have you experienced or read anything about ANCs not tolerating being in their castings like at all? I'm having a heck of a time with mine, and that's kind of what I am observing... I did find one person mention this problem with ANCs specifically, but that's it. Not a lot of people seem to raise them, so I can't seem to find much information specifically about them. 🤔
@PlantObsessed
10 ай бұрын
What is their reaction to being in the castings? Mine are in a bag because they crawl out of anything else I put them in. I live on a busy road and it drives them nuts.
@evelynknight5627
10 ай бұрын
@@PlantObsessed mass death. 💀 Ruled out pH and moisture. Changed their feedstock to chow only. Also had a problem with them always wanting to wander, so I have them in Vermibag totes. Problem with that is they never get to finish a bin cuz it gets crunchy, so I've taken to spraying it like every other day. I have reds and ENCs, and not had any problems beyond fruit flies. Now the ANCs are being handled with kid gloves, and they're still eventually going through mass die off after a period of time.
@evelynknight5627
10 ай бұрын
@@PlantObsessed now they're in split bedding in their bag - one half with shredded cardboard, the other half coconut coir. They don't seem to touch the coir much in favor of the cardboard. And I'm sure they're still going to die off, cuz I can't isolate the problem (other than potentially an intolerance of a certain amount of castings being built up, in spite of bin not being finished - which is only a theory).