Tend to your "Micro - herds" SPREAD WORMS

One of the best things I've grown to understand in taking care of plants...is that...taking care of the SOIL...and...tending..to the "mirco organisms" and "bacteria"..that can thrive there...the "MICRO HERDS"...will help the plants to flourish!! You become sort of a..shepherd..of mirco organsims...they're your flock!

One of the ways ..we're using to tend to these MICROHERDS....is the use of RED WIGGLERS. I've been using a worm bin...and then spreading these RED WIGGLER variety of worms all around my garden. They're pretty much everywhere now!! I just keep tending to the BIN, and keeping the worm's fed in there...and then spread them where needed.

HUGE..thanks to Toby Hemenway, for writing about this process so beautifully in his book, "Gaia's Garden." This book has become a daily reader for me...can't get enough of it...!

One other book I'd recommend is: "Secrets of the Soil" by Tompkins and Bird. They dedicate a whole chapter, titled Microcosmos, explaining the power of these AMAZING micro organisms..and their benefits!! Cheers to the little ONES!
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[sandworm3]

Jake, I just got the book "Worms Eat My Garbage" for a Father's Day present. haha. I need to check but I thought that red wigglers were not soil dwellers but compost and manure pile dwellers.

[rawutah]

@sandworm3 hey there..cheers to the sun..and the worm! Yah..they are composters and need food constantly. I should have better articulated my method on this. You see all the straw around my trees and gardens...well those are all compost piles. My scraps from the kitchen all get randomly tossed under every straw pile. I also chop and drop green leaf material constantly on top of the straw...from surrounding plants.

[rawutah]

@sandworm3 hey there..cheers to the sun..and the worm! Yah..they are composters and need food constantly. I should have better articulated my method on this. You see all the straw around my trees and gardens...well those are all compost piles. My scraps from the kitchen all get randomly tossed under every straw pile. I also chop and drop green leaf material constantly on top of the straw...from surrounding plants.

[rawutah]

@sandworm3 it seems to be working..as I'm still seeing red wiggler activity. Have you seen the video titled "Vermicomposting Trench" by the user TheCompostGuy?? Very cool stuff...the method I'm using works great too... Sounds like a fantastic book...need to get my hands on a copy for sure!! Let me know if you find out any cool worm stuff...peace brutha

[ivankinsman]

Wow, that is a lot of worms. Think we will try and do one of these worm farms this year for their castings etc. We have an old plastic bin that think would be ideal. We're just digging over our garden for spring planting. I notice you put straw around the base of your trees - we generally clear a metre circle around them and I'll add a layer of compost soon to give them some nutrients. Your garden is looking great!

[rawutah]

@ivankinsman you're going to love worm farming my friend.....!!!

[sandworm3]

@rawutah Funny, when I first got into worm composting, I tried asking some cattlemen around here if they had seen any of those in their manure piles that I could have. All I got was strange looks. Another farmer got paranoid that I was bringing in an unauthorized exotic specie. Seems like if it isn't "roundup ready" or GMO they don't want any part of this.

[rawutah]

@ivankinsman Thanks...great to hear from you..and to hear the spring planting has begun!! Can't wait to see that beautiful garden again...those nasturtiums...we're beautiful...I"m a BIG fan of those! I'm with you on the compost...around the trees...they love it. I just scoot aside the straw and add more.. I need my own animals though...like you have...to add their waste to my compost..it's a missing element in my little backyard farm!!

[Mrlandroverful]

@rawutah Ty for your tips, when i get a garden up i will certainly look into doing some worms for my garden :))

[rawutah]

@Mrlandroverful Hi Alli! Thank You!! It was fairly moist already, so I didn't moisten it before... however....after I filmed this, I did moisten the straw with a good spraying. The soil stays good and moist day to day..from the drips hitting the straw... gotta love straw mulch!! Something else I forgot to mention in the video, was that all these new beds have cardboard on the bottom, so there's nice moist food waiting down there for them, should they head that way immediately! :)

[Mrlandroverful]

Do you moisten the top of the ground before you put the worms on top of your gardens...Very interesting...ty for sharing :)) alli :)