Permaculture Worm Tower

http://www.permacultureplanet.com
Leonnie Shanahan explains how to build your own Worm Tower and keep your garden fertilised with worm castings the natural way. For more information please visit; http://www.permaculturenoosa.com.au

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• permaculture
• worms
• worm
• tower
• compost
• sustainability

[solidlight1]

By looking at the photograph of her worm tower, I think she meant to saw 52 cm in CIRCUMFERENCE, not diameter. That's 20" and if you measure that around the pipe, it looks like the one in the video.

[dprimetime69]

Anyone know why the first biodome failed? Worms baby. The creatures are amazing. Any Dendrobaena worm will do for this application - you want the ones that chill on the top layer of soil rather than deeper down.

@BikeManDan1 - while invasive species pose an incredible threat world-wide, I would argue that worms would be perhaps the exception. But having vermicomposted in both the EU and US, you can find regional varieties rather easily with a little research.

[infamouscrook]

@BikeManDan1 i think you are right. The ground has native composting worms either european or red wigglers. Why would you need them to be store bought and not the native worms? They still leave castings behind and they are responsible for the soil that is already there...

[BikeManDan1]

Its questionable to me introducing non native red wrigglers into an unconfined environment. I say even better, make an environment thats favorable to native worms and reap the same benefits

[infamouscrook]

@HomeworkHelper1 what's their difference in the composting process?

[BigBluHaze]

@gobsiter can someone tell me if you could you use newspaper instead of straw? and how many worms do you need? Thanks ya'll

[gobsiter]

you dont need special worms. they can come in time but will take a year or more to get a usefull amount picking the ones in lcompost heap will give you a start also for those into salmon fishing you will find that this will atract biger worm varites that wont live/bread in other systems

[shazandjoe]

@binashraf ; My sentiments exactly. how do we know by doing it that way we are not contaminating our earth with Worms that will kill our native worms and do more harm than good??

[shazandjoe]

@yannagretchen you shouldn't need to empty as it will all decompose down and be eaten by the earth worms, unless you have too much waste and then you shoudl perhaps make another one, somewhere else in the garden if there is!

[tabletopphoto]

sure she mean potted plant