Yep, establishing a bin leaves one in an awkward position. I don’t have enough worms to be able to put in enough scraps to create enough moisture. I don’t have enough worms to fill enough bins to create a cycle yet. I assumed the first 6 months would be a push and pull while I wait for the worms...
This is the fourth run in a row where K has been showing itself in my leaves and I can see a pattern. At this point many growers would add more K or bump up their feeds. That’s not necessary. There’s plenty of K in my mix and trying to force more in will create some vicious issues.
Instead I...
I have no choice in my bin. Newspaper must go across the top to lock in moisture or the worms retreat to the bottom of the bin and don’t process the top layers. The room they’re in is warm and most often dry. While it’s annoying for moisture retention it’s really a boon for worm binning and soil...
Bud set is beginning on the untopped plants. Still stretching the topped plants. There have been some great observations and results this run. The manifold especially proved out this run. We’ve got pencil to highlighter sized branches across the topped plants which are putting the untopped...
I got baked and paranoid and pulled out one of the males from the room 🤣
Not sure what that was supposed to do since there’s another one in there. I’ll be putting it back but now I’m gonna make sure I mark the pollen so I know which male was the stressed one. Although to be fair, the plant...
@Gee64 @Azimuth and other worm farmers. When adding/using newspaper, do you guys add/use pages with color photos? It’s become increasingly difficult to find newspapers with just black and white