Well, I did do something grow related today.
I harvested a section of my worm bin that has been sitting for quite a while. He still had quite a few worms in it, but they were very lethargic. I'm gonna do my best to potter up everything in the next few days, so I don't think I will sort those worms out. This will mean I will probably have some worms in some Earth box juniors. I've never done that just for the hassle of harvesting them at the end.
I got about two thirds of a 5 gallon bucket of nice dense dark material!
So I put the top section on the bottom and made up a top section with fresh coco, Place it on top of where the worms are and sink it into the material so they have their little pathways to go to the new section and a nice big layer of food, intermingled with shredded paper. I put out the store bought grain feed And my frozen concoction that I made from some fresh bananas, avocados, the biomass from making
J and the worked material from dry ice shake and infusions. I also kind of heavily salted it with volcanic tuft to help me worms breakdown. Not only does that help their digestion but through the process they could just make a little bit of that silica available.
This time I didn't take up the old leftover food. Basically because there was none other than some avocado shells. Normally I would take up any remaining food items and place it on the top section. I may have to go back in there and remove the avocado hulls, if the worms are not migrating upwards. I did have a literal handful, and I have big hands, of worms from underneath one avocado. I should have went ahead and transferred all of them up to the top section, but I didn't.
Here is the top before I thoroughly wetted it down.
So the next step is to put newspaper on top of all that. I have several layers and I wet them down as I go. Any news print is good as long as it is not slick is a good rule of thumb to go by. I get several layers I'll wetted down And then I trim up a pizza box for the final cover. I wear it down thoroughly also and we'll have to go back every day for a bit to get it thoroughly wetted.
I'll check it for worms in the top section in about 4 or 5 days I should see some activity. It really is kind of amazing how they can find the new food.
Best thing about this is it'll kick me in gear to get the grow going come because I'm not going to waste those worms.
It's just that my pain levels here recently with the physical therapy and it's not letting me have much motivation to get in there to the grow room and do what needs to be done. I'm kind of getting tired of that crap!