Help with a mouldy worm farm

[Chris Willis]

S.O.P. Is it possible to get the link to your video? It's been driving me batty wondering where I found it the first time around :-)

[Chris Willis]

Ha, ha....cheeky suggestion. I'm gaining knowledge by the day. Maybe my worms are just having an orgy on the cow manure??? :-)

[briansworms]

Chris try this link. If it doesn't work it is in the Welcome Forum under "Hello I am Brian" second last page I think it was



http://forums.permaculture.org.au/sh...am-Brian/page5

[Chris Willis]

Thanks for that Brian....not the correct one, but I appreciate your going tot he trouble for me. I actually found it through watching that clip....it was from 'Just add worms'.....here's the link if you're interested :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOqJL...eature=related

Thanks again, Brian :-)

[briansworms]

Thanks Chris. I like the way he has the tubs elevated. I was surprized when he said he had only about 6,000 worms in there. I would have expected more. It would be about 1 1/2kg of worms. I just packed some of my breeding beds which are 32lt cement mixing trays with 4,000 worms and my grower bed the same size with 12,000 worms. Thats almost wall to wall worm.

In just over 3 weeks time I will harvest all the eggs and worms from my grower beds. I will place the worms back into the bed with fresh bedding and the eggs and castings will go into an incubation bed to hatch. The problem I see with the bathtub idea from a production point of view is the amount of bedding to sift through every 4 weeks. Thats the reason I have changed to the minimal bedding maximum worm system. I spent nearly 3 days over Easter sifting through my beds and still didn't finish.

I still have some bigger beds that I haven't done but will leave them as is so I can supply the Bed Run market where I take a bucket of worms, bedding and eggs out and sell this way. It is the same as SOP did and if you supply your friend. Can't post them that way so the other method is for worm only sales. Thanks again for the link.

[Chris Willis]

Glad you liked the link, Brian. You really can learn anything on YouTube, can't you? I love to learn....keep on keeping on, I say :-)