roughbarked said:
Lucky1 said:
I sold my worm farms off last year . Not enough food for all the mouths in my yard.
Well, don’t sit there talking about it, make some.
Agreed. There’s food everywhere for worms, newspaper, weeds, egg cartons etc. But.. I’ve found worm farms time consuming and two I have on the patio get barely anything but they still survive. At times I’ve scraps in abundance to feed them with, other times it’s just soaked newspapers, or soaked dirt encrusted hessian bags.
The ones I have between fruit trees sitting directly on the ground though, what I call my ‘inground farms’ as they don’t have the liquid tray underneath, are powering on with all the liquid going straight to the tree’s roots. It’s been an experiment of sorts and I can see very good results. A dwarf lime I planted out 15 months ago has yielded four kilos of limes. Two other dwarf limes that are 4 and 5 years old that aren’t near a worm farm, are really struggling, with smaller fruit. They are half the height of the good one that’s loaded with fruit. They are all the same type and get the same water and nutrients. So I’ve been picking up unwanted worm farms to place in other areas between an apple and pear trees, another spot with a lemon and an orange and another will go next to the bigger lime at the back fence. I don’t harvest these inground farms, just keep adding scraps and watering them weekly. Eventually when all three trays are full, I will grab the top tray off and resite it and rake the casts about. I love it when I can see actual results.