InjectTruth
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After several years of recycling soil in varying ways, from partially to completely, from remixing to no till, I have had varying degrees of success and a small share of issues.
One issue that comes up continually is reamending and cooking soils. Ive had a few batches of soil that i mixed that i didnt turn or wet sufficiently during the cooking process, and so when I transplanted and watered, my plants would get funky twisted up, discolored and stunted, as the cooking process commenced in situ.
Now that I have had a worm bin cranking for about a year, Ive been wondering more and more about feeding my worms my 'uncooked' soil mix, and then growing in the resultant 'pure' castings. Perlite and turface make it through the worm feast no problem.
It seems with this method, one would never have too hot a soil and the microbial populations would already be well established.
Once you got your compost/casting schedule on point, mixing up medium would be simply castings and a little additional aeration, if needed. Could even use the mix for clones/seedlings and give em a bit of a headstart.
Anyone actually done this? I know everyone with a worm bin has thought it at least once.
One issue that comes up continually is reamending and cooking soils. Ive had a few batches of soil that i mixed that i didnt turn or wet sufficiently during the cooking process, and so when I transplanted and watered, my plants would get funky twisted up, discolored and stunted, as the cooking process commenced in situ.
Now that I have had a worm bin cranking for about a year, Ive been wondering more and more about feeding my worms my 'uncooked' soil mix, and then growing in the resultant 'pure' castings. Perlite and turface make it through the worm feast no problem.
It seems with this method, one would never have too hot a soil and the microbial populations would already be well established.
Once you got your compost/casting schedule on point, mixing up medium would be simply castings and a little additional aeration, if needed. Could even use the mix for clones/seedlings and give em a bit of a headstart.
Anyone actually done this? I know everyone with a worm bin has thought it at least once.