Sooo about a month ago I made 3 raised beds on casters with about 100 gallons of my mix in each bed.... I used some outside soil, peat, vermiculite, wood shavings, perlite, coco coir, homemade worm castings with a ton of worm eggs and juveniles and a ton of different meals and rock dust's.
I had let the bins do a short cook then planted several different things as a quick cover crop. Which is now up about 2 inches. I plan on planting ganja in the beds in the new year, so the bins have had time to break down...
The wife had bought a bag of avocados several weeks ago. It usually happens that several had gone over ripe she was gonna toss them to the worm bins. I decided to cut in half, remove pit then place face down in the beds to feed the worms a little treat...
I then began to notice an ABUNDANCE of mites eating the rotten part of the avocado. nothing plant wise seems to be effected and have even planted a few sacrificial girls to see if anything happens, before I put what i want into the beds.
My questions are, what limit would be to many if they are good? Why isn't their more easily accessible work on soil mites to read (with pictures)? Are almost all soil mites harmless? Will they aid in the break down of the organic matter in the bins go faster and make stuff plant available?
Here are a few of the pics I just took this morning... Using a cell phone sorry and these are heavily populated on the avocados not anywhere else but their are random mites on and in the Soil (like a inch deep).
I had let the bins do a short cook then planted several different things as a quick cover crop. Which is now up about 2 inches. I plan on planting ganja in the beds in the new year, so the bins have had time to break down...
The wife had bought a bag of avocados several weeks ago. It usually happens that several had gone over ripe she was gonna toss them to the worm bins. I decided to cut in half, remove pit then place face down in the beds to feed the worms a little treat...
I then began to notice an ABUNDANCE of mites eating the rotten part of the avocado. nothing plant wise seems to be effected and have even planted a few sacrificial girls to see if anything happens, before I put what i want into the beds.
My questions are, what limit would be to many if they are good? Why isn't their more easily accessible work on soil mites to read (with pictures)? Are almost all soil mites harmless? Will they aid in the break down of the organic matter in the bins go faster and make stuff plant available?
Here are a few of the pics I just took this morning... Using a cell phone sorry and these are heavily populated on the avocados not anywhere else but their are random mites on and in the Soil (like a inch deep).