There's a lot of talk about fungal dominant compost and fungal to bacterial ratios in compost and soils. What exactly does that mean? Join us this Wiggle Wednesday to learn all about it.
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@johnnmartens306710 ай бұрын
I started 3 years ago to build Johnson su bio reactors I compost chicken bedding which consists of wood chips,leaves,hay grown in the back yard I also add soaked wood chips,leaves,bone char,fish waste,rock dusts Basalt, Wollastonite, Volcanophos, Gypsum, & Soft Rock Phosphate,sea 90 mineral salt,granular humic acid,bokashi fermented food scraps,chicken guts and feathers,homemade fish hydrolysate,and two year aged compost to inoculate the pile after the heat comes down I add red wiggles and nightcawlers i always keep it covered with leaves amazing how fast the biology breaks down the leaves ontop have to constantly replace the leaves and I water in fish hydrolysate occasionally I’ve used this compost on my garden and cover crops and it’s day and night
@breatharianinstituteАй бұрын
Impressive array you've made. Kudos
@spavle11 ай бұрын
I stumbled here in my "how to reduce weeds naturally and organically" down the rabbit hole. I am very happy and satisfied with everything I saw and heard in the presentation.
@UrbanWormCompany11 ай бұрын
Wonderful! Glad you liked it
@clivesconundrumgarden Жыл бұрын
Excellent Troy!! Really fascinating about not adding sugars to teas. It makes a ton of sense !! Cheers
@theonkgahle874 Жыл бұрын
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@civismesecret9 ай бұрын
Sir you respond all my questions, very well presented thank you
@daveyjones8374 Жыл бұрын
You make some excellent points. Thank you. And FWIW I believe the knf rice protocol is provided at least in part to discourage the short sighted from disturbing or taking forest soils home by the truckload. Thanks for the excellent info
@RADCOMJ1 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow i just watched lots of Rhonda's videos last night😊 she's so fecking cool... Globetrotting vermicompost queen👍😍
@UrbanWormCompany Жыл бұрын
Yep! Rhonda gets around....in a good way! 😆
@michaelboudreaux40957 ай бұрын
Haven't started my worm farm. I am waiting for the weather to warm a little. But do enjoy the videos and will have many questions in the future. Thanks again!
@jennywu5457 Жыл бұрын
This is the BEST - I love these Wiggle Wednesdays. So rare to find solid reliable scientific advice on worms rather than just KZfaq opinions.
@Look-to-NatureHomestead8 ай бұрын
Great information neighbor! I'm from Lansdale. I've read that all part of the black walnut tree contain juglone, except it is strongest in the wood material. Also in low amounts in hickory and locust
@brentfellers9632 Жыл бұрын
🇨🇦 new worm wrangler here! Just found your channel 😊 subbed and rang the bell! 🇨🇦
@UrbanWormCompany Жыл бұрын
Welcome!
@jimlewis19927 ай бұрын
9:44 Start
@kinsjsmggoiktaylor5659 Жыл бұрын
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@jshkrueger Жыл бұрын
A free digital conference we can attend online from home would be wonderful!
@TshepoMacd-kz1ok9 ай бұрын
Gman From South Africa
@AlvinMcManus Жыл бұрын
#Replay from Silicon Valley CA. You're looking sharp. Sorry I couldn't do the live.
@anthonyromano85655 ай бұрын
Why have I been dorking out over microbes and fungus for the last 3 years. once you get worm bin you cant turn back.
@evelynknight5627 Жыл бұрын
Maybe this is a dumb question, but hopefully not too dumb! My question is - why would we care to make our vermicompost more fungal as opposed to more bacterial? To expand... I assume a lot of us fixated on the vermicompost aspect of the business are likely doing it for their gardens (or someone else's garden). The plants grown in said gardens/farms would be lower in the plant succession chart, and therefore more on the bacterial/nitrate side as opposed to more fungal/ammonia side. So wouldn't it be more desired to foster bacteria over fungi, unless you're going for trees or something? Did I miss a crucial point for this fungal-dominated over bacterial-dominated vermicompost? Or is it more that the fungi more easily tear through the carbons in the bin?
@UrbanWormCompany Жыл бұрын
Good question Evelyn...and hopefully the video communicated that you don't necessarily want fungal vermicomposts over bacterial in all cases. Yes, lots of garden vegetables would want a more bacterial vermicompost. But arborists or folks simply wanting to revitalize trees and shrubs would most certainly want a more fungal vermicompost. Less weed pressure with more fungal vermicompost as well.
@evelynknight5627 Жыл бұрын
@@UrbanWormCompany Thank you for taking the time to answer my question! I must have missed that point in the video. Just was just so much hype that I was beginning to wonder if any respectable vermicomposter would be trying to shoot for more fungal vs bacterial, especially since there's a whole facility aiming to do so. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
@Preza89 Жыл бұрын
@@evelynknight5627one more thing. It is true that most garden plants needs bacterially dominated soils, but that they doesn't need presence of fungi in soil, or fungal biomass. However, as we going from early successional vegetables to row crops, we are talking about a presence of much higher percentage of fungal biomass in soils for row crops than for early successional plants, or even a mid successional plants. So F:B ratio is literally the crucially important thing to consider in order to grow plants from wanted succession. So from right F:B ration, or right fungal biomass it will depend which kind of plants will thrive in that soil. So if we have a fungal dominated compost, we will fastly regenerate soil in the way to get right amount of fungal biomass and F:B ratio for plants we want to grow.
@geoffkopecky36529 ай бұрын
Brilliant information. I have myco fungi in the older bark pieces around my lawn. How do I transfer the fungi on the bark to the roots of my lawn which is several feet away?
@mannymanny9123 Жыл бұрын
Is millipede casting full of fungi?
@michaelupton90099 ай бұрын
Hello from NC
@ncsuee08 Жыл бұрын
We're in the RDU area and just started learning about vermiculture and would love to attend this year if you have it
@UrbanWormCompany Жыл бұрын
Thanks for letting us know Jon! I'd make sure to come over to UrbanWormCompany.com to join our e-mail list. That's our main method of communication about these events!
@gillsuter13109 ай бұрын
From Tasmanian Temperate Rainforest regeneration property in Australia 👋
@xx71016 ай бұрын
Informative, appreciated
@theresarothenberger2264 Жыл бұрын
Theresa from WI
@daviddawson17185 ай бұрын
What do you mean "cedar,"? We have virtually no cedar. We have Juniper and Thuja, but only in a small pocket in Arkansas.
@daviddawson17185 ай бұрын
Red wood ain't cedar either. Some specificity is needed here. This is why we use scientific terms such as Thuja Plicata.
@eve66able Жыл бұрын
On the 19th of February I‘m holding a worm workshop in Pula, Croatia. Where could I get the info for that meeting in Florence?
@anjumaziz8562Ай бұрын
Must move to no till.
@scjw1959 Жыл бұрын
With your compost how do you get it to heat up with no high nitrogen component, if your starting materials are 2/3 browns and 1/3 greens? Or is it just expected that it will just take longer to decompose. Is the only reason for hot composting is to get rid of weed seeds, kill pathogens and speed up the decomposition process ? Thank you!
@themizaru11 ай бұрын
nice
@UrbanWormCompany11 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@timmcilraith876219 күн бұрын
Do you think that adding biochar to the food scraps or the soil helps the worms ?
@UrbanWormCompany18 күн бұрын
It can definitely help the microbial environment in the soil and there's some evidence the worms can use the smaller particles of biochar as grit
@timmcilraith876218 күн бұрын
Thanks for your quick answer. Would adding dry yeast to food scraps or soil help the worms or plants ?
@trinsit5 ай бұрын
32:00 what video? Where?
@percivalcallao1293 Жыл бұрын
Mine has fungi and small flies also because I don't cover it every time I cover my bin my worms try to scape
@Mstymntntop Жыл бұрын
I have a compost bin, and the ph is right around 6.4. I have noticed some fungi presence as well as flying bugs. Do I need to worry about the bugs in the compost? Or should I just let the pile age and hope the bugs die off?
@zacklee-of3te10 ай бұрын
The flying bugs are fine, in fact, it’s a clue of more microbes etc in the compost pile
@anjumaziz8562Ай бұрын
After reading all the comments. Pl allow me to share the following I here in pakistan, started mulching😢 wheat🎉 and rice straw. No need for wigglers was observed. Since mulching lowers soil temp and food for😢😢😢 wigglers🎉 wigglers start multiplying. On their own. Just put owdc, organic waste composer. Put it in a dr🎉😢😢😮um and add😢😢😢 to irrigation water. Good luck.
@sgransar Жыл бұрын
Is Coir fiber and coffee grounds good sources of food for fungi?
@zacklee-of3te10 ай бұрын
Coffe ground are great. Trichoderma is likely one of the first that will be on coffee grounds if not penicillin
@jeffsanderson2737 Жыл бұрын
Converse Louisiana
@jimd161711 ай бұрын
loveee
@UrbanWormCompany11 ай бұрын
Thanks Jim!
@jeffclark71503 ай бұрын
Ms gulf coast
@user-lh3ne8wt9s Жыл бұрын
To complicated. Sorry gardening should be fun not a pain.
@SoCalgardener Жыл бұрын
Then don’t listen to their advice… for some people we like “complicated” or knowledgeable advice :)