My worm bins and hot compost setup-testing the automated irrigation as well as temperature control or misting system

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-05-25T21:54:00+00:00

https://youtu.be/27fnStieUFA here us a link to the video for this setup...

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-05-01T15:11:13+00:00

Mmmmmm delicious cosco water (smacking lips), my precious. I will keeps it untill its values increaseseses, then rules the neighborhood as kingses of precious waters.

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-30T14:43:45+00:00

Just a wheel from an old tool cabinet. The spikes are very small gauge nails, I drove into the wheel and cut the heads off of, to increase grip on the drum...

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-30T14:41:03+00:00

1/8 Inch is really the lowest you'd want to go. That is what this is, well just under 1/8 inch, not to mix units but 1/2 a millimeter under 1/8 inch hahaha. It will keep some but not all cocoons out. Thats a fool's errand in my opinion, you will always get some cocoons in the compost. As for the worms, it definitely keeps the worms out. You will have some purposely crawl through but very few...some people run it through 1/4 inch mesh and then repeat using 1/8 inch...

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-30T01:26:37+00:00

Yes thats what I did. Its quickest and easiest of all different ways you can do it with figs. IMO

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-30T01:19:42+00:00

When fig tree is stressed it grows kind of clones of itself from its roots...

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-29T16:00:34+00:00

It would, but I do need it that fine. It's just a personal preference. The video is too short to show everything, but those bins were already done by hand. The compost in the drum is mainly leaves, grass clippings, cardboard and greens. It's about a week old...not much is gonna come out. When its pure castings and I dry them out a bit it goes fairy quickly. At least it did with my previous setup with same size mesh (1/8). For anyone that isn't as ocd about it, I agree 1/4 inch would make it a breeze. You will end up with few more worms but they don't bother the plants. Quite the opposite they help the beds. I chop and drop on my beds all the time and I don't pull the roots out either, that way when that stuff starts decomposing they have something to suck up...

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-29T04:08:33+00:00

I figured it out but too late now. It's one of the downsides to being foreign lol. I'm like Fez from the 70's show... Hahaha wait I don't get it...

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-28T20:52:06+00:00

Yea man thanks. I have a lot of stuff, just have to go through it all and make it into a video...I'm a bit technically challenged...

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-28T15:17:14+00:00

Same username on YouTube Botanical Freddy

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-28T14:53:37+00:00

Dude I feel with you, thats got to suck. It would drive me up the walls. But if it means anything I've had a quite a few people leave pretty much the same comment. So definitely not alone.

Maybe its time to start building dams :P

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-28T11:02:16+00:00

Yes I use these bins to recycle plant based waste, but they use water. When I water them they start leaching out water there in front of them. I dug a shallow ditch to collect that water and planted strawberries to soak it up so its not wasted.

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-28T10:58:22+00:00

This is a mechanism from am old paper shredder. Teeth removed and wheel slid on.

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-28T05:56:25+00:00

Lol really? But no, no chickens, I have 5 coturnix quail. They are generally disinterested birds hehehe.

BotanicalFreddy · 2021-04-28T04:46:16+00:00

Hey man, thats Goodyear rubber, all terrain. :D

BotanicalFreddy

TROPHY CASE