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Fish meal is an excellent source of nitrogen and trace elements.. other good oil seed cakes which are easily available too are Cotton seed cake and Mustard seed cake.. i was reading about the use of sugarcane waste which decomposes very quickly due to sugar content... The reading i've done so far s...

That's a solid... aged, compost manure would be great to add along with the above. Would imagine blood meal good too if used sparingly. Not sure about fish meal, i imagine one would want to keep protein out of bins. Seed cakes are a great idea too, specifically neem

How so? Based on this diet or just worm castings generally?

Great point. What they produce will be as good as what they get fed.

Lets assume for the sake of discussion they're fed purely vegetable leftovers and kitchen scraps.

As the title says, would any of you use worm castings if they were available in the market? Some info on the benefits of using Worm Castings and what they are: Worm Castings - What are they? How do they work? http://www.tastefulgarden.com/store/pc/Worm-Castings-d114.htm 5 Benefits of Earthworm Casti...

I have notice if you put good soil to start with ie a lot of organic matter you don't need to breed worms. I sometimes think now there are too many worms in my beds..... I think there's a little confusion here. I don't put the worms themselves in my soil. I use the poop that the worms produce (cast...

Jawad you can try out a nursery in your area. Ask them for 'Kechwa'... at least that's what my maali calls em

Thanks for sharing this, Nice Do it yourself

ovais909 wrote:bump!

Sorry Ovais, was out of town. You could get them from bait sellers. Or tip some nurseries to collect worms for you... cuts out the middleman.

Lol... Im sure you've guessed it already Newton. There were enough clues in my previous post