https://www.redwormcomposting.com/gardening/vermicomposting-trenches-vs-vermicomposting-planters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vermicomposting-trenches-vs-vermicomposting-planters WAY Too Much Fun With Worms! Fri, 12 Apr 2019 01:48:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.redwormcomposting.com/gardening/vermicomposting-trenches-vs-vermicomposting-planters/comment-page-1/#comment-1047106 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 01:48:40 +0000 https://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=512330#comment-1047106 Hi Jane
I do recommend using a pit underneath a vermi-planter, but basically it is an above-ground planter box that has compartments for growing plants AND a compartment for vermicomposting. The plant roots are able to extended into the vermicomposting compartment – so it is similar to other vermigardening approaches in that regard. Hope that clarifies.

]]> https://www.redwormcomposting.com/gardening/vermicomposting-trenches-vs-vermicomposting-planters/comment-page-1/#comment-1047105 Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:14:48 +0000 https://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=512330#comment-1047105 Bentley, is the vermi-planter idea using a trench down the length of a large raised bed, or using pits or buried buckets with holes in which bedding and food scraps are regularly added?

]]> https://www.redwormcomposting.com/gardening/vermicomposting-trenches-vs-vermicomposting-planters/comment-page-1/#comment-1046997 Sat, 16 Mar 2019 19:07:18 +0000 https://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=512330#comment-1046997 Great Mark – I love the name! Haha
Reminds me of the sort of hybrid, multi-functional systems I enjoy creating (like my hay bale gardening, trench vermicomposting worm bed back in 2015)
Definitely interested to learn more about this project if you go ahead with it. Will you have a water reservoir of some sort for the “wicking”?

]]> https://www.redwormcomposting.com/gardening/vermicomposting-trenches-vs-vermicomposting-planters/comment-page-1/#comment-1046995 Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:38:23 +0000 https://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=512330#comment-1046995 Hi Bentley, I’ve been planning a planter, simialar to yours, calling it, my square foot, straw bale, wicking bed(sip) planning using milk crates and crates I’ve made with a wood bottom and 1/2 “ hardware cloth side the worm compartment would be the ones I made with hardware cloth and surrounded by milk crates I’ve read most of you blog re the planter, straw bales etc
If I do it I’ll try to get you some pics
My best
Mark

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