Comments on: Adding Composting Worms to a “Back to Eden” Garden? https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/adding-composting-worms-to-a-back-to-eden-garden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adding-composting-worms-to-a-back-to-eden-garden WAY Too Much Fun With Worms! Sat, 14 Nov 2015 20:41:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mr-Yan https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/adding-composting-worms-to-a-back-to-eden-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-45240 Sat, 14 Nov 2015 20:41:01 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=10308#comment-45240 I do raised beds with heavy mulch and tried two beds with your vermi-gardening mulch idea this year. For this I used a mix of shredded mulch and shredded fall leaves with chopped kitchen scraps and other green stuff put down before the mulch and leaves. This is over the soil that was created by a combination of straw bale and lasagna gardening a few years ago. While this is not a back to eden garden by the letter of the movie it has worked well for me and does much the same thing as the film shows.

I have strong worm populations in these gardens. Each season I mix in more pre-composted organic matter also.

One part I think the film glossed over was his chickens. Notice he pointed to the chicken pen and called it his soil factory. The mulch is there to hold the moisture, contain weed population, and soften the ground not build soil nutrients. Our soil factories are worm bins.

]]> By: Ben https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/adding-composting-worms-to-a-back-to-eden-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-45207 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:56:15 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=10308#comment-45207 Jay,
My experience with woodchips is favourable for worms. I have to process a lot of
green waste so it is important that it is not allowed to pile up and go anaerobic which
is what would happen if it was placed straight on the ground. I use the windrow method
of worm farming in my chook run because it is shaded by the plants i grow on the wire
netting. The chook run is nice and long which allows me to spread green waste in
different sections according to how quickly it is being processed by the worms which
come from in from the surrounding garden. The bottom layer is a 300mm thick layer
of wood chip and on top of that I put the green waste constantly and on top of that I
put a thick layer of cardboard which is lifted up and put back when I put more green
waste on. The cardboard functions as a cover to makes it nice and dark for the worms
and stops the green waste volatilizing precious nitrogen into the atmosphere and also
limits the smell and flies and keeps the neighbours happy 🙂
Cheers
Ben

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