Are we talking about worm piles being ate by worms. How are you moving all the worms? Im just making sure our lingo is the same here is all. I run a worm bing indoors. so Im not familure with worm piles outside? Shutting them down? I mean once their a pile of shit dont the worms just go to a new food source? Im interested for sure. Tell me more about this process. Id like to do the worms outside if i could. Does it freeze where you live? How do you handle winter? Im going to be honest, never looked into any of this so point me to a article i should read and im all about it..
So are you saying that that neem that i have mixed into my soil mix and top dressings will not have the same insecticide properties as neem oil does? I thought that was the point of neem. Tell me more. Shit I never did much reading into it.
Neem cake in the soil mix will help with pests for sure. Neem oil well I wood never spray that on cannabis. Tried it once ruined my flowers nasty taste left and I used it in VEG not flower and bud washed. Neem cake I add to my soil mix and amend with it between runs.
On the worm thing. We run Vermi-composting bins. Its not a worm farm. The bins are 50 or more meters from our home because country living and critters LOVE compost.
Yeah so a vermi-bin is kitchen scraps, some yard waste leaves and I add some soil amendments like kelp meal and rock dust when I feel like it. The bins will attract worms and they will populate the bin. We use the bin and the worms eat the waste. In winter time temps are low enough worms die off after laying eggs. We let one bin after the winter time go dormant and begin using a 2nd bin full time.
As the dormant bin sits the compost breaks down ever further - it's not 100% EWC its composted scraps mixed with worm castings and eventually more worms. The worms in the bin make it to my containers or garden beds.
We take that dormant bin in the spring and sift it thru a screen and toss the larger particles back into the active bin and repeat.
Our vermi bins are 100 plus gallons and have a locking lid.... yup raccoons figure out how to open it and cats dig their way in. The challenge is real. Bears just tackle the whole shebang and why we have anther open pile we add bones and meat scraps to. Thats where the bear and the crows eat.