Why? Just curious, I’ve been tossing what I find outside in pots since I started and didn’t really think much about it.
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I want a bunch of red wrigglers… 
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I have found contrary to everything I read, that red wigglers will live well in the raised beds too. It just has to be rich with compost. They are particularly fond of molding leaf litter. They lay and feed right along with the night crawler worms.
I will try to run out and flip a scoop of soil over. You will notice the abundance of both worms. I never seeded my composters with the red wigglers. Ironically they just showed up. Then as I added the compost to my raised beds I noticed the red ones survived and thrived too. I am pleasantly surprised to find out this is possible.
That said in the off season I usually pile the leaves ontop of the beds as tall as my waist or higher. I go with my wheel burrow and load up the leaves my neighbors dump for the city. And at the bottom of the hill on my dead end street.
They all think I am crazy. I hit it with any microbe boost that has trichoderma in it. The trichoderma are the best at breaking stuff down. It is really more like a compost booster. If I don’t hit the microbeboost the leaves do not rot out in time for spring. Side by side bed trials with leaves shows a dramatic difference in compost rates.
Relevant tangent, I read trichoderma was first identified on guano coral islands during the pacific theater in WW2. The canvas tents the troops had would start to fall apart and rot in a few days when trichoderma got on them.
@BassNBricks if you have extra Amazon boxes, the non waxy non painted cardboard is a good option. It breaks down into carbon and holds the moisture down. It also seems to fire up the microbes. The longer I grow the more I find cardboard is a very good tool in growing. Weed suppression and moisture retention and microbe booster. Trace the bottom of a pot on a box and you got a template for a top cover; or rip it into a leaf litter like consistency like a mulch.
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@ChittyChittyBangin I want to try to do a run organically. Do you know where or how I can get started
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@BassNBricks sure thing brother! Lemme get done at work and ill holler at cha shortly!
@BassNBricks you got IG?
@ChittyChittyBangin i do but i dont have the app i can download it
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Gotcha. Look me up on there. Same name…
@ChittyChittyBangin will do right now. question… i checkd my ph this morning and it was low like 5 low. i used one of the strips us distilled water and lt it sit 20 minutes. i believe my ph soil is low. also in my other plant i transplanted it today i did a run off test going in was 6.7 coming out was 5.5 ( when i transplanted some of the soil was brand new dont know how consistent happy frog is) howver i believe this to be from too much nitrogen i hear it not being used by plant can cause lower ph numbers. so my question to you is how do i raise my soil ph?
lastly i will not that i ordered a apera 20 TDS pen, itll be here weds
Baking Soda. Start with about a teaspoon. Stir well and check the ph. Keep adding a lil bit at a time allowing it to dissolve and rechecking ph until your desired number is reached.
@ChittyChittyBangin so lik put some in water then feed with that or stir some into soil
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Dilute it in the water then water the soil
@ChittyChittyBangin thanks thats what i thought anyways i pulled up insta is your profile blank? or have any under spaces_
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