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At low amounts I think most things are ok but in his mix I really think its unnecessary. I'm just a soil freak and avoid as many X factors as I can. If it looks like I'm running short on anything I bubble 1/4 kelp meal with a TBS of molasses for a few days and all issues should be taken care of.
Well at least we agree on something lol. Insects are great their so underappreciated. I bet you have some happy chickens. Really if we cared more for our planet we would cut out 90% of beef and replace it with insect protein. But I don't know very many who would be cool with that.
Hey brother, that's the thing, I think, about organic cultivation methods--it allows a great degree of what I will call artistry.
I would be all over the invert protein IF it came in the form of garden snails. I flippin' LOVE escargot and know how to clean out wild-caught snails. And, of course, where I live? NARY a single garden snail, nary a single one!
Try playing around with other sugars. ;)
I can get good compost, just not worm castings in particular.
Then start up a small colony of mealworms for their frass, perhaps? They're damn near carefree. In fact, my granddaughter has a "new" colony because she wanted a pet while she's visit. I just grab a plastic container, a carrot, some wheat bran, oatmeal and dig out some bugs and we're off to the races. If you order online you pretty much only get the juvenile worms, so you'll have to feed those and wait for them to pupate into adults, let those reproduce, but within a couple or three months you'll have a self-sustaining colony of DRY bugs, not wet. Feeding them is different from worms, though, because you only use 'dry' veggies, never wet veggies.