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They stay in or under the pots. Mine are full of red wigglers because I set the girls outside every once in a while. They're reproducing, too, lots of babies.I personally find lady bugs to be a waste of time. They must be released during a dark cycle and be prepared to find dead lady bugs in your light hoods and vents and I have tried them in several grows at different locations none with results that didn't require additional measures.
Worms in an indoor grow while I like the idea of the air pockets sounds messy. And the idea of worms crawling around my room just doesn't sound appealing to me.
Yes, dican, you can have worms in your soil pots indoors. I didn't introduce mine, they introduced themselves.
They stay in or under the pots. Mine are full of red wigglers because I set the girls outside every once in a while. They're reproducing, too, lots of babies.
Maybe I should get some pix of mine when they wake up.
Sorry if this sounds stupid... Instead of worm castings in soil, can you just put a couple live worms in your containers?
Sounds interesting. Would it be possible for you to post that article?
Thanks
i still remain a skeptic. i wouldn't dare dream of introducing them myself into my 5 gallon buckets. not enough room for them to work there magic. i think red worms, and all worms for that matter, are best kept outside. you make a nice bedding for them out of newspaper, you feed them your garbage (vegetable and fruit scraps, eggshells, cardboard, etc.), and they give you castings, which you can then harvest and top dress your plants as needed, or make teas.
indoors, i like to have control over how much nitrogen is in the soil. especially during flowering. while the castings that they produce are beneficial to my indoor garden, i do not think them digging around in there will benefit my plants health. it may work for some people but the only way i could imagine it is a huge bed of soil. i grow in buckets and i think i will leave the critters outdoors.
just found some mushrooms in my indoor garden this morning. makes me think there is not enough good fungus in gardening (ie mycorrhizae). hope to see more in the future.
but not only do worms provide a natural nitrogen rich fertilizer, they naturally aerate the soil and provide much needed oxygen to the roots. they create little tunnels as they wiggle through the dirt and in the process they also virtually eliminate the possibility of dry pockets in your soil. i believe it was aristotle that called the worms the "intestines of the earth", and the chinese used to call them the "angels of the soil". worms are very beneficial in many ways. I wouldn't see a problem putting them in a container. just one farmers take on it.
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