3 Different Types of Worms
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today I'm with Steve Churchill of the Urban Worm Company. We're talking about 3 different classes of worms that exist and which make the most sense to use in your worm composting bin.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening and we are doing another guest |
| 0:06.7 | week and it's a guest that I'm actually shocked that I haven't had on the |
| 0:09.6 | podcast because he's been everywhere on Instagram as well as YouTube in the past and this is |
| 0:14.6 | Steve Churchill of the urban worm company he makes my favorite worm bag the |
| 0:19.9 | urban worm bag and so what I thought we'd do he's actually here in the studio right now |
| 0:23.5 | which is a rare treat so we're gonna do the worm week we're gonna try to cover some |
| 0:27.0 | topics that we haven't covered in the past and we're gonna start it out with the |
| 0:30.8 | three classes of worms and some of their characteristics so that you |
| 0:35.0 | know maybe what you should and should not consider as an option for your |
| 0:39.6 | worm bag. |
| 0:40.6 | Thanks Kevin so one of the things that I always have to explain to people is that earthworms are really different depending on what kind of class that they are. So you've got you people think that a worm is a worm is a worm again, there's nothing that can be farther from the truth. |
| 0:55.0 | There are something like 7,000 to up to 9,000 different earthworm species, |
| 1:01.0 | and they are broken down into three different classes and we'll |
| 1:04.8 | we'll handle them from the deep burrowers up to the surface feeders. The first one is |
| 1:09.4 | the anisek worms. These are your night crawlers. These are the ones that when you dig down really far in the ground that you're going to find |
| 1:16.7 | You're going to find really deep in the soil these are large muscular worms that that will make their way down into compact soil down as far as six to even nine feet. |
| 1:27.0 | Moving farther up you have endogiac these are a little bit less common than the aniseic but these are going to be really kind of in the topsoil, maybe down around a foot or so, maybe a foot and a half. |
| 1:38.8 | These are going to be really kind of pale worms if you dig them up. |
| 1:43.0 | Again, I'm not even sure what, there are a few species that I know of, but I won't even |
| 1:47.6 | go into that right now. |
| 1:50.1 | It is, it's again, a less common worm than somebody would expect to find in deeper |
| 1:56.3 | soil like the night crawler but then if you go up right into the very top |
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