What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're back with Emily Luba and this is a cool episode because I think with many types of things in gardening you hear all this conventional wisdom or this tried and true wisdom that you don't question and that's just not how

Emily the Crazy Worm Lady role she wanted to test all of the conventional

wisdom that people tell you about worm composting things like what you can and can't put in your

bin, the type of worms that you might want to use, all sorts of interesting things and

her results might surprise you. So let's go ahead and drop into today's episode.

All right, we are back today with Emily Luba the crazy worm lady

and I think what's cool about the way that you've approached

Roma composting is you do a lot of these about the way that you've approached

Verma Composting is you do a lot of these side-by-side experiments.

You do a lot of testing and in gardening in worm composting it seems like in

anything in this world

a lot of commonly held wisdom that may or may not be true,

kind of like an old wives tale type of thing.

And I'm really curious, some of the things

that you've tested and in your own experience either do or don't check out when compared to that conventional wisdom.

Yeah, so I've had a lot of fun with this. We actually started a Facebook group just devoted to

experimenting with the worm bins, but I started out my first experiment that I did was freezing food versus not

freezing the food to see how fast it was broken down and that was really fun for me because a lot of people said, you know, it's

taking up you're using electricity to freeze your scraps, you know, you don't

really need to do it, but I wanted to test it for myself and the difference

and how quickly the food broke down was incredible and it was well worth it to me.

I think I had avocado that was fresh in my bin for

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