What's going on everyone? Welcome back to our final episode with Emily Luba the crazy worm lady and in today's show I thought what I would do is throw her some problems that people will run into in their worm bin and then see what her solutions are. So I think we do that with three of the problems and then we just start talking a little bit,

little more free form about worm composting.

Really cool way to close out the episode and if you guys have any questions you'd like me to follow up with Emily about

Please go to epic gardening.com slash podcast. You can send those in maybe we'll have her back on

Maybe perhaps in spring when people are more thinking

about how to get more fertility into their gardens. So without further ado let's

close out this series with Emily Luba. All right what's up everyone we back again, and this is the final episode.

Hope you really enjoyed this series with Emily Luba, The Crazy Worm Lady, and I think

this will be more of a free-form chatty episode where I'd like to get a little feedback from you, Emily, on some of the problems that people will run into when they're first composting or just some things, some conditions they might see in

their bin and then I'll have you come in and say like probably because of this and

here's how to solve it and we'll do a couple of those real quick.

Absolutely. Okay cool how about worms crawling

upwards out of the actual bedding and food? It could be a barometric pressure

change or it could be an acidity level or

something in the bin that's not suitable for them so it would be always

something you want to check the temperature even just with your hand if it

feels hot it's definitely too hot for the worms.

Or if it's an acidity issue, you might not know that that's what it is right away,

but I always say you can never add too much bedding, and bedding kind of acts as a little buffer to help in a situation like that and adding grit.

So like the calcium source grit is what you'd really want if it's acidic.

So ground egg shell, oyster shell, garden lime, things like that.

Sprinkle that in with some bedding and I would be surprised if that's not a good fix for it.

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