What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

Today is a solo episode. I know it feels like it's been a while since I've even done one of those.

But we're going to talk about a recipe that you can feed your worms to produce great compost.

So, you know, when we're talking about verma composting, most of the time you're giving

them your food scraps, you're making sure you're giving them things that they can break down well, you give them some bedding so that they have a little bit of a home, they have something to transport themselves through, but what if you had to fatten up your worms? Let's say you were a commercial worm producer and you wanted to

you know really boost the population of your worms, well what would you do?

We can take those same principles and mimic them at the home vermin composting level

to have a really vigorous and productive

bin. So it might surprise you to know that there actually are commercial

worm chows available or commercial versions of food that you would just feed your

worms. In fact there's actually a product from Purina called Purina

Worm Chow so that actually exists but there's no need to buy it when you can just make it yourself

so here's an interesting recipe that works pretty well.

Two cups of rolled oats, one cup of yellow cornmeal, a half cup of alfalfa meal, an eighth

cup of dried and powdered egg shells.

You can microwave them or bake them to eliminate the risk of salmonella transferring into

your compost bin and then an eighth cup of azimite.

So what you want to do is take your rolled oats

and take your cornmeal and blitz them in a grinder,

like just a food processor or something like that.

You want them to be finely powdered and you want to do the same thing

with your eggshells. Then you mix it all together. So the eggshells and the azimite are doing is they're

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