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Welcome to lesson 5
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Introduction to AVSA |
| This lesson we will recheck our kits and make sure they are doing good. |
| Review what we have learned this far. |
| Learn how AVSA can solve the problem we might have in our kits! |
Ok, how is your Vermi kit doing?
Is it damp enough? Is it too moist?
Are the worms eating the bedding? Are you overfeeding or underfeeding?
Is there any unpleasant odor?
Are their pests, fruit flies?
What is the general appearance of the earthworms? Are they lively and a deep red? Are they healthy looking? Are they pale and lifeless, inactive or sluggish?
email me with the answers.
What we have learned thus far redworms and vermicomposting!
What has changed about your thinking regarding earthworms? Are they good guys or bad?
Do you like growing them? Do you enjoy working with them and caring for them?
Do you see how they can grow and multiply quickly? Have you found any egg capsules yet?
Can you identify the bad pests from the good ones?
What AVSA can do to solve the problems.
1. AVSA is designed in such a way that it drains to the front, which makes it simple, easy and fast to catch all of the nutrient rich, leach water, that all of your plants will love, it contains some of the nutrients but not as many, as the vermicompost water.
2. AVSA helps control pests by its having an inside location and simple means of using cans to put the legs into and fly strips above.
3. AVSA helps control the temperature by being located indoors, where fans may be used in extreme hot weather and heat strips can be used in extreme cold weather.
4. AVSA eliminates the mess of separating and makes it into a fast, easy process.
5. AVSA saves all of those babies and eggs that are lost in the vermicomposting, where they don't do any good. It keeps them with the working adults, to grow and produce themselves!
6. AVSA will make you MONEY! Both in the production of vermicompost and earthworms.
Now, we will build a scale model of AVSA, that will clearly show you how to build the real thing and how it works.... Get out your scissors, cardboard, ruler and glue, It's FUN time!
To start with: Print this page to keep while you build our "Scale Model AVSA".
I'd like everyone to build a "cardboard" to scale AVSA unit. Just so that you can get it right. When you see how simple it is to build and use. It will make it far easier to do it for real, when you get ready for the larger units. Do you have your plans in front of you?
What you will need:
Poster board 1 sheet
glue (or glue stick)
exacto knife (or scissors)
ruler
pencil
Scale is:
| 1' = 2" |
| 1/2' = 1" |
| 1/3' = 2/3" (4" angle iron) |
| 1/4' = 1/2" ( 3" angle iron) |
| 1/6' = 1/3" ( 2" angle iron) |
(since these will all be "angle iron" from poster board, double the width and fold lengthwise.)
AVSA is 4'6" high, by 4' by 4' (Its a four foot square box that is sitting on legs, with the back elevated up one foot higher then the front = angled). The legs are 3" angle iron (scale=1/2") the frame parts are 2" (scale=1/3").
So your "Model AVSA" will be 9" x 8" x 8". The angle iron would be:
Legs = cut 4 strips that are each 9" by 1 1/3" wide, fold these in half lengthwise.
Top supports, bottom supports (front and back), front SGA supports, are all 8" long x 2/3" (folded lengthwise for the angle iron.)
The bottom side supports are cut at angles on each end, follow the plan directions and get this right!
Follow the AVSA plan directions, but substitute the scale measurements above. I want to know where you have a problem, what you don't understand. So email me with any and all questions,
Lets get it right in poster board before we jump to the real thing, its a whole easier to start over this way then the other. I want AVSA to work for you and work right, so please save any of your own "new improvements" for the next one. Just do the basic for now...
This is important to do, so please try to make time and do it.. we can weed out a whole lot of headaches with this simple first step.
Have fun and let me know.
Thanks for attending Vermy school. I hope you found the information helpful. You can now say with honesty "I have worms!" .
Feel free to contact me with any questions, concerns or observations.. Judy
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