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It could be many things happening here. For starters don't add bread and definitely don't use baby carrots. Use regular carrots and potatoes as food and oats or wheat germ as substrate. Make sure you have a lid and keep it shut and if you're adding fresh food weekly you shouldn't need to do anything else to increase the humidity, you might be making it too humid. Also watch for pesticides. If you treat your home for pests or have pets that you put flea control on, that pesticide can transfer from your hands to the meal worms when you're handling them or their food and even the tiniest bit could wipe out your colony. Hope this helps!

​@@ThePessimisticGardener I couldn't locate wheat bran, so I used oats. I don't have any other animals/creatures, so I don't have to worry about pesticides. If the apartments being fumigated I'll move them someplace else where they are safe. I was going to blend up the oats into a powder but thought it would sufficate the mealworms. I'm removing the bread, baby carrots, and the old mealworm container. The bin has small holes in the top for air

That's very punny!

No one is debating whether it is natural. It's about the environmental impact of mining and shipping the material. Do you know the process involved in mining this natural material? That's the problem, most people don't understand the impact of so many of the materials we use in our gardening hobbies. It's important to consider that.

Telling things how they actually are is not negative my friend, it is just reality. You're obviously the kind of person who pretends like everything is perfect all the time even when it's not. If that's the content you are looking for, then why are you on a page called "The Pessimistic Gardener?" You may need to work on your reading comprehension skills, friend. Check the dictionary if you don't know the definition o the word pessimistic. Thanks for the added views and engagement, though!

@@johndyson4109 oh my friend how wrong you are. A simple few seconds spent on Google could have shared you the embarrassment of this publicly wrong information. They are not even in the same order, much less the same family. Please do some research friend, so you won't embarrass yourself again in the future. But thanks for the engagement on my post! 😊

I'm not sure who that was directed at but certainly not at me I hope. If you haven't noticed from my videos, we didn't really have grass in our yard except for a small sliver in front of our fence, and we leave the clippings there for the most part to compost in place. We only rarely collect the clippings when our compost pile needs more matter added to it.

Nowhere near I-75. You can check the county's website to see their multiple free mulch locations.

That's awesome! We have reached out to a few arborists but to no avail. It seems like the new trend here is too just grind up the trees in place and leave the organic matter where the tree was, or not mulch at all.

@@JOSEPH-vs2gc thank you so much for your support of my channel! It's comments like yours that get more views on my channel so please keep them coming, even if they are misdirected. With more comments like yours, I'll eventually get enough views to monetize this channel. 😊

@@ThePessimisticGardener that's fine, i have no problem monetizing you. However just know that people dose Aquariums with CO2 on purpose for a reason, y'know so the plants grow faster? CO2 is oxygen for plants after all. The carbon foot print is not your problem, there are bigger problems than that, such as that chemical spill in 0hio a while back. Or that powerplant in japan tsunami in 2010. Those are real problems.

Amen to this comment. People blindly believe the hype without trying to understand.

We were fortunate not the get hit head in by this storm, just got the southern edge of it but it was still enough to take out more banana plants, Chaya plants, and most plants in the yard have severe wind burn, including the strawberry tree. It could've been worse though and we're thankful it wasn't.

This is average size in our yard, they get bigger even!

I don't think you'll find them there, at least not for long!

I love mulberries, unfortunately they do not thrive in our garden as they are susceptible to nematodes and our garden is full of them. We are leaving the state for many reasons. It's not the state I grew up in and loved, more and more natural areas are bulldozed every day, more people moving here from other places with no respect for the wildlife here, traffic is an absolute nightmare, the heat has become intolerable, the growing season for vegetable plants is getting shorter (but longer in northern climates), our garden gets completely destroyed by a hurricane every few years, I keep getting skin cancer despite taking all the precautions (so sunshine is not a plus for me anymore), and the political situation is out of control in this state. So we have a million reasons to leave my home state, but very few reasons to stay!

@@ThePessimisticGardener @ThePessimisticGardener That's a bummer! Nematodes are nearly impossible to get rid of... And I can agree with most of that. Sad to hear, but it sounds like you'll be happier for it. Good luck!

Thanks for the suggestion, I have gotten this suggestion a few times so I will try that next time! I did try crushed walnut shell and that was far superior to perlite, so now I will compare rice hulls and crushed walnut shell. I love these great alternatives!

They are just about everywhere in florida.

Florida, they're invasive here

Ma'am, did you read the title of the channel that you are watching? The down sides of gardening is exactly what this channel is about, honesty and truth and not hiding the bad. This is not "rainbows and unicorns and butterflies gardening". If you don't like what you see, consider scrolling on to the next gardening channel that will only show you the upsides and hide all the things that can and will go wrong. Check yourself before you wreck yourself!

Hello! No, we have not experienced that issue at all, not with the Florida Hass variety.

Good idea! I'll definitely try to reuse it, it should last a while.