vermicomposters.com

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Bentley writes a great blog about worm composting. redwormcomposting.com

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Getting Started

Welcome to Vermicomposters.com!

Vermicomposters.com is a social networking community for people who have a worm bin or compost with worms or for people who are thinking about getting started and want more information.  There are 4 features of this community that I would like to point out to help you get started ([1] email notifications, [2] your own worm journal, [3] invite friends, [4… Continue

Created by Steven Chow May 28, 2008 at 7:35am. Last updated by Steven Chow Jul. 23, 2008.

 

About Vermicomposters.com

Welcome to Vermicomposters.com
Vermicomposters.com is a social networking community for people who have a worm bin/compost with worms or for people who are thinking about getting started. Read this note to help you get started on vermicomposters.com:

Vermicomposters.com Map

 Vermicomposters.com was setup to to find out how many people compost with worms so don't forget to add yourself to the map.

If you have any questions or problems with the map please post here Thank you.

Got photos on flickr? The Worm Watch feature on the vermicomposters.com homepage is being replaced.. with the vermicomposting flickr pool to make it easier for us all to update the featured photos on the vermicomposters.com homepage.. sorry for the delay on fixing Worm Watch and please help add any flickr photos you can find to the vermicomposting pool!

Vermicomposters.com WormWiki
Share your knowledge by becoming a WormWiki writer! Vermicomposting can be intimidating at first... but maybe we can help make it easier by assembling our experiences and knowledge on a wiki to help people get started. Write your own articles like Amy's How to make a worm bin bag or just pitch in on the collectively written online guide. Check out the Online Resources / Links Section

Be sure to also join the WormWiki Writers group

Latest Activity

Brent Williams updated their profile photo
34 minutes ago
Carl replied to Jason W.'s discussion 'Time spent/week?'
Thanks Mark. I've been around, just haven't had much to say. The bin has been stable for a very long time and it's been a long time since my last harvest. So, there just hasn't been anything of note.
8 hours ago
Andrew replied to Jason W.'s discussion 'Time spent/week?'
The implication is time equals work. I think this is an entertaining hobby for many here, so time spent is actually recreational. The actual "work" or time needed to maintain worm bins is minimal...maybe 10 min./week. That's for 2 wormeries with ~5…
10 hours ago
Mark from Kansas replied to Jason W.'s discussion 'Time spent/week?'
On my flow through, I spend about an hour. I have had a few set backs, and I was forced to do a top harvest. Mark Carl, Where have you been? I have often admired your photos.
11 hours ago
Randy Holmes commented on Jason's group 'Continuous Flow/Flow Through Worm Composting'
Hi guys - first post. I made the wheelie bin with PVC chimney. It's my first home made worm bin after running 2 COWs for almost 4 months. The reason for the chimney was a response to reading a few peoples tales of over heating in FT type bins due…
11 hours ago
Carl replied to Nic's discussion 'Regional Science Fair'
Good luck!
11 hours ago
Carl replied to Jason W.'s discussion 'Time spent/week?'
I have a flow through with a little less than 9 square feet of surface area. I've been doing this since Oct, 2008. If you don't count the time spent reading this site or harvesting then I spend about 7 minutes per week on this. During the day the sc…
11 hours ago
David Navarro left a comment for Luis Enrique Martinez
11 hours ago
Nic added a discussion
Regional Science Fair
 Regionals are tomarrow, so i went to set up today, and then to look around. one of my middle school friends had gotten into regionals, and guess what his project was on???? COMPOSTING. i find it funny. his project is how moisture, motion, and somet…
12 hours ago
Sandra Wilson I have had a population explosion! Had to get 3 more trays for the gusanito and they are in the top tray already! After only 3 days!
12 hours ago
Duff Bromley added a discussion
I hit the motherlode !
I put an ad on Craigslist asking if anyone still  has pumpkins sitting frozen on their porches.  I got an email from a local office that had way too many donations of squash and pumpkins for the Thanksgiving baskets and it got put in a back room and…
12 hours ago
Len replied to Jason W.'s discussion 'Time spent/week?'
I've got a homebuilt flow thru system with about a three square foot surface area. It was started last October with the remanents of bin which was under the deck but severely flooded due to a two day thunderstorm. Saved about 200 worms for the flowt…
13 hours ago
Pamela Jones commented on Pamela Jones's blog post 'Am I getting too cynical?'
More helpful observations, DSF & Jason. This made me laugh: "In his world they are "entirely different," just like a spartan and macintosh apple are "entirely different." " In case anyone is interested, here's a summary of the workshop talk that pro…
13 hours ago
Luis Enrique Martinez, Vin Cain, Randy Holmes and 2 more joined vermicomposters.com
13 hours ago
Jason W. added a discussion
Time spent/weeek?
I pride myself on doing very little with my worms and still composting all my scraps.  I've started noticing that some people seem to put a lot of work into this.    How much time do you spend/week?  For relevance, how big is your system, how long h…
13 hours ago
Jason W. replied to Alex's discussion 'Longest period before first harvest?'
Depends on your available space, and how many worms you want to recover. There are easy ways if you have some time and space. I enjoy migration sorting. Let the worms go from one side to the other, remove the castings, done. If you want coccoons, wa…
13 hours ago
Jason W. replied to Alex's discussion 'Longest period before first harvest?'
My time frame for harvest is when the bin starts getting too full, all dependant on bin size and feedings. I had one bin for almost a year before donating it to a school, never harvested. It had a lot of rich soil and a large squirm of worms (I hate…
13 hours ago
bpearcy10 replied to Nic's discussion 'cold in florida' in the group Outdoor Vermicomposters
I have an outside bin now and have noticed that adding cardboard on top of the bedding at night helps the bin hold steady temperature. Last night it actually increased 1 degree while the outside temp fell 10 degrees.
15 hours ago
bpearcy10 joined Dwayne's group
Outdoor Vermicomposters
A group for outdoor vermicomposters. Those who keep their bins, pots or containers outside or have in-ground or above-ground worm houses, exposed to the elements.
15 hours ago
Andrew commented on Garden Citizen's photo 'Egg cluster close-up'
I also don't think they look like eggs. They look like turds/castings from something...the variation in size seems too great for eggs. Some of them look like they have a whitish mold growing on them. I don't think that would happen to eggs. Is that…
17 hours ago

Forum

Jason W.

Time spent/week? 5 Replies

Started by Jason W.. Last reply by Carl 8 hours ago.

Nic

Regional Science Fair 1 Reply

Started by Nic. Last reply by Carl 11 hours ago.

Duff Bromley

I hit the motherlode !

Started by Duff Bromley 12 hours ago.

Alex

Longest period before first harvest? 9 Replies

Started by Alex. Last reply by Jason W. 13 hours ago.

Nic

Food waste weight/bin updates 9 Replies

Started by Nic. Last reply by steamyb 20 hours ago.

Nic

banana peels 5 Replies

Started by Nic. Last reply by Erick 1 day ago.

Karan Kanodia

Need numbers on the worldwide demand for vermicompost

Started by Karan Kanodia 1 day ago.

Scott

How packed should the bottom of my bin be? 5 Replies

Started by Scott. Last reply by rom mendoza 1 day ago.

Brett

Bin running slow 10 Replies

Started by Brett. Last reply by rom mendoza 1 day ago.

John Hughes

Bed, bunch, clew, or squirm? 7 Replies

Started by John Hughes. Last reply by D S Foxx 1 day ago.

RJ_Hythloday

Worm suppliers 71 Replies

Started by RJ_Hythloday. Last reply by Brett Feb 4.

John Hughes

Seeds sprouting in an active bin 9 Replies

Started by John Hughes. Last reply by John Hughes Feb 4.

Woo

I would like to know what other people find to be the worms most popular and distasteful food. 174 Replies

Started by Woo. Last reply by Buddy Byrd Feb 4.

aponivi

Icd9 clonidine poisoining

Started by aponivi Feb 4.

Malcom

Pms citalopram

Started by Malcom Feb 4.

Jake Lukis

Vermicomposting Horse Manure 7 Replies

Started by Jake Lukis. Last reply by catherine daly Feb 3.

Steven Chow

Problems with the Map of Vermicomposters? 49 Replies

Started by Steven Chow. Last reply by Eric W Feb 3.

Sarah

Small outdoor bins in the winter 7 Replies

Started by Sarah. Last reply by Andrew Feb 3.

Andrew MacDonald

What would overpopulation look like? 9 Replies

Started by Andrew MacDonald. Last reply by Andrew MacDonald Feb 3.

Shey

upper tray is too hot 7 Replies

Started by Shey. Last reply by Shey Feb 2.

Blog Posts

bpearcy10

Rabbit manure


I'm going to pick up 200 lbs of rabbit manure this weekend for my outdoor bin experiment. It's packaged in 50 lb feed sacks. When the rabbits eat the feed, the sacks are filled with rabbit manure. I've read that it needs to be "pre-composted" and "leached" first but I know of a large worm farm that

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Posted by bpearcy10 on February 7, 2010 at 4:30pm — 24 Comments

bpearcy10

Compost Harvest from 10 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck



I harvested 24 lbs from a home made 10 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck this morning. I rinsed the bin out well and re-started it with more shredded newspaper. It's the third time I've removed vermicompost from the bin, but the first time I've cleaned it out completely.



That ma

… Continue

Posted by bpearcy10 on February 7, 2010 at 8:41am — 3 Comments

Lisa Cota

Flow through - One month later

I am continually amazed at how much stuff the 35gal flow-through can handle. Some weeks I feed it three times a week, and the bind handles it beautifully. When I fed today, I noticed some worms in the zone I was feeding. It was nice to see a few, just to know they're there. I had a few brief problems with leachate in the beginning, but I was actually watering the bin by pouring water over it once a week or so. I now know not to do that. I've only had two escapees through the top, and none throug… Continue

Posted by Lisa Cota on February 6, 2010 at 6:21pm

Anna Rich

update

Unlike last winter, we're having a real one here on Long Island. I can tell by the number of days I have been grateful for my winter coat. Last year, I rued having bought a coat with a sub zero rating. This year, not so much. During a for real cold snap, I got it into my head to bring the worms in from our attached but unheated garage into the downstairs powder room that doesn't get much traffic. I was afraid the worms would freeze in the garage. This resulted in an explosion of fruit flies, wha… Continue

Posted by Anna Rich on February 6, 2010 at 1:10pm

Dave at Everwood Farm

Worm Bins: Plans for Do-It-Yourself Household stacking system

For those of you looking for a set of easy to assemble stacking type bins, heare is a complete set of plans. Uses three, 16"x24", 10 gallon Rubbermaid®, Keepers™, OR Rough Totes and you can make a flow through worm bin in an afternoon.

http://sites.google.com/site/everwoodfarm/Home/faq-s-and-links/worm-links

and click on the OSCR DIY Worm Bin which will give you a PDF

Posted by Dave at Everwood Farm on February 2, 2010 at 5:06am

geaux_worms

First Bin (45 gallon garbage can flow-through)

Hi Everyone - I've been lurking here for a while and finally got time to set up my own bin. After reading lots of posts over the past couple of months I decided to start with a continuous flow-through modeled after Jason's. I'll probably try a Rubbermaid as well in 6 months when I have some additional worms just for the experience of doing it, but I'm hoping the flow-through will be my main bin for getting rid of food and garden scraps once it gets going. Thanks to everyone here for all of the g… Continue

Posted by geaux_worms on February 1, 2010 at 11:44am — 16 Comments

Nic

food waste weighing

i have decided to try to weigh all of my family's food waste that i can use, and how much i feed my worms. i found a 16 ounce/gram(???) scale in our pantry, so i am going to use that. it could be used to see how fast my population is growing, too.i think from now on, i'm going to feed them my pre rot mush instead of whole wastes like bananas. anyone know how much a pound of worms eat????

Posted by Nic on January 27, 2010 at 3:07pm — 8 Comments

Garden Citizen

Building a child's worm farm for little tykes at home.

Today I made a worm farm for my daughter. The idea was from a book with kids crafts. Am hoping to teach her about what worms do and to allow myself to observe them a little bit closer. I just put it in a dark place and kept the lid off to make sure the worms had oxygen. The sand I used was salt water sand that I flushed several times with fresh water.

Posted by Garden Citizen on January 24, 2010 at 10:16pm — 3 Comments

Pamela Jones

Am I getting too cynical?

I went to a composting workshop yesterday at a local gardening center. The speaker was a retired professor of something (plant physiology?) at the Univ of MD, well known for its agriculture department. In this 90-minute discussion I heard four things that make me question how reliable ANY information is these days.
1. He said that vermicastings are inferior to leaf compost because the castings have a much lower percentage of lignins.
2. He said that despite what we've all read and heard over the… Continue

Posted by Pamela Jones on January 24, 2010 at 12:23pm — 5 Comments

Andrew

Dog poo composter

Credit to fellow member Catherine Daly

I've been picking up after my dog for over 13 yrs. I'd read about Bentley's cat litter composting efforts, but it was so large a system it didn't strike a chord with me. I could immediately relate to Catherine's smaller system.

I was on my way to dig this composting pit on Jan. 19th, but was… Continue

Posted by Andrew on January 23, 2010 at 5:48pm — 3 Comments

 
 

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