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Some municipalities have a "pay-as-you-throw" system, so there is some--though not enough!--incentive to reduce waste. Here in Austin, you can select among three sizes of trash bin, and the smaller one is cheaper. There is no built-in incentive, h...
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Phoenix worms and calcigrubs may be mature instars, more stable for use as bird or reptile food but not as desirable for starting a bin as mixed-stage larvae. Jerry's the only one I've seen selling grubs in scented food/bedding, which...
Re: BSF indoors--I've read that, too, but the first time I saw a soldier fly, to know it, was indoors. As I recall, I ran around like an idiot crying for someone come kill the thing. New to TX back then, what can I say? It looked like a wasp to me...
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You might also think of local nurseries as sales points for vermicompost tea (as well as castings, worms, etc.) An often overlooked opportunity, but one of my favorite local organic nurseries has fresh vermi-tea for sale on weekend...
THANK YOU! I love it when people tell me what bits to skip, and this definitely qualifies. The younger they are, the more objectionable I find the sight. Useful, yes; fun to watch, no. And as for listening, I think that's nearly as bad; when I put...
Eww! Warn a reluctant grub wrangler, would you? -G- That sight is why I topped last year's bin with dried leaves. Well, okay, so it's not quite so disturbing in a photo, especially singular, but still.
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Well, I feed some of my bokashi to worms, but I don't think I've tried just mixing the EM in without fermentation and partial composting. (Great. Another test. Just what I needed. -G-) I wouldn't recommend mixing dry (brown/carbon) bedding with EM...
What I've read suggests that food must be added to a winter bin more frequently than in summer (which may have contributed to my eventual winter stall last year, though I still think it was mostly the dried leaves everyone in the blessed world say...
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- Committed involuntary vermicide a few years back. Now in bokashi rehab, and taking teeny-tiny steps toward re-entering the wormery community.
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A bucket full of drunk worms?
Once upon a time, I had a worm bin. Then the Texas weather did what it does so well--change suddenly--and the bin became a casserole. No worms survived The Great Parboiling.
That was a few years ago. Lately, I've been re-educating myself about worms and their needs, preparing to try again. I garden more now, and yearn for vermicompost! Too, I'm curious to see how well bokashi (a sort of fermented kitchen waste) and vermicomposting work together. Some people say their EF will eat cured bokashi n… Continue
That was a few years ago. Lately, I've been re-educating myself about worms and their needs, preparing to try again. I garden more now, and yearn for vermicompost! Too, I'm curious to see how well bokashi (a sort of fermented kitchen waste) and vermicomposting work together. Some people say their EF will eat cured bokashi n… Continue
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