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If you haven't already you should check out David Attenborough's new BBC series Life. The adaptations species have made to exploit certain niches always amazes me. And the excellent filming only improves on the series.
I find this all fascinating. If I could go back in time to my college days I might have convinced myself out of accounting and into the area of botany or horticulture.
That is some weird stuff! Seems it lives (comes to grow?) in spots with favourable conditions, which looks like it might not even be your whole bin:
When the food supply wanes, the plasmodium will migrate to the surface of its substrate and trans...
Had to google slime mold just because of the name, found it quite fascinating so far. From what I've read so far this doesn't look like anything I'd want in my worm bin. Best case scenario is that it feeds on the same kinds of micro-organisms our ...
Its slime mold. Slime Mold
When i lived in the pacific northwest in the wet seasons i could sometime see it slowly inching its way across the lawn.
I'd be interested to see what these mushrooms look like, could you possibly add a picture? I recently had a yellow mold outbreak in my bin, it too was scary looking!
I scraped off what I could from the sides, dug down into the bedding and pushed it in... then wiped the sides clean(er) with a wet paper towel... it hasn't grown back yet so that's good! ...works=worms** (Darn auto-spell)
So the mold will be eaten by the works ultimately? Is there Anything I can do to prevent this from happening again?
It's just one of nature's many moulds! Bury it gently in some damp shredded bedding and I bet it will be gone in a few days!
So here are my latest bin conditions, I added one pound worms to my bin(10/22), then the next day I defrosted and processed some food(spaghetti,mixed vegetables, a takeout salad that was never eaten-no dressing), a few days prior to this I added...
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- When did you start composting with worms?
- June 21, 2009
- How were you introduced to vermicomposting?
- SoYouWanna.com, Liking this website much better though.
- What do your worms like to eat?
- What I've tried : Potato Peels, Egg Shells, Coffee Grounds, Watermelon/Cantalope, Onion, Banana Peels, Watermelon Rinds, Lettuce, Spaghetti, Tea Bags, Pumpkin,
- What kinds of worms do you have?
- Started with 100, Added 1/2lb. 7/3/2009, 25 on 8/5, 25 on 8/7, 1lb on 10/22
- What worm bins do you use?
- A Sterilite Container
- How many pounds of garbage do your worms recycle each week?
- 1+, I dont measure but I keep the wormies well fed.
- My Vermicomposters.com Map Entry URL:
- http://vermicomposters.com/wormbin?id=1141
- About Me:
- Hi :) I've always wanted to make a composting bin, and have always put off for fear of it being too hard. But so far it hasn't been, I'm finding it to be a relaxing fun project. I'm still in the beginning stages and I must admit, a bin is labor/patience/time consuming. I think my bin is towards the end of its construction time. Improved screen at bottom so the worms can't escape. Going to start letting the worms do their thing :)
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Yesterday I spent about 3.5 hours doing maintenance to my bin... I started off with only about 15 smalls holes in the bottom(I remember reading 100's would be better) So I shifted bin contents from one side to the other, lifted up the screen, drilled about 100+ holes and re-hot glue gunned the screen down and around.
I was surprised at just how many worms I saw, and I also think they've gotten bigger because there were a lot of little ones last time. There was also a decent amount of worm poop… Continue
I was surprised at just how many worms I saw, and I also think they've gotten bigger because there were a lot of little ones last time. There was also a decent amount of worm poop… Continue
Posted on October 4, 2009 at 6:30am —
Status: Improvement
I've made 4-6 of the fruit fly contraptions in the past two weeks, and most of the fruit flys have now left my bin(and my house :)). Big big thank you to Jeffrey for the video, it worked just great with a watermelon piece, and cut up old banana as bait.
I searched my bin, and most of the food that I had put in seems to be gone. Except I did notice a lot of cut up potato peels I had added, they must take longer to decompose? I've decided to give the whole freezing process another try. I searched… Continue
I searched my bin, and most of the food that I had put in seems to be gone. Except I did notice a lot of cut up potato peels I had added, they must take longer to decompose? I've decided to give the whole freezing process another try. I searched… Continue
Posted on August 28, 2009 at 1:49pm — 16 Comments
Checked in...
Last night I was reading up on here about bins heating up sometimes from the food, and that that can be a problem for the worms and they will try to escape. So, the time before last I noticed that the pocket of food, which happened to frozen, and then thawed over night and put in bin - was a little bit warm. So I checked on my bin last night, there was excessive moisture on the top once again, and a few worms were working their ways up and tyring to find a way to escape.
So, I put on a plastic… Continue
So, I put on a plastic… Continue
Posted on August 1, 2009 at 11:09am — 11 Comments
Trouble in Wormadise/Now Brighter Days
Well, a few days ago I checked in on my bin, and found there was a lot of moisture. So I left the lid open, but never closed it back up. A family member closed it but didn't secure it. So yesterday I walk past the bin, and I see stringy dry things on the floor... and I'm like what is that(I've got three dogs so nothings surprises me anymore), but it turns out they were worms. I picked up about 15 dead dried worms. Checked on my bin and once again too much moisture. So I left it open to air out,… Continue
Posted on July 24, 2009 at 8:30am — 6 Comments
8 Days Later...
It's been 8 days since I added new worms to my bin, I was hoping they weren't freaking out and escaping, surprisingly only one had wandered up and fell out when I opened. I checked the corner I usually put food around, and all the food I added was gone except the eggshells. I was so happy :) I put another load of food in, and am going to start asking friends to save scraps. I've only got probably 700 or less worms, but they seem to be liking and enjoying my bin. Very happy with the progression :… Continue
Posted on July 11, 2009 at 10:44am — 4 Comments
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- At 1:53pm on October 22, 2009,
Eve said…
- There is a drawer that is easily pulled out for emptying. The NoSkedo came with two light bulbs and the first one has never gone out. I've had it for about 5 years with only seasonal use until last fall when i started using it every night until spring. It does work best after dark. It catches any kind of bug the ones without wings just take longer to get there. There is some fan noise but not too loud.
The bugs can stay inside and dehydrate. I only bother emptying it on weekends. And when it gets emptied i take the whole thing outside first. Just in case there are a few live ones inside.
- At 7:08pm on October 21, 2009,
Eve said…
- It sucks in the fruit flies in fine. But i had to put a very thin fabric screen in the NoSkedo to keep them there. The fruit flies are so small that they can go all the way through.
It didn't get all the fruit flies but did a credible job. It would clear out the house at night and i would have half a day without too many fruit flies. Then they would hatch out another batch by evening. It was very bad and it turned out that it wasn't all the worm bins fault. I had a secondary infestation. They had gotten into my potatoes and kept reinfecting my bin, until i found the bad bag and got rid of them. The bag of potatoes had gotten pushed into the back of the pantry.
When it was real bad I did find a combination of the 'pop bottle fruit fly trap' in the videos, the NoSkedo and placing a solid layer of cardboard directly on top of the bedding did keep them under control enough that i could sit down next to the bin and eat an apple without having to guard the apple from fruit flies.
Then spring came along and i made a new flow through and put the worms outside. They are going to be in the garage this winter.
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