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I sure hate to hear that you had trouble with worming Laurie.
Don't feel too bad, a friend of mine tried worming and killed 5 lbs of red wigglers in less than a month.
Too small bin, too much food, not enough oxygen, etc...plus he wouldn't listen!...
Have you read "Worms Eat My Garbage"? It's the Wormer's bible around here and a great source of info.
Have fun with them worms!
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Store-bought may contain things that can hurt worms. It is for improving soil, not creating a habitat for worms. IMHO it is best to feed them stuff you know is OK. No reason to take chances, lives are at stake. Right?
“I also mixed in some more compost with the food I put in.”
What does this mean? Is this store-bought compost?
The worms make the compost, so why are you mixing in some more compost?
"The Looney Side of Green"- New rock band? or that other Twillight Zone?
I think I'm almost there, folks!
The first time my wife and I harvested a tote, we thought we got all the worms and cocoons also. We pulled baby worms out of the finished compost for months (I ended up calling that tote "the Incubator".
Lots of luck in the war on flys.
Seems they would have trouble rolling a joint? Maybe a bong?
Thank You, Eve! That is just what I wanted to hear:
“I was somewhat successful with a large feeding (scraps and 5 stale rolls) but only when I nearly cut the air flow off to the bin. I got the bin to stay at 74F for most of a week.”
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Steamyb I have turned my heater off when it was a little warmer and tried keeping the FT warm with food. To date, using just food I haven't been too successful at keeping my bin warm. When the outside air temps drops below 60 the problem seems to ...
Just imagine an exterior (Subject to weather extremes) Home version Flow-thru of adequate size to allow the worms to get away when too warm or to gather up when additional heat was needed. This exterior flow-thru would be temperature regulated wee...
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- When did you start composting with worms?
- October 1, 2008
- How were you introduced to vermicomposting?
- internet
- What do your worms like to eat?
- everything
- What kinds of worms do you have?
- I bought red wigglers (I have at least 4 different types of worms) & BSFs
- What worm bins do you use?
- 18 gallon rubbermaid, 55 gallon flow-thru, 4x3x2 box
- How many pounds of garbage do your worms recycle each week?
- 10-15
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Posted on October 4, 2009 at 8:35am — 4 Comments
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- At 7:35am on November 25, 2009,
Ven Faulk said…
- Hello, my mother lives part time in Kernersville.
- At 5:54pm on September 27, 2009,
Bentley Christie said… - Hi Steamyb - I've found that the best way to combine vermicomposting with gardening is to use vermicomposting trenches. This way you can optimize the worm habitat and not have to worry about the main plant root zone sitting in swampy conditions (not that your trench should be swampy - haha).
Also, it really depends on your definition of a successful marriage of vermicomposting and gardening. I had excellent success with my laundry line bean box planters, and I have little doubt that the material left in the boxes will be loaded with tiny worms and cocoons. Obviously, it's not an ideal situation if you are actually trying to raise fat worms to sell etc, but it MAY actually be an effective way to create a really rich inoculum for future vermicomposting systems (since the harsh conditions may lead the worms to produce even more cocoons).
Anyway - just my 2 cents. Thanks for popping by, and for the kind words (sorry my site wouldn't let you comment!)
B
- At 12:32pm on September 13, 2009,
Sue said…
- So yesterday I dumped a 50 lb. bag of Black Kow pasteurized cow manure in the box (to feed the worms) and I will starve out the BSFLs
Hi steamyb:
BSFL don't consume manure?
I've got a small handfull of BSFL from below the grid of my FT today.
- At 4:23am on April 22, 2009,
Laurie Rose said…
- Thanks for the welcome steamyb. I got some very lite instructions with my worm bin, nothing like the info I found on the Internet though! I haven't actually seen my worms yet, they were under s bunch of newspaper when I got my box so I just chucked my scraps on top. I think I'll have a peak today. I have a lot to learn about this!
Happy Earth Day.
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