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Micky,
I live in Bay County, FL just a little south of you and we haven't had any freezing weather, but I try to keep the worms from getting below 40 degrees F.
Rocky
Musicbar,
I don't know where you live, but if you need to move your flowthrough indoors or outdoors with seasonal changes, having wheels on it is a back saver. I started this spring with one pound of EFs in a gusitano WF, and grew into a 60 gal city…
According to Wikipedia all land snails are vegetarians. They come from eggs and they need calcium to be present to form their shells, and they won't hatch until there is calcium available. That could explain why they hatched in the worm bin but not…
Definitely snails. I grew up with exactly that variety all over the place in the Phoenix, Az area.
That sure looks like them. There seems to be 7 spirals on both the ones you present as well as the ones I pictured. I will look up that family name on Wikipedia and see if they are a hazard to my worms. I am gong to pick as many of them as I can fin…
Well It's some kind of mollusk. Snails seem like the most likely candidate. It's possible they are just mostly inside their shells when your'e examining them. These snails from the Chondrinidae family are 6mm in length and look pretty similar, those…
It's possable there are snail eggs in the manure. They would only hatch out when conditions are right.
Thee is no reference to size in those pictures. There is no foot and no head with antennae that I can see on these things. Just hair like stuff that clings onto the bedding or whatever in the bin. I haven't looked down under the surface to see if th…
I have mostly been putting aged horse manure in the worm bin, but there are none of those shells in the bin I store the manure in. So I din't know where they came from.
tom
I was thinking snails or the sea shell variety you usually find on a beach. Out of curiosity, what kinds of things go into your bin that people in less tropical areas may not put in theirs? Or maybe just a variety local to your area but if so you mu…
Those look like snails to me. Their shells can be cone/spiral shaped:
So, treat them as you do snails. Not much of a threat, to say the least.
I found these little (approx. 1/4 inch long) ice cream cone shaped shells with little hairs at the big end, like tentacles with which thy attach to things.
I will attempt to attach a photo. If a photo doesn't appear, tell me how to do that, please.…
If you have the space, you can try pre-composting your kitchen waste in an outdoor bin. Let it sit for a week or so before feeding it to the worms. If you can't do that (don't have an outdoor bin, like me), try feeding a little less each time. Some…
I have a hard time keeping one of my bins from generating heat. I started with a bedding of coir and newspaper. I added a bunch of old dried beans and the temp really took off.
My other bin was started with bagged composted steer manure, and has ne…
Yep, manure is both. It's great stuff if you have access to it. I don't like the idea of buying stuff for my worm bin though. Whenever possible I like the idea of using material otherwise destined to be discarded.
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- When did you start composting with worms?
- March 13, 2009
- How were you introduced to vermicomposting?
- Google search
- What do your worms like to eat?
- Aged horse manure for food, leaf mould from my hot compost bin for bedding. The food scraps go into the hot compost bin before going into the worm bin.
- What kinds of worms do you have?
- E. foetida, I started with one pound.
- What worm bins do you use?
- I have a Gusitano WB which I no longer use. I built a 50 gal. Continuous Flow Through from a city curbside garbage can.
- How many pounds of garbage do your worms recycle each week?
- 8 to 10 pounds
- My Vermicomposters.com Map Entry URL:
- http://vermicomposters.ning.com/profile/TomStone
- About Me:
- I am a retired dentist living in Northwest Florida. I have a 3 bin compost pile made of loading pallets started 5/22/09 . I have a gusitano worm bin started 3/14/09( it is too slow). On 6/22/09 I built a 50 gal flow through bin using a city wheeled garbage can.
I have a small garden and I fish in fresh water ( vermicompost and worms).
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- At 2:18pm on August 10, 2009,
Sue said…
- Hi Tom,
just wondering how your worms are doing in your CFT. Did you manage to reach your recycling quota of 8-10 lb/wk?
My bin is so deep (and I am short, lol) I can't even check on mine.
- At 10:23am on July 4, 2009,
Debra Fillingim said…
- Tom-how right you are! Certainly I should know something about it if I started in Dec 1953! I'm guessing I started in May. I love the little guys and keep them happy as we eat a lot of veggies and have scraps. I plant to pull some tea soon for some plant outside.
Grant is a bit south of Melbourne. About 2.5 hours south of Daytona on the east coast. We are about 10 miles from the ocean-1mile from the river. Our neighborhood is a bit prissy-rules and all that-but rural. We often have deer in the year as well as other critters.
We have family in Pensacola so we get there pretty often. Love that area and would probably head up there but our kids are here and one grandbaby.
I have started doing growboxes too with great success and I am about to order seeds to grow my own food this fall.
Blessings
Debra
- At 8:17pm on June 9, 2009,
- Hi Tom,
I just came back from the recycling drop off depot in my area. There are lots and lots of those 90 gal. blue bins but I cannot have any of them. However......., there is one that lost its wheels and one of the lid's hinges is broken. The guy on duty is willing to part with it. My problem, I DO NEED wheels on it so I have to figure out how to "jimmy" it.and I wish you were my neighbour so you can help me get that bin home after I figured out the wheel problem. Will be a tough job cutting through the thick wall but I think it will be good for the worms come winter. They can bundle up in the centre of the bin.
From there I went to the hardware store to look for wheels. Boy, are they expensive. The size of the wheels are about the same as a dolly's so I guess I will be checking the craigs list.
- At 3:15pm on June 9, 2009,
- Sorry Tom, I'm from the old school.
- At 2:04pm on June 9, 2009,
Tom Stone said…
- Sue in response to your question Re: photos of my "city garbage can on wheels flow through" : No I don't know how to post photos. If anyone could tell me how I will take some and post them.
- At 9:45am on June 9, 2009,
- Tom, have you finished the 50 gal. flow through? Any pictures for us to see?
No SUV for me, pity!
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