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I do it by hand so the pieces aren't really uniform. I would say 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch. What kind of shredder did you have that would cut cardboard? I use the rotary cutter because it is something I already have and I can do it while I watch tv.
If you're weird, we all are. How thick are the strips you cut? My shredded recently pooped out. It was a hand me down anyway.
Thank you everyone for replying about the twigs. Call me weird but my worms r my babies and I don't want 2 do anything 2 hurt them :)
I thought I would share something that I do with my cardboard. I read where someone bought a heavy duty paper sh...
I've noticed that the bins with lots of twigs (and therefore LOTS of air holes) seems to produce more babies than the ones with shredded newspaper. I may be imagining it, but I'm going to keep watching. The bins with newspaper produce better looki...
Like susan, I put sticks and twigs and corn cobs around the bottom of the bin to create air spaces and prevent things from getting so matted down. Especially when the bin starts to get mature they seem to really help prevent the bottom most areas ...
I've got some bits and pieces of wood too. I regret it now cuz they take so long to break down, but they certainly don't get matted like cardboard and newspaper can. I've even been wondering if the worms are reproducing even faster in the bins tha...
I put plenty of twigs in and havent had any problems, I dont have any like scientific evidence or whatever to back that up, thats just been my experience. Worms in the wild are in twigs all the time right ;) They do decay slow as christmas though....
Will someone please answer a question. I just read on another site where twigs are harmful to my red worms. I have been putting 1 inch twigs in my worm bin and now I am very worried. Cathy
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- When did you start composting with worms?
- March 1, 1985
- How were you introduced to vermicomposting?
- ad
- What do your worms like to eat?
- all garbage especially banana peels
- What kinds of worms do you have?
- red wiglers and Europeon Nightcrawlers
- What worm bins do you use?
- plastic boxes with fold tops
- How many pounds of garbage do your worms recycle each week?
- 6+
- About Me:
- fisherman, gardener, lure maker, computer nut
- Website:
- http://www.woofish.com
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- At 9:07am on August 3, 2008,
Dwayne said… - Woo. My worms like cantaloupe and I found out the babies like cucumber as of yesterday. Say, I went to your website. I know this is a worm forum but MAN those are some nice stripers and that shad you are holding is a monster! We love to fish here in Florida and get stripers and shad but have focused more on tarpon and redfish recently. OH, back to worms...they seem to love horse manure too.... Dwayne
- At 9:37am on May 13, 2008,
Steven Chow said… - Thanks for letting me know about the problem with the video upload. I just tried myself, it is finicky with avi's. Although, I had better luck with "windows media" files (i.e. .wmv) Are you on a Windows computer? If so you can use "Windows Movie Maker".. which comes free with windows.. to convert it to wmv. Or else, I can try to convert it for you so you can upload it.
- At 9:15pm on May 12, 2008,
Toby Adams said… - Thanks Woo, I visited the site that Steve told me to go to and I learned that different worms go to different depths in the soil. This information will be very helpfull.
I didn't know that the European night crawler was more heat resistant than red wigglers but I always liked how big they were. This is definately good info to know.
I have a friend named Steve who had a beautiful garden. When my friend Joyce and I would go to visit and if he wasn't home we would just go in his garden and work. He had the biggest worms I had ever seen and every time I would find one I would hold it up for Joyce to see (forgetting that she was afraid of worms). Boy, she had the funniest yell. I couldn't help but show her every worm I found.
I enjoyed your pictures you posted. What kind of worms do you presently have?
Thanks again for the info.
Toby Adams
- At 4:36am on May 12, 2008,
Woo said… - My thanks to Steven for starting this very enjoyable site.....Woo
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