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Bing
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Eisenia Hortensis Wormers
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- When did you start composting with worms?
- June 7, 2008
- How were you introduced to vermicomposting?
- county & cooperative extension sponsored workshop
- What do your worms like to eat?
- microbes ;-)
- What kinds of worms do you have?
- fetida & hortensis
- What worm bins do you use?
- 2 Wriggly Wranches; 2 Sterilite 70-qt. Ultra Latch Storage Boxes; 1 homemade OSCR Jr.
- How many pounds of garbage do your worms recycle each week?
- 5, but I need an extra 10 each week to reach 100% worm recycling
- My Vermicomposters.com Map Entry URL:
- http://vermicomposters.com/wormbin?id=421
- About Me:
- I'm eating lots of fruit right now, so I'm reaching upwards of 15 pounds of garbage each week. The rinds from just 1 watermelon are pretty heavy! I am trying to grow my worm herd, so I can reach 100% worm recycling soon.
Bin 1: Wriggly Wranch; 2.55 sq. ft.; fetida; started 07-June-08
Bin 2: Wriggly Wranch; 2.55 sq. ft.; hortensis; started 29-July-08
Bin 3: Sterilite 70-quart; 2.95 sq. ft.; hortensis; started 09-July-08
Bin 4: Sterilite 70-quart; 2.95 sq. ft.; hortensis; started 11-August-08
Bin 5: homemade OSCR Jr
Bing's Blog
8/21/08 Update: The Worms Formerly Known as Red Worms
I've been a bit busy and haven't felt motivated to participate much in the online discussion, but here's a quick vermicomposting update. I went from 3 red worm bins down to 1. What happened? I mentioned in a previous blog entry that I ordered some extra eisenia fetida (red worms) from trinity-ranch.com even though you can get worms for a few bucks cheaper elsewhere. If you have read as much of the online vericomposting forum archives as I have, you'd f… Continue
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 7:36pm —
August 11 Update
Over the weekend, I ended up dumping about 15 pounds of kitchen waste into my backyard "hot compost" pile because my indoor worms haven't been able to keep up. Lots of watermelon, cantaloupe, and coffee grinds accumulated from the past two weeks. (I recently read an online comment from someone who asserted that any family that produces over 5 pounds of compostable kitchen waste each week is too rich to contemplate worm composting... I was bemused by that comment. I am certainly not rich. I am al… Continue
Posted on August 11th, 2008 at 11:56am — 3 Comments
August 4 Update
Nothing major happened this week. My worms in all 3 active bins seem happy. I still have a large population of those brownish-reddish pinhead sized mites in my Bin 1, but since merging my worms from my initial 1 lb. purchase back together into this bin there seems to be less of the mites crawling around. I slightly overfed my ENCs in Bin 3, but quickly remedied that by moving a large piece of watermelon rind that had gotten quite brown-green and limp into Bin 1. Today, I saw there were several j… Continue
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment
July 29 Update
A lot of things happened since my last update, so just some rapid-fire thoughts from the past week in chronological order. My 1 lb. red worm order from Trinity Ranch didn't ship last week. No replies to my e-mails, but finally called on Friday and reached someone. Didn't ship due to hot weather in Missouri. Wish there was any communication! Had my empty Wriggly Wranch pre-seasoned for the Trinity worms for 2 weeks... mostly hand shredded newspaper strips with some machine shredded amazon.com b… Continue
Posted on July 29th, 2008 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment
July 21 Update
I am amazed. My 1 pound of european nightcrawlers completely devoured about 3 pounds of previously frozen food in 3 days. Watermelon rinds, tomato, broccoli, and asparagus bits are all gone... well, except for the really cool paper-like skins that the worms can't digest readily. I'll have to toss in some more defrosted food from the freezer cache tonight! I would estimate that my red worms are probably eating much less than half of their mass in food each day, but that might be explained by the… Continue
Posted on July 21st, 2008 at 7:30am —
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Yep I put 2 bins together, and "shortened" the bin with a chunk of styrofoam. I'm real excited/anxious to see if they start populating more. I've read where if you do this AND stop feeding, it puts them in survivor mode, and they pop cocoons to ensure future generations. I'm not going to do that though!
Thanks. I was reading one of your threads last evening about your Europeans. Sounds like they are good composters. I have thought about trying them or Africans. It is really hot here and I don't know how the Euros would do down here. Africans are pretty common. Thanks again. Dwayne
I've never had any worms escape through the holes. They aren't covered with any cloth or anything. I usually have some worms hanging on the sides and the lid, as condensation does form. But it's by no means a mass exodus or anything. Some are just curious, or like extra moisture. Never have I had any on the floor or anything.
Sherry
Craigslist isn't nearly as popular in my area, so look at groups like Kijiji and FreeCycle/FullCircles for worms/composters as well.
Sherry