Comments for Red Worm Composting

Comment on My New Wooden Flow-Through Bin by Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 27 May 2012 02:50:45 +0000

At first I thought it was pretty good size, then I saw your cat and now I think he’s pretty good size lol

Comment on A Mite is a Mite is a Mite? Not Quite! by Tamera

Tamera — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:22:06 +0000

I was getting some castings yesterday for some worm tea from my bin and noticeda a good many odd grey worms with a red tip at what looks like their head part. I was wondering if these guys are anything to worry about. My euros are not trying to escape and I found some worm eggs as well as a baby worm while getting my castings, but those little grey worms sure grossed me out. Are they harmful? And how do I get rid of them? Yuk!

Comment on My New Wooden Flow-Through Bin by wormbin

wormbin — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:00:48 +0000

Hi Bentley,
Is it not too late to put some 2″ of ready worm compost at the very bottom of the bin? The paper might become dry and hard to scrape later.

Comment on Euros vs Reds-5-17-12 by Laura

Laura — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:01:53 +0000

I originally thought the EF’s had the dice loaded against them

Comment on My New Wooden Flow-Through Bin by Laura

Laura — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:55:11 +0000

Interesting, looks and works like a beehive! Bentley is that harvest bar fixed to a rail and does it travel below the full bottom surface, or does it just move up and down in one spot?

Comment on Worm Inn Journal-05-23-12 by Peter

Peter — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:47:33 +0000

I always put a good top layer of old VC with my worm inn. It sits about 6 feet behind the livingroom sofa so smell is not an option. With this method I never get smells. I also find with watering the top, the top layer gets populated with worms very quickly and they seem to work from the top down as well as the bottom up. Highly recommend to anyone else to have a side bucket of harvest VC for this usage.

PS. It’s the only thing I’ve found to stop broccoli from smelling no matter what.

Comment on Store-Bought “Manure” as Worm Bedding/Food? by Terri

Terri — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:56:15 +0000

Bentley, no kidding! I suppose it was eating peat all that time. Now it will have to adapt to cardboard and apple cores, LOL!

Comment on Store-Bought “Manure” as Worm Bedding/Food? by Bentley

Bentley — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:46:17 +0000

TERRI – These worms never cease to amaze me! One thing I do know is that any worms born into a given environment tend to be better adapted for that environment than those introduced into it – so perhaps this helps to explain what happened with your wiggler. Or perhaps it just got lucky!

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ALEX – Just keep an eye on the worms. You never know – they may like it. I’m actually seeing some worms moving into the material already!

Comment on Why Do Red Worms Love Brown Cardboard? by Adam

Adam — Thu, 24 May 2012 02:37:11 +0000

Thanks Mike. I’ll probably just continue playing it safe by cutting all of that glue off. Tedious task, but got to take care of all my little guys.

Comment on Store-Bought “Manure” as Worm Bedding/Food? by Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 May 2012 02:22:35 +0000

This is so Ironic I just bought some composted cow manure and put it into my worm bin :\