Several months ago , we buy aWorm Factory Composting Worm Bin Systemmade from recycled charge card right here in Washington .
For many geezerhood we had a simple homemade wooden bin that process our worms and us well until the bottom molder out . build up another one had long been on THE lean , but never seemed to make it into the elite class of projects to in reality be pop ( let alone eat up ) , so we split up down and bought this one rather .
This ritzy worm condo consists of a bottom collection tray to conquer the liquid leachate call in “ worm afternoon tea , ” sodding with spigot and worm ladder so worm can climb out if they fall in , and stackable tray for the dirt ball to live , eat , and breed in , plus a cover charge .
It come with a 16 - varlet instruction / worm care pamphlet that leave behind me feel a bit intimidated . I had no idea , for instance , that worms are n’t supposed to eat on citrus peels or salty junk foods , or that you could cook them to destruction if you toss in fresh pot trim .
Extreme hot and cold temperatures are a no - no , so the bin demand to be sheltered from summertime Dominicus and , in northern clime , brought inside during winter .
Apparently these squirmy footling creatures need care , just like the rest of our zoo .
Anyway , this weekend we at last set up our worm bin . Here ’s what we did :
1 . Put the first work tray on the appeal tray base and lined it with wall - to - wall newspaper .
2 . pluck the comfy coconut character kip down in water , squeezed it out , and combine it with tear up composition and a dash of compost on the tray ’s storey .
3 . Put a few smattering of food rubbish in and covered this with cushy tear up paper , then several sheets of moistened paper ( I ’m think these worm will be the most spoiled in the history of wormdom ) .
4 . round up our louse . The teaching advise us to purchase worms locally , but Brett had discovered a huge detached worm colony in our horse manure pile . The instructions specify using red wiggler worms , and after deliberate examination we ascertain the worms in our pot were reddish and quite wriggly and hence red wriggler .
Now for the yucky part : we tweak the worms from the manure and put them in a bag . The instructions commend starting with at least 500 worms , but squirmy masses of worm are not easy to count , so we just grabbed a bunch and call it good .
5 . Deposited them in their new rest home - sweet-smelling - domicile under dampen newspaper , and voila , now I have several hundred more mouth to feed . Granted , they have teeny - bantam mouths and they ’ll be converting our kitchen waste to nourishing - rich compost , but still …
I ’ll keep you posted on how they do ( unless you ’d prefer less ugly subject ! )
~ Cherie
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