Expanded the worm farm. Been wanting to for a while cause I’ve already used all my big trash cans for either scrap metal or compost (5 of them are compost bins) and I just happened to spot this black bin on the way home. College kids were moving out and the hinges were broke so they set it beside the road, and I snatched it up.
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Bout to start my worm farm soon!
Do it! It’s been really fun for me, they tear up some compost really fast. I had been using the juice for watering my plants but I’ve decided to start putting it into my compost bins to hopefully speed them up. I think the trash cans are just a touch too small for compost to really move quickly, so maybe the worm juice will help it speed on up.
That’s the thing I’m most worried about. Having enough food scraps for them
We don’t do many veggies in my house, but we do have a boatload of paper and cardboard. I bought one of those $200 24 sheet shredders and I shred all the cardboard and paper and it goes to the worms, whatever extra goes directly to the compost bins. Any veggie/fruit or plant scraps we do have (like pruning our garden plants, plants that didn’t survive the winter, etc) goes to the worms too. You can put meat in a worm bin too but it draws flies/maggots and they get in the worm juice and make it not great for direct fertilizer, so I just put meat scraps directly in my compost.
Can they survive and thrive on just paper and the occasional veggie cuz my house also doesn’t use much veggies. But I have been keeping my loose leaf tea
I don’t know that I’d say thrive per se, but mine have done fine on it. They probably get 95% paper and cardboard if not 99%. When I reset the white bin at the beginning of this spring you couldn’t pull out a handful of castings without a boatload of worms wriggling around in it
Thanks for the info man! I need to start these bins soon
Oh man, now that I think about it, I totally could get my gfs and their households to save veggie scraps for me 🤔
Benefits of being polyamorous 😂
Bahahah! There is that! They also apparently love coffee grounds, so if anybody drinks coffee get them to pitch the grounds and the filters in the same bucket, or you can hit up Starbucks. They actually will either take buckets from you to fill up or they have bags of the old grounds set out in the floor in a basket or something for whoever to grab. My wife drinks coffee but it’s usually Keurig cause she don’t drink but a cup or two a day and I don’t drink coffee, so it ain’t quite worth emptying those pods. I have been known to do it, I just don’t make a habit of it lol.
Oh hell yea. That’s a great idea. I don’t drink coffee but I think one of my girls’ husband does at the very minimum maybe both of their husbands 🤔
It’s also low maintenance. I didn’t even bring my bins in for the winter. Not much happens over the winter of course, but when the temps came back up they took off!
Can I buy ⚡️some worms from you?
Well, I kinda scattered my worms all around when I reset the white bin at the beginning of spring, threw some in each of my compost bins and some of my raised beds, so I don’t really have a whole lot to move at the moment. I only found a handful to throw in the new bin.
If you’re needing some in the next couple weeks, I probably wouldn’t be able to. However, if it’s gonna be a month or two, hit me back up, I may have some to send your way.
