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Castings are not poisonous to the worms, they will process their own castings a few times over before it would be any problem. Make sure there is plenty of bedding ( you can never overdo the bedding) and as long as there is at least a little food they will be ok.
If you think too much about the worms I think that's when the problems begin. I just let ours do their thing and they seem to be doing fine. However I think they are reproducing so much that they need more space...Good to know that the castings aren't poisonous to them. Or else we'd have a bunch of dead worms here.
I am so interested to start doing this. Great thread topic. I was going to do a tumbler compost but i think vermiposting is a better option for us... can it be used on vegetables and fruits or would it mainly be for flowers and such?
I have been doing it for three years. Started with a batch of red wigglers and they have done well. I have two large Rubbermaid bins that I put vents in...they sit in a corner in my living room. I harvest the castings two to three times a year. I fertilize all my house plants and outside containers with them. I did stop giving them bananas and the peels after fruit fly issues. Also had a garbage bug issue due to too much moisture build up...got rid of them by setting the container out in dub zero temps for about 45 minutes.
I keep my paper shredder right beside the bins and put the shredded papers in the bins as needed.
I have made compost tea with them but now I use my compost from my chicken coop instead. ( they both are great.)
This is inside the bin. Two pieces of PVC pipe with hole vent covers in the side extra air. I always keep everything covered with the paper but I just put in some coffee grains which you can see.
Thanks for sharing. Found this on pintrest Composting with a PVC worm tube
Might try this one in the fall. I am really not sure about having them in my living room. Would the garage be too hot for them?
Thanks for sharing. Found this on pintrest Composting with a PVC worm tube
Might try this one in the fall. I am really not sure about having them in my living room. Would the garage be too hot for them?
Could possibly be too hot and too cold. They seem to do best in the 70-80 degree range but do okay slightly outside that range too. I can't recall the minimal and maximum extremes temps. I kept them in my basement at my old house and they did fine...but not as well as in normal room temps.
We got one of those Worm Bin 360 and it has been a good experience so far, but I think we will make a bin out of those big totes like hinsey86's. Currently our bin is in our spare bedroom. Sometimes it gets very humid in our apartment especially in that room, so I move them to a cooler spot. They really seem to do better when it is around 70 indoors.
"finished" vermicompost
The pepper plants I over-wintered and they are coming back..with the help of vermicompost.
We feed them old bread, cooked rice, old stale veggies (they love brassicas), slimy black bananas and peels, and other fruit. Cardboard and newspaper is their "brown" of choice. We got our worms online and made sure we had the bin first before the worms got here so it'd be ready for them.
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