May 25th, 2010 It’s almost 90 degrees today. I’ve been so worried about my plants that I forgot to consider the worms. I looked in the bottom of the bin today and found at least 20 – 25 worms all huddled in the bottom, near the liquid. I assume they’re hot. Well, that and the 1st bin is [...]
May 19th, 2010 I learned a few things from my last experiment… I had thrown some old lentil soup (not too liquidy) into the first bin, then added the second bin (with some moistened shredded newspaper and just a little bit of kitchen scraps).
First of all, the second bin fits inside the first bin completely, [...]
May 7th, 2010 It figures, as soon as I put my worm bin outside the temperature drops below 50 degrees. They seem to be okay, though, most are still moving pretty well. I started a new tray with fresh bedding today in case I overloaded the first one yesterday. (I dumped in about a quart of old lentil [...]
May 6th, 2010 I can’t resist saying a word about my garden… well a few words. I started peas in mid April outdoors and they’re doing really well.
And I started some garlic last year from tiny garlic pods that Raye Hodgson gave me at last year’s Seed Exchange. They apparently need one more year to get to normal [...]
May 6th, 2010 Wow! I took a look in the worm bin today and it’s almost all vermicast and worms. Now the worms are looking a little sluggish and some have lightened at one end – you can see in the photo a worm with a yellowish end (tail? head?) at the top.
Maybe they’re not getting enough food [...]