You don't have to learn to sew to have the best home worm bin possible! And they sell it without the frame so the shipping is very cheap. I just bought one here
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best worm bin ever can now be bought with money
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You don't have to learn to sew to have the best home worm bin possible! And they sell it without the frame so the shipping is very cheap. I just bought one here
OK for a small home grower, but what if you need a few Cubic yards or more a year?
Do you separate the worm eggs?
My method is slower and not so pretty, but it puts out a bunch of cubes a year, it is a long pile on the ground.
-SamS
Do you separate the worm eggs?
My method is slower and not so pretty, but it puts out a bunch of cubes a year, it is a long pile on the ground.
-SamS
maryanne3087
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Sam
Do you do this in Amsterdam? If not where/what climate?
I'd like to have some outdoor vermicompost but I don't know how productive it would be out here in the arctic
Do you do this in Amsterdam? If not where/what climate?
I'd like to have some outdoor vermicompost but I don't know how productive it would be out here in the arctic
maryanne3087I don't know how productive it would be out here in the arctic
We usually have at least one hard freeze in Northwest Oregon and this year it came a tad earlier. I have worm bins constructed from wood with wire mesh on the bottom of the bin for air circulation and that means that all the air moves into the bin - including an arctic blast.
I usually have to order up worm cocoons in the early spring. Getting your worm bin up an running with cocoons is quite a bit less expensive than purchasing worms by the pound.
CC
The 2 sides are separated by a removable wood frame with wire mesh. You start the worm bin on one side and when the material has been processed you begin to fill the other side. Once the worms move over it makes the harvesting easier - not easy. Just a bit easier.
CC
CC
Hey Mad, Or here in the west.
http://www.northwestwigglers.com/in...ategory_id=44&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=68
http://www.northwestwigglers.com/in...ategory_id=44&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=68
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that's a gorgeous bin dude! did you build that yourself? that's some nice carpentry there.
that's a gorgeous bin dude! did you build that yourself? that's some nice carpentry there.
Yes CC, the cedar was a lovely touch!
lol jus kiddin. It really is nice, should last a long time too. Thanks for showing us.
BC
This is an in-house, in-kitchen, in-livingroom kind of thing, not massive production. You can however put a lamp on it or eat breakfast off it. To answer the question about what you used to buy them with, well, you couldn't! Like a good fishing lure, the worm bin bag is made to produce, not attract consumers. Production is more than intuition would tell you by looking.
But to answer your question, assuming we are producing indoors, I would buy a long-arm sewing machine, learn to use it, and string a bunch of scaled up bags together (like cells). As long as you maintain the proportions and don't overdo the surface area to volume ratio it should be fine. You can't match the breathability of felt, and pound for pound you can't make a faster worm bin. It's sort of like having a pile that floats in the air and magically stays together. If someone came up with a sort of diaphragm system to prevent compaction, you could have one the size of a silo.
No separation required with proper use - the lower levels get abandoned by most of the population, and you harvest from the bottom. Some eggs and juveniles always remain but not enough to affect numbers. Get a second bag and force the worms to take a second pass might be a good move.
Heya microbeman!
SAM... at the end of your post u said and long pile on the ground.. r u refering to the pile of compost or how u produce ur castings???
i keep my worms in a rubbermaid container .. they have been living there for 8 years.. they have froze and i threw some watermelon in there one time and it turned to gush and i opened it to a lake of worm poo and horrible smell. i poured out the water didn't see any worms in there.. i did see the eggs still in there. i packed it good with newspaper to soak up the water left in the castings.. a month or so later they were back.. slow recovery but...lesson learned.. watermelons isn't for everone or everything
i keep my worms in a rubbermaid container .. they have been living there for 8 years.. they have froze and i threw some watermelon in there one time and it turned to gush and i opened it to a lake of worm poo and horrible smell. i poured out the water didn't see any worms in there.. i did see the eggs still in there. i packed it good with newspaper to soak up the water left in the castings.. a month or so later they were back.. slow recovery but...lesson learned.. watermelons isn't for everone or everything
I did not build or even design the worm bin photo that I posted. It's the work of my 'worm guy' in Camas, Washington who definitely knows more about worms, worm bins, et al. than I ever will.
I thought that this design concept was something that others would find helpful/beneficial.
HTH
CC
I thought that this design concept was something that others would find helpful/beneficial.
HTH
CC
good point stunky.
you can improve things by drying your foodstuffs out a bit before feeding, and processing it somehow, mechanically or by fermentation.
edit: wait I stand corrected, the material in microbeman's link appears to be superior in breathability to felt.
you can improve things by drying your foodstuffs out a bit before feeding, and processing it somehow, mechanically or by fermentation.
edit: wait I stand corrected, the material in microbeman's link appears to be superior in breathability to felt.
I put out piles of plant debris with a nitrogen source layered between and let them sit for a year. I add worms or eggs when the piles have cooled down. Then later I sift them in a rotary screen sifter when the pile is done. The sifter removes worms, eggs, any un-composted trash like wood. So I start at one end of the pile and just keep piling more and more in a long pile, and return to the beginning when ready to sift.
Pretty simple, the worms love it, and yes they live through the winter as the pile is inside a big greenhouse.
-SamS
Pretty simple, the worms love it, and yes they live through the winter as the pile is inside a big greenhouse.
-SamS
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maryanne3087
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That's pretty awesome Sam.
I need to look into a tumbler or sifter to screen cocoons and worms for my castings. I could use a big ass greenhouse too, got any in your backyard that are rotting away not being used?
I need to look into a tumbler or sifter to screen cocoons and worms for my castings. I could use a big ass greenhouse too, got any in your backyard that are rotting away not being used?
hey sam, have you tried bokashi/silage as a foodstuff?
I think you be impressed if you did.
I think you be impressed if you did.
