Does anyone know how to take home your own "Worm Composter"?
Answers: We enjoy a worm bin. It looks like a big junk can with four places down essential the bottom where we drove big bolts into the ground (to stabilize it). The lid twists and locks down to maintain the varmints out. We have raccoons within the neighborhood, so that is encouraging.
The large container have a few vent slots (upper and lower) around the sides. The bottom of the bin consists of a plastic grid (for drainage and air flow).
We started ours near a sack of manure and consequently we had sawdust from a project. We own the composter under a inlet tree but I read someplace where it wasn't advisable to attach those leaves (toxins?) but I have very soon forgotten reason. I ordered the worms after setting up the bin. Since after, the population has multiplied. The worms simply love the fruit we throw in within and multiply like crazy next to papayas, pineapple, and apricots.
Periodically, I turn the compost using a garden fork. When adding kitchen debris, avoid adding meat or foods with oil in the bin -- as advise by the brochure we got along next to the bin. We only put-in fruit and vegetable trimmings. Whenever I affix kitchen stuff to the bin, I push aside some of the compost and pour it into the well, consequently cover it up because otherwise, flies grow and multiply. After a week or so, I turn the compost. Must turn the compost periodically. Sometimes need to sprinkle beside water, can't allow it to dry. The resulting compost have a sweet clean smell after it's be digested by the worms.
It's really hard for me to turn the compost next to a frozen shoulder on the mend. No, my husband won't help. I need I had one of those rotating types instead.
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.htm...
Worm composting is a method for recycle food waste into a rich, depressing, earth-smelling soil conditioner. The great advantage of worm composting is that this can be done indoors and outdoors, thus allowing year round composting. It also provides apartment dwellers near a means of composting. In a nutshell, worm compost is made surrounded by a container filled next to moistened bedding and redworms. Add your food waste for a extent of time, and the worms and micro-organisms will eventually convert the entire contents into rich compost.
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