Things have been coming along nicely in my outdoor Worm Inn Mega system.

I wrote about adding a big batch of thatch mixed with food waste in my last update. The worms ended up taking longer to move into it than I predicted – but that’s the beauty of Worm Inns! As long as the worms have some safe habitat to hang out in, you can easily get away with “overfeeding”.

Of course they eventually did move in, and had processed quite a bit of the food material by the time I checked on the system yesterday.

With everything looking good, I figured I should add a new batch of food yesterday as well. This time I didn’t bother mixing in any thatch. I simply dumped a bag of frozen-then-thawed food waste on top of the upper hay layer…

…then added (more…)