October 16, 2015

How Do You Know What’s Worm Castings and What’s Bedding?

Interesting question from Robin:

How do you know the difference between the worm castings and the bedding. It all looks dark brown to me. Please help!

Hi Robin,

In a typical home system receiving lots of paper-waste bedding (eg shredded newsprint or cardboard) and regular feedings of kitchen scraps, it should be relatively easy to distinguish between bedding and castings. The latter will tend to be a lot darker – more like “soil”, while everything else should stand out as obviously unprocessed.

Where it gets tricky is when you are using smaller-particle bedding materials that (more…)

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