Compost Sak Vermicomposting-09-08-11

Rich
#1. September 8th, 2011, at 7:00 PM.

You are the worm king! Everything you touch turns to Black Gold!

Dan
#2. September 9th, 2011, at 2:52 PM.

This is very cool. I started growing in smart pots earlier in the season and am a full-blown convert.The breathe-ability of the fabric is absolutely ingenious. Plants thrive in them, and it occurred to me that they might make great vermi-bins, or bin-liners. I noticed that the re-useable shopping bags from the grocery store are made some a similar material (though lighter weight). So I sliced up a couple of reusable shopping bags and lined a home-made wooden bin, 15D X 15H X 30W

Here’s a couple pics if interested:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/rcHg9EQdiBy0kHuZe-IecSI2SD_XJ3olP3Ef6l_iZI0?feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/dQ4AAwp9-3oPOUpWcd3spCI2SD_XJ3olP3Ef6l_iZI0?feat=directlink

jv
#3. September 11th, 2011, at 4:30 PM.

i am currently growing worms using sacks and am really amazed as to how fast they can multipy. I have 1000 chicken egg layers and would want to feed them to my worms but chicken dung has high temperature. do you have ingredients to mix with chicken dung for it to be safe for the worms?

Jim
#4. September 26th, 2011, at 7:53 AM.

I had a couple of yards of horse manure dropped off last spring for a new 16 s.f. worm bin. The manure had a lot of worms and as it’s been sitting over the past several months the population has exploded. It’s been a pretty wet summer so the manure did not dry out and when needed I sprayed the pile with the garden hose.

After reading this article and with the rain season coming up I decided to pick up some #65 SmartPots (same company and similar material to the Compost Sak) and I put the manure in them. They’re sitting in the garage on wood pallets to keep them off the concrete floor. The garage is dry-walled with insulation material – still you have 2 huge metal doors which probably isn’t the best at keeping the cold out but we don’t have severe winter weather in the Portland area.

I’ve got a new OSCR coming on line this week and I’ve decided to give the Malaysian Blues a run. My ‘worm guy’ raises and sells Reds, Euros and Blues. The price on the Blues is the same as the Red Worms – about $18.00 per lb. when buying 10 lbs. Lower prices for larger quantities.

Thanks for the tip on the Compost Sak! Great idea for a worm ‘bin’ – or whatever term I should use – LOL

Jim

Dave
#5. September 27th, 2011, at 3:24 AM.

This compost sak, which I saw here first, appealed to me, so I got one. I’ve been building up/aging cardboard and food scraps for a couple of weeks and hope to purchase a pound of worms soon. First time I am trying vermicomposting, or composting at all for that matter. This site has been most helpful. I look forward to the official release of the e-book.
Do you think, since this sack is a pretty porous material, that you don’t have to worry much about overwatering? Also (this may have already been answered somewhere on this site) is there a bad time of year to introduce worms? I’m in North Carolina, where we won’t get winter for a while yet (and then not much). But is it better to try this in the spring?