Comments on: Winter Worm Windrow–02-22-10 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/winter-composting/winter-worm-windrow%e2%80%9302-22-10/ Red Wiggler Worms, European Nightcrawlers and loads of helpful Worm Composting Information Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:46:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bentley http://www.redwormcomposting.com/winter-composting/winter-worm-windrow%e2%80%9302-22-10/comment-page-1/#comment-24681 Bentley Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:26:22 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=2154#comment-24681 Hi Julie - sorry for the delay! I would think you'd be ok in the sun room IF the system itself is not in direct sunlight. It would also help if it had really good air flow and if perhaps you even point a fan at it to help keep the air moving. Your idea for harvesting compost is right on target, and very similar to those discussed in various posts here on the site (check out the "Hot Topics" page where you will find a harvesting section) Hi Julie – sorry for the delay!
I would think you’d be ok in the sun room IF the system itself is not in direct sunlight. It would also help if it had really good air flow and if perhaps you even point a fan at it to help keep the air moving.

Your idea for harvesting compost is right on target, and very similar to those discussed in various posts here on the site (check out the “Hot Topics” page where you will find a harvesting section)

]]> By: Julie Ann Thayer http://www.redwormcomposting.com/winter-composting/winter-worm-windrow%e2%80%9302-22-10/comment-page-1/#comment-24624 Julie Ann Thayer Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:10:37 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=2154#comment-24624 I'm not so far away, in the mountains of Vermont, was wondering about keeping the worms going over winter (if cat litter composting, and/or in horse manure pile, which is annual gift from neighbor with two horses), so these posts are FAR from boring! I would like to start vermicomposting in my sun-room, which is really a green-house / pool room on the south end of my house, has a 3500 gallon exercise pool that I keep at about 90F, which effectively heats the whole space (gets down to 50F on really cold nights), want to know if it would be too hot for the worms (automatic vent set to open when the air temp reaches about 85F, which it does on EVERY sunny day, even if it is 20 below outside!). I have saved ALL of the plant-based kitchen waste since it got too snowy to get to the compost pile (My Mom and I are basically Vegan, but I have bad knees and severe neuropathy from chemotherapy) in the cool garage in orange juice containers, so I have a LOT of worm food! We have many bags of leaves collected from neighbors and piled up around the sun room for extra insulation, not so much paper or cardboard waste as I use that for fire-starters (we heat with wood, a wood-gasification and hot-water storage system). I will get a box going (my Mom's garden is on the deck in large rubber tubs, so I have a bunch around) tomorrow, and order a pound of your worms this week, so they will be delivered next week, but do let me know if you think the sun room will be too warm. The garage hovers around 50F most of the winter, so is probably too cold for a box system, also less convenient, although I do have to go down there every day to tend the fire. Yours is a great site! With only dial-up, I cannot watch the videos, so still don't really know how to get the finished compost away from the worms. How about if I made a second bin when the first one begins to look "finished", and gave the worms a way to migrate between them, then added food only to the second bin? Thanks for all you do. Julie I’m not so far away, in the mountains of Vermont, was wondering about keeping the worms going over winter (if cat litter composting, and/or in horse manure pile, which is annual gift from neighbor with two horses), so these posts are FAR from boring! I would like to start vermicomposting in my sun-room, which is really a green-house / pool room on the south end of my house, has a 3500 gallon exercise pool that I keep at about 90F, which effectively heats the whole space (gets down to 50F on really cold nights), want to know if it would be too hot for the worms (automatic vent set to open when the air temp reaches about 85F, which it does on EVERY sunny day, even if it is 20 below outside!). I have saved ALL of the plant-based kitchen waste since it got too snowy to get to the compost pile (My Mom and I are basically Vegan, but I have bad knees and severe neuropathy from chemotherapy) in the cool garage in orange juice containers, so I have a LOT of worm food! We have many bags of leaves collected from neighbors and piled up around the sun room for extra insulation, not so much paper or cardboard waste as I use that for fire-starters (we heat with wood, a wood-gasification and hot-water storage system).

I will get a box going (my Mom’s garden is on the deck in large rubber tubs, so I have a bunch around) tomorrow, and order a pound of your worms this week, so they will be delivered next week, but do let me know if you think the sun room will be too warm. The garage hovers around 50F most of the winter, so is probably too cold for a box system, also less convenient, although I do have to go down there every day to tend the fire.

Yours is a great site! With only dial-up, I cannot watch the videos, so still don’t really know how to get the finished compost away from the worms. How about if I made a second bin when the first one begins to look “finished”, and gave the worms a way to migrate between them, then added food only to the second bin? Thanks for all you do.

Julie

]]> By: Bentley http://www.redwormcomposting.com/winter-composting/winter-worm-windrow%e2%80%9302-22-10/comment-page-1/#comment-24486 Bentley Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:24:24 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=2154#comment-24486 CASSANDRA - thanks! I was mostly teasing, but I do appreciate the reassurance. :-) ----------------------------------- DUSTIN - my prediction is that once the alfalfa starts to rot and settle down, the worms are going to go crazy for it. Rotten alfalfa is probably similar in food value to manure (it does indeed contain a decent amount of nitrogen, and should be readily colonized by microbes) ------------------------------------ ANDY - Yes...yes, it does! :lol: CASSANDRA – thanks! I was mostly teasing, but I do appreciate the reassurance.
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DUSTIN – my prediction is that once the alfalfa starts to rot and settle down, the worms are going to go crazy for it. Rotten alfalfa is probably similar in food value to manure (it does indeed contain a decent amount of nitrogen, and should be readily colonized by microbes)
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ANDY – Yes…yes, it does!
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]]> By: Andy http://www.redwormcomposting.com/winter-composting/winter-worm-windrow%e2%80%9302-22-10/comment-page-1/#comment-24477 Andy Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:34:35 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=2154#comment-24477 Your windrow looks like a big black hotdog. Your windrow looks like a big black hotdog.

]]> By: Dustin http://www.redwormcomposting.com/winter-composting/winter-worm-windrow%e2%80%9302-22-10/comment-page-1/#comment-24476 Dustin Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:09:09 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=2154#comment-24476 Bentley, Do you have any predictions of what is going to occur when the worms reach the alfalfa? Doesn't alfalfa contain a decent amount of nitrogen? This would lead to a good microbe supply, right? How would you go about harvesting worms from a system like this? Bentley,

Do you have any predictions of what is going to occur when the worms reach the alfalfa? Doesn’t alfalfa contain a decent amount of nitrogen? This would lead to a good microbe supply, right?

How would you go about harvesting worms from a system like this?

]]> By: Cassandra http://www.redwormcomposting.com/winter-composting/winter-worm-windrow%e2%80%9302-22-10/comment-page-1/#comment-24475 Cassandra Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:00:54 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=2154#comment-24475 Oh Bentley, don't be silly. Your updates aren't boring. Oh Bentley, don’t be silly. Your updates aren’t boring.

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