Comments on: Worm Inn Journal – 12-01-08

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:44:05 +0000

Hey Bentley, you expressed surprise that worms are in high demand despite it being winter — as a recent customer of yours (1 lb of happy worms NOT DEAD YET, hooray!) I think that it’s likely that others, like me, discovered your vermicomposting by googling for “winter composting” or “indoor composting”

By: Bentley

Bentley — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:37:45 +0000

Hi Robyn – glad you mentioned that. I actually slowed down my feeding considerably as well (a fairly important detail to leave out – haha). If the ‘food’ had been chunks of fruit/veggies as it has been in the past, this likely wouldn’t have slowed down the fruit fly invasion (since still plenty of habitat for them) – but the blended material gets quickly consumed by the worms, thus making it unavailable to the fruit fly larvae.
I’m going to start adding my ‘homemade manure’ mix again this week and see what happens.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:39:28 +0000

This is great to see your system in action! Oddly, I recently had a fruit fly threat as well, but nothing happened. I did stop feeding the system for awhile so that might have contributed. I am enjoying the journals very much – thanks for the detailed updates!