Worm Inn Journal-02-21-10
Has Bentley lost his mind!?! ~15 lb of food waste added at once!
I decided to really go off the deep end with my Worm Inn on Friday! I had a three bags of food scraps sitting out on my deck and I figured I might as well see if I could fit them in the system.
I even made a short video about it! As you’ll see, I decided it was also time to start harvesting some material from the bottom.
Before adding all this waste (14.87 lb to be exact) I did some digging around and was REALLY impressed with the incredible abundance of worms in the system. It’s amazing how a population of Red Worms will rise to the occasion when there is a serious quantity of food available. I’m certainly not suggesting that everyone should go out and totally over feed their bins though! I would NEVER do this with any sort of enclosed plastic tub system (unless it was huge, with plenty of air flow), and it may come back to bite me even with this system! We shall see.
As you can see in the image below, I added some peat most and a fair amount of mature compost material over top of all the waste – just to help suppress any odor that might develop while the worms are working on all this material.
So far so good – but we’ll see how things look a little later in the week!
Written by Bentley on February 21st, 2010 with
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1937 lb of Organic Waste, and Counting!
#1. February 22nd, 2010, at 7:38 PM.
Hi Bentley,
how many lbs of worms do you guess you have in there? Must be a bunch if you think they can eat 15 lbs of food! I look forward to the results.
…and all your U.S. vermifans want to know…What happened to Team Canada last night?!