Comments on: Set-It-And-Forget-It Vermicomposting – 4 Month Update

By: Bentley

Bentley — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 04:44:28 +0000

Matt- looks like I missed one of your comments. Sorry about that. Lots of different amendments that can certainly be used to boost vermicomposting systems. I would never recommend buying them specifically for this but if you happen to have any of them already, yeah adding some could be a great idea. Just be a bit careful about amounts.

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Mr Yan – I didn’t mean to imply that you need to start up 15 of these things. That’s just what I did because I had the bins and the wormy material (and other resources). One or two insurance bins is great. Sand bags is an interesting idea. Likely a bit messy but they could work if you keep on top of moisture levels (likely dry out easily).

By: Mr Yan

Mr Yan — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:50:54 +0000

Bently, I’ve had this tab open for several weeks and read the post a few times. You got me on this one, and I really need to do insurance bins going forward. I ran a bin in a garage over the summer and think I dried out the bin too much and over heated the herd.

But buying 15 heavy duty file box size totes seems cost prohibitive. I am thinking about using something like a series of sand bags. 25 ish bags would provide enough that each gets only “fed” once every 3 or 4 weeks.

I’ve sewn a few nylon zipper bags to mimic the worm-inn. And crossed one of them with the top of a 5 gallon bucket but always ran into problems where the bin would dry out in my basement. Something like a blue tarp or the woven plastic of a sandbag should get me around this.

Thanks

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 14:03:46 +0000

Hi Bentley, I’ve set up a few of these boxes before, and am considering options for the future. I have some EB Stone Citrus and fruit tree food, which contains Blood Meal, Dried Chicken Manure, Bat Guano, Alfalfa Meal, Kelp Meal, Potassium Sulfate, Humic Acid, and soil microbes including mychorrhizal fungi. Its certainly NOT chick starter, and is much more expensive than chick starter. I’m curious your thoughts on using it as a food material for starting one of these bins.