I am still happy with the shoe box bin. It is a little slow but it is good for creating a bit of castings for some worm tea or something like that. These little systems would be good for a fisherman. You feed them a few scraps every now and then and they will eat and grow and multiply. If you are fishing everyday then you may need a bigger system. I would guess you could take a dozen per week, after a few months when the population grows to the point of being able to produce that many worms per week.
I haven't noticed too many cocoons or eggs or whatever you call the things that worm babies come out of in my bins lately. I have also been using less cardboard as bedding too. I have heard from a few sources that they like cardboard for "laying" their eggs. Now I know what to add to my bins, or at least it is something to try out.
I am going to have to check out how many worms I now have in the bin. I wonder if they are increasing population or not. I don't know what the next step should be with the shoe box bin. Should I keep checking the population monthly or weekly and track the growth or should I add them to a bigger bin and use the castings on some plants in my garden?
I think I will set up a new shoe box bin every week with one hundred worms. Each week I will be feeding a new box, until the first feeding is devoured by the worms. That's when I can feed them again and that's enough bins to keep me on a weekly schedule. Once I am feeding and having the worms finish their food weekly then I will have to find a way to finish the compost. So, maybe the new bins should be made until I am harvesting a box full of finished castings and a setting up a new box every day.
I started a new bin on Sunday. The first bin I set up is a few months old and going strong. Each has had 100 worms added to it. Next Sunday I will make a new bin with one hundred worms and feed last week's bin. I will have to see if the oldest bin needs food or not. The food is going to be some Bokashi compost. If I get real motivated I will weigh out the food. The oldest bin is almost ready to be harvested. I may count out the 100 worms out of that bin to start the new bin. After a few weeks I will harvest the rest of the worms out of it.
The extra worms will go back into the indoor fabric pot bin. I want to get that bin going strong too. I mean I want some castings coming out of it constantly. I want to fill it to capacity with worms. Once I have it full then I want to start a new one. I need more worms but I don't want to buy them. It is really hard to wait for them to reproduce. They reproduce rapidly but it still seems to take forever when I have all these huge plans for them.
I haven't noticed too many cocoons or eggs or whatever you call the things that worm babies come out of in my bins lately. I have also been using less cardboard as bedding too. I have heard from a few sources that they like cardboard for "laying" their eggs. Now I know what to add to my bins, or at least it is something to try out.
I am going to have to check out how many worms I now have in the bin. I wonder if they are increasing population or not. I don't know what the next step should be with the shoe box bin. Should I keep checking the population monthly or weekly and track the growth or should I add them to a bigger bin and use the castings on some plants in my garden?
I think I will set up a new shoe box bin every week with one hundred worms. Each week I will be feeding a new box, until the first feeding is devoured by the worms. That's when I can feed them again and that's enough bins to keep me on a weekly schedule. Once I am feeding and having the worms finish their food weekly then I will have to find a way to finish the compost. So, maybe the new bins should be made until I am harvesting a box full of finished castings and a setting up a new box every day.
I started a new bin on Sunday. The first bin I set up is a few months old and going strong. Each has had 100 worms added to it. Next Sunday I will make a new bin with one hundred worms and feed last week's bin. I will have to see if the oldest bin needs food or not. The food is going to be some Bokashi compost. If I get real motivated I will weigh out the food. The oldest bin is almost ready to be harvested. I may count out the 100 worms out of that bin to start the new bin. After a few weeks I will harvest the rest of the worms out of it.
The extra worms will go back into the indoor fabric pot bin. I want to get that bin going strong too. I mean I want some castings coming out of it constantly. I want to fill it to capacity with worms. Once I have it full then I want to start a new one. I need more worms but I don't want to buy them. It is really hard to wait for them to reproduce. They reproduce rapidly but it still seems to take forever when I have all these huge plans for them.
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