Ending and Beginning

We started a small worm bin in the kitchen a couple of months ago with 100 very expensive redworms from PetsMart. We fed them again this morning and they’re looking big and fat and happy. We used newspaper bedding with some coils of corrugated cardboard on edge on the bottom of the plastic bin for drainage.

I’ve been intentionally under-feeding them to make sure they got off to a good start and didn’t get overwhelmed, and they looked really good this morning. I go by the smell quite a bit. When I opened the bin, it smelled moldy and musty, not garbagey, and that’s good. If it smells like garbage, you’re probably overfeeding them. I want to start feeding them a bit more so they can begin to fulfill their purpose in life of reducing my snowy trips to the compost bin.

Anyway, they should start making more worms real soon now.

Yes, we’ll have to get the worms going earlier next year.

This Spring I plan to move the worms outside sometime in May, feed them all summer in an outdoor bin, then move them back inside in the Fall. We hope to avoid the fruitfly problems we’ve had before that way.

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