Experimenting with a very modest bucket, which resembles a small continuous flow through setup. I’ve cut out the bottom and put some thick wiring from side to side, mimicking the pvc or galvanized steel tubing you often see folks use.
My bedding is a mix of shredded cardboard and rice hulls. I think the whole setup is two months old now so I haven’t harvested yet, nor am I sure this is really going anywhere.
(Also, shameless plug perhaps, but I’ve started !composting@slrpnk.net for all types of composting including vermicompost !
Edit: I just noticed you actually already crossposted from there, but for some reason Jerboa does not show that here for me)
I’ve been doing it for over 12? years now, memory is failing when I started. Still the same batch of worms. I don’t think continuous flowthrough was even on my radar when I put this farm together and it’s figuratively the same as when I started it. Why fix what isn’t broke. Got any photos?
The only advice I can give a small farm owner is be careful with what you give them and give them small amounts of it. I could have killed my worms a few times over if they didn’t have a side to escape to or an area underneath to drop into.
You can see the old bed slats that give the bath a false floor are looking rough and these pictures were a few years ago:
Other photos of putting a side back together after harvesting:
Neat! I might experiment with horse manure in the future, as I have a convenient source for that anyway. And you might be very right about the danger of giving too much of anything, I might have killed my previous bin with too much (wet) food and no proper escape route. That, and/or a combination with some very hot weather we had around those days.
The good thing is, my three bin system features lots of worms when a bin is in the later stage, so I could simply restart my worm bin with worms from there. I should make some photos from both setups indeed.
Experimenting with a very modest bucket, which resembles a small continuous flow through setup. I’ve cut out the bottom and put some thick wiring from side to side, mimicking the pvc or galvanized steel tubing you often see folks use.
My bedding is a mix of shredded cardboard and rice hulls. I think the whole setup is two months old now so I haven’t harvested yet, nor am I sure this is really going anywhere.
(Also, shameless plug perhaps, but I’ve started !composting@slrpnk.net for all types of composting including vermicompost !
Edit: I just noticed you actually already crossposted from there, but for some reason Jerboa does not show that here for me)
I’ve been doing it for over 12? years now, memory is failing when I started. Still the same batch of worms. I don’t think continuous flowthrough was even on my radar when I put this farm together and it’s figuratively the same as when I started it. Why fix what isn’t broke. Got any photos?
The only advice I can give a small farm owner is be careful with what you give them and give them small amounts of it. I could have killed my worms a few times over if they didn’t have a side to escape to or an area underneath to drop into.
You can see the old bed slats that give the bath a false floor are looking rough and these pictures were a few years ago:
Other photos of putting a side back together after harvesting:
Neat! I might experiment with horse manure in the future, as I have a convenient source for that anyway. And you might be very right about the danger of giving too much of anything, I might have killed my previous bin with too much (wet) food and no proper escape route. That, and/or a combination with some very hot weather we had around those days.
The good thing is, my three bin system features lots of worms when a bin is in the later stage, so I could simply restart my worm bin with worms from there. I should make some photos from both setups indeed.