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Hello all,
I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we can share updates and pictures about our vermicompost and compost endeavours. I'm in temporary accommodations, so not doing full on composting (unlike my last house, there's not really anywhere in the back garden to leave behind compost and I'll not be able to take semi-made compost with me), but my wormery is doing very nicely with all my kitchen scraps.
I set up my wormery in late February 2018, so it's nearly two years old. Apart from one bad fruit fly infestation, it's done really well. I have two full trays of worm castings and probably would have more if I were a bit more consistent about feeding them/keeping them somewhere warm enough. It's always been an indoor wormery, but I live by myself and don't have the heating on most of the time so I suspect they do get a little chilly in the winter.
Here is my bin (it's from Wormcity, and I've been pretty happy with it):
It gets a little scruffy on the outside, so not one for the houseproud amongst us to keep indoors, unless you're prepared to give the outside a thorough wipedown every week.
Here's the inside of the tier I've recently finished feeding into:
I've dug into the bedding a bit - I have paper (confidential waste) over the top to help keep fruit flies out and minimise smells. It's also a good source of food for the worms if I ever go a while without feeding them food scraps, and it also helps absorb moisture in the bin. I have only had to drain the juice from the bin once in the last six months, though that's partly because of the cooler temperatures and the slower feeding rate I've imposed on the poor worms lately (had no fridge/freezer which made keeping scraps for them much more challenging).
Here's the tier below, full of finished vermicompost:
There are far fewer worms in this layer (they mostly don't like living in their castings). The ones on top have dropped through from the layer above. This tier was topped with paper, just like the one above - you can see that the worms have demolished the lot!
And here's the finished product:
The little pale flecks are eggshells. I save them up, bake them in the oven (when it's being used for something else) then grind them up in a coffee grinder. I sprinkle a handful or two into the wormery from time to time. It's supposed to get them a bit frisky, as well as helping them digest food! It also adds calcium to the finished vermicompost.
I took a video too, but will probably have to upload that elsewhere at some time and then link to it from here.
I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we can share updates and pictures about our vermicompost and compost endeavours. I'm in temporary accommodations, so not doing full on composting (unlike my last house, there's not really anywhere in the back garden to leave behind compost and I'll not be able to take semi-made compost with me), but my wormery is doing very nicely with all my kitchen scraps.
I set up my wormery in late February 2018, so it's nearly two years old. Apart from one bad fruit fly infestation, it's done really well. I have two full trays of worm castings and probably would have more if I were a bit more consistent about feeding them/keeping them somewhere warm enough. It's always been an indoor wormery, but I live by myself and don't have the heating on most of the time so I suspect they do get a little chilly in the winter.
Here is my bin (it's from Wormcity, and I've been pretty happy with it):
It gets a little scruffy on the outside, so not one for the houseproud amongst us to keep indoors, unless you're prepared to give the outside a thorough wipedown every week.
Here's the inside of the tier I've recently finished feeding into:
I've dug into the bedding a bit - I have paper (confidential waste) over the top to help keep fruit flies out and minimise smells. It's also a good source of food for the worms if I ever go a while without feeding them food scraps, and it also helps absorb moisture in the bin. I have only had to drain the juice from the bin once in the last six months, though that's partly because of the cooler temperatures and the slower feeding rate I've imposed on the poor worms lately (had no fridge/freezer which made keeping scraps for them much more challenging).
Here's the tier below, full of finished vermicompost:
There are far fewer worms in this layer (they mostly don't like living in their castings). The ones on top have dropped through from the layer above. This tier was topped with paper, just like the one above - you can see that the worms have demolished the lot!
And here's the finished product:
The little pale flecks are eggshells. I save them up, bake them in the oven (when it's being used for something else) then grind them up in a coffee grinder. I sprinkle a handful or two into the wormery from time to time. It's supposed to get them a bit frisky, as well as helping them digest food! It also adds calcium to the finished vermicompost.
I took a video too, but will probably have to upload that elsewhere at some time and then link to it from here.
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