crimsonecho
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Yes. I just started my worm bin inside.
This is a very basic rig that i put together. By put together i mean i drilled a few holes on a fermentation bucket and covered it with cheese cloth to prevent the worms from leaving.
Detailed pics of each bucket will be posted once i harvest it. But you see there are 2 buckets stacked on top of each other. The top one has holes at the bottom and the lower one has a big hole in the middle to catch any leachate which there hasn’t been any. But still it isolates the bucket and helps with keeping critters away.
This is how the material inside looks. The thing is i don’t use paper for bedding. I have a big bag of unfertilized peat so instead i use that so the look can be deceiving. I fed them 4 times till now and i was taking it a little slow and giving them some time to adjust. After i harvest this batch, which should be around 15 days or so i’ll go full strength feedings.
Now this material looks very dark and smells just like rich forest soil. This batch was mostly the results of the learning curve. I gave too much food, the slurry was kinda thick and went aerobic it went over 32C in an 18C environment etc etc. Some mistakes were made but even after that the end material looks and smells amazing.
I’ll both share what i do with you and keep a journal to remember what works and what doesn’t. The end game here is to create high quality worm castings from this simple bucket system i can keep near my kitchen. Next step is to try and do a run using only castings and see what kind of results i get. There’ll be vids, pics, feeds, cocoons, sifting etc etc. I’ll try to document every step along the way and try to learn and share.
Anyway, its gonna be fun.
This is a very basic rig that i put together. By put together i mean i drilled a few holes on a fermentation bucket and covered it with cheese cloth to prevent the worms from leaving.
Detailed pics of each bucket will be posted once i harvest it. But you see there are 2 buckets stacked on top of each other. The top one has holes at the bottom and the lower one has a big hole in the middle to catch any leachate which there hasn’t been any. But still it isolates the bucket and helps with keeping critters away.
This is how the material inside looks. The thing is i don’t use paper for bedding. I have a big bag of unfertilized peat so instead i use that so the look can be deceiving. I fed them 4 times till now and i was taking it a little slow and giving them some time to adjust. After i harvest this batch, which should be around 15 days or so i’ll go full strength feedings.
Now this material looks very dark and smells just like rich forest soil. This batch was mostly the results of the learning curve. I gave too much food, the slurry was kinda thick and went aerobic it went over 32C in an 18C environment etc etc. Some mistakes were made but even after that the end material looks and smells amazing.
I’ll both share what i do with you and keep a journal to remember what works and what doesn’t. The end game here is to create high quality worm castings from this simple bucket system i can keep near my kitchen. Next step is to try and do a run using only castings and see what kind of results i get. There’ll be vids, pics, feeds, cocoons, sifting etc etc. I’ll try to document every step along the way and try to learn and share.
Anyway, its gonna be fun.
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