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From old bathtub to wormery. The bricks and bits of old paving are holding down a fine mesh screen in a vain attempt to keep the rats out. The plug hole is blocked up with a piece of paving and a large pebble beneath it leaving no gaps.

This replaces my last large wormery made from a garden storage chest left by the previous owners. It gave a couple of years of use but fell apart. Hopefully this will be a bit more sturdy!

#Compost #Wormery #Upcycling

How to make compost through a long Alaska winter

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How to make compost through a long Alaska winter

Earthworm on compost. (Getty Images/iStock) The loyal reader knows that compost is my go-to for almost everything. I…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Bio #composting #Earth #eisenia #environmental #foodcycle #humus #natural #organism #Science #soil #wormery
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FunFact:

I refuse to say 'can of worms' because I have a #wormery and #worms are super cool, helpful, productive and even arguably cute, so there's that.

Lovely evening on the #allotment chatting with the guys on the next door plot and swapping goodies. They are very traditional veg growers and grumbled about our messy gardening to start with but now frequently ask questions about the #wormery #CompanionPlanting #heritage fruit trees, #insects #butterflies barrel pond and wanting to learn more about the #wildflowers we have - been 4 years of slowly winning them over. Softly softly....! #bloomscrolling #AllotmentLife #pollinators #gardening #permaculture

The other marker of the turning of the seasons is the #wormfarm has been evicted from the conservatory.

We really neglect the poor blighters, but they seem to hang on in there. We have had this for a few years now, still with its original worms. (Well, their descendants I presume.) I have popped some veg waste, shredded card, and coffee grounds in the empty middle layer and shifted the bottom tray at the top and left it open to encourage the worms to migrate downwards.

I also collected the worm wee in a big screw top tub.

We should make better use of their wormy efforts really.

Next job was mopping the clearish 2/3 of the conservatory including the tragic job of soaking the dried corpses of escapee worms off the lino. 😢

#wormbin #wormery

The other marker of the turning of the seasons is the #wormfarm has been evicted from the conservatory.

We really neglect the poor blighters, but they seem to hang on in there. We have had this for a few years now, still with its original worms. (Well, their descendants I presume.) I have popped some veg waste, shredded card, and coffee grounds in the empty middle layer and shifted the bottom tray at the top and left it open to encourage the worms to migrate downwards.

I also collected the worm wee in a big screw top tub.

We should make better use of their wormy efforts really.

Next job was mopping the clearish 2/3 of the conservatory including the tragic job of soaking the dried corpses of escapee worms off the lino. 😢

#wormbin #wormery

The other marker of the turning of the seasons is the #wormfarm has been evicted from the conservatory.

We really neglect the poor blighters, but they seem to hang on in there. We have had this for a few years now, still with its original worms. (Well, their descendants I presume.) I have popped some veg waste, shredded card, and coffee grounds in the empty middle layer and shifted the bottom tray at the top and left it open to encourage the worms to migrate downwards.

I also collected the worm wee in a big screw top tub.

We should make better use of their wormy efforts really.

Next job was mopping the clearish 2/3 of the conservatory including the tragic job of soaking the dried corpses of escapee worms off the lino. 😢

#wormbin #wormery

The other marker of the turning of the seasons is the #wormfarm has been evicted from the conservatory.

We really neglect the poor blighters, but they seem to hang on in there. We have had this for a few years now, still with its original worms. (Well, their descendants I presume.) I have popped some veg waste, shredded card, and coffee grounds in the empty middle layer and shifted the bottom tray at the top and left it open to encourage the worms to migrate downwards.

I also collected the worm wee in a big screw top tub.

We should make better use of their wormy efforts really.

Next job was mopping the clearish 2/3 of the conservatory including the tragic job of soaking the dried corpses of escapee worms off the lino. 😢

#wormbin #wormery

The other marker of the turning of the seasons is the #wormfarm has been evicted from the conservatory.

We really neglect the poor blighters, but they seem to hang on in there. We have had this for a few years now, still with its original worms. (Well, their descendants I presume.) I have popped some veg waste, shredded card, and coffee grounds in the empty middle layer and shifted the bottom tray at the top and left it open to encourage the worms to migrate downwards.

I also collected the worm wee in a big screw top tub.

We should make better use of their wormy efforts really.

Next job was mopping the clearish 2/3 of the conservatory including the tragic job of soaking the dried corpses of escapee worms off the lino. 😢

#wormbin #wormery

Wish I'd taken a picture..opened up the #wormery tonight to feed my wiggly chums and discovered about 50 healthy sprouting #butternut squash seedlings..a bit leggy and obviously pale but potted a few up. Amusingly the squash and courgette seeds I bought hadn't germinated so popped two of these in with the peas and sweetcorn and hope the #ThreeSisters thing does it's magic. #permaculture #gardening #Allotment #FreePlants

@fetzert and then find a gardener who will use the worm liquid you drain off. Unless you have a garden yourself. #Wormery

I am sure you are all already doing this -- but for my balcony I just recently got a #Wormery. #Methane emissions are a main driver of #ClimateCrisis. Many urban dwellers living in flats do not know that their organic waste is dumped into landfills. You can make sure that your food waste is not turned into a source of methane emissions by having this little fellows "do the hard work". Check with your council to enquire whether they have subsidized wormery's available.

Now I need dirt/#Garden soil. Luckily I have a really large ready to go #compost pile that I’ve been working on since the pandemic started. And a 55 gallon #wormery #vermiculture bin that’s been going gang busters for a year (about a cubic yard of castings saved up). I could probably sift out another few cubic feet compost from the chicken run.

But rough math says I need ballpark 30 Cu ft more just for my beds…

Anyone have a line on lots of perlite and coconut coir?