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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/16 00:13
Interesting how life gets in the way of my wormies  !
Dead truck sidetracked me a bit this week (all better now), but I did get a bunch of leaves run through the shredder this eve (pre-cold front) and fluffed into paper etc resulting in bedding about 8" deep.
Thinking I'll spread some anaerobic slurry, lightly, and top with more shredded paper this weekend. Oh, yeah - and build my lids 
Is it spring yet? 
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/16 09:57
Gary..If you have anaerobic anthing, you can put it all in that outdoor bin..at one time. You no longer have to worry about those kind of things, as it's all good in that big bin. That's why I love those bins!
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/18 01:27
Quote copied from "New Bin Status" topic:
Bob Ingram wrote:
...you will have some migration, however, but the two species seem to instigate one another for growth and reproduction...you might be surprised how large your red worms will get...
So, if EFs and ENCs integrate well, should I even try to keep them segregated in my outdoor on-ground bin, and would a production / reproduction experiment of EF v ENC be fairly worthless without pretty much hermetically splitting the bin (which I've no intention of doing)?
Not worried about the mingling - just thought it'd be neat to see who does better over time, all things being fairly equal.
redhen wrote:
..If you have anaerobic anthing, you can put it all in that outdoor bin..at one time. You no longer have to worry about those kind of things, as it's all good in that big bin. That's why I love those bins!
Susan - I'm with ya! Got a big bucket outside ready to spread  !
FYI, I did get my bin lid frame cut & mounted today...started getting right chilly, though, so I'll do the lids tomorrow...almost there...
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/19 14:19
Hi all newbie here just wanted to pop in & say i really enjoyed all the info i read about the bins here posted by redhen and the photo's. I got interested in raising red worms some years ago & read alot of books on the subject by charlie morgan,robert shields & earl shields.Some really good info.in these books...
Anyways life happened " as it will " in the last eight years so i never got around to starting my adventure in worm ranching  Things are good now "yay" so 2006
i will give it a whirl & make a go of it Im really into organic gardening of veggies & flowers and really see this as a good thing !! so look forward to chatting here & making new friends YOU CAN BURY ALOT OF TROUBLES DIGGIN IN THE DIRT
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/19 16:58
Welcome, WR - glad you've made it, and yepper, there really are a lotta helpful folks with a plethora of knowledge in here!
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/21 10:12
how do you keep the top layer from freezing? or does the hot pocket prevent that?     
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/26 22:30
! I finally got the lids cut & mounted on my outdoor bin! 'Bout fargin' time, eh?!
http://www.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=36822746/a=3794523_3794523/t_=3794523
Now all I need is some steady spring weather to transplant some of my indoor herd outside .
Any recommendations on how / when?
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/27 12:13
Gary..I would not put them out in the new bin, outdoors, until the nights are above 40. They would probably be just fine, as the sheer volume of the bin would take a long time to freeze, but the processing will be slow until the weather gets warmer..or the bin gets older.
When I have transplanted my worms, to seed the new beds, I usually use all of the vermicompost, from the indoor bins and add to just below the level of the food in the outdoor bin. I will add some of the worms too in the same area. I started one quadrant at a time. My outdoor bins had about 5lbs to start, plus the vermicompost.
Oh..and Gary..Your bin looks MAH-VA-LUS!!
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/27 22:54
Thanx, Susan.
I was actually leaning towards a higher nighttime temp avg round-about 50-55df planting minimum before I made the move. That'll be fine by me, as the li'l fellas are crankin' along just dandy in my WF.
What I was planning to do was take 2 of my 3 'working trays' complete and just upturn them into one side of the outdoor bin (hoping that'll work out to 3 or 4 lbs by then ).
Thinking now that I'll pull all but 2 or 3" of bedding out first, and put that on top after I introduce the wormies. I'd like to weigh the li'l fellas first; still planning to populate the other half with ENCs, right about the same time. Imagine I can come up with some kinda screen thingie to get them into a bucket for weighing first...
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/28 11:10
Bob taught me a good way to weigh your worms. Put a container with fresh,damp bedding on a scale. Now reset the scale to 0. I then put a hardware cloth tray, I made, onto the fresh bedding. Take off the top bedding from your working tray. Take any recognizable food out and scoop the rest onto the screen about 1-2" deep. The worms will leave through the screen, to get away from the light, and go into the new bedding. When you are done with all the material in your old tray, you will have, (pretty much), all worm weight when you remove the screen tray.
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/02/28 22:15
Thanx, Susan - that's just about how I was thinking of doing it, although I might have to use my fishin' scale instead of the kitchen scale...think the kitchen one only goes up to 2lb . I have enough 1/4" screen left to put together a rig plenty big enough to handle a spread-out WF tray.
I spread a big old jug of slurry in opposing quadrants today - think your feeding cycle makes sense; always room for comfort zones that way.
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/18 02:44
Time to stir up this topic again .
Re:New bin status - 2006/03/14 21:42
Planning on moving 'em out next weekend...
...but as is often the case with WKY spring, the night temps have dipped again this week and the 10-day forecast ain't much better, so I reckon I'll hold off for a bit longer...
Has anybody tried running a shop-light (standard incandescent bulb) in an on-ground bin to elevate / regulate temps? I used one under my chicken roosting box during PA winters for a few years and the birds seemed to like it a lot; wondering if it'd help speed up getting the bin right for my pending wormie transplant...?
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/18 12:56
IMHO.."Just be patient and when it is time to move the worms all will be well", (spoken with the voice of Glenda the Good Witch of the North). One of the great things about an on-ground bin is the natural ease of it. (If you want to obsess about monitoring/managing a bin you still have your WF
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/19 12:21
Yes'm, tryin' real hard to maintain patience. KY spring is usually pretty tricksy - I'm chompin' at the bit every year round-about this time .
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/23 23:18
I just found the instructions for posting pics on the suggestions/discussion page, and I gotta try it. If it works it's time to smack myself in the head again...it has been a while  .
Well, it didn't work, and that's enough for tonight...now my brain hurts.
Is there a way to just delete these 'failed' posts???
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/24 20:59
OK - trying again with a muchly downsized pic...crap!
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/24 21:01
OK - trying again with a muchly downsized renamed pic...I'm sorry, folks I will get this right!
Fargin' Hooah!!!
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/24 21:42
WTG Gary! Terrific looking bin and you posted the pics...no stopping you now
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/25 09:12
wow! what did that cost ya
john
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/25 12:53
jlance wrote:
wow! what did that cost ya
john
Hey, John
Materials cost just under $170  .
I coulda got 'er dun cheaper, but I used all new higher-end lumber and such. The plywood and the hardware cloth were the biggest bites besides the blocks themselves.
Of course, I had to get a dado blade for my table-saw too .
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/26 20:55
jlance..I built that same kind of bin with recycled building materials and whatever I had at the house. The bin cost maybe $50.00.
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/29 22:01
Dear Red Hen and Jlance,
Your pictures were amazing! I only looked at them now and I wonder how things are going, now that spring is on the way. Did the buck stay on guard?
Happy burrows!
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/31 21:47
Bubbles wrote:
...Did the buck stay on guard?
Hey, Bubbles
Think that was probably my deer pic, and yepper, he's out there 24/7, although I did have to 'remove' a big ole 'possum last week from way too close to the bin for my (and my wormies') comfort .
Think this spring weather has finally stabilized enough for me to make my bin shift.
Jeez, I hope so - just ordered 3# of ENCs from Bob for half of it , and gonna screen two thirds (or less/more, based on equal weight) of my indoor li'l fellas this weekend for the other half !
If the temp looks like it's gonna dive again, I will run that shoplight out there for a while  .
Bring on the spring
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/31 22:36
I will run that shoplight out there for a while . Gary...Why the shoplight?
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Re:In-ground bins - 2006/03/31 23:18
...Why the shoplight?
Hi, Susan - outdoor bin temps have been ambient, round'about 6pm at least, but weather temps have dipped to below 40df at night off & on, and no, I ain't been checking bed temps in the wee hours  .
I just plan to have a warming system available if Mamma Nature hiccups - that wouldn't be a precedent 'round here .
Thinking light might be an idea anyway with my new ENC herd coming in, to help keep 'em from roaming...maybe .
Whatcha think?
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