Wormy_Cyclers
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A Fertile Cocoon
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Brief moment about my bins - 2008/04/01 01:54
hello to all just thought I take a moment to describe my worm bin experience  it all started with a few clicks of the mouse and perhaps a little too much time on my hands  It all seems so long ago now, but I came across a web page that described this magical word "vermicomposting" with the help of some cold refreshments and plenty of eyedrops, I even think I saw the sunrise out my window that day, I was hooked I then proceeded to try to order my worms online, now being from Toronto,Canada didn't think much of the trouble i would have trying to get them from the US over my way, tried a few places but got turned down they suggested getting them localy, well i got them from Alberta and as we all know prices here are twice that of the US. Received my worms, and of course commited sin #1 "overfeeding the herd" although unbeknown to me i almost masacred them,  I proceeded to dump and look through my bin I managed to salvage about 7 ounces from the 2pound original herd,but upon closer examination i did see lots of cocoons,this was back in October/07 back to my screen and I'm pretty sure I would almost swear I heard my mouse screaming NO MORE! I started thinking{no need for the fire dept. didn't last too long} I could use a hardier more robust worm, one that I could take 'fishing in salt water' yeah salt water that's it! so I ordered 4g's of ENC's now this is turning out to be the !bestest! more behaved worms i've yet to raise, very few problems to this day, All my worms are kept in the18 gallon plastic bins, I received my ENC's October 31 just the other day I decided it was time to separate them since i want a bigger worm. Well i wasn't happy, the big HOOK wasn't quite working out I have 18 gallon bin with scraps outside I've got a freezer full, and my worms nowhere near capacity, no matter how much I crack that whip, or threaten them with some pictures of some pretty starving pigeons outside, they just wont' keep up! On to the web, and a new shipment of worms on the way, so at the beginning of march I received a shipment of worms {11 pounds} which I believed to be eisenia fetida but looking thru the bin along with my kids I found some worms leaving a trail of this yellow stuff, my kids quickly asked me are they peeing??? I quickly remembered the big myth about these worms not being able to be told apart,well i'm here to tell you You can tell them apart aside from "peeing all over me" they seemed very mushy no real backbone least of my problems of course as a 'noobie wormer' I proceeded to commit sin #2 "over wetting the bedding" I used mostly cardboard bedding with some peat and shredded newspaper on top to cover the feed, so here I am a month later and still trying to keep worms in the bin, I know they may have had different bedding but a Month C'mon!!!! I dumped 2 bins and found them overly wet, of course put some dried newspaper at the bottom and let the contents dry out some, The only thing I really can't get over, is the amount of maggots in there, now i know they help the bin and all but just getting over one YUK factor, and now gonna be dealing with another just seems a bit overwhelming, as well as getting a whole sworm of mites with them. Just thought I share
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