Worm Composting
Red worm (Eisenia Foetida) with compost.Yesterday afternoon I attended a Worm composting workshop. This evening, I have happy red worms in my kitchen turning my kitchen waste into valuable compost for my garden.
Compost bins at the workshop. This method uses two bins stacked together. The top bin houses the worms & the bedding, the bottom bin is for aeration & drainage.
Saving the Worm juice that has drained into the bottom bin. This is very good for your plants. It doesn't smell nearly as bad as you would think.
Sorting the compost to utilize the finished stuff (black gold). Sort out the worms & put them back in the bin, give them more food & bedding & the process continues. Use the finished compost on your garden or house plants.
Drilling holes in the top bin for aeration & drainage. I'm using a couple of honey buckets I got free from the Health Food Store.
Worm compost bin in my kitchen next to the garbage can. Ready to turn my used tea bags, egg shells, & vegetable peelings into valuable soil. Note the lid in the background. The compost bin is kept covered.
posted by Rita @ 5:46 PM
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20 Comments:
yucckkkk....scary...a worm in your hands ! ;-)
I would love to have a nice home with a yard and maybe a swimming pool too ! ah only in my dreams !
I am not complaining about my big flat on an 18th floor in a hill top with a great view on the Hong Kong Jockey Club, cemetery and Happy Valley...In my next post, maybe I should post the view of Hong Kong from my balcony.
worms...wow! how political and spiritual are they?
I hope you realize the worms outnumber you. You'd better keep them under control so they do not rise up against you. Prohibiting education is your best bet at keeping them down. I hear segregation also works well.
prash I went from a large house (3,200 sq. feet) with yard, woods & stream to a very small apt.(less then 1,000 sq. feet) in the middle of town. I'm very happy in my little apt.
I would love to see pictures of your flat. Is it full of books? Art? Plants? Are you tidy or more relaxed in your housekeeping?
vishesh The woman that held the worm composting workshop, talked about the soil as "mother earth", she was very adamant about respecting & replenishing the earth. She also had a lot of respect for the lowly red worm. Is it spiritual? I don't know but I liked her attitude.
Is Politics there?...a politician can see opportunities everywhere.
Phil Viva La Revolution! Biomass
My SIL does the composting thing but they bought a bin which looks much easier :-)
phil It is not worms we have to worry about it is ANTS.
another girl Part of my goal was figure out how to do this with out spending any money.
BTW, Do you have your bin inside your house?
That is a wonderful idea, you know.
I think so, anyway.
Kudos to you for gettin' yer hands dirty ;)
slipstream I can't help but try to influence my environment. Sometimes it takes A hands on approach.
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handmainden, they keep their bin outside.
WOW prash what a wonderful view of Hong Cong! Your apartment is very nice... cosmopolitan is the word. You are right, it is tidy.
I will have to take some pictures of my place to share.
This morning I measured the sq. feet in my apt. It's only about 500 sq. feet! I knew it was under a 1000 sq. ft, but I didn't realize it was THAT small.
That's OK though, because, I'm very happy here.
From your comment on another blog that, "I just have to say that I love(?) bugs & try very hard not to kill them. I will always ponder over killing a piss ant," I can tell you are fan of all bugs, not just worms.
I also try not to kill an ant. It seems very sad to be the one to break a chain of life that began billions of years ago.
3.5 to 4 billion years ago. in some unknown but plausible fashion. non-life became life. That first life had a descendant, that descendant had a descendant and so on until the present day. As life spread, the various descendants adapted to different environments and the tree of life, with its many branches comprising millions of different species, was created.
But still, each one of us and our relative the ant we accidentally stepped on, can trace our ancestry back to that first living creature all those billions of years ago. The ant had a parent, that parent had a parent and so on, in an unbroken chain reaching back into vastly distant time.
And then I step on the ant, breaking the chain. Darn it. My action just seems out of proportion to the wonderful series of events and stories of survival that brought the ant under my foot. Darn it!
blurberThat is really a wonderful way to illustrate the sanctity of lower life forms.
My Mother who also hated the arbitrary killing of bugs tried to impress on me God's love & purpose for the lowliest of creatures.
I took a different tack with my children & told them my concept of Karma, if you kill a bug, even accidentally, you set cause & affect into motion, & the next thing you know, you'll stub your toe, hit your funny bone, get a paper cut, something in direct relation to the crime. My son told me the other day, he still cringes when he kills a spider. ha ha!
I deleted my previous comments because it had a open link (very private) to certain pictures I don't want to make it public. Hope you understand ! ;-)
The pictures are taken like one year ago, my apartment is filled by paintings and shelfs and further furnitures (I am more into antique or at least authenticate antique).
I am more used to calculate the appartment size in sq.feet ! :-) Bad European influence, euh ! ;-)
We have been worm composting for about a year now, you wouldn't believe how many worms we have. Our babies just loooove watermelon! it is their favorite food
princess p c At the worm composting workshop, I was amazed at how many red worms can live in a compost heap.
Mine are doing fine in the bins under the kitchen sink. I also have a compost pile outside. I use eco-friendly dish soap & the dish water is what how I keep the outside pile moist.
I use the rinse water to water my little garden.
prash I understand.
It is not worms we have to worry about it is ANTS.
Hmmm, I think HG Wells tried to warn us about something like this.....
We have a green program that does this shit fer ya.
Man I can't believe you do this?
You guys live in the 18th century or sumthin?
I have a new respect fer ya...Again!!!
What! Doesn't everyone raise worms under their sink?
I don't think that eggshells really compost.
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