Friday, November 30, 2012

11/27 leaves in FT -11/28 new bin start

put a good amount of leaves in the flow thru and have been misting them to encourage the worms to move up  into them

11/28 another new bin in the works,,just getting the cardboard soaking right now till i harvest more worms for it

Monday, November 26, 2012

youtube channel

i am now making videos of my bins to show what goes on and to help those looking for advise with worms
Raisingwormsyourway - My Youtube Channel

11/26 new bin

moved some worms to the blue bin as an experiment with the 2 phone books i had shredded the other day to see how the worms eat thru them

Sunday, November 25, 2012

11/25 fed ft- 2nd stackable at moms

gave the flow thru some celery,coleslaw and carrot peelings and coffee filters
took the 2nd stackable out to mom's house to have going out there

Thursday, November 22, 2012

11/21 fed flow thru

fed another pumpkin to the flow thru
took about 12 hours for the worms to come up to eat

Sunday, November 18, 2012

11/18 made 2nd stackable

made the 2nd stackable for mom to have out there
lots of worms were in the blue bin and lots of wet vermicompost
let the worms stay in there for now to eat the rest till spring and will harvest more of them when they mature to an adult

11/17 fed FT

fed the flow thru the pumpkin 8-10 pounds
and put a good layer of cardboard on top of it

Thursday, November 15, 2012

11/14 fed stackable,,gave cardboard to FT

gave the stackable some lettuce..stopped the leachate experiment as they still seem to be living well after a couple weeks of recycling the water thru it
cleaned out the bottom of the FT and found only a few worms down there and torn up some compressed cardboard filler packing

hope to make a stackable this weekend for mom to get going out at her place

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

11/6 fed blue bin

blue bin still had lots of potato peels in it but gave them a whole juicy pumpkin to eat

the recycling leachate in the stackable seems to be doing well with worms living in it
no dead worm smell as of yet

the pumpkin the the 55 gal flow thru is slowly going away already and lots of mold in there

11/5 gave the juvi bin a bucket full of leaves that were wet over the existing pile in there

Friday, November 02, 2012

11/2 fed pumpkin

gave the bins pumpkin today
the demo bin was dry on top so that received a good dose of water

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

10/31 3 #S of worms

received my 3 pounds of worms from Jerry Gach the worm dude  today
all worms came in alive and well packed
gave them a sprinkle bath to rehydrate them with a spray bottle
put them all in the 55 gal flow thru which will be easier for now till they multiply

Sunday, October 28, 2012

10/28 new demo bin

put away the pretzel bin for now and made the demo bin from pretzel bin
didn't look like many worms in there but just dumped it in the other bin
was quite a few in the coffee grounds

Saturday, October 27, 2012

10/27 fed bins

gave the blue bin lots of potato peels and radish tops and 2 burger buns crushed up
the stackable received a few banana peels
and the juvi bin the lettuce scraps

haven't seen any hummers since around oct 25th,,but did give some new water out there if any do come thru
were 2 male hummers the same anna and a juvi with a patch on the throat and red sides about halfway up its neck

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

10/23 fed flow thru and blue bin

gave the flow thru a few more banana peels and the corn stalks & cobs
gave the blue bin a few banana peels and stirred it up,,lots of babies and juvis and a couple adults

Monday, October 22, 2012

10/22 leaves and birds

gave leaves and cardboard to the stackable
gave leaves to the isopod bin
and 3 hummers are showing up now
a juvi anna with just red on the sides of his head and a patch on its neck
the regular male anna and poss a female

Saturday, October 20, 2012

10/20 fed bins

gave the juvi bin the lettuce mix
gave banana peels to the stackable and flow thru

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

10/16 watered blue bin - moved adults

gave almost a gallon of water to the blue bin
no adults seen yet but there was a almost hatched cocoon on the corn cob

moved more adults over to the stackable

Monday, October 15, 2012

10/15 split stackable

moved the worms over to the juvi bin and kept most adults in the stackable
found an escapee in the flow thru in the bottom

Saturday, October 13, 2012

10/13 made flow thru

made the flow thru and put in the worms from the juvi bin in there