Worm composting update
May. 10th, 2007 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI know you're all dying to hear about how my worms are doing. I've been keeping an eye on them for a while, since I appear to have overfed them in February. I left them entirely alone for March and April, and only recently began re-introducing food to the bin.
The worms appear happy (as these things go, anyway). There's lots of rich black compost in there, and soon I will have to buy another copy of the "Journal de Montréal" to feed them, unless someone out there is willing to donate a few pages of newspaper to the cause?
The earth is quite moist, although I haven't actually added water since that initial spraying of the newspaper when I set up the composter. I'm glad I never tried to water it, since I'm sure the poor worms would be trying to crawl up the sides of the bin by now. As it is, they appear to be hanging out near the bottom of the bin, and in the corners where I've put food.
I am very impressed by the quality of the soil. I don't know what I was expecting, but somehow it wasn't really rich black stuff. I don't know why it never occurred to me that it would do that, since that's what it says in all the literature. I guess I really had to see it to believe it.
The worms appear happy (as these things go, anyway). There's lots of rich black compost in there, and soon I will have to buy another copy of the "Journal de Montréal" to feed them, unless someone out there is willing to donate a few pages of newspaper to the cause?
The earth is quite moist, although I haven't actually added water since that initial spraying of the newspaper when I set up the composter. I'm glad I never tried to water it, since I'm sure the poor worms would be trying to crawl up the sides of the bin by now. As it is, they appear to be hanging out near the bottom of the bin, and in the corners where I've put food.
I am very impressed by the quality of the soil. I don't know what I was expecting, but somehow it wasn't really rich black stuff. I don't know why it never occurred to me that it would do that, since that's what it says in all the literature. I guess I really had to see it to believe it.
