Looking for new vermicomposting ideas and methods... thoughts?

[SpicySativa]

If you want to give them a real treat, throw in your avocado peels. My worms go nuts for the last little layer of avo in the peels.

 

[hyroot]

If you want to give them a real treat, throw in your avocado peels. My worms go nuts for the last little layer of avo in the peels.

My worms won't eat avocado peels. The peels never break down either.

 

[SpicySativa]

They eat the avocado from inside the peel. Whenever I dig around in my bin, the avocado peel halves are literally FULL of worms.The peel itself takes a long time to degrade, but it will.

 

[st0wandgrow]

I am liking the idea of rabbit manure in there

I have bunnies, and many a rabbit turd has hit the worm bins. They LOVE laying cocoons inside of the rabbit poop

 

[greasemonkeymann]

They eat the avocado from inside the peel. Whenever I dig around in my bin, the avocado peel halves are literally FULL of worms.The peel itself takes a long time to degrade, but it will.

I've noticed the avocados I don't use in time, are loved by the worms, nothing I've seen like the grapes though, they went NUTS over the grapes, like a huge writhing mass of worms tryin to all get them

 

[greasemonkeymann]

I have bunnies, and many a rabbit turd has hit the worm bins. They LOVE laying cocoons inside of the rabbit poop

i'd be curious to see what the NPK numbers would be on a wormbin that was fed manure and more nutrient filled foods, rather than the traditional EWC we get from the commercial people, which I assume is primarily fed paper products, like cardboard and such.
I'm thinking superfoods like kale, sea kelp, spinach, carrot shavings, blueberries, coconut shavings... i'm curious to see how much of those nutrients that WE, as humans need, is available to the plant after the composting/worms digestion... Maybe its all for naught, but it'd be pretty cool to harvest a bunch of castings that were closer to 3/3/3 or ideally 5/5/5. i'd think the rabbit/alpaca manure will increase the nitrogen and phosphorus a lil, and the potassium I can get from bananas and coconut... Hmmm, if I can make a super worm casting recipe... it'd be pretty great as an all purpose fertilizer

 

[Rudi I&I Automan]

Just a thought, but maybe you should turn the caps lock off, and read what some of these people are throwing down. There are specific reasons kelp and amendments are adding after thermo composting and fed to the worms. This is not new, this is not experimental. Many people do this with spectacular results.

In addition, I would never add that crap to my worm bin, and second do you have any documentation for your statement? So I put in a 1/4 tsp and the worms instantly double? Sounds like bro science to me.

P-

Special brew and keyboards don't mix well ive found to my dismay, I was looking to invent a new cocktail for my bro & work mates at sony.

 

[Rudi I&I Automan]

I have bunnies, and many a rabbit turd has hit the worm bins. They LOVE laying cocoons inside of the rabbit poop

Im curious to know how do you stop them exploding whilst fucking them, im all out of gaffa tape

seriously...Why not wizz the skins up into a pulp like baby food? same as egg shells get dried and wizzed up and added to the compost.

Isn't the whole idea is to get the castings to disolve into the liquid? . most worm bins ive seen have no tap or a small one, no protective layer for good drainage, so they end up drowning the worms with too much good intention.

Why waste anything from a bottle or powdered guano when you can just add them to the liquid?? better to have a nutrient (onion free) packed with goodness from resturant scraps, kitchen waste and the leftover leaves that don't go to the homeless as food.

 

[Rudi I&I Automan]

i'd be curious to see what the NPK numbers would be on a wormbin that was fed manure and more nutrient filled foods, rather than the traditional EWC we get from the commercial people, which I assume is primarily fed paper products, like cardboard and such.
I'm thinking superfoods like kale, sea kelp, spinach, carrot shavings, blueberries, coconut shavings... i'm curious to see how much of those nutrients that WE, as humans need, is available to the plant after the composting/worms digestion... Maybe its all for naught, but it'd be pretty cool to harvest a bunch of castings that were closer to 3/3/3 or ideally 5/5/5. i'd think the rabbit/alpaca manure will increase the nitrogen and phosphorus a lil, and the potassium I can get from bananas and coconut... Hmmm, if I can make a super worm casting recipe... it'd be pretty great as an all purpose fertilizer

I think there r to many variables to take into account, just like hydro, differant times of day differant needs.
temps will determin food needs, type of food, foods reacting with each other, protien to roughage etc

would be nice to know, but too clinical for many

 

[hyroot]

The worms in my bins go nuts for romaine lettuce. I put romain lettuce on everything. I don't eat the spines. so I freeze and puree the spines and any lettuce leaves gone bad. After a day or 2 the slurry is gone. The worms are all in that spot. They love carrots, coffee grounds. and left over sprouted mung beans from sst too. They don't seem to munch on egg shells that much. Only half of what I add. I do cook and pulverize the egg shells

 

[docter]

purina worm chow?

 

[Rudi I&I Automan]

You only have to freeze it once should be enough with lettuice, if it was philaris grass you would be better off freez/thaw 3,6 or 9 times t soften them up.
err..Im not sure that they would apreciate that being stuck in a plastic bin and suffering clostraphobia whilst being swamped down by worm meat or where can i run err sqwerm or wriggle to..faaaaaaaaaaast

 

[Rudi I&I Automan]

rock ard chewey mints is all you need ive been informed

 

[greasemonkeymann]

The worms in my bins go nuts for romaine lettuce. I put romain lettuce on everything. I don't eat the spines. so I freeze and puree the spines and any lettuce leaves gone bad. After a day or 2 the slurry is gone. The worms are all in that spot. They love carrots, coffee grounds. and left over sprouted mung beans from sst too. They don't seem to munch on egg shells that much. Only half of what I add. I do cook and pulverize the egg shells

ahh, romaine lettuce eh? I have a customer that has a Mexican restaurant, and sometimes they have these gigantic sealed bags of salad mixes that get a lil "soft" so he brings them by and I throw the salad mix in a 5 gallon bucket with a layer of soil on top to keep the flies away, and a week later its nice and mushy for them to eat up, makes the fastest EWC, I've seen so far, but one thing I haven't done yet is get a food processer or a coffee grinder for their food, I want one, but don't look forward to cleaning it... seems like a funky job... But I know it makes the food more 'edible" so to speak

 

[st0wandgrow]

Im curious to know how do you stop them exploding whilst fucking them, im all out of gaffa tape

seriously...Why not wizz the skins up into a pulp like baby food? same as egg shells get dried and wizzed up and added to the compost.

Isn't the whole idea is to get the castings to disolve into the liquid? . most worm bins ive seen have no tap or a small one, no protective layer for good drainage, so they end up drowning the worms with too much good intention.

Why waste anything from a bottle or powdered guano when you can just add them to the liquid?? better to have a nutrient (onion free) packed with goodness from resturant scraps, kitchen waste and the leftover leaves that don't go to the homeless as food.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about bro.

 

[greasemonkeymann]

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about bro.

hahahaha, I echo this, but didn't feel like bringin it up, maybe English is a second language? Or perhaps he grows waaaaaay better herb than I do...
his first line def had my eyebrows crinkled... Umm say what now? exploding whilst fucking them?

 

[DonPetro]

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about bro.

Stow!!! Havent seen you in a minute. Check out the updated pixs in the Dons' garden yet? @DonTesla is killin it!

 

[st0wandgrow]

hahahaha, I echo this, but didn't feel like bringin it up, maybe English is a second language? Or perhaps he grows waaaaaay better herb than I do...
his first line def had my eyebrows crinkled... Umm say what now? exploding whilst fucking them?

Ha! I can only assume that he meant to respond to a different post, in a different thread ..... perhaps in a different forum all together??

 

[SpicySativa]

Speaking of bunnies... If you oppose GMO crops, please stop buying Annie's products (Mac and cheese, cheddar bunnies, salad dressings, etc). They just got bought out by General Mills; a company who dumps craploads of money into preventing GMO labeling.

 

[Rudi I&I Automan]

Well the 40 ish yrs ive been growing it , has left its toll, the weeds not bad either matanuska tundra sagarmatha