Greetings Gentlefolks!
I have to start by saying I feel like I just read War and Peace in one go! I read all 64 pages of absolutely delightful info you have spread. Wonderful really. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
I started a worm bin last November or so when I was given an entire level of a bin by my best friends' mother who lives in an apartment, has no plant whatsoever, and has been doing VC for the past 5 years to spread the love around to her friends and reduce the volume of her waste.
Well I built a bin out of tiny little totes that I customized to be stackable. Bear in mind that I had no experience with WC before. so I made tiny little holes in the bottom of the totes and same on the lid. I carefully fed the creatures (red wrigglers and the other stripped kind) with gourmet stuff. Organic processed lefto's from my bin + teabags, coffee grinds and every now and then eggshells. my food processor turn everything into a brownish goo and the wormies seem to love my cuisine. I will put the freeze and thaw technic to use now (Again Thanks for smartifying us).
I used coco + cardboard for bedding. and coco on top as well.
the bin is in a basement with very stable temperature. I get virtually no leachate BUT the compost is soggy as a marsh. Very very very wet.
I have limited access to all the funky kelp, alfalfa, comfrey meals you folks use (for now). I am thinking of adding a bit of wheat bran to soak up the moisture AND increasing the ventilation and hole size that are probably between 1/6th to 1/8th of an inch but in large numbers. tons of mites as well but the wigglers don't seem to mind the company.
Now, I started a thread elsewhere (thanks Richard Drysift and Wetdog for your replies) but it should just have been in this thread so here it goes:
Do any of you folks have bins with different diet to support the different stages of plant growth?
BOOM.
WCingly yours,
M