They say too much citrus can make the bin uninhabitable for the worms if it gets too acidic but it seems they definitely can handle more than I would have thought it sounds like from your results! Citrus pulp from my juicer ends up in my worm bin, but the peels go to my composters outside.
I'm definitely trying to do what I can to ensure quality of bagged product. The bags we are using are breathable to make sure nothing goes anaerobic. My only concern is it losing moisture on store shelves and losing microbe life. We keep everything moist and healthy while it's in our possession so if you can get it fresh from us in person it's definitely gonna be the best quality. The product will only be bagged right before it's shipped out to retailers so hopefully it retains it's quality for as long as possible on a store shelf (and hopefully doesn't sit on shelves for long!).
ahh, well if that was a possibility I woulda done it, I add a LOT of citrus peels to my compost
only I do it a lil weird..
when I trim (nonstop it seems) I keep the fanleaves in a brown paper bag, and I eat oranges like a mofo (sorta helps with the sugar munchie-craving) anyways, I toss the rinds in with my fanleaves and shake em up, the dry fanleaves act sorta like a desicant and the orange peel is a white-green fuzzy mold in like 2 days
in each half full bag of fanleaves I probably have three oranges in it
the last pile I did, I had probably 20 bags of fanleaves with the orange peels.
One thing I've noticed about worms is that they aren't stupid, I used to be anal about what goes in the pile, not much anymore (the exception being animal stuff)
i'm also abandoning the wormbin, yup you heard it right, my compost pile has a metric fuck-ton of reds in it, probably 100x the amount I have in the wormbin, so whats the point?
it's gonna be the same, and my compost pile is big enough that I can put WA more worm food in it without disrupting it's general wellbeing
I don't even thaw the veggies for em anymore, I toss it in a hole and bury it, and the worms are smart enough to figure it out.
Like I said before, the last 5 yrs or so of growing I've been trying to limit the superfluous activities.
finding out that the end product doesn't change much provided you have the almighty fresh humus.
Fresh humus with tons of microbes.
That's where the magic happens
BUT... you are waaay better to er on the side of caution if you have an "early" wormbin, meaning one that's not very established
OR if you are in a small bin
I wouldn't add citrus to a wormbin that didn't already have a good amount of leaves and soil in it already.
or if you have them fresh.
you want em a lil aged, moldy and degraded, just like all the wormbin foods
the more moldy/degraded the better
