Anyone involved in worm composting?

I am very interested in this, please, by all means, elaborate!

-- Old Pharmer Phils Country Living Phorum - http://pharmerphil.proboards37.com

I haven’t tried this, but it sure sounds fun!

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

Hi ya all,
Just found these canadian:) sites on worm composting!!

http://www.gnb.ca/0009/0372/0003/0012-e.asp
http://www.toronto.ca/compost/withworm.htm
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Great Eklectic I was just going to look them up for you and you beat me to it. Good luck. If you were close I could get you started with some worms.

-- Dahlitsa

Pharmerphil: Hope the web sites that Eklectic found will help you. Its great fun and I got two of my grand daughters helping me. It was supposed to be a small business….ha ha. They did get into it and learned some new things anyway. Business, well that’s questionable. Haven’t sold any but I have bags piling up in the garage.

-- Dahlitsa

Yes, I’ve maintained a worm bin for many years. I’ll do a write up on it at a later time. Any specific questions out there? Please let me know.

One question I have for others doing worm bins: how do you keep the pill bug populations under control? Is there a natural predator?

-- GardenMentor, Seattle, WA (zone 8/9), www.gardenmentors.com & www.gardenhelp.org

I have a large bucket with a tight lid that I keep the gathered food stored and then I put it out in my unheated garage. This has kept the population down. I have 8 bins in my basement and there has been no problem since I started doing this. in the summer I will move everyhthing to the back deck and being outside I don’t worry about it too much.

-- Dahlitsa