Sunday, March 4, 2007

Vermicompost? Worm poop? Something inbetween?

Since everyone has gotten this far without any problems, I guess the lack of questions is understandable. So, we'll move on to other stuff.

Let's talk about vermicompost.

Well-processed vermicompost is mostly worm casting (poop). The less processed vermicompost is, the more it is worm food waiting to be turned into worm poop.

Using this reasoning, it's reasonable to believe that if the material your worms are residing in is not completely worm poop, then it's partly delicious worm food. That's why you don't have to feed them a nice fresh piece of lettuce or other stuff every few days.

Human nature being what it is though, people...being human...tend to feed them babies when the bin looks to be foodless in human terms.

Oh, worms will show preferences for some foods...like pumpkin, and bananas, and cantaloupe...but that's just the humanity coming out in them that you've installed in them.

Let 'em eat all the compost in the bin. That's what makes good vermicastings.

The cups in the pic below have well-finished vermicompost (left cup), and not-so-well finished VC (right cup).
next: harvest time?

Chuckiebtoo

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