What is the best micro-scale homemade worm bin plans available. Also, how to avoid extra bugs in the bin?
I’m thinking of starting my own worm bin (redworms). I would like to put something together by reusing common household trash (ie food packaging, scrap wood,etc). Basically I’d like to reuse something rather than being forced to purchase something. I want this to be very very small scale (less than 1/4 pound of food waste per day) And MOST IMPORTANT…I don’t want to attract any other pest such as mice, flies, maggots, centipedes, millipedes or anything else nasty. Just want to avoid throwing perfectly good food in the landfill and maybe help keep some potted plants happy.
well if are going to open it up every day then something with a tight cover would work just fine if they had headroom/air space. I am thinking it may be the soil microbes which would be the biggest breathers. so letting the co2 exit would be optimal and that doesn’t need to be an OPEN hole..i mean maybe u could use a screen? whatever air permeable membrane u could come up with basically.
and thing is, the finished product/castings will have lots of worms in it still, so it is nice to have a bin where u can do a bit of rotation. like fresh stuff on one side so the finished stuff is not so tempting for the worms to hang out in and they will crawl out of the finished pile.
What to use for the actual bin is kind of whatever u have i would guess since worms are not discriminatory between metal, wood, plastic surfaces. water tight of course so no dripping but maybe a drain hole in case of overwatering? it’s what they recommend since accidents happen but it DOES take an awful lot of flood since worms are so mobile and can rise above it.
to avoid smells off it u can cover raw goods with soil. like a bit of plain clay dirt, sawdust or such to toss in after fresh deposits. doing that would help you keep fresh and nice while your population built up in case u start small because naked goods can attract fungi and no real way to stop that. it won’t take long to build ur population however, the texts are not kidding when they say breeding occurs quickly. two worms can become thousands in just a couple months so a small bin will populate rather quickly.
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well if are going to open it up every day then something with a tight cover would work just fine if they had headroom/air space. I am thinking it may be the soil microbes which would be the biggest breathers. so letting the co2 exit would be optimal and that doesn’t need to be an OPEN hole..i mean maybe u could use a screen? whatever air permeable membrane u could come up with basically.
and thing is, the finished product/castings will have lots of worms in it still, so it is nice to have a bin where u can do a bit of rotation. like fresh stuff on one side so the finished stuff is not so tempting for the worms to hang out in and they will crawl out of the finished pile.
What to use for the actual bin is kind of whatever u have i would guess since worms are not discriminatory between metal, wood, plastic surfaces. water tight of course so no dripping but maybe a drain hole in case of overwatering? it’s what they recommend since accidents happen but it DOES take an awful lot of flood since worms are so mobile and can rise above it.
to avoid smells off it u can cover raw goods with soil. like a bit of plain clay dirt, sawdust or such to toss in after fresh deposits. doing that would help you keep fresh and nice while your population built up in case u start small because naked goods can attract fungi and no real way to stop that. it won’t take long to build ur population however, the texts are not kidding when they say breeding occurs quickly. two worms can become thousands in just a couple months so a small bin will populate rather quickly.
worm bin plans:
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