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Offline bluefoxicy

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Red worms
« on: September 30, 2013, 03:51:22 pm »
I dumped a bunch of used coffee in the red wiggler bin.  They seem to have all disappeared... too wet I suppose.

Can't find the friggin' things!  They didn't escape the bin, but there's only 50 in the bottom and god knows where the rest are.  They're not digging through the coffee grounds.  I started with like 500!

I added more paper to balance the wetness.  Hopefully that helps.  Going to add more worms; I think I may have killed most of mine when some potato fermented and alcoholized the bin.  Worms dislike wodka.

Does anyone know wtf I'm doing?  Because I sure don't.  Five dollars I don't have says Weaze or Cap knows how all this crap works; lord knows they know everything else.

Offline 1vertical

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Re: Red worms
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2013, 06:51:03 pm »
goto a mushroom farm and obtain their spent compost.  You will
have good results feeding worms that.  Coffee  grounds only in
small limited amounts. Do not get the worm farm too wet.
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Offline bluefoxicy

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Re: Red worms
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2013, 05:31:07 am »
Ooh.  If I could get some oak or maple logs, I could use shiitake mushrooms for that.  In fact, I could use all kinds of mushrooms (oyster shrooms!) to compost cardboard and paper rapidly...

Good idea mate.