It has been three months ago now since I have started my own worm compost little factory at the house. I wrote about it in this post and also in this other post I haven given some updates about 6 weeks later on how everything was going.
Now three months later in total I can just ell you I can extremely happy with how this going and all of this is working. YAY!!
For the readers who think I have gone absolutely mental (yeah I understand it, why else would you hold worms as some pets), there is an eco reason on why using worms in the garden for getting the whole compost game right.
The idea is that you have enough food scraps and enough leaves from the garden that the worms have a proper mail from it. Do nothing for a couple of weeks, and presto...All of a sudden there is compost which is perfectly usable in the garden or in the allotment while is super nutrient rich and helps the ecosystem in the growing area.
The idea is that the worms eat the scraps and that they leave poo from that food and that is the part that you use. But also parts that are not fully digested by the worms as yet as just decomposing and that is also perfect for in the garden.
So my green food scraps disappear in there and as you can see that also means egg shells for the calcium in the ground, they don't fall apart that fast but it is still good stuff. Those are also the eggs from the chickens that I take take off...see how circular the process is?
But I also use old toilet paper rolls for instance for the cardboard, that also helps with the waste management. Everything counts.
Now three months later I have had two bacthes of compost which is ready to use for in the harden. Those badges are about 3 liters each and I bury them in the ground of the allotment and also smear them out through the rest of the soil.
But the best part I find is just not have the food waste anymore. It also shrinks in size ofcourse because of the moist going out, but I can say that I have used already at least 10 kilo of foodscraps that I otherwise would toss out in the garden which also stinks like hell. That's a cool way to do something usefull with your waste I would say.
Also now it is autumn and the abundance of leaves is falling from the trees I can also use a part of these leaves to feed the worms. You can't use the leaves that dry, but they blend into the rest as well so you don't have to do anything else with them.
In this last batch the worms have produced a crapload of worm tea, which you can also use as fertilizer on a 1 on 10 mixture. This is the most rich fluid for stuff to grow, but I can not guarantee that I don't have a couple of drowned crawly victims in there as well.
Everytime I take a badge of compost I try to peel the worms out of there. They don't like daylight and the process of moving so you can see that they play dead for a bit, or they try to run for a safe space. They also run towards the wrong container here and there I think.
But these guys multiply like rabbits and this autumn they have been doing awesome business as this is their favorite working temperature between 15-20 degrees celsius.
Now it is getting colder they go into a bit of hibernation so I am curious on how the next couple of months will go. Because they are with a lot more, not I'm not sure how much they will be eating in the upcoming time.
To be continued after the winter!
