Posts Tagged ‘Worm Bin’
“Worm Box”
You’ll also need a box that holds six or seven cubic feet, or about 2 x 3 feet by 12 inches deep. Each pound of worms needs three or four cubic feet of bedding. A better way to estimate box size is to figure that one cubic foot of worm bin can digest [...]
“Vermicomposting”
It was 1952 and Mr. Campbell had a worm bin. This shallow box—about two feet wide by four feet long—resided under a worktable in the tiny storeroom/greenhouse adjacent to our grade school science class. It was full of what looked like black, crumbly soil and zillions of small, red wiggly worms, not at all [...]
“Compost”
If adding compost is your chosen method to add nutrients to the soil, then there is a wide range of materials you can use. Composted manure, homemade compost, municipal compost, sawdust composted with manure — they’re all good products. If you work in compost in spring, it will improve the soil structure just as the [...]