RE: [Homesteadingfamily] Question about worm composting

Nicole,

I've raised them in San Jose, CA before we moved and my garage became cold (50or below) in the winter . They survived, but would have done better if they had been in the house. People who kept their bin under the kitchen sink, had worms that composted all winter. Mine tended to hibernate and reactivate when the garage warmed up to 60.

The temps in my garage at that time tended to be in the 50's plus most of the winter and under 85 for the summer. When done outside people tend to insulate their worm bins in the winter with bales of straw to keep the temperatures up and with shade in the summer. Personally the idea situation is figuring where indoors to do it because then temps remain more constant and you can easily move fruit and veggie waste to their bin.

-Sarah
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Nicole Bulicek <nickibulicek@yahoo.com>
To: Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Homesteadingfamily] Question about worm composting
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:12:00 -0800 (PST)

Thank you for the information. Do you think they would do ok in my garage during weather that is to hot or cold?&#65533;

--- On Tue, 11/30/10, sarah_johnson@juno.com <sarah_johnson@juno.com> wrote:

From: sarah_johnson@juno.com <sarah_johnson@juno.com>
Subject: RE: [Homesteadingfamily] Question about worm composting
To: Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 4:39 PM

Also realize they only live in the very top material and as far as I know they don't do rabbit poop.&#65533; Mine only use veggie matter and very crushed egg shells and coffee grounds.&#65533; Also they have to stay in the 65-75 temp range for optimal composting.&#65533; They don't do cold or hot weather, so indoors is a good way.

I've used rectangular tubes (never 5 gal buckets) so I'm not sure how that would work.&#65533; But on the tubes/bins you'd provide drain holes in the bottom and air vent holes in the side.&#65533; Plus you really only want maybe an inch of fresh stuff for them to work through at a time.&#65533;

Sarah, who was a master composter (yes, there are classes for that as well as master gardener) but haven't been actively involved in a group for 7 years so it's possible some training has changed since then.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Jeanne Lookabill" <atasteofcreole@gmail.com>
To: <Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Homesteadingfamily] Question about worm composting
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:47:29 -0500

I do know you have to have drain holes.&#65533; Worms and compost make a lot of
liquid.&#65533; It needs to go somewhere w/o drowning the wormies!

&#65533;

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