Archive for the 'Vermicomposting' Category

Compost Experiment

A couple days ago (5/24/08) the boys and I started a new experiment. A while back I got a couple large 55 gallon plastic barrels from a neighbor and I’ve been trying to finalize what I want to use them for. I have quite a list, rain barrel, recycle bins, chicken […]

Four worm experiment

Well Bentley over at RedWormComposting has inspired me, that and my boys bugging me to check out their worm bins. It’s actually been quite a while since I’ve checked out the boys bins so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was afraid they would be dried out and all the […]

Four worm experiment - overdue update

  Just a quick, long overdue, update on the four worm experiment that I’ve been doing along with RedWormComposting.com.  I have several bins going but I only took a look through the one big one this evening.  I didn’t do an extensive search, but was able to locate two large worms and the big news […]

Four worm experiment - the saga continues

I finally broke down and sifted through my four worm experiment bin. Remember, it was the one I had put the chicken feed in. Well I finally dumped it out onto a garbage to search through for any worms. It was smelling an awful lot like silage, I think the […]

Four worm experiment update

The ‘four worm experiments’ that I setup with my boys are now a week old, so I figured it was time to take a look at them.  I didn’t want to really dig through the small ones that I had put together for the boys so I just took the newspaper off the outside and […]

Four worm experiment - addition

After setting up my four worm experiment and telling my family about it, they informed me that Shrek the Third has a bonus feature that talks about being green, not like Shrek, but Earth friendly green, by making a small worm bin out of a soda bottle. I haven’t actually seen the bonus feature, […]

Four worm experiment

I have been following Bentley’s blog on vermicomposting over at Red Worm Composting
and thought it would be interesting to try his four worm experiment. I’m not nearly as experienced as him on vermicomposting but I thought the experiment would help expand my experience with a worm bin.
My setup is very rudimentary, my […]