Web Duster » Environment http://www.webduster.com It's always a good time for a walk. Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:17:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Home Composting http://www.webduster.com/environment/home-composting-2/ http://www.webduster.com/environment/home-composting-2/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:16:11 +0000 Val http://www.webduster.com/?p=8 Home Composting is a post from: Web Duster

No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I’ve started a blog that follows my progress as a new home composter.  I’m getting 1000 worms and a Worm Factory 360 tomorrow. The response from family and friends hasn’t been exactly what I would call enthusiastic, but I probably wouldn’t have been a few months ago either. Having done quite a bit of research though, it doesn’t seem like such a big deal to me. The worms are supposed to stay within the worm bins and if I can manage to keep the right balance of food and paper scraps, it’s not supposed to smell. It will occupy a very small space on my porch and it’s probably more attractive than my rusty bike that will sit next to it.

UPDATE: 2/26/2011

The worms did their work. They multiplied and ate my garbage faithfully and created wonderful wormpoop castings that I used on my plants. I have to say it wasn’t easy separating them from their poop. The problem occurred when I left town for an extended period of time and asked my neighbor to feed them once in awhile. Getting the balance of “browns” and “greens” can be a little tricky and something must have gone wrong. Something about bugs and white foam… My neighbors took care of the problem and I can only hope that my red worms adjusted well to their life of freedom beyond the walls of my Worm Factory.

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