Fun with Vermiculture - Vermicomposting. Making Worm Castings for Organic growing.

I see some threads here and there that mention Vermiculture and or Vermicomposting but they are mostly private conversations.
Here is a thread on composting with worms to make worm castings for Organic Soil for everyone.
Feel free to add on to this thread with your Vermi-tales!

Now there will be a direct hit on the search terms "Vermiculture" and "VermiComposting" and "Worm Castings" when searching on Roll It Up.


For my first ever VermiComposting adventure I've gone and sourced everything I read about.
Parts shredded cardboard, part soil with fresh roots from some clone in a pot, chopped up fresh clones ( not needed ) and kitchen scraps saved in a lovely "compost can" that looks like a miniature garbage can. very nice. You might want one for your kitchen. Impress your friends. Keeps the smell in with activated carbon scrubber in the lid. Also I am experimenting with corn from bird feed that I cannot use now due to bird-flu. In composting it disappears fast.

This Vermicomposting looks to be perhaps one of the lowest maintenance projects for making a soil amendment that I have experienced so far.
Oh I make compost and I recycle my organic soil used in previous season by adding the old soil to new composting. Some things like Azomite and Greensand take time to be available to plants so it is a good idea to recycle if, like me, you added these things the season before. In my mind bio-activity is king.
I suspect I should check on these, my new gardening buddies every week or so.
They have Plenty of food-stuff for them.
Things are moist and once I get the fabric screen to finish their proper Vermi-Bin I'll transfer them from this temporary bin with no drainage to a bigger bin with drainage.
I have a timetable of being ready to Grow the Winter grow come October. "To every Season Turn, Turn, Turn.."


And now some pictures. A favorite part of posting for me.

You may like this one.

Boatguy said:

You may like this one.

Vermicomposters Unite! Official Worm Farmers Thread

Hey everyone! I thought the Organic section could use a dedicated thread about all things WORMS! Post your questions, techniques, photos or comments related to Vermicomposting. Ive had my bin going for about 4 years, and feed my worms an assortment of food scraps, selected herbs (nettle...

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OH But the search terms for Vermicompost and Vermiculture and Worm Castings do not come up when one searches.

Okay then.

I'll tell Admin to close this one.

Friendly_Grower said:

OH But the search terms for Vermicompost and Vermiculture and Worm Castings do not come up when one searches.

Okay then.

I'll tell Admin to close this one.

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Nothing wrong with more than one on the same thing here. Just look at all the "is this done" or "How much will i harvest" threads are here.
Just thought you would appreciate it. Lots of info in there.

Boatguy said:

Nothing wrong with more than one on the same thing here. Just look at all the "is this done" or "How much will i harvest" threads are here.
Just thought you would appreciate it. Lots of info in there.

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I didn't want to start one if I didn't have to. I got too much going on to add monitoring one more thread I started.
I wrote in that thread they should add Keywords so it would be easy for new folks to find the main one.

Friendly_Grower said:

I didn't want to start one if I didn't have to. I got too much going on to add monitoring one more thread I started.
I wrote in that thread they should add Keywords so it would be easy for new folks to find the main one.

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If you do searches in any subforum, and sort by replies or views. You will see most of the older, longer living threads.
Without doing that, it sorts by latest, and only goes back so far. Like 20 pages or so which sometimes is only last year

Boatguy said:

If you do searches in any subforum, and sort by replies or views. You will see most of the older, longer living threads.
Without doing that, it sorts by latest, and only goes back so far. Like 20 pages or so which sometimes is only last year

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Ah, so it wouldn't work. That's sad.

Always time for a thread with worms.
Worms are awesome.
I am on the verge of making a new vermicomposter purchase, but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

I've been saving cardboard and dead twigs, and have a spin barrel now. Thinking about doing my first worm bin. I guess I'm to the point where I need to source some red wigglers!

Somebody say worms? I’m in. I love worms too. Mine have formed a union; they demand strawberry tops and watermelon rinds. We can usually get strawberry’s year round but watermelon is seasonal. They don’t care; they are walking a picket line… er sliding or whatever it is worms do. We are trying to negotiate by offering pineapple rind until summer produce supply chain issues are resolved but the watermelon rind caucus remains popular among the membership.

Richard Drysift said:

Somebody say worms? I’m in. I love worms too. Mine have formed a union; they demand strawberry tops and watermelon rinds. We can usually get strawberry’s year round but watermelon is seasonal. They don’t care; they are walking a picket line… er sliding or whatever it is worms do. We are trying to negotiate by offering pineapple rind until summer produce supply chain issues are resolved but the watermelon rind caucus remains popular among the membership.

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Mine just got Paw paws and I'm scared they will get to love them.

I just found this thread. I should've posted this here.