r/Vermiculture

Every spring and summer my worm bin is infested with mosquito. While not harmful the bin is on my balcony and I'd like to enjoy the outside as well. Also, my neighbors have made comments about it...

I don't know what to do anymore.
I've tried putting a hemp map on top of the compost to keep the mosquito out. But the worm ended up eating the mat in weeks AND it made adding stuff to the bin/scooping the compost around a lot harder.
I'm already adding a lot of cardboard to the bin but it doesn't seem to be composting much. In the end I'll be left with compost with lots of paper through it. So I've kind of been limiting how much I add. It's still 50/50 to the amount of greens I put it.
The spout to let out the juice is perpetually open, I did that to hopefully limit the amount of wetness. But it's not really helping.

Worm seem really happy though, I have a lot, and the compost is going well.

What else can I try?

Hi! I made a garbage bin tower, one bin with holes nesting into another bin. I lined the bottom with screen but couldnt figure how to secure, so put cardboard shredded on top— now I just checked on my new worms and they are clumping underneath the mesh and also falling through the bottom holes to where the water collects and then drowning.
Im not opposed to starting over.. any way I can amend what ive made? Thank you

I have an old bottle of nutrafin cycle that's been sitting in storage, the bottles been apparently damaged for I dont know how long and its at least a couple years old, any benefit of slowly watering it down and putting a little in the worm compost ? I did try looking it up first but not really seeing anything and Google AI isn't very reliable for anything.

Winds just blew down a bunch of unripe plums. I'm looking at them and at my worm bins and thinking, this is an opportunity that shouldn't be wasted. (pun unintended!)

So, any advice? I have two large outdoor bins, one that just got started and has very few worms. I also have two smaller bins.

I don't have a blender but do have a juicer which won't work.

Should I cut them just enough to get the pit out and then toss into the bins? Or freeze the majority of them for winter?

Greetings all! What a fun, strange little corner of enthusiastic nerds. It feels homey here. 💕

So, I'm going to be starting my very first little garden [emphasis on LITTLE] : just a small Navaho blackberry bush & a container with some garlic & a couple herbs. Nothing much. So, I genuinely don't need a massive amount of compost — I'm most interested in the liquid as a longterm source of fertilizer.

ANYWAY, MY TWO QUESTIONS!

1. Where do I source worms? I think a combination of red wigglers & nightcrawlers may be useful to cover my bases of plant & paper matter. Do I just buy them online, do I go to a store, are there other people out there with an abundance of wigglybros to share? On the third note, I would not even know where to look.

2. What size of bin should I get/how many worms for such a small garden needs? If there's a bit of extra soil, I can probably offload that to a friend for her houseplants, but I'd like to keep the space & weight to a minimum since my porch is miniscule.

Thank you in advance!! I appreciate it dearly. 😁

Just starting out in this adventure I have had several questions and with much research I have found several answers and even more contradictions. So after just starting with a small recycling container worm bin I realized that I need a long term plan in case i don’t accidentally kill these red wiggles.

I realize that my next decision for a long term plan will be determining my appropriate container and that will depend on if I store them indoors or outdoors. I’d rather store them outdoors in my garage, but I have read that the temperature range for red wigglers is between 40 and 85 degrees F. I live in the Boston mountains of the Ozarks in zone 7b. We reach well below freezing in the winter and as high as 100 in the summer. I’ve read of others managing this, but I wonder if using a CFT in my garage is really even a reasonable consideration in my environment.

I have been looking at the Urban Worm Bag, Worm Hotel, and Vermibag which all seem very nice, but I wonder how size of the bag affects heat distribution in both summer and winter.

Saw them in a potting mix that I kinda left alone for a year, never put any works or anything.

Was thinking of starting a setup anyway by buying them, but was wondering if I can just start with these guys? Seems like there's like 20

my next door neighbor had one cut in half already and i asked and he said i can have it>

what do i need to do to prep it into a worm farm?