Worm bin (was Re: "Red wigglers" as killie food supplement?)

["Ron @ FAR EAST" <ronwill at starhub_net.sg>]

Hi Bruce,

I've collected my wigglers and have just completed a worm bin but for
someone maintaining 18! boxes, I'd appreciate your comments on my
amateurish attempt at;

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/ronwill/vermiculture/My_Vermiculture.htm

(If you end up with a notice page, it's probably because I have reached
the bandwidth quota... it's a free hosting site and you'd have to check
back later.)

FWIW, It's my first experience with wigglers and the bin was born from
alot of ideas from folks here (both on & off list).  Thanks a zil!!

> We culture the worms in standard polyurethane fish shipping boxes with a
> couple of holes drilled in the bottom and blocked with fine screen.  The
> culture medium is 2 parts top soil (sifted to remove larger debris---you
> would be surprised at the garbage that some brands of top soil contain) to
> one part fine sphagnum peat moss, moist but not actually wet.  We feed
> exclusively corn meal.  These are probably not optimum culture conditions,
> but they nonetheless produce quite adequate amounts of worms and we have
> had no incentive to change the recipe (though I suspect that composted cow
> manure instead of the peat moss would perhaps work a bit better).  We
> maintain 18 such culture boxes and rotate through them, feeding the worms
> themselves about once a week on average.

Regards,
Ronnie Lee
Singapore
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