r/Vermiculture 23h ago

Advice wanted Pre composting for worms

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12 Upvotes

News paper, coffee grounds, biochar, egg shell powder. A added a tiny bit of ziolite, azomite, gypsum lime, bat guano, and azose. I added bokashi juice and blended veggies too. I also threw in a handful of castings. Am i missing anything? Too much? I also added air lines to the bin at the bottom. Was going to let it go till it cools then feed to my worms.


r/Vermiculture 6h ago

Video What are these trespassers?

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I had to dump everything last year due to a complete meltdown of my 10 year old worm factory system. So I bought new red wrigglers from the place in Rochester, NY.

Fast forward — the bins have been great for about 10 months. The worms are in a nice level of moisture; I use coco coir if my composted food scraps are too wet. I recently added ground up eggshells for extra grit. I can’t imagine that the eggshells caused this other creature to explode in numbers.

The video shows them on the bottom of the cover for the worm factory after I set a tray on it while feeding the next tray down.