Tumbler Sighting

I love this one! I wonder how old it is. Rusty metal barrel with plastic sides, metal stand and clever air vents. It's pretty large- If it's kept up, I'm sure it does a good job making compost.

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Envirocycle Castings

Not mad at the worm castings smudging all over the compost tumbler! Only issue is that the worms are throwing off my compost tumbler results... I've been loading this thing for way longer than expected because the worms just break everything down quicker. I'm curious to see how long they'll stick around before they burrow down in the colder months...

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120 degrees and the worms are still here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFSUG0tg6q8 My Envirocycle compost tumbler is cooking at about 120 F, and the red wigglers are still hanging in there- wow! I added two red wigglers several months ago, and now I have tons of them. I didn't think they would last, let alone multiply, let alone stick around when the compost is cooking. If they wanted to leave, they could exit through the air holes or the drainage vents... I'm really surprised they're hanging around. How much longer will they last? We'll see...

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