eisenia fetida – Crazy About Compost

Helping Your Worms Beat the Heat! Keeping Worm Bins Cool

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEka0rNbdy8 Smart idea for the summer time! If you store your food scraps in the fridge before you compost them, then this is a default no-brainer concept. My basement stays cool or freezing cold all year long it seems, so I've never really thought about this so much. Over at redwormcomposting.com, there's several accounts of people's worms surviving at extremely hot and cold temperatures, well above and below the suggested temps for their survival. Worms are resilient little critters, aren't they?

How-To Compost with Worms and Solve Common Problems

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ENsgKKR20 While this video might miss on a few good points, I absolutely love the kid answering all her mom's questions about what to do next with the worm bin... super cool... but what's up with the lack of air holes in the bin?

Worm Composting Feeding Tips (video)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBqwfm4sU6U I just found this web channel called Big Tex Worms, and she has some great videos to check out on the topic of vermicomposting. You'll see that my website gets really worm-centric in the colder months as the outdoor methods slow down to a crawl here in the northeast. This video shows some pretty standard methods for preparing worm feed, but when it gets to Step 4, I was definitely surprised. I've never seen anyone make worm food into balls first, and I wonder what the point is. I guess they're handy and represent a fixed amount of material for your worms to digest. If they don't start eating it within a few days, that means they might not like it and it's acidic...so I guess it's a good…