While there are complications of composting in the winter time and concerns about dealing with bones due to mad cow disease there are ways of dealing with these issues especially when there are so many gains from improving soil fertility of our forest and farm lands. With the robust agriculture...
Anyway, this one outlines my passive method for moving worms to a new system, while harvesting vermicompost in the process. If the new system is set up ahead of time and allowed to age, the worms should move down quite quickly. If you really don’t want to lose the babies or those no...
I live in Montana and I have found that my compost slows down in the winter greatly. But freezing process helps in breaking down the compost and once it warms up and can be turned, it heats up rather quickly in the spring. I add kitchen scraps all winter. Reply komang adisays: May ...
A garden fork is your best tool. As long as you do this once a month you should get good results. However, it is not a good idea to turn the compost during the winter months. This is because of certain creatures, such as slow worms, do not like being disturbed in the winter. ...
composting requires less effort than hot composting. You essentially let a pile of organic matter build and decompose, using the same types of ingredients as you would in a hot compost pile. The difference is that you don’t spend time turning the pile or carefully managing the ratio of gree...
in the case of no addition of any organic dry materials and back-mixing materials so as to substantially reduce the fermentation bin occupation area, shorten the winter composting time, improve the compositing success rate and the composting quality, and substantially reduce the project investment ...
Once the mixture is assembled, a host of microorganisms will work to decompose the material. You don’t have to add them…they’re already in the environment around you. Bacteria, fungi, and bigger critters digest the waste. The decomposition process also requires air, water, and time. ...
Composting without turning over the pile is cold composting. Although not recommended, many gardeners leave their piles unturned during winter months to avoid losing the heat that grows in the middle of the pile. Cold composting extends the time it takes for your compost to finish from a few ...
Last December (2021) I wrote about a weird and wacky experimental system I had started up using substrate and leftover young plants from some (vermi-)microgreens trials I had been running in the fall. I wanted to see how the system would evolve over time with the worms and cocoons and ...
Hello Stephan, I am successfully raising and selling worms in Israel. Your book is in my library-right next to Darwin's "Earthworms". I would appreciate … Looking for worms at night. My friend wanted to know if she could look for worms at night time? And how wet does the soil need...