Worm Composting Bin
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Article by: Anthony Tripodi One of the best ways to improve your garden , Butterfly Bush (Buddleia) 'White Ball' is to stop throwing out your garbage. That's right, your used coffee grinds and banana peels can help your tomato , Top 5 Secrets to Growing Beautiful Carnivorous Plants and cucumber plants , Do It Yourself Landscaping: 6 Things You Must Know Before You Start grow larger and stronger. When that same garbage is eaten and digested by a worm it becomes a powerful plant , The Cottage Garden supplement known as worm castings. Starting a worm compost , Caring for Bonsai plants bin is a great way to create a steady supply of worm castings for your flower , Organic Gardening - A Growing Trend and vegetable gardens. , How to Use Ornaments First thing you'll need is a bin. You can buy a commercially made worm bin but where's the fun in that. Those plastic , Sheltering Butterflies in Your Garden or rubber storage bins make great worm bins. Drill a few holes in the bin so your worms get plenty of air. , Planning Saves Money, When Landscaping Your Property Just be sure to cover those holes with small pieces of window , Seeding Your Lawn, Laid Bare screen or something else that will keep the fruit , Using Snow Roof Rakes flies out. And if you have any plumbing , Make a Plan for Vacation Watering experience, why not add a hose spigot near the bottom of the bin to take advantage of worm tea. Worm tea is even better than compost , Choosing Fish for the Garden Pond tea for your plants. , Create a Great Water Garden All you have to do is add a cup or two to a large watering can and fill the rest with water. , Sheltering Butterflies in Your Garden Then water , Natural Gardens as normal. Next you'll need some worm bedding. , Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm Most commonly used worm bedding , Kill 'em or Cure 'em : Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer for home , Thyme: The Herb of Courage bins is shredded newspapers. The bedding , How to Build a Fence must stay moist but not water , Organic Solutions For Pest Control logged. Use a spray bottle to keep the bedding , Spring Gardening Tips just right for your worms. When your order worms in the mail they will usually ship in a container filled with peat moss. Some people have stopped using peat moss as a political statement. You see peat is not a replenishable resource. Peat takes centuries to develop in swampy regions and it's just being used up too quickly. Other's argue that Peat is now created in a safe , Spring Gardening Tips quick way and what's all the fuss about anyway. The two sides contradict each other so it's up to you to decide if you want to use it. Newspapers are readily available and you probably have a stack of them in your house , How to Build a Fence already. So why not avoid the whole controversy and go with what's on hand. And don't forget to put some dirt in the bin too. Worms don't have teeth, so they need some grit to help grind up their food. , Natural Gardens You can also use rock dust or powdered limestone instead of dirt if you like, but regular dirt from your yard , Growing Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit will work fine. And of course, let's not forget the worms. Digging up some worms from your yard , This Is How You Grow Sprouts will not work in a worm bin. Worms that come from the soil, , The Cottage Garden like to live in the soil. , Natural Gardens For worm bins, you'll need red wigglers. They'll love the environment , Patio Bar Chairs for Comfortable Outdoor and Poolside Seating that you've created in your worm bin. How many should you buy, that depends on the size of your bin. Let's assume that you've created your worm bin for the worm castings and not to have tons of worms for your weekends fishing. That means that you're going to leave the worms in the bin until they've turned most of the bedding , Organic Solutions For Pest Control and food , Spring Flowers waste into vermicompost. The worm to garbage ratio is usually 2:1. That means that if you're going to put a half pound of garbage into the bin on a daily basis, then you should start with a pound of worms. Check your bin everyday to ensure that you get off to a good start. Keep the bedding , Seeding Your Lawn, Laid Bare moist and the bin should stay in a spot that's about 60 to 70 degrees. Leaving the bin outside , The Many Faces of a Fence in the summer , Create a Great Water Garden sun is a good way to cook all of your worms. And remember if the worm bin starts to smell, then you probably need more bedding. , Gardening With Climbing Roses Starting a worm bin is a fun project for everyone in the family. Get your kids involved, they'll love watching those little worms wiggle around your bin. And if you're lucky, you may see one of the kids chase your mother in law around the house , Seeding Your Lawn, Laid Bare with a handful of worms. Like I said, worm bins are good times for the whole family and great for your garden , Do It Yourself Landscaping: 6 Things You Must Know Before You Start too.
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