It’s been a bit since I posted up about the worms. They are still going strong in my UWB next to the washer/dryer. I’ve done one small harvest of castings just over 6 weeks ago. At that time I was a bit concerned about how many, or should I say how FEW, I saw at the top when I was looking for worm balls around the food I’d put in there. I am guessing that they just didn’t love whatever I had used. Earlier this week I dumped in 4 pears that I had forgotten about until they has started to smell up the fridge. I guess they love those. Below are the pictures I took when checking on them tonight.
Since I have mostly indian blues you can see that they like to explore or escape if they could but with the uwb they can’t get out, but that doesn’t stop them from climbing the walls of the bag.
I kind of dug around to see how they were liking the pears, as you can see there are LOTS of worms around the pears. After moving them around a bit for the pictures,
Yes, sometimes I handle the worms with bare hands. That is I think the largest worm ball that I’ve found in the bin. It’s also it was not the only one! There were at least 5 other pockets of them in the bin that I found while fluffing it up to add more food, bedding and water.
I know that most people are really into the red wigglers, but these blues do an amazing job of creating castings. They also seem to be really good at multiplying, I still don’t ever seem to find any cocoons but I do find a large number of TINY worms every time I do anything with the bin. So I know they are producing like crazy.
That makes me very happy! Not only do I get a great fertilizer in the form of castings, or worm tea, I get to recycle food waste and cardboard in a more eco friendly manner.