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20 March 2010 ~ 2 Comments

The Enzyme Benefits of the worm’s casts for your garden and how they Breathe.

Looks and sounds like a heavy duty topic, right? OK, it is, but hopefully it will help you understand why using the worm’s casts in your gardens and on your house plants will pay off big time in the long run for them and you. There are many tiny organisms, bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes, enzymes and  Read more »

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15 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

How the worms really eat or digest the food wastes you gave them.

Here is a  little lesson in the worm’s body anatomy for you. I hope this will help you understand just how those kitchen scraps end up as worm casts for your gardens. Running through the worm’s body is the alimentary canal or gut. It starts with the mouth, called the buccal cavity, and moves to  Read more »

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11 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The critter helpers of your worm bin!

Yellow molds in the worm bin.

Who knew that you would have so many other creatures living and working in your worm bin? Not me, when I first began raising worms. Some that you will see are beetles, pill bugs or so called sow bugs (you know those little fellows, who roll up into a ball when you touch them?), snails,  Read more »

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05 March 2010 ~ 3 Comments

How, what and when to feed your worms.

You have the worms in their bin and have let them settle in for three days. This allows them time to de-stress from the rigors of travel. Recall those vibrations they had if they arrived through the mail to you or riding in your car. I hope you have been saving your kitchen wastes for the  Read more »

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27 February 2010 ~ 1 Comment

How to introduce worms into your new worm bin.

The long awaited and exciting day has finally come! Your worms have arrived, the bin is ready, but  what do you do next? After you have opened the box and packing materials the worms arrived in, you will first  inspect the worms. Are they alive, well and active? They should be wiggling around and ready  Read more »

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25 February 2010 ~ 2 Comments

How to build an inexpensive and fool-proof worm bin!

I have done this many times over the past 21 years. It is easy to do, costs next to nothing and will give you a great bin the worms will love to call their new home. You can start by recycling just about any old sweater box bin you might already have: see you are  Read more »

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