Earthworms: Where being slimy isn’t all bad
Aquaponics & Vermiculture
hey all…here’s me and pete tearing up damp newspaper and cardboard for our new vermiculture bins. we ordered 2000 redworms from Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm, and they arrived in great condition! essentially what we did was take two 10 gallon rubbermaid tubs with lids, punch a lot of holes in the sides, bottom and lid, and fill the bottom with damp newspaper and cardboard.
we added a few handfuls of peat moss to give the worms grit to help them digest our food waste, and then added about a quarter pound of food to start. hopefully they’ll get into breeding and we’ll be able to feed them more…1000 worms are supposed to be able to do a pound a week. i’m a little worried about the heat; we’re keeping the worms in the shipping container where it’s nice and cool, but we’ll see how it goes.
so, there’s that! the worms seem pretty happy so far…
Well done!
soldiers of the soil
DID YOU KNOW: The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt were amongst the first people to recognise the importance of the Soldiers of the Soil. In fact Cleopatra declared the earthworm sacred, and anyone trying to take them out of the country was subjected to the death penalty. Tests carried out in the Nile valley by the US Department of Agriculture in 1949 proved that the great fertility of the soil there was due largely to the work of earthworms.
via sqworms.co.nr/
2000 awesome eisenia foetida from Uncle Jim’s, happily munching on some half done compost that I’ve saved over the winter for them.
Oh, and since the title of this tumblr is “i got worms”, I figured I should post a photo of our friendly neighborhood wormies in their new home!
