Wood Worm Farms

It's known, that liquid soap kills flies. But why does so biodegradable soap? I found out that the biodegradable soap is not so harmless.
It needs some special conditions to decompost.
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* Biodegradable soap is NOT biodegradable when it ends up in a river or lake because it requires soil for it to breakdown properly.
* Biodegradable soap is NOT NATURAL.... it is a chemical.
* If you wouldn't want to drink it then keep it out of water sources.
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From other side it seems like worms can tolerate some amount of it.

Thanks a lot to Chris Conway for a nice article.

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I found those sprouts in my last compost collection.
After short investigation they appeared to be germinated
dates. I was very surprised since those dates were stored
around a year in one of our drawers, and became dry and rot
when I tossed them into the worm bin. Around a year ago, I seeded dates from the same batch in a mix of 1/3 of vermicompost and 2/3 of soil and only 1 of 4 germinated.

In vermicompost bin all 4 their their brothers germinated despite a year delay!
Curious about how long can survive a date seed, I discovered one, that remained alive after 2000 years!

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Tray #1 goes one level down.
Those weeks we had a kind of shortage in food scraps. There were two reasons for this: we consumed less vegetables and more scrap went to the testing of a new bin design, that looks very promising.

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It's recommended to process food for worms. Especially some problematic
food scrap like potato peels, orange an grapefruit rinds, cabbage hearts, etc. Usually it is shredded or heated.
The both ways waist energy.
Lucky Canadians can do the opposite - just put the problematic stuff behind the door for several hours then... defrost it and it will be ready for worms!


And squirrels!


I never knew, the squirrels eat grapefruit peels. This one is almost a home pet. It's interesting how much are they effective in garbage processing?

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When the air humidity is low, especially in winter time, the lowest tray of the bin tends to dry up.
It is possible to use a piece of plastic bag to reduce the airflow from
below. Simply cover the bottom stand with it.
The perforated bags used for banana packaging are particularly good.

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