Wood Worm Farms

J'ai déplacé tous mes lombricomposteurs sous la terrasse, pour l'été.
Les vers semblent d'aimer un tel changement: ils se reproduisent et digèrent le compost plus rapidement.

Ayant autant de vers, j'ai senti le manque de restants de nourriture. J'ai alors décidé d'utiliser du gazon déjà composté de l'année précédente, ainsi révélant ce délice aux vers. 'European Nightcrawlers' le préfère plus que d'autres vers.

Il me semble aussi que c'est possible d'utiliser des vers de terre - Lombricus Terrestis - et non juste des vers de compost, pour composter des feuilles mortes et du vieux gazon.

J'utilise un modèle un peu différent comme lombricomposteur pour ces vers. Depuis la
fin d'Avril Ils ont l'air d'être en santé et de bien se nourrir.
J'ajouterais plus d'information sur cette expérimentation bientôt.

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This is a prototype of a new medium-sized bin.
This bin will target the backyard composting and organizations with larger composting needs, like schools, cafe's etc.

It will be designed as two boxes separated by a mesh. The minimal total volume of the both boxes together should be 40 x 48 x 40 in height.

It planned to be easy to move and disassembly.

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From 9:30AM to 5PM, we were busy explaining, demonstrating, advising and answering questions and inquiries from enthusiastic visitors at the Botanical Garden of Montreal.

The weather was great and therefore allowed a good number of visitors to feel in no hurry, and to stop by our table.

Some new questions had to be answered, which was great both for us and the inquirer.

Other kiosks displayed various interesting things as well, such as natural colored salt, young bonsais, different indoor and outdoor plants, soaps of many smells and textures and various natural tea flavors.

Such a weekend is held at the Botanical Garden once a year and is definitely worth attending!

What's important for us right now is to get people's interest and understanding of vermicomposting. Everything else will follow, once they know what this fascinating idea consists of and how it works.

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This is one of the most popular questions.

We use untreated Canadian spruce. This wood doesn't rot fast since it contains some amount of spruce thus. At the same time it is good for worms. I have a bin 4 years in work indoors. This bin doesn't show any significant signs of rot.
We buy this wood from Abitibi Consolidated. They claim to be a "sustainable forest management certified" company.
I found on their web page only expired certificates, but they say they still didn't uploaded the updated ones.

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There are two polar opinions about those worms:

1. They seem to produce more castings and reproduce at a faster rate.

2. "Perionyx excavatus are undesirable to home composters and bait worm sellers. They will compost in warm outside conditions but take over worm beds and drive the E. foetida out. They never ever get big enough for bait. They migrate for no reason even during daylight or with bright lights over them. They will be all over the floor in school or home bins. They are very undesirable for tropical fish food. Cold temps kill them."

I think many factors are unaccounted there, and one of them is the bin structure and material. So I decided to test a wooden bin with P.E. (or vice versa?).

Hense I ordered a pound of Indian Blue worms (many thanks to 'Chickadee'
from thegardenforums.org) and started a new bin.
Let's see how will they do.

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