Originally Posted by
prozac
I had around 4-6 kg of worms in my old compost. We moved about a year back and I did not bring the compost over to the new place as there was not really any room for it. We've gone from 1/2 acre (2100sqm) property down to about 400sqm. After about 6 months I finally bought a commercial farm to suit the new house, 3 round trays with a lid on top and reservoir beneath. I went back to the old farm to gather some pedigree stock to start it off and there was nothing there. Of-course there wasn't, you have to feed the little fellows. Oh NO, all my workers gone!!!
After some thought I brought a few kilos of compost back with me and placed it in the new farm and put some weetbix and watermelon inside. Within around 10 days I had some little workers. They had hatched from the castings, there's lots of eggs in the old compost.
Excellent news, I wondered how long they would last!:2tsup:
Six months on I have a plethora of willing workers, and the numbers have just about caught up to our vegetable waste disposal rate and the odd pizza box. Soon I hope I will have enough again to be able to start putting paper, milk cartons, etc in as well. They slow down in winter as their ideal temperature is about 21C.
Andy Mac is there any reason why you don't put oil into your farm?
Yeah I do, everything that the chooks don't eat, just some literature gets all fussy about it!
Doesn't seem to bother my team, and they seem to work a bit quicker on coffee grounds.
prozac