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- From: ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez)
- Subject: Wormbin question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.032527.5904@math.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 03:25:27 GMT
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- Ok, I really loved the idea of worm composting and when I remodeled my
- kitchen resolved to have a wormbin instead of garbage disposall.
- (If you want amusement, watch the look that comes onto a contractor's
- face when you tell him you don't want a garbage disposall, you want a
- wormbin.)
-
- So I got a plastic foam lidded box that a friend had available (shipping
- crate from some mail order frozen steak company). I burned airholes into
- its sides with a heated screwdriver. I filled it about five inches deep
- with potting soil. Bought about 150 redworms to put into it. Tossed
- in my kitchen scraps.
-
- About 3 weeks later, I decided to look more closely, to see how all this
- rotting garbage was coming along. And found bugs. They seemed to be
- crawling versions of those nasty little black flies. I started thinking
- about the possibility of attracting cockroaches. The wormbin ended up
- outdoors, just outside my back door. And then when I was out of town it
- rained and flooded my wormbin and my worms drowned.
-
- I would like to try again, once everything dries out to moderate moisture.
- Is there any way, keeping the wormbin indoors, to prevent unwanted bugs?
- (The people who have posted about wormbinning seem all to come from
- cold climates, such as Canada, so maybe the bugs problem is strictly a
- warm-climate problem). If the problem is universal, or if anyone else
- has dealt successfully with this problem, please post or at least
- email me at ramirez@math.ucla.edu
-
- I really love the idea of wormbins (even though worms make rather boring
- pets. :-) ). I would like to keep my worms indoors since it is a
- flight of stairs to the outside and I am lazy. Thanks in advance.
-