Re: Vermicompost and vermicomposting
Hi,
One important note on using manures! Some domestic animals are given "wormers". These chemicals can pass through the digestive tract of mammals and still be present and active in their manures. NOT good for the worms you are trying to raise and reproduce. It has been said that these medications will no longer be viable after a period of time how long I don't know, but I'm guessing a month or so.
I have been raising red wigglers for over a year now and have split the original bunch twice now and that's just scraps from a two person household. A great use for those of you planning on planting bananas in the spring is to start your "hole" early. Dig it deeper than needed, throw in a bunch of vegetative scraps some dried grass and/or shredded newspaper, add a couple handfulls of wigglers, abra kadabra presto chango... you'll have a very sweet honey hole for that banana pup in 2-3 months. I've done this several times over the last year or so with great results. The "honey hole" plants seemed to have a huge head start in getting established and leaf growth is noticably greater than those plants without a 'head start.
Hope this helps, Eric
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