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RE: Worm buckets! December 8, 2018
That's not too dissimilar from my compost setup, only I don't have worms in mine. I stir it every couple of days in the summer, and it breaks down. It's on Cold Season Hiatus right now, though. I mean, it's still out there and I just added to it a few days ago, but it's not cooking anymore. It'll heat back up in the spring. :)
I drilled much smaller holes, though, but you probably want bigger ones for worms!
The key with hole saws is to use yours sometime this past summer and not know where the heck it is. Look for it for half an hour and have your daughter tell your wife that you need more tools.
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So you do kind of a solar powered thermophilic setup? Do you add browns to it for carbon or just compost the table scraps? Sounds like you could use some worms in your life!
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Yep, that's all it is, solar power heat. It breaks down pretty fast in the summer, plus I don't want to bring it in in winter because my apartment building has mice (*though I have never had any in MY apartment, because I have cats. So maybe I'd be okay, but that feels a little like tempting fate to me, so I don't. The buckets live on my balcony outside). So I've never added wormies.
I shred paper and cardboard for browns. It also gets dead leaf pruning from my houseplants, dead cat grass, coffee grounds, eggshells, table scraps, wooden matches, occasionally dryer lint (only when I'm doing a load of linens, so I know it's like 99% cotton and not really any poly fibers), it's had a few paper tissues, nail clippings, cat claw sheaths, hairbrush and catbrush cleanings, and incense stick ends and ashes. ALL THE THINGS from the apartment homestead in the sky. LOL. If I had quit adding to it, it would have "finished" a few times, but I just keep adding to it as the bucket isn't full when it breaks down. The last batch of shredded paper, I filled it to the brim, and even though it's on pause so there is still identifiable paper shreds (when in the summer, paper breaks down the fastest, so that's how I know it's on pause), it's probably sitting at 2/3 full. I might just add to it over the winter and then let it bake (with stirring, of course) come spring until it's done.
That's awesome!!!
Compost ALL the things!!!
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Yes! :D