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Third, add your red worms. In fishing season, you should be able to find red worms anywhere that sells bait. You can also buy them from companies that specialize in vermi-composting supplies, or from garden centres. Plan on using one-half-pound of red wigglers for each cubic foot of worm bin; (one-half-pound of red worms is about 500 worms, depending on their size).
To keep the red worms especially happy (and productive), I like to add a handful or two of garden soil each time I feed them, to help their digestion. I also sprinkle crushed egg shell over the top of the pile every other time I feed them, to prevent the bedding from getting too acidic. Four to six months later, the red worms will have turned their bedding and food into rich, black soil and it will be time to harvest the finished compost. The easiest way to do this is to move the compost to one side of the bin, and put fresh bedding on the other side. If you add food only on the side with the fresh bedding for a few weeks, all the worms will move to that side, and you can then remove the compost from the "unpopulated" side of the bin. Add some more fresh bedding, and continue feeding as usual until it's time to harvest again. So instead of putting your composting activities on hold for the winter, or freezing yourself while you trudge out into the back yard with yet another pail of kitchen scraps, why not put some red worms to work for you and compost indoors? Indoor composting is clean, odorless if you do it right, and a great way to cut down on the amount of trash you set out by the curb every week.
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