Cooked Compost in Worm Condo
I am supposed to be writing a promised report about a worm condo, how to build, maintain and purchase one. But other things have taken a priority of my time. However, today I have a good excuse for my procrastination. I learned something new about care of a worm condo today. I was removing the compost from the bottom of my first worm condo, sifting out the castings, today when I noticed how rough the compost was and how many worms were in it. There seems to be two reasons for this situation. One is that I made the compost last fall from leaves and things right in the box. It is better to take already cooked compost to start the worm condo process of making castings. The second reason is that my first worm condo, like my new one, is almost three feet tall. When I put the screen with fresh compost on top of the box a number of times the worms at the bottom do not have time, and in this case little incentive, to make it all the way up to the top. Lessons learned are to just used cooked compost and make the worm condo oblong and not so high. Good evidence that this will work is my Growing Power Box in the sunroom. I put cooked compost in it in the fall before placing in worms and castings for the top, and it is only two feet or less tall. With three or so screenings on top with fresh compost I can remove about 90% of the worms in the spring before using this worm enriched soil for the garden.
Now for novices I mean by cooked compost, compost that has had time to heat up and be made into soil. Perhaps I need to explain sifting the castings or putting fresh compost on top of screen to remove worms. What do you think?
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