| Worm Bin Troubleshooting
Symptom:
Smells like rotten eggs or garbage
Cause:
Too wet
Meat, fish, dairy or pet waste in bin
Food scraps not covered
Solution:
Mix in shredding computer paper, dry leaves, peat moss or sawdust. Keep food scraps and pet waste out. Cover food with bedding when added.
Symptom:
Bedding is dry, few worms
Cause:
Not enough water
Solution:
Mix and moisten bedding, cover with plastic or moistened cardboard. Move bin out of sun.
Symptom:
Food scraps building up
Cause:
Too much food
Bin too cold or too hot
Solution:
Limit food scraps. Add more worms. Build another bin. Move bin to cool basement or garage. Keep bin filled with bedding.
Symptom:
Maggots in bin
Cause:
Meat, dairy or other animal products
Solution:
Keep animal products out of the bin. Cover bedding with cardboard or plastic.
Symptom:
Fruit flies swarm out when bin opened
Cause:
Exposed food scraps
Solution:
Always cover food scraps with bedding. If you still have fruit flies, add an inch of sawdust or peat moss to top of the bedding, or cover bedding with cardboard or plastic.
Symptom:
Worms crawling up sides of bin
Cause:
Too much food, bedding too wet or fully decomposed
Solution:
Limit food scraps or build another bin. Add dry bedding.
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Worm Factory Instructions
(We have edited these to our beliefs and experiences)
Place one of the feeding trays on the collector/base tray. Lay 4 sheets of newspaper (we recommend garden cloth, we believe newspaper has too much ink, chemicals) in the tray to cover the holes. Something that helps to keep the worms and castings from filtering down with the tea. The instruction book suggests using the cardboard (cardboard has glue) lid for this purpose, but we find that it traps too much moisture. Now scoop the coconut fiber (we like shredded PC paper better) out of the bucket in handfuls, squeezing out excess moisture, so that the fiber is about AS MOIST AS A WRUNG-OUT SPONGE. YOU WANT THE BEDDING TO BE DAMP, NOT DRIPPING WET.
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Key Benefits
- Bottom shelves removable as worms move up into new food source to use castings in the garden
- Square stackable shelves
- Multiple shelf potential
- Coir Brick (coconut), Shredded PC Paper, Vermiculite bedding included
- Great size for home kitchen waste
- Comes in 3-tray, 4-tray, 5-tray sizes
- Extra Trays available
- Shippable via UPS, Parcel Post, or Fed ex ground
- Wholesale pricing available, with direct drop shipping to your customers available.
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