I'm composting! I've been wanting this compost apparatus for a while, and I finally broke down and got it. It's super cool! There are a pound of warms in this sucker working hard to eat and digest all of our table scraps, paper trash and egg cartons too! Basically how it works is right now I'm working with 1 tray (of which there are 4) and once this first tray is full I start working on the second tray and so on, the warms will naturally migrate up towards the new feeding ground and get to work composting. When I'm ready to use the dirt from the first tray I move it to the top of the stack and within 24 hours all of the warms will have migrated down because 1. thats where the freshest feeding ground is and 2. when the tray is at the top it is too close to the light which they don't like. So here it is, and some pics of the flowers I planted this afternoon. The flowers don't look like much now, but I'm hoping they'll take off soon and spruce up the porch a bit.
First step was to shred up some paper and egg carton to lay a good foundation
the cloth sheet keeps the warms from getting through to the spout that is there to release any access moisture.
then a layer of dirt to get things started
then i released the warms into their new home
all set and ready to compost!
the warms are feeding on some yummy cloth scraps, banana peels and coffee grounds!
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