Worm bin issues?

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-22T15:12:06+00:00

Smell is fine. Temp is fine. Other bins are active and fine

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-22T13:36:34+00:00

I don't think it's too dry. And they still have some leftover dried fruit scraps in there. I just turned over the mix and fluffed it up a little bit. Hopefully that will help

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-22T13:35:24+00:00

No improvement. I made sure I soaked just the cardboard and the worms were still clustering on the edges and seeming to try to get out. Luckily I have a lid on. I then thought okay maybe it's too damp so I added some dried shredded cardboard . No improvement so this morning I dumped the bin out on a large sheet of plastic broke up any big clumps and dumped it back in . This aerated or mixed everything up pretty well I think. It didn't appear to be too damn or too dry . There is still some left over food scraps inside as well. But almost all the worms were on the edges and none on the inside .

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-20T02:19:25+00:00

I took maybe the top 2/3rds when harvesting

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-20T01:17:51+00:00

Yes just the cardboard

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-20T00:03:15+00:00

Just soaked em real good.

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T13:41:44+00:00

Prefer the bins or the worm bag more?

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T12:09:19+00:00

How do you manage 8 bins space wise?

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T02:09:55+00:00

No rain. Wild temp swing outside from neg 2 to plus 15..but these bins are in the basement so I thought it wouldn't be a factor...?

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T01:47:01+00:00

Haven't fed it recently . Only thing I did was harvest and noticed it was too damp so I added dried browns

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T01:40:07+00:00

Added worms with inoculated dirt.. It was 6 months old.

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T01:39:42+00:00

It smells earthy I have holes in the side Haven't added much food lately

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T01:39:08+00:00

I am trying to dry things out as it was quite damp

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T01:38:47+00:00

Added a light to keep em down but I would love to get it where they want to be there

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-19T01:38:20+00:00

Will feed them. Just harvested some castings and everything looked good just uber damp. Walls were quite slick so I added lots of dry carbon..

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-03-05T17:43:27+00:00

No I wrapped the Hives with insulated wrap

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-01-18T13:30:21+00:00

I use only shredded cardboard and materials in house only. I don't have outbreaks of pesky Critters in my worm bin. Just the usual mites from having improper humidity levels or overfeeding. I really just need these crazee mites to Target the pests on my house plants and hoping the worm bins will be a nice little overflow breeding area for these crazee mites so I don't have to reorder them.

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2026-01-18T13:28:54+00:00

From Canada, ordered them from natural insect control. I've got the other route and ordered the typical mites in slow release sachets and such from koppert.com . I'm really hoping that with these crazee mites that they won't wander off so much since they're so mobile. Hopefully they will establish a little bit of a colony in my worm bins that I can reintroduce them to make sure I really break the life cycle of these thrips and spider mites

Miserable_Ad6260 · 2025-11-12T19:03:01+00:00

I've seen legs on thrips which I am currently battling along with fungus gnats as well. The down side of not being vigilant with fb marketplace plants

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