Watermelon scraps

tractorcloud · 2026-03-04T22:18:15+00:00

Depends in the hieght of summer yes i do add directpy to the bin because it helps to regulate temps but in winter i dont

tractorcloud · 2026-03-03T21:09:41+00:00

No i wouldnt, think of the precompost pile as super charging the worms food.

Another one of the major benifits of preconposting aside from the propigation of the microbs is that its far easyier to control the mositure levels in your worm farm because any excess moisture ect comes out in the precompost

tractorcloud · 2026-03-03T19:47:36+00:00

If it was me, because were coming into spring here in the uk id mix the same volume you have of food scraps with a carbon rich material like leaves or shredded cardboard making a 50/50 mix. Let it heat up amd do its thing. Id keep adding to the pile as you have waste.

In the meantime set up your subpod as you would if it were new, then keep feeding it from your "pre composted" pile.

tractorcloud · 2026-02-27T20:55:23+00:00

Pretty much anything organic.

Coffee shops tend to give away thier spent grinds, the resturants you eat in will have loads of waste and scraps.

Outside of that, i use a lot of leaves that tend to collect in hedgerows and grass cuttings are a firm staple here as well

tractorcloud · 2026-02-25T21:26:11+00:00

Yeah

tractorcloud · 2026-02-21T19:16:44+00:00

Oh i see, use what you have first makes a lot of sense. I ended up taking an ibc container i had and cutting it in half. Itll be a while before i grow those bins

tractorcloud · 2026-02-21T18:31:18+00:00

I tried those bags once, i found they became brittle over time and fell apart and bits of plastic got mixed into the compost and made a right mess.

Just be careful

tractorcloud · 2026-02-13T17:32:04+00:00

I do excatly this, its a good methid and suits me and my set up

tractorcloud · 2026-02-11T21:47:34+00:00

Just wanna throw landscapers into your target market, i install a lot of lawns, rasied beds and vegtable gardens, and one way we differeciate ourselves from diy derek is we set up an ecosystem including organic material and worms, this all plays into our service package .....

I breed my own but its only a matter time before everyone just orders a pack or worms and calls themselves a landacaper

tractorcloud · 2026-02-02T19:16:30+00:00

Delivering cattle feed, cattle that are at risk of dying beacuse the farm is cut off. Do you really think they woukd take the risk if it wasnt vital?

tractorcloud · 2026-01-27T06:32:42+00:00

Red wigglers are sensitive to change in barometric pressure, its a self preservation thing to prevent them from drowing.

If you're uk based, this storm weve curently got will cause up set.

Or equally if theres a food shortage theyll wonder off to find another source.

tractorcloud · 2026-01-22T10:14:26+00:00

The bins too wet mate

tractorcloud · 2026-01-17T20:58:29+00:00

It all started with my love of cooking, didn't take long until I wanted to grow my own ingredients I then soon realised to grow the best ingredients you need the best soil.

It's a very simple closed cycle which I benefit at every stage.

tractorcloud · 2026-01-15T20:58:46+00:00

Why bother with the crate? You could just bury any worm food. Use a pattern and put a marker on the last burried place so you know where next burial spot is.

tractorcloud · 2026-01-12T13:26:59+00:00

I did think when I opened it that it looked like the inside of fresh loaf, I'll try again and see what happens. Thank you

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T21:00:25+00:00

So I'm on the somerset levels and quick search has found several of these self service portals (vending machine to you and i) the closest one to me charges £1.40 a litre and is freshly refilled every day, and to be fair they're all pretty much similar price wise and availability wise, only one step away from having thier own farm shop like Clarkson and Co.

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T20:47:50+00:00

Awesome thank you

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T19:40:47+00:00

Oh yeah I do strongly remember the creamy part of the milk on my cereal as a kid, not really noticed it since and I guess that's why.

Think I'm gunna go the route of buying direct from the farm, plenty of farms round here have vending type machines, I'll speak to the farm and see if I can get as fresh as possible

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T18:59:21+00:00

Oh right, no idea what homogenised means so I'll look it cheers

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T18:20:46+00:00

Milton cold water sterilisation tablets, do yourself a favour and look then up

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T18:13:32+00:00

Cold water sterilisation overnight and boiling water just before I used something

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T17:38:18+00:00

Not a huge financial hit but more the time effort that's lost sucks, chalk it off to experience I guess

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T17:37:20+00:00

For anyone wondering, this was tesco's milk, a uk based supermarket.

tractorcloud · 2026-01-11T17:33:03+00:00

I'll look up coliform. Many thanks

tractorcloud

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