primitive has worms

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=353x2303

Oh my.

This is new, so other primitives haven't noticed it yet.

YankeyMCC  (1000+ posts)      Wed Oct-22-08 10:05 AM
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Vermiposting

Hello all,

Anyone else using vermiposting at home (composting with worms)?

I just started a few weeks ago and everything appears to going ok. I started with a simple bin: http://www.composters.com/vermiculture-worms/worm-frien... and 1 pound of red wigglers.

I had to back off the food for a bit it seemed the worms were not keeping up. There was no smell, or maybe just a bare hint of that sweet decay smell, but now the smell is getting stronger and I'm getting those little flies in the house you get when you leave food out.

Any suggestions or thoughts? What might I check? I've looked at a few vermiposting faqs and haven't seen anything obvious that I'm doing wrong.

One wonders if perhaps "red wigglers" aren't native to the primitive's place, and an environmental hazard, and so that's why things are going awry.

Sort of like when rabbits were brought into Australia.

The wormy primitive probably should've used worms more adapted to his area, rather than trying to claim "prestige" and "cachet" by buying hip, trendy, cool, with it, name-brand worms.

[EastFacingNorth]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=353x2303

Oh my.

This is new, so other primitives haven't noticed it yet.

One wonders if perhaps "red wigglers" aren't native to the primitive's place, and an environmental hazard, and so that's why things are going awry.

Sort of like when rabbits were brought into Australia.

The wormy primitive probably should've used worms more adapted to his area, rather than trying to claim "prestige" and "cachet" by buying hip, trendy, cool, with it, name-brand worms.

My grandfather used to do this in order to keep a good supply of worms for fishing.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Sounds like fruit flies, there must a large amount of durable vegetable or fruit waste in the pile, like lots of melon rinds or squash guts.  DUmmie should add a layer of dirt over the decomposing stuff and leve it unturned for a month or so, though the fly larvae do contribute to some extent to the breakdown of the garbage.  Sounds like the main problem is the primitive picked a site for the compost pile that was much closer to the house than a person without an affinity for the smell of rotting garbage would have done.

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

Sounds like fruit flies, there must a large amount of durable vegetable or fruit waste in the pile, like lots of melon rinds or squash guts.  DUmmie should add a layer of dirt over the decomposing stuff and leve it unturned for a month or so, though the fly larvae do contribute to some extent to the breakdown of the garbage.  Sounds like the main problem is the primitive picked a site for the compost pile that was much closer to the house than a person without an affinity for the smell of rotting garbage would have done.

It sounds like he's doing this inside the house DT!

[DumbAss Tanker]

It sounds like he's doing this inside the house DT!

Day-ummm, that IS stupid!

 

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

Day-ummm, that IS stupid!

 

I had a moonbat aunt who used to let her 3 pet iguanas have  the run of the house! She said they really kept the insect population down.......of course her house also had the odor of iguana piss but I guess she made a trade-off! It was a real house of skank!

[MarshallLaw]

Ah, Red Wigglers...... the Cadillac of Worms.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Ah, Red Wigglers...... the Cadillac of Worms.

I caught a mention of that on a WKRP episode I recorded recently.

[GOBUCKS]

This DUmmy may now have a house that smells like an open city dump, but remember, we do not know how it smelled before.

When I was a kid, our small town had an open dump. I loved to go there with a .22 to shoot rats, but the odor left a lot to be desired.

I had a friend who kept worms in an old bathtub in an outbuilding for fishing bait. It worked great, but he only put some coffee grounds in with the soil, not food scraps. That sounds gross. Plus, one pound is not a lot of worms.

The DUmmy may be clever. You know redworms are excellent bait, but so are maggots. He now only needs to get a minnow tank, and he can open a bait shop.

He may also want to invest in an Air Wick.

[bijou]

It looks as if the DUmmy has one of these:



I had one and couldn't get it to work properly (they aren't the best design). You can actually keep them inside because they have a seal in the lid which prevents the smell getting out.  The only advice I can offer is get rid of it, bite the bullet and shell out for one of these beauties which need to be kept outside (twice the price at least, but absolutely trouble free) that make the best fertiliser/plant food ever.