Had to take some extra measures to protect the ladies.

As you guys may know I started my worm bin a little over a week ago , the past two days , when I opened the lid to look at them , they are all on the sides and not inside of the soil , which is coco id say about 10 of them atleast close to the holes i made for air flow since then, being in there, I have given them a bag of cabbage that they ate most of about 90% and about 3 days ago I put in an avocado that was not quite spoiled yet. I cut it in half removed the pit and put it inside. The Coco has stayed Moist, like a rung out sponge.Am I doing something wrong?Or are they just crawling on the sides?Because they can , it almost looks like they're trying to get out and if they get out , my wife will murder me any help thank you 😊 🙏

I'm curious what kind of shredder everyone has? I'm currently using the one at my office which is a Pen&Gear 16 sheet cross cut. It works but eventually I'm gonna melt it down. Looking for one that can handle double walled boxes. Just in case your curious as to how much cardboard you can shred in 1 1/2 hrs that has had the stickers and tape removed prior. Its around 40 gallons(pictured) 🤦🤦🤦

Here is my European Nightcrawler bin that is about 6 weeks old. I started it with 50/50 precompost and plain shredded cardboard. As you can see, the majority of the bin is worm castings! So cool!! At this point, you have options. You can sift castings and reset it with more fresh worm bedding (My go to is that 50/50 mix) OR you can do what I did in this video. I am not in a hurry to sift castings, so I was ok with doing this option. I split the bin in half, and put half in another new mortar bin. Then I added dry shredded cardboard to both of the bins and mixed it all in. The castings had a LOT of moisture, so the dry cardboard was able to soak up a lot of that moisture to help it not be too dense or muddy anymore. The worms are very happy with this because it put air pockets back into the bedding and gave new cardboard for them to start munching on. Splitting them also gives them more room to spread out and grow. These worm castings will inoculate the fresh cardboard and the microbes will start latching on to it. If i was wanting more worm castings, I would have sifted this and put that 50/50 precompost and cardboard. Remember this turn around was 6 weeks. It usually takes months and months to get worm castings from just plain cardboard. Precompost is the way to go!!

Are potatoes peels good or bad for a worm bin and precomposting