I have three happy little guinea pigs who just love to poop, so I’ve been really meaning to get around to setting up a worm bin to take their weekly manure and our food scraps and make me some castings. Well, the ever opportunistic procrastinator, I was talking with my friend with two guineas and three rabbits. She asks if I want hers to, so obviously I say yes.
Well, long story short, I now 75 gallons of manure, hay, and paper bedding. It’s come to my attention worms really only use like 12” of the bin… so I can’t just use a trash can or something. I can find containers, but I’m strapped for cash until next week and I don’t know that the 1lb of worms that just arrived can wait that long.
My idea is a hole in the yard. It’s free. I wanted a vegetable bed there anyways. But it seems like a waste of worms. What can I do for super cheap that will sustain a 1lb worm colony, ideally while using as much of the manure as I can? Is it just time to start digging?