Looking good there @lophophora.ca just make sure there’s ample air holes and drainage in those types of bins … consider a fabric pot for an upgrade and when adding food maybe consider freezing food before adding to worm bin and bury scapes helps with the outside critters
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Thank you! My outdoor bin is actually without drainage or ventilation holes. I added a layer of moist shredded newspaper after discovering worms, but the newspaper attracted gnats and fliers so I removed the paper. The worms are going to be relocated indoors as soon as I build them a better habitat, but they seem fine at the moment.
I am also experimenting with a 15 gallon no-till pot, to which I added some worms from the yard. Periodically I bury some fruit and veggie scraps in the pot, although I have no idea if the worms are hard at work or even still alive.
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@ReikoX do you run totes as your bins? I was using the worm farm 360 in my garage and even on feed days it would dry by then end of the day. Mrs wasn’t having the worms inside 
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I’m using something similar to the worm factory 360… inside, in my basement.
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I believe that smart pots are a quick ,cheap, easy way over other methods IMO
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Can you bring the bin indoors?
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The better half wont allow it lol
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Mine took a little convincing but we now have a small worm bin in the kitchen and she is cool with it.
Cheers
G
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My neighbor had a stack of these plastic pallets and I traded him some weed for them lol. They are 3’x3’. These were leaves around the 18mo mark and it’s when I added it to the worm bin. Pure leaf mold, it ended up taking 2 1/2yrs but I’m sure that I could have done something to speed it up. I think that it was dry a lot of time…
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I need to start me an actual bin instead of tossing worms in pots and such
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That’s nice looking material. 
Nothing burns through leaf mold like mixing in kitchen scraps.
Cheers
G
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Throw a couple of cups of humic acid on it, that will speed it up, needs some water as well.
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Not sure if I posted this In here yet?
But I’ve upgraded my Worm bin from a shoe box sized to my grow bin which is 112 liters in size.
I’m still feeding Worm Smoothys 🪱 & water 
Easy peasy and plants grow like Weeds lol
Also got a temp strip indicator on the bin to help assist with knowing “roughly” how cool the soil is inside the bin. Complemts of another OG’ER…
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Sorry it’s taken me so long to get back, but we caught Covid and it really took a lot out of me. Anyways, I found a place that will give me old produce by the trailer load. I had a 16ft trailer full of these totes. I got sick and didn’t unload the full trailer and it got spoiled. However, I got free Black Soldier larvae from it. This started out being Romain lettuce lol. After a few years of soil testing, I noticed that my compost is always super high in phosphorus/potassium and very low in iron/manganese. I started using a lot more calcium in the form of egg shell and oyster flour, but I found out that both contain phosphorus too, so I might be switching to gypsum.
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Looks like worms will love it just get it nice and moist about 50% or slightly under and you’ll be business in no time!
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Do you think the worms could work this compost? We were thinking about a “worm house” after the thermophilic composting phase.
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That’s a great way to do it; they don’t really eat raw material but decomposing/ed stuff yes.
But be forewarned worm farming isn’t new, the competition is there, & not enough demand. There’s even been a scandal in southern california where investors were ripped off & the material he was taking in was just dumped(was a municipal waste contract IIRC).
And a ponzi scheme in the '70s I think too 
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I’d say yes just keep the high N stuff away from it , one can cold compost with worms also .
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Very cool, thanks @Tinytuttle and @cannabissequoia for the tips. 
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