Anyone ever deal with roaches in their worm bins?
Think I’ve been feeding them too much coffee.
I’ve got 3 stacked wooden bins and every time I open it recently I’m seeing a roach, not looking forward to sifting the bottom bin.
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No, thankfully! 
Except the weed-roaches I toss in. 
I’d abandon that one & start over. 
To keep critters out of my small kitchen worm bin I stretched a t-shirt over the top & bungee’d it snug. Outdoors I never bothered much with that & let nature sort it out. But now I’m in Hawai’i & there’s the B-52 cockroaches. 
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@doglog They don’t hurt the worms and add chitin to the compost. I have a 70L box with a good population. A wild specie, not the sewer roaches. 
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I think I’m off to a good start. The worms are doing something right as there is celery growing out of the pile.
How do I convince the worms to make really fine black castings as commercially available castings? Is there any processing required? Do I just need to let them roll in their own filth for longer?
I have started feeding them smoothies as well, tonight we have a berry and banana peel medley served with lettuce and carrot. Who’s hungry?
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Yes they will go through their own wastes again and again making finer casts
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Their assh*les don’t really get smaller with time… 
It looks like there’s plenty of material, just LITFA for now; at first it’s slow but after a couple of years you’ll have a huge quantity.
Like plants, temp/humidity matter, so if it’s too cold/hot they’ll slow down. And darkness 
is also important-- they hate light.
Get a bonsai if you need something to attend to daily… 
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I appreciate the sentiment. Unfamiliar with the process and I don’t want to be a bad host.
BRB- gotta go make sure all my plants are still growing.
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The guy that I get my bulk produce from said that he has pallets of strawberries and squash for me, but I have to take 7 pallets of potatoes first lol… I could only handle 4x pallets at time on my trailer though and I have to go back and fourth atleast 2x more times.! (Edit: Can you find waldo in the potato pile?)DSC01716|690x388
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That is too funny, It took a second. Her body is a perfect match.
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Your going to need a lot of worms 
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That’s a whole lot of French fries!
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That’s crazy 
Shoulda suggested feeding homeless people & livestock (IMO). Even that chicken agrees! 
That will take a while I think…
mmm 
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You can’t tell from the pics, but this is all rotten food. Not exactly consumable. If you want to get onto someone, look at all of the plastic packaging that this stuff comes in. It’s such a waste… I’ll do my part and take it to a recycle bin. Actually, someone should be thanking me for doing my part on recycling…
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I have native worms and black soldier flies that show up on their own. BSF keep fruit flies away and compost faster than worms, but they don’t compete with each other and can live together. I forgot to mention that I have about 1 1/2ft of (almost)finished compost that is full of worms and BSF already. I’m supposed to pick up 3x more pallets of potatoes before I can get the good produce, take the good with the bad…
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wasn’t criticizing or at least not intending to 
A friend who works at a big supermarket chain told me it was a policy to fire any employee caught “harvesting” wasted food(unspoiled but headed for the landfill).
Same with stopping shoplifters-- they fire you for it.
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What a shame that is.
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Right, going to a supermarket for expired produce is not the route that I take. I tried, but you don’t get anywhere with it. I was working with a “Salvage” grocery store for a little while, but I noticed that there was atleast 2-3 other farmers picking up from that store and I was getting the leftovers. I still got a few good hauls out of it though, but my new place has a lot less trash.
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Still pretty new with worms, is this a good or a bad thing when the worms kinda ball up like this in an area where food had been left? I had thought it was good, but doing some googling, it could mean my worms are stressed out?
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Worms will ball together for food and Reproduction, it’s a good thing.
Yours look fat and healthy
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