I wanted to share quick update on our compost bin creation using a $4.46 Wal-Mart tub. To refresh your memory, we found a bin at Wal-Mart that is being sold by a worm farm on the internet for about $100. We wanted to show you that you could duplicate that bin for about $5. Here is that video.
We are 3 weeks in and the worms are breeding and eating the newspapers and cardboard bedding. They are depositing capsules all over the place and those will hatch in a couple of weeks. I will continue to do updates until all of the paper and cardboard is gone. I will not add any additional food to the bin until after we see the project through. The Red Worms will be fine because of the amount of paper and rabbit poop I used when making the bin.
In the real world, I would advise taking those breeders out of there as soon as babies are seen in the red worm composting bin. The reason is that removing them will allow the babies to have plenty of food before you need a bedding change.
Of course, moving the breeders to a new bin will also allow them to continue to breed strongly, especially if your goal is to increase your worm supply.
For our cheap worm bin project, we will keep the breeders in the bin to concentrate the number of worms we have on creating worm castings for our garden.
Three weeks later and I would call our $4.46 worm composting bin a success.
