I'm ending this experiment abruptly. This morning I found two dead worms on the ground. That's a bad sign since I haven't had any escapees in a while. When I removed the newspaper cover, there were a couple of worms on the sides of the bin near the top. That's another bad sign. This afternoon when I checked the bin, a good number of worms were congregating on the side opposite where I fed them. That's strange behavior considering I never see them group together. My worms are generally as antisocial as I am.
I checked on the food to see if any worms were exploring. No worms near the food whatsoever. And the smell was a little funky. That rarely happens to my bins now since I've been very conservative in feeding. So like any other good vermicomposter, I removed about 90% of the food and used them as mulch. My Cat's Whiskers plants could use a good mulching anyway. I hope that's good enough. I don't want to lose more worms tonight.
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I over fed my worms and had some of the same bad "worm behavior" that you are decribing here. I stopped feeding and added more beding. Things are better in my bin now. Now I feed much less than in the past.
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by Bill. I'm more behaved now in terms of feeding. It's not like they'll go hungry anyway. I have tons of paper in the bins.
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