Fix It, Make It, Grow It, Bake It by Billee Sharp

Author:Billee Sharp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Viva Editions
Published: 2010-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

WORM COMPOST

Everything I read about worm composting made it sound too complicated for me. Hearing that worm compost can smell bad if the mix is wrong utterly deterred me. Then I spoke to my friend Maria, who grows vegetables in her backyard using soil made from worm compost. Despite the potential downside, she had decided to go ahead and try it anyway. She took an old plastic garbage bin, drilled holes in the sides, and started her compost with a layer of cut-up cardboard and old newspaper. She then added a layer of wood chip mulch, then some kitchen scraps, and a box of live worms that she bought at a gardening supply store. She adds kitchen compostables three times a week and, once a week, a little more shredded paper and mulch. Maria’s advice was to make sure the compost is kept moist and aerated. Her trick was to turn it once a week when checking the moisture level. When your compost is a brown, crumbly humus, it is ready to use. Maria shovels out a few loads of compost, sifts the worms out, and throws the worms back in the bin. The compost bin has a heavy lid (a piece of wood with a weight on top), and she hasn’t had any problems with rodents, large or small. As for the dreaded bad smell, Maria said it only developed when she left the compost unattended for a few weeks. She noted that it was easily rectified by adding more mulch.

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