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What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Posted by katxena z7 MD (My Page) on Fri, Jan 1, 10 at 8:44
| Happy New Year! Let's keep this thread going! Today I fed my worms the following hand-chopped (no other processing) items:
A cooked acorn squash shell
5 unused teabags (I hate that tea)
Used tea leaves
Asparagus trimmings
Broccoli trimmings
Eaten artichoke leaves
A handful of coir, a handful of shredded paper, and a new soaked piece of cardboard on top.
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RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Quick follow-up: As before, please keep this thread focused on lists of what you fed your worms. Please start a new thread for any discussions that sprout from this. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Small amount of Coffee Grounds/Filter
Juicer Pulp (worms love it!)
Shredded paper
Egg Carton cardboard |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Pumpkin
Apple
Pepper scraps
eggshells |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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The remains of my two "cooked" totes divided between my 3 surviving totes
compost
paper
cardboard
remaining mixed kitchen scraps
and
cooked worm meat...( |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Newspaper liner and leftover parrot food |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Today they get real food.
Two banana peels.
Two orange peels.
Six egg shells from boiled eggs.
One potato peeling.
Four Buttercrunch lettuce hearts from indoor Kitchen garden.
Trims from two onions.
All ground up into fines in food processor. I like it! Don't grind used coffee grounds They make a real mess. Curt :-) |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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A few shrimp shells
The choke part of an artichoke
Spent tea leaves
Broccoli trimmings
Rotten spinach from the fridge :(
Rotten cooked squash from the fridge :( |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Only this mornings coffee grounds |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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tea leaves
carrot peels
a bit of banana
the goopy stuff from the bottom of a carton of soy milk
Brussels sprout parings |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Nothing! Waiting for them to work thru the mango and avocado I popped in last week, and catch up with the rest of the corners that I gave a lot more than usual. Don't wanna stinky bin!! |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Cleaned out the frige today and the herd got lots of spent food, includind grapes, pomogranite, lettuce, tomatoe, onions, sweet potatoe pie, flower bouquet, chinese food,, 8 lbs of pumpkin, apple cores, bananna peels, and lots of cardboard. The bin is nearly full now and I will let the fast begin. I plan to harvest in a month. Pete PS my worms eat well...... |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Last night my worms got: Shredded paper, coir
Used tea leaves
Carrot peels |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Bad Brussels sprouts including stock.
Banana peals.
Coffee grounds including filters.
Tea bags.
Dried up carrots, potatoes and meal worm poo from my meal worm farm. And a few dead meal worms and beetles.
Apple cores.
Avocado skins and pits.
Pumpkin.
Bread heals. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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lettuce
asparagus ends
pepper scraps
and
currently defrosting pumpkin (I can't seem to think that far ahead!) |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| For a total weight of 5 lbs all put through a blender and mixed with ripped up toilet rolls and bread crusts: 2 cabbage hearts
2 lettuce hearts
5 corn cobs (eaten)
potatoe peelings (weeks worth)
fruit bowl remains (3 peaches, 2 apples, 10 blood plums)
onion peelings
excess silverbeet
.....and other unrecognisable slop in the bottom of the container (slurp!!!) |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Asparagus trimmings
Broccoli trimmings
Onion trimmings
Old, sprouted garlic
Old salad
Grocery shopping list
Used tea leaves
Used tea bags
Carrot peels
Shredded rope and cat claws
Sewing threads
Apple core |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Bin #1 Shredded paper/cardboard-damp.
Bin #1-2-3 1gallon ground kitchen scraps all from fresh trims and peels. 1/2 gallon UCG and filters
2 weeks ago I put 2-3 oz. of fresh chicken fat in my bin today I could not find it or smell any funky new stinks. looks like my troops liked it (kitchen bin #1) Curt :-) |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| I just stopped by Starbucks and took all their UCG. The worms will get some now, and more later. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| I save all my food in a large clear container that mesclun salad mix comes in. When it's full, I chop everything in my processor then put in plastic bags for the freezer. So today they got 3 bags of a mish-mash of food, thawed and completely drained. They finish this in about 3 days.
I save anything veggie-related, but I don't bother with coffee grounds. My worms don't eat it. I put a pile in a corner of the bin and it stayed moist, and nary a worm in it, so I don't bother saving the grounds. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Today I fed my worms: Used tea leaves
A mushy onion
Broccoli trimmings
Brussels sprout trimmings
Asparagus trimmings
Carrot peels
A mushy carrot
Apple core
Sweet potato peels |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| A few apple cores after me and the parrot were finished."THEN" Watermelon rind. Oh Boy! Curt :-) |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| I found some turnip greens in a brown paper bag I had forgotten about in the fridge--they were dry and crisp. So I rolled them up tightly in the paper bag, wrapped a couple of rubber bands around it, soaked it in warm water until it was throughly wet, and now freezing it to break it down further. Looks like a giant egg roll! I bet they'll love this. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Today I fed my worms my usual assortment of kitchen scraps: used tea leaves, tea bags, carrot peels, eggshells, broccoli trimmings, Brussels sprouts trimmings, ginger peels, onion bits, and apple cores. To that I added a handful of orange peels and a sprinkling of coir. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| They are eating brocoli, yerba mate, green and yellow peppers, lettuces, cilantro and apple cores. |
favorite food
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| Have any of you found one favorite food that the worms seem to like above all others? Dave Nelson |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Dave,
The food that disappears the most quickly in my WF is pumpkin and squash (zucchini, butternut, acorn...) |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Apple cores
Potato peels.
Carrot peels & ends.
Cabbage heart & trims.
Banana peels.
1 dozen washed egg shells.
Avocado pit and hide.
Onion trims.
2 old slices of wheat bread.
Like marauder01 I run my scraps through an old food Processor and age in a cool spot for a few days I had around 3 pounds today.
Mixed in the shredded users guide from my new Mr. coffee! Curt :-) P.S. No I did not shred the guide with machine LOL |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Sorry; users guide = paper book Curt~ |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Used tea leaves
Apple core
Sisal rope shreds from the cat scratch post
Brussels sprouts trimmings
Orange peels
Carrot peels and trimmings
Stale bread
Egg shells
Threads from sewing |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| 6 1/2 lbs of blended kitchen scraps, including: 4 Huge mushrooms gone bad
4 large tomatoes
2 heads of lettuce
bread crusts (dry) from week's worth
potatoe peelings (weeks worth) Also added ripped up cardboard (dry) to the blend, mixed well, and fed to the 8 running totes. They had fasted for about ten days, and all food had been worked over, as well as most of the bedding in the two oldest totes (approx 1500 adults in each). Topped off each tote with dry shredded newspaper, except the tote with the holes drilled, it was already dry enough. See the link for pics of my holes or no holes experiment. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Holes in bin experiment
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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I am new to worm farming...
Bought a Gusanito 5-tray...
My Euro Nightcrawlers should be here Monday...
I had read that you can also feed the fellows "Corn Mash"...
Just sprinkle on top the bed, spritz with water & cover with cardboard...
Bob
Colorado |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| I had to slow down some. I was starting to overfeed, so only one pound of grind. All from fresh fruit and vegetables and a few rinsed out egg shells. Curt~~~ :-) |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Today, or yesterday since it's 2am, they got a big fat nothing. The day before it was leftover bagged lettuce that was beyond it's fresh by date. Day before that it was eggshells, carrot peels, asparagus, and something else from the compost jar that was beyond ID. Tomorrow, er, today, there are a couple strawberries that have had it, will microwave them first. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Three credit card offers. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Have you considered this: we will all probably be vermicompost one day. The last trip we take may be through the intestinal tract of a worm. Just thought I'd mention that. We're all part of the cycle of life. I started feeding my worms those wax paper muffin cup things. They have kind of a layer of crumbs on them when you peel them off the muffin. Worms seem to like them. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Grape vine from 2 1/2 lb.bunch
Potato peel
3 carrot peels
Seed core from two sweet red peppers
Two orange peels
Two apple cores
One banana peel
1/4 rind and seeds from a honeydew
UCG and filter from one pot coffee
Curt~~~;) |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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Brussels sprouts
Grape vine/stem
Mushy grapes They got an entire head of broccoli the other day, and I ate two avocados this week (boy, were they happy about that!), so they should be good for awhile. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| any remaining coffee or grounds. March is kind of a slim month for fresh veggie scraps around here. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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One crumbled up slice of stale moldy bread. The worms gathered around it like it was their dinner table, eating the microbes eating the bread.
compost |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Rock dust, leonardite, kelp meal, liquid kelp, a little bit of ground flax seed and wheat germ, pumpkin and cantaloupe along with their regular food. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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tweetson1998: What no moistening with designer spring water? :-)
And why no fresh Kale juice with a drop of organic maple syrup in each morning? Are your worms vegetarian? There was no eye of newt. Your worms eat better than me.
Wait they eat better that 99.9999% of people on earth.
When I am reincarnated I want to be a worm in your bin. Comparatively
Mine ate swill
nine days old. |
RE: What have you fed your worms today? January 2010
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| Mine are happy with the left over melon and squash they have all they can handle this time of year.I am getting them in training for pumpkins. Microbes? Hell they eat the bread and melon. equinox too funny ;) Curt |
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