Everything gets chopped fine, put into bags and frozen. Then I take a bag out, thaw and drain, and feed to the lads. So they got a bag of this stuff yesterday.

In it was:

several coffee grounds and filters
a few potatoes that went soft
half a pound of strawberry tops
a couple pounds of carrot and celery ends
onion ends
napkins and kleenexes
grapefruit rinds

also:

toilet paper rolls
used q-tips
some junk mail
a torn up pizza box
some weeds pulled from the lawn

They'll work over that stuff for a few weeks or so.

HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY

Can you add a few weeks worth of food at a time??
You don't have to worry about the over feeding relate
diseases?? I would love to feed them a few weeks worth
of food right now since my freezer is containing more
worm food than human food right now. I need to reclaim
some space.

Thanks for the response. It sounds like pretty messy
process to use kitchen towel to dry out the thawed out
kitchen scrap. I started add a bit more, okay a lot more
recently. I started my 1st 2 gal bin in march with 1 lb
of worms and quickly split them into 2 2gal bins next day
then move all into 1 10gal bin 2 weeks later and then moved
them again into a 55 gal flow through drum about 6-7 weeks
later, not sure exactly how long. I thought I should have
about 3 thousand(best guess). So I feed about once a week,
sometime twice, with about 4 lb of frozen scrap. Because
the bin is outdoor, the bottom of my bin seem to be dry
so occasionally I add a little water just to make sure
that they don't dry up and die. Recently, I might have
added a bit more water, I start to see potworms on the side
of the drum, so I added some drier newspaper and some
ground egg shells, and pot now not seeing pot worms on
the side of the drum any more, although I can
still see
one or two when I shift through my worm population and
make sure that they are okay. I added some eggshells
because I started to some old blood orange and moldy
strawberries so I figure PH could be a little low.
I have been feeding quite a bit of frozen water melon
rinds lately and there is a layer of white stuff on
the them after a couple of days. If too much the
bin smell a little like sewer, I stop feeding and a few
days later, the sewer smell is gone. I hope this is all
okay.

coffeenut: First and foremost, I have a 30-some odd gallon flow through bin in the garage. I'm not overly concerned with how long it takes stuff to break down in there. I probably put more work into my compost bin, and I'm a cold composting, put stuff in a bin and forget it kind of guy.

I don't bury the food when I add it to the top. I just dump it in there, and spread it out relatively evenly. Every few days, I check on it to make sure it hasn't gone stinky, and might fluff it up a bit. Other than that, I just let the worms, mites, and whatever else might be in there at the time break things down.

I don't have a lot of creatures other than the the worms, but have had different population booms at different times. This doesn't concern me, as I don't use any of the vermipost inside the house, and everything seems to be breaking down fine. I don't drain anything, since the flow through would let extra moisture drain to the bottom section. This has only happened once in the year I've had this bin, and that was over winter when I had the bin covered for warmth.

I never thought about any diseases stemming from feeding the way I do. I don't use the vermipost on edible plants since I put meat and dairy products in it, as well as the fiancee's "feminine products". (I go through the trash each week before putting it out, and if something like that is easily dumped into the bin, in it goes)

Now, I can wait a long time for the vermipost if necessary. I use it mainly to get rid of stuff I don't want going on my garden. I've shoved roasted chickens into the middle of it after pulling off what meat I could. It smelled for a day, and then disappeared. The only thing I've found to really stink the bin and garage up is a beef bone. For some reason, those stink to high heaven for some time, while other meats don't.

The "few pounds" of strawberry, carrot and celery ends means the ends from a few pounds of each. Not that the ends weighed up to a few pounds, but I started with a few pounds of vegetables, and then cut the ends off.

Also, if there is some concern with disease from feeding as I do, it would be nice to know.

Thank you lkittle for the useful instructions.

A head and a half of cauliflower
Two heads of celery
A nasty head of lettuce
The rind from a whole very large watermelon
A half bag of spinach leaves
Six large beets chopped up ( the worms don't seem to like them much ) The only thing that still looks whole.
A turnup
Two bananas and the peels from the rest of the bunch
A weeks worth of coffee filters and regular table scraps
And one small personal sized watermelon that was wilt ripe.

Now I'm worried about where i will find enough food for next week.

If I didn't have a larger flow through, I wouldn't put in anywhere near the amount at one time that I do.

I did burry some straight protein once without problems, but I didn't dig that part up for a long while. I also found some stale dog food in the back of the storage that had been there for years (after I found out my dog was allergic to it.) I soaked and drained the kibble, then I burried it under at least 6 inches of bedding and had no problems. I did check for anaerobic conditions, and I didn't add more than about a quarter inch layer. Since then I've had too much stuff in the freezer and have needed that space more than the storage space, so I haven't tried any more. I'll get back to the dog food eventually. I think the dog food will be a winter thing. I like cantaloupe :-)

My stacking bins are more likely to go anaerobic than my flow through.