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Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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Posted by loftin60 DeRidder, La zn. 8 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 14, 09 at 18:18
Even if someone before you list the same food, list
your top 5 foods so we all can compile the information.
Be sure to include the food, how it is processed, and
how it is fed.
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RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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I'll list the five I think are their fav's, although its really hard to interview them. The microphones don't work very good with the background noise of the bin. My worms like:
Melons of all kinds(chopped up until I can get them in the bin neatly)
Leftover cooked rice(as is but not too much)
Soft or bad tomatoes(just make a cut in the skin)
bananas or peels(just make some cuts and bury in the bin.
coffee grounds(I mix with bedding material and other food)
I dont blend or freeze anything. I do try to add bedding material to each feeding. I think it helps keep everything from smelling and preserves the nutrients in the finished compost. Thats it. really simple. Steve |
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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- Posted by loftin60 DeRidder, La zn. 8 (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 14, 09 at 19:02
| I forgot to list my top 5. 1. any kind of pasta (Spaghetti, shells)
2. cucumbers
3. cornmeal
4. melons, pumpkins
5. bananas |
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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1. Horse manure
2. Goose droppings
3. Tomatoes
4. Bell pepper cores
5. Anything that has been ground up |
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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| My worms don't get to say much about what they want. They are my workers, not my guests. Their basics are:
1. cucumber peels
2. fruit peels
3. lettuce cores
4. tomato stem ends
5. wilted or bad looking parts of vegs |
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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| I freeze most vegetable waste, but grind up the oats. 1. Horse manure
2. Oats/corn meal They go wild on those two. 3. Vegetable/fruit scraps. They are never separated so I'll count that for 4, too.
5. Large clumps of compost left after sifting my outdoor bins. |
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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Like folly grows my worms are here for me, do you want my top five
Apple core
melon peel
banana peel
vegetable trims
corn meal Curt:-) |
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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| Also like folly my worms get what i give them. 1. Horse poop, they don't get it as often as they would like. Just drop it in, i wont do anything else with it.
2. Any kind of melon, cucumbers are in the family. Just cut into chunks.
3. Wild Turkey droppings. Picked up from under my bird feeders. And scattered across the top.
4. The regular household scraps, peals, coffee grounds etc. All mixed together before feeding.
5. Meal Worm poo. I grow meal worms for the wild birds. I feed the meal worms mostly old oatmeal and bread crusts. With carrots and potato slices for moisture. Their poo is a dry powder I put it in a old Kraft cheese shaker and sprinkle a little on the top now and again. I got interested in growing meal worms when they kept coming up on UTube when i would do a worm search. |
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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| Are meal worms easy to raise? I would be interested for the same reason. My wife is into birding and loves watching our backyard birds. |
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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| Easter than real worms. And female meal worm beetles lays 500 eggs a week. Watch the meal worm videos in this kids series of videos. Takes you through all the steps. You can raise them in just one container but the adult Beetles will eat some of the baby worms. BTW; My meal worm start was $3.50 for 50 worms from the pet shop. The price worked out to 7 cents a worm. They are only 3/4 inch long. I figured out at the time i bought them that it comes to $180 a pound. No one would vermicompost if we were paying that kind a money for our worms. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Spail15's Meal Worm videos
RE: Your worm's top 5 favorite foods.
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| Here are mine: 1. Watermelon, cantaloupe, or squash rinds, just dumped in with the wet side down. 2. Carrot peels -- sometimes chopped, sometimes not. 3. Used tea leaves 4. Pruned roses -- I was astonished, but the worms made quick work of the roses, and they seemed to be preferred to other foods. 5. Fall leaves. |
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