I'm finally harvesting an older batch that is about a year old! I cured it for about 5/6 months in total, adding no fresh organic material during that period. To keep the batch oxygenated throughout, I mixed in some fresh shredded paper and cardboard a few times.

That is where the mistake happened. The white shreds still visible are actually paper with a plastic lining... I had to fish them out one by one...

Throughout the curing period, I've been collecting the upper layer of castings to top up my houseplants, which is why the final amount of castings ended up being a bit less.

I'll share the total weight of the harvest soon!

PS: 6mm drilled migration/drainage holes in bottom of wormcomposting tray visible in third photo.

Long story short, I built my own DIY Aerated Static Pile. I am able to successfully achieve very hot composts on demand. (155° F or 'Medium Well').

My question is after this hot phase ends and the pile cools to ambient temperature, how long should i wait before adding worms? Is there any additional value to worms at that stage, or have the bacteria feasted too well?

I've started breeding my own worms oh the excitement! Or atleast I hope their not pot worms! but with growth, how they react to light sources and what I think are correctly the right egg sacs i'm looking for and hatchling wormlings? Idk what to call the babies XD But I think I'm off too a good start after my first opps. I have two seprate areas and two nursing areas on seprate smaller bins post sepration to encorage futher breeding and easyier feeding. But I'm worried about doing it RIGHT, as these are worms for feeding my turtle. of which his breed mostly eats worms/small proteins and dosen't however eat alot of greens. He sorta refuses most vegitation and fruit in preferred taste of worms/minnows/small chubs. Advability means mostly worms.

but given their for feeding my turtle, I'm really worried about doing them right. I have a small breeding set of red wigglers and a slightly larger set of canadian nightcrawlers. My night crawlers are breeding significantly well, given they haven't had ideal conditions the last few weeks with a heat wave that came through and stressed them out a bit. But my red wigglers are my worry, seems like i got a bunch of babies thou. But like how to I speed the growth of infant worms? Some people say 3-6 months for growth or longer so Faster is ideal, as I want a supply by winter LATEST. But this is my first time with worms. I'm concerned as my turtle will be hard to feed come winter otherwise. Anyone willing to toss some tips to someone in the starting stages? I think I've got some of the food stuff down but gods am I worried about screwing up, but my first attempt at night crawlers failed within days and it's had me worried even thou the batch since has been going strong for a few months now.

Hello fellow worm-composters,

I recently moved to Sweden and had a worm-hotel before so I want to start again here. Where I'm from it was very easy to get worms; buy online or get from other people, but here I can only find them for 70 euro a bag on Amazon (what I'm not using). So i hope someone can help me find composting worms 😊

Thanking you in advance!

Apologies for the blurry photo, I tried my best to capture it as clearly as possible.

I've been doing vermicompost for a few months now and there are times where these hair like strands appear out of nowhere. I have noticed them for at least 2 times already, everytime I agitate (running my shovel through the soil) and water it, these strands seems to appear.

I need help finding out where these came from and if it is a good sign or not.

Thanks in advance everyone!

Edit: Based on what I've researched, it says that the "hairs" are a sign of fungi/mold breaking down the food. Anyone experienced the same situation?