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I'm fairly new at this having started a bin in May 2004. My bin is a 53L Roughneck tote with newspaper bedding but my worms (Eisenia fetida) came in peat moss / animal manure (pellets?) so the resulting bedding was a mixture. I'm a single person so I divided the tote in half with a wire baking rack mounted vertically in the middle of the bin and only use one half at a time. I have two 1" vent holes at each end at the top of the bin and no drainage holes as the one end of the bin was elevated to allow water to drain to the idle side and the wire rack provides plenty of aeration.

My original plan was to use the "lateral migration" method of harvesting. However after reading here that it can take months for all the worms to move and having already filled the idle side with fresh bedding I became worried about the reduced ventilation and drainage now that both sides of the bin were occupied. So I just completed my first harvest using the pile and hand separate method. It was interesting experience to see all the worms and cocoons and I'd recommend to newbies to do it at least once but it is a lot of work.

I live in: Canada

My zone is: Alta Canada

My favorite forum 1 is Vermicomposting.

First registered on September 08,2004.