Week 5

Third week of feeding - a handful of kitchen waste, inlcuding the mouldy end of a loaf of bread, went into the wormery today.  Have started keeping two pots for waste in the kitchen, one with softer stuff, and the other with harder stuff and worm-averse items like onion and citrus.  Not sure how the worms feel about my 'green tea with lemon' teabags, so am limiting how many go into the wormery caddy.

There are still lots of carrot stumps and the cut ends of the fine beans left from the first week of feeding - in fact the carrot tops have started sprouting!  The bananas have mushed well and are being processed quickly though.

Now seeing quite a few worm eggs, and the original bedding has been turned into lovely 'black gold' compost.

I am however, finding a few slugs in the top of the bin, usually in between the layers of paper.  I pick them out and get rid of them when I find them. I think they have either come in on the wet paper (which was left outside for months) or in the soil that was added on the first day, rather than climbing in after the bin was set up.

Any liquid collecting in the sump still seems to be rainwater dripping through rather than 'worm tea' as it's clear in colour.  I'm just draining this off to prevent the level rising too much and drowning the worms (who are still occasionally popping into the top sump levels for a visit).