We have pets! This isn't a new thing, since we've been doing it for over a year now. But out on our apartment's balcony, we have a few hundred "red wrigglers," a type of worm that is particularly good at turning our fruit and vegetable scraps into great dirt!
We had some initial growing pains (note: unless you want fried worms, avoid direct sunlight, even if it's not warm out) and our current batch is the offspring of worms from friends Ian and Ruth, who gave them to me in a yogurt container with holes punched in the lid (incidentally, these worms maaayyyy have attended a Jeff Mangum concert last year since I had my backpack with me at the time).
Anyway, they're super easy to keep! We keep them happy with a once per week feeding. Their home is kept balanced and fruit flies are (mostly) kept at bay by the addition of shredded paper, which I harvest from my workplace's shredder and bike home with in my backpack.
Our other bit of great news is that we'll have an even better place to USE this compost next growing season, as we've just signed on for a place with a huge rooftop garden! But that's material for a future post...
We had some initial growing pains (note: unless you want fried worms, avoid direct sunlight, even if it's not warm out) and our current batch is the offspring of worms from friends Ian and Ruth, who gave them to me in a yogurt container with holes punched in the lid (incidentally, these worms maaayyyy have attended a Jeff Mangum concert last year since I had my backpack with me at the time).
Anyway, they're super easy to keep! We keep them happy with a once per week feeding. Their home is kept balanced and fruit flies are (mostly) kept at bay by the addition of shredded paper, which I harvest from my workplace's shredder and bike home with in my backpack.
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