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Welcome to The Compost Bin, which contains my musings on my life and things which interest me.

I live in Herefordshire with my husband and daughter; we have 4 acres of land which contains a woodland, polytunnel, small orchard, garden and veg plot. We grow our own organic produce and make lots of cider, wine, jam and chutney. We also make a lot of compost. We share our lives with 11 Chickens, 3 Cats, 3 Guinea Pigs and assorted wildlife. We try our best to live a more self reliant lifestyle, growing and making and fixing and mending and re-using and re-cycling stuff, if we can.

I used to be a Research Scientist, but that was many years ago. I now work as a freelance environmental educator/writer/forest school leader and community artist; I also spend a lot of time volunteering as a Master Composter and Master Gardener, helping people make compost and grow veg at home or at school.

I started blogging because I love to write about the things which interest me. Whether it's something I have done in the garden, an article for a magazine, a review of websites or equipment I use, a training course I have attended or "just" my daily routine - I love to write.

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Monday, 9 July 2012

Hungry Bin update Day 3 (07/07/12) and Day 4 (08/07/12)

I was quite worried on Day 3 - the deluge continued here and the worms were obviously convinced that they would be drowned if they stayed in the Hungry Bin so followed their instincts and tried to move up and away from danger- but the lid contained them.




I was concerned that the deluge would fill up the collection tray with rainwater and I would lose all my lovely worm tea, but NO! the design obviously keeps rain from falling into the collection tray - which is good.


Despite having had a lot of rain overnight! This wheelbarrow was next to the Hungry Bin.


I added some more material, about 800 g of mixed kitchen caddy waste, a small amount of cooked food and some roll roll tubes with compost inside which had held some bean plants, but they had been eaten off to soil level by slugs.

When I went back later the same day the tubes were full of worms all munching away.




Day 4, I added a about a kg of assorted waste, paper scraps, chicken droppings, weeds and tomato leaves from the plants in the polytunnel (I had been removing some of the lower leaves to let in air to the plants)which had been sitting in a bucket for a few days

I had a look at the waste and saw lots of worms busily working away with none in the lid so I think they must be happy with their environment.




See how quickly those cardboard tubes have disintegrated!



I laid some cardboard on the top surface so the worms had somewhere to hide under, and closed the lid for another day.







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4 comments:

  1. Looks like you have lots of happy, well fed worms there.

    I think it's brilliant to see them about their work. Such efficient little compost makers.

    Sue xx

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  2. Lets have some more, interested to see when you get your first worm juice. I was told it is a good idea to put the juice back into the Hungry Bin, it helps the process and when it comes out again its even more concentrated.

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  3. Lets have some more data, interested to see how the Hungry Bin performs and also how long until you get your first compost tea. I had heard it is a good idea to put the tea back into the hungry bin, it accelerates the process and the next time trough it is more concentrated.

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  4. Hello David. I have already had some worm juice - see the picture, above. Have had more, since - have added some back in and used some. I do the same with my can O Worms and it seems to be a good idea.

    Welcome to The Compostbin btw ;-)

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