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WormFactory360 Questions

5 years ago

I've been composting about two months with the WormFactory360. Feed worms once a week. Questions: 1) When I started the directions said to put the food in one corner and I've continued doing that. Does the food always need to be added to one corner of the bin? Leads to question 2) When is the bin considered full? The rest of the bin is not much higher than when I started composting.

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  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    food to be added to one corner of the bin: merely a suggestion as a starting point that is easy to remember. The next feeding would be next to that etc. etc. I guess it's to make it easy on to worms to get to the food w/o having to travel across the bin and have the food processed ASAP.

    bin considered full: when you can't add anything to it.

    IMHO the WF360 is an OK size for a small household. If I remember correctly, the individual trays are only 5 or 6 inches high. It is widely suggested to use a few inches of shredded (news)paper as a top layer to try keep flies, fruitflies, gnats etc away. That's already about 1/2 the volume except the top tray; the domed cover allow some additional space for piling shredded paper.

    Feed worms once a week...rest of the bin is not much higher: Just curious, how many worms did you start with? Once a week is good to start until the worms are settled in the bin and bedding. You can add new food once the old batch is gone, like 3 to 5 days, depending. Better less than too much, especially during the hot weather. Decomposing food adds heat to the bin.

  • 4 years ago

    All good suggestions above . I also use the factory 360. Been doing this for a number of years. I believe I started with around 1500 worms although they say at least 1000 = 1 lb. Most people dont give the worms a chance or put way too much food in the beginning and therefor disband. If you have enough worms as mentioned you will need to start a second tray . Worms should move up especially if there no longer is food in the bottom. Once you have been doing this long enough you will start using 3 or 4 trays.and usually every month you will rotate and by the time the bottom tray becomes the top tray it time to remove the vermicompost. You can put together a sifter for the compost . I made a 2'x3' sifter out of 2x4' lay that over a wheel barrow and sift the compost thru that. and save all the worms to go back into your tray.


    Thats not the reason I commented today though, several months ago I started adding worms larger than the redworms , euro worms for fishing and today noticed there quite a number of new worms which Im hoping will be from the euros.

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