More on where to put your worm bin.

Category: Worm Bin Composting | Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:37 pm

There are a lot of things to take into consideration when you decide on a location for your worm bin. Many of them have to do with your personal situation. As far as the worms are concerned, as long as the environment stays within a temp range for the worms to stay active (they can handle cold better than heat - they will start to die if the temp hits 90) and the bedding stays moist and aerated, your worms will be okay. It's best to keep your bin in a protected spot out of the wind, direct sun, and where you can control the moisture going into the bin, for your worms will be happy.

The temp is probably the hardest thing to control because there is so much that can effect it. The ambient temp of the air outside is only on part of the equation. Remember, you are working with a compost system and compost systems create heat just by the very nature of the system. This aspect can be used during winter when the weather is cold but must be carefully watched during summer when the temp outside is already hot. For this reason, one of the things you want to make sure you have before you get started is either a compost thermometer, or in the very least a soil thermometer.

You also want to make sure you place your worm bin in an area where there is plenty of room around the bin for air flow and for you to be able to work the bin.

It also helps if you can be comfortable working in the space as well, especially when you get to the point where you need to work the bin.

If you are working a bin that will need to be physically moved to be worked, make sure the bin is small enough for you to move when it is loaded with material.

Send me your questions. I'll be back later with further information.

Wormnwomn

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eileen wrote on Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:11 pm:

I think I'll add a compost thermometer to my shopping list. So far, throughout the years, when it's come time to work our compost bins they've had plenty of big, fat worms in them but it's better to be safe than sorry. I try to keep them as cool as possible in summer and have them in the shadiest part of the garden. I never meant to start wormeries in any of my compost bins but they moved in anyway which I'm sooooo glad about.

pondlady wrote on Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:17 pm:

Here in New Orleans, post Katrina, we are a bit short on worm beds. Either we have 40' tall, 10 mile long piles of used to be houses or scraped bare lots. I am starting a new compost heap/worm bed, but it is a young one and few worms have moved in yet. We have only just started getting birds and squirrels back. Somehow a worm bed in a very hot un airconditioned garage seems dicey. And I will NOT have worms in the house. Nope, not ever.