@NanasWorms Sandra has great tips and advice about worms, please take a look at her channel.👍😊🙏💚
@NanasWorms Sandra has great tips and advice about worms, please take a look at her channel.👍😊🙏💚
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This is a helpful community. Keep those worms warm. 🪱
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Thank you for the shout out, Nick. I got the idea a couple years ago from a YouTuber, but I’m sorry I have forgotten who that was. Never frozen food scraps take a bit longer to heat up than ones that have been frozen, then thawed. The quickest is things pumpkin purée with coffee grounds mixed in. The warm water was a brilliant idea and I don’t see why you couldn’t continue to use that strategy if the food doesn’t work. Your system should just shed any excess moisture.
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Nice Nick. Gilligan is a fantastic worm composting system. I thing Sandra has is the heat mat so using the warm bottle should help. I thing you could think about if it get really cold is adding alot of high nitrogen food scraps to the bin and/or Alfalfa meal to create heat. The bin is big enough they could migrate away if it get too hot ???
And weird that the pile went a bit anaerobic, but you've had a ton of rain !!
Hope you have a great week brother!!
Cheers J&C 🪱🌱🪱🤞
Sandra has great 👍 advice.
I did the same thing when I harvest the Castings from the Can-O-Worms last week. I put in lots of fresh thawed food.
This is the inside 3 layer bin. The temp went from 70°F in the kitchen to 90°F when I stuck the probe 3" in the top layer. The worms are happy with that temperature 👍
BTW, I sent a card out to you and family about 10 days ago. I hope it arrives OK 👍
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Great update Nick thanks for posting, Mike
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awesome tricks to keep these guys warm , stay warm yourself .
Sandra also uses a heating mat under Gilligan to keep it warm. On the allotment, you would need a solar panel for that but it's a thought. Some coffee grounds would also help get things warmed up. Good luck Nick.
Hot water bottle and a nice comforter for those worms. Must keep them moving!! Cheers from South Africa and happy holidays
Only you Nick well maybe Jason 😂😂 worrying about tucking in and keeping worms warm. Have a fantastic week cous 🐝 safe 🎄❄️🧑🎄⛄️
Chicken manure shoots up the temperature in my compost systems a lot. The worms also seem to love it. I have not tried a worm farm myself, my compost systems have plenty of worms big and small even with this cold. They are just hiding a little deeper.
I don't think warm water will do very much to be honest. I haven't tried it myself.
Turning a compost pile does most of the heating up but I guess you don't want to do that with a worm farm.
Your garden looks great mate 👍 👌