Homemade Manure - Ultimate Food for Composting Worms

http://www.RedWormComposting.com Presents..."Homemade Manure" - this is a material I cam up with in an effort to mimic the phenomenal food value offered by aged livestock manures (mixed with bedding). In a nutshell, this method involves the thorough mixing of carbon-rich bedding materials (cardboard etc) with non-meaty/dairy food wastes. The Red Worms (and other composting worms I'm sure) absolutely LOVE it!

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[TheRastaRick]

All those worms, they love it!! But when its time to use for soil, do you leave the worms in the soil or do you remove them???

[TheCompostGuy]

@TheRastaRick - it depends on where this homemade manure is added. If it's in one of my vermicomposting trench (I made a video about these) or windrow beds beside my gardens then I just leave everything as-is (since the plants can access the nutrients). If it is in a separate system I will harvest the vermicompost once it is finished (see my turbo light harvesting video).

[ves3687]

Bentley, Can you freeze the homemade manure? If so do you need to wait for it to thaw out before putting it in the worm bin?

[TheCompostGuy]

@ves3687 - that's actually a great idea. I freeze a lot of my food scraps, but have not frozen HMM - if you have the space for it, that could be a good way to store it until needed.

[1too3fore]

Um, you've overlooked another manure, the manure you generate, humanure. Worms love the stuff. So stop wasting clean drinking water on flushing and compost that crap!

[TheCompostGuy]

@1too3fore - I wouldn't say I overlooked it. This is a completely different topic altogether. "Homemade Manure" is just the name I came up with for this mix of bedding and food waste materials that can be fed to composting worms. Humanure is another great potential foodstock for composting worms, but like I said - a whole other topic altogether (interesting as it may be). Have not tried it yet myself.

[BooKittyRadley]

might do this with loveable loo doo

[TheCompostGuy]

@zomgwtfbbqbagel - Uhhh, that's a little odd. lol

I will have to take your word for it though - can't see to get the captioning working.

[TheCompostGuy]

@savvy9 - Sound like a cool too, Savvy! I need to get me one of those industrial versions they use on the Food Network battle of the chef shows! haha