Vermicomposting

I first started composting when the city that I lived in gave away free compost as well as made purchasing compost bin relatively inexpensive. I did hot composting at first but then switched over to vermicomposting, the difference between hot composting vs vermicomposting is that vermicomposting is less labor intense, which goes well with my style of gardening. However, I had less success harvesting compost with other worm bins until I purchased the bins from Home depot. I started with 2 bins but now I actually have 5 big bins under the shade tree. These bins have holes drilled near the right side for drainage. The vermi compost that I get is trully amazing, no wonder it's often called black gold.



I purchased my starter worms from a cheese selling guy at the local farmers market. He raises horses and the byproduct of these horses goes to feed the worms. However, I sometimes found there are tons of soil building worms in my yard.

Common red worms (Lumbricus rubellus) and other species plucked from compost bins or soil (or rescued after flooding rains) usually make well-behaved captives, and you can usually coax larger night crawlers (L. terrestris) to colonize any spot by piling on plenty of mulch.
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Indeed, when it comes to using earthworms to build soil fertility, Clive Edwards, Ohio State University entomologist and author of Earthworm Ecology — the academic bible on earthworms — thinks night crawlers deserve top priority. “The best thing is to obtain some L. terrestris and inoculate your garden with them. They are the most important species in promoting soil fertility,” he says.

Here is how to compost for more information.