Easy, All-Year Worm Composting

Reader Contribution by Stan Slaughter
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Composting is great, but producing your own vermicompost has even more advantages. Vermicompost is created in a compost-type environment that is dominated by worms. It’s not all worm castings (fecal pellets, O.K. worm poop) but the worms are in charge. I call them “The Overlords of the Underworld.” Vermicompost is compost on steroids, more of everything in a concentrated package. Putting worms to work for you is easy once you understand a few simple principles.

The system I’m suggesting avoids the turning and watering of conventional composting as well as producing a more potent soil amendment.

Step 1. Fill your bin 

With browns and greens or just browns if that’s what you’ve got. Wheat straw works great! If the pile heats up and partially composts the mass, that’s a good thing but not essential.

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