DanielYKL

I know what you are thinking. “He blogs about socio-politics, he blogs about food and now he blogs about worms!”

Why worms? Who would in their right mind would blog about WORMS? And who would read?

That’s the whole idea about blogging, isn’t it? To share your thoughts, opinion, ideas, beliefs, interests, hobbies or whatever, so that your blog is not only limited to your own niche of readers. It’s all about sharing to a wider group of readers.

To answer the above, why worms? Hmm!!! Why not? Please read more about Worm Compost or Vermiculture here in my earlier articles. Thanks.

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To all Worm lovers or Vermiculturists!

About 3 weeks ago, I did a harvest on my worm compost. I’m not into a big scale like others or in any kind of business. It’s just something that of interest to me. So don’t expect much. I’m not an expert on vermiculture but “I did it my way,” and it works well for me.

This is the compost after more than 3 months. First I spread it all out on a big piece of old plastic shower curtain.

As you can see the worms are in there with the compost.

So what I did was separate or to pick out the worms from the compost. It’s not that difficult as the worms will group together if you leave them out in the open. Then from there, you just grab a whole pile of them and leave them on their own and they will all roll into a ball. Look at pics below.

You see, the worms will gather into a ball or should I call it a ball of worms!

So, in the meantime, I have a some veg, dried leaves and whatever as long as they are organic on the containers. Then I released the worms back into it. And start the worm compost all over again.

The compost are really good fertilizer. I gave the compost to friends and it was so precious to them that they only used it on their herbal plants and vegetable plants. And  flower plants. My worm compost are 100% organic. I only used vegetable scraps, fruit skins and cuts or dried leaves. No oily food or cooked food. No citrus fruits such as lemon, orange, etc, the citric acid will kill the worms. And spicy stuff such as garlic or chilli. And no MEAT! Fully vegetarian. So I guess they are ovolactovegetarian or vegan worms.

I gave the compost to friends and it is so previous to them that they only used it on their herbal plants and vegetable. I might sound crazy, but that’s the way to go. After all these worms are nature’s friends and they have a part in God’s plan for a better environment. It’s God’s way to cultivate the earth!

Note: Please wear gloves when you are harvesting the compost. I know, I know I should have done that. Sorry!!!

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