If you live in a country where the temperature does not fall below 32 degrees Celsius, you might consider taking advantage of the worms’ natural talents outdoors. You will need to build a special worm pit outdoors to do this worm composting outside, but it is not complicated.

Creating An Outdoors Worm Composting Pit

To create your outside worm composting pit, all you have to do is dig a square hole a couple of feet deep and set a bottomless box, preferably made of wood, into this hole. Create a lid of heavy cardboard or use a piece of plywood over the top of the box which has been placed into the hole.

Once your pit is ready, toss your redworms into this pit and add organic waste. Remember to keep adding organic waste, for your worms will not survive without it. If you keep the pile damp and dark, the worms will do the rest.

The next step is to harvest your compost carefully — in bright sunshine so that the worms will go deeper into their bedding and allow you to harvest as suggested in the previous post about harvesting the castings. You don’t want to dump any of your precious worms along with the compost in ordinary garden soil for they will die without the organic waste as food.

Once fall arrives, you may want to do one of two things. In milder areas, you can make the pit very deep and thickly insulate its walls. However if you live in an area such as Eastern Canada where the temperature goes below freezing, you will have to move your worms indoors to a bin as soon as frost threatens. . . or be ready to buy a new batch of worms in the spring.

Hopefully all this information about worm composting, also known as vermi-composting has helped you create your own setup for harvesting your own worm castings. Let me know via a comment how well you have succeeded with your worms and what results you have had with your plants fertilized with the worm castings or worm castings tea. I would love to hear from you.

Good luck with your vermi-composting!

Marcie

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