"Gary" wrote in message
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On 11/9/04 6:31 AM, in article
,
"Martin" wrote:

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:15:43 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


"Gary" wrote in message
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Hello
Our Franz, in another thread, asked a question: How many
worms
does it
take to dispose of the scraps from two people?
Franz, how fast would you like the worms to dispose of the
scraps? If
you want it gone in a hurry then you have to give them something
they like
to eat.

Gary. if you were to have a little think, you would realise that
if I
produce 500 gms of compostible material a day, and the worms
compost
at 50 gms per day, there will be a daily surplus of 450 gms of
uncomposted material. In a year, that will amount to roughly 165
kilograms of uncomposted material in the course of a year.

You need ten times as many worms Franz and you should be cooking
their
food the way they prefer it. :-)
And doing other things to promote faster consumption...like putting
soil
where they eat...worms have gizzards and need soil to digest their
food.

I doubt that. It is certainly not mentioned in any of the essays on
worm composting that I have read.

Franz