On 1 May 2005 07:19:01 +0800, Ivan
wrote:

Hope wrote in


I chuck just about everything into my worm bin (even though the
"instructions" gave me a big list of things not to include) and it doesn't
seem to be doing the little fellows any harm at all! They are quite happy
to eat onion, capsicum and chilli, citrus etc... That's my experience with
worms for what it's worth

To answer your question regarding newspaper, it provides a carbon source
for all that nitrogen that you're putting in - this, of course, speeds up
decomposition ("composting") which gives the worms more food more quickly.

ahhh ok that makes sense. There's a THICK layer of newspaper on the
bottom of the bed, maybe I'll wrap the scraps in a single layer of
paper and stick it under the thick layer.

These are just garden earthworms that have been attracted by the
organic stuff, they're not the special worms that you get in a worm
farm (as far as I know). SO I guess they'll eat what they want and
leave the rest... it's an open system after all. Thanks heaps for teh
tips.


Hope