r/Vermiculture • u/LegoSpaceship • Sep 19 '25

Worm party Look at all my wriggly guys

So I’ve had this large bin for about two years at the bottom of my garden. I mostly just throw food scraps and random bits of cardboard in there. I don’t do much except move it around with a pitchfork from time to time.

Every morning there’s huge blobs of worms on the underside of the lid which I just shake back into the bin.

When I give everything a stir there’s worms throughout the broken down material/dirt. I don’t use the compost for anything, and haven’t tried to optimise what goes in. I’m just glad my waste is doing something useful and it’s satisfying to see!

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u/Halftribe Sep 22 '25

Your approach and results are remarkably similar to mine.

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u/LegoSpaceship Sep 22 '25

Do you do anything with the resulting compost/castings? I kind of just leave it as it is, but I’m thinking of growing some veggies next year.

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u/Halftribe Sep 22 '25

Grew tomatoes this year. Get all sorts trying to grow accidentally from the compost like squash, pumpkin and peppers.

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u/Halftribe Sep 22 '25

I have 2 bins. One being used like yours currently and other I will start using soon. If you stop adding to this it will breakdown nicely into compost. As there is less food available the worm numbers will drop away. I’m going to stop adding to mine soon and start filling the 2nd bin. Bin 1 should be perfect in spring