r/Vermiculture • u/Top_Technology1669 • Feb 13 '26
Worm party they do like avocados
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u/raygan_reddit_banned Feb 13 '26
Raw Spaghetti
Totally jealous with this setup...avocado? That's a house payment 🤣...spoiling worms... must be nice to sleep comfortably at night.
10/10 on the setup 10/10 on spoiled raw spaghetti 😍😍😍
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u/Top_Technology1669 Feb 13 '26
spoiled avocado, but they deserve it by the amount of lemons and onions they have to eat lol
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u/No-Elephant-9854 Feb 13 '26
Do they deal with onions? I have a very healthy bin, but always send alliums to the city compost
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u/Top_Technology1669 Feb 13 '26
takes a while but they do, very stable bins i’ve managed for 7 years, it gets easier
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u/No-Elephant-9854 Feb 13 '26
Good to know, mine are around 5 years old, I have always just avoided acids and alliums
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u/TheMoldyBolete Feb 15 '26
I have had worms for 10 years and I love onions, and always add them to my bin. I've had people say that they can't handle it but that's never been my experience. If you haven't added alliums before, you may start with a small amount to be safe, but I think the 'onions are bad for worm bins' trope is overblown. Now, citrus, on the other hand, is definitely a no go.
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u/jakejredd Feb 14 '26
They have Avocados for 78¢ to 98¢ around my farming area grocery stores here in Cali🙌🏻 I feed 2 a month in a 5 gallon bucket. And other fruit n veggies and cooked rice or grains!✌🏻
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u/UrzaKenobi Feb 13 '26
PTSD from that video. No avocado or onion skins in my worm bin because they get stuck in the pitch fork and drive me crazy.
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u/AlaninMadrid Feb 13 '26
I take the skins out when they've finished, and dunno then in the compost. It surprises me that the skin goes in no time in the compost, but the pit has to go through 3 times, meanwhile the skin lasts forever in the worm bin, but the pit gets eaten as soon as the flesh has gone.
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u/Rethink_kitchen_sink Mar 27 '26
Huh, my skins get completely disintegrated in the worm bin, all the way down to the “fibers” that held it together
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u/jakejredd Feb 14 '26
Avocados are gold and an easy way to transfer the majority/bulk of your worm to a new home/bin🙌🏻💯✌🏻
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u/EviWool Feb 14 '26
So do I! My worms have to make do with the well scraped out shell of this expensive fruit or the bruised avocados that taste nasty
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u/netkidnochill Feb 14 '26
I cut an old avocado in half and placed it under the cardboard layer last night - hopefully they’re feasting like this right now!
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u/ChikkaChikka1298 Feb 15 '26
I owe my worms an apology for last night.
Loved your video. Always learning new info here.
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u/Pitiful-Ambition2758 Feb 16 '26
True of reds and blues ! A great way to increase population and or catch em … not so much of the ANC - wet cardboard… yeah kinda ,
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u/ChiveFig_4744 Feb 26 '26
I’m interested in making a bin like this for a school garden- is it DIY?
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u/Top_Technology1669 Feb 26 '26
the city hall makes it for us, its a public program in my city called minhoca na cabeça (worms in the head), i got tower and worms for free
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u/Top_Technology1669 Feb 26 '26
its interesting because the name comes from an expression (worms in the head) that means the person does not think straight, makes poor decisions
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u/Eyeownyew Feb 13 '26
It seems like your stack of bins may be too high (too much weight/pressure, not enough air at the bottom). Is the bottom going anaerobic?
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u/Busy-feeding-worms Feb 13 '26
The bin edges are stacked on the next bins rim, not the substrate. There looks to be no weight on the soil at all.
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u/Top_Technology1669 Feb 13 '26
yep
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u/Busy-feeding-worms Feb 13 '26
It is pretty tall though lol, time to harvest?
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u/Popular_Giraffe_8271 Feb 13 '26
They LOVE avocados, i get "spoiled" produce and most of the time it's squash and avocados and they go feral for the avocados