The best way to fix a stalled compost pile or start new ones for most backyard gardens is to use red wiggler worms. I often hear from backyard gardeners that they have a hard time getting their compost to heat correctly and that it just sits there not composting at all. The main problem that many face when composting is due to the fact that the most commonly know methods of composting work great for large amounts of material, but not so well for small amounts that most backyard gardeners will have. The great news is that even if you do not have large amounts of compostable materials you can still compost successfully. No special equipment is needed and little effort is required.<\/p>\n
You can use this method to compost large or small amounts. This flexible compostin process can be done inside or out and can be done in small plastic tubs. For the sake of this article we will assume that you have a backyard garden and produce a fair amount of compostables, but not enough to make a large pile needed to “hot compost.” The most difficult part will provably be building a structure to help contain the compost. A worm bin can be made like a sandbox would and about 16 inches or so deep. Also the worm bed could be built like a raised garden bed. The structure does not need to be fancy, it just has to contain the compost pile. Brown are added next as a thick layer. Browns are substances like leaves, paper, cardboard, sawdust, or other fibrous materials. We want this layer to be about 6″ deep. A layer of greens about an inch thick is thinly added. Greens are stuff like vegetable scraps, grass clippings, weeds, manure, coffee grounds, etc. Then another layer of browns, but only about 2-3 inches thick this time. The layers are allowed to compost a little for 2-3 weeks. This process can be sped up by adding a little finished compost into the layers. After this has started to pre-compost a little we are going to add some red wiggler composting worms.<\/a> These little composting powerhouses are going to speed this process up and make the best compost available.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The only thing left to do is feed them on occasion. With a traditional compost pile it is necessary to have all the materials at once, but with the worms you just need to add to it whenever you have time and materials to compost.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Now you may be asking where to get the worms. They can sometime be purchased locally at a bait shop, but you will need about a pound of worms to get started. That would be over 16 cups of worms. This would be expensive. The best way is to find them online and in bulk. The following link is to a reputable worm farm in South Carolina know as Worms Etc. Here you will find red wiggler worms for sale<\/a> and they ship all over the United States year round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The best way to fix a stalled compost pile or start new ones for most backyard gardens is to use red wiggler worms. I often hear from backyard gardeners that they have a hard time getting their compost to heat correctly and that it just sits there not composting at all. The main problem that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[1080,463,1078,1079,1077],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-garden-design","category-container-gardening-ideas","tag-compost","tag-composting","tag-composting-worms","tag-red-wigglers","tag-red-worms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}