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Originally Posted by Jay Auskin
I have the urban worm bin in my basement. Works well, no odor if you do it right.
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My grandfather had two raised worm beds. They looked a bit like two coffins, just rectangles no coffin shape. Alll food waste went in there. Corn shucks, corn cobs, carrot tops, potato peals, meat scraps. Pretty much everything organic from the kitchen. The worms grew large, and voracious. They made just about anything vanish and turned it into worm castings.
That stuff was rich! Grandpa would plant his garden and use that worm dirt around the plant or seeds, and you had to jump back as it was starting to grow!
In the winter, he would "set them free" and just turn the worm beds over onto the compost so bury themselves deep enough to overwinter.
He had a full acre of just his vegetable garden, growing "corn as high as an elephant eye" and he gave away tons of free food.