Worm Poop Batch for Ali

It'd been sitting around awhile, drying out. I wanted to prep and deliver mid-August, but knowing Mom was due in town, anticipated a little bit of a hold up as my time would be limited. Mom came and went, I became distracted with other things, and well, the batch has been waiting.

A couple weeks ago, Ali asked when I was gonna give him some shit so I piled it on thick finding out he meant the pooh. Ali let me know that he's fully aware of the positive ramifications of worms in soil and he specifically requested that I leave worms in his poop batch. Usually I try to sort them out to prevent any gross-out factor.


Set up facing my TV (which is dumb since I have to look at what I'm sorting) I was ready for a line clearance.

Last night I simply sifted out hunks of uneaten paper, larger seeds (which were mostly husks), and plastics. I was surprised to find that some worms were still alive in the poop as the poop was probably some of the driest I've ever sifted through. There were even some juveniles in there. And as an FYI, dry poop does make for quick sort.

The assembly line when I'm done sorting.

The organics went into another working worm bin and the inorganics were discarded.

And look at how pretty this shit is! I so wish you could run your fingers through it -- it's nice! The good stuff was delivered this morning.

Number 4 Gets Chuck's Grape Bits

Now that you know about Number 4, it's time you met face-to-face.

Everyone, meet Number 4.


As I told you previously, I had prepared Numbers 4 and 5 like normal worm bins, but instead of supplying a pound of worms in each, I simply added some worms in from when I was finishing older bins.

This is what it looked like:


All I did was add whatever worms and remaining organics were in an older "finished" bin to the tops of 4 and 5. So you can see 4 had at least some pistachio shells and an avocado pit added to the paper. In there next to the avocado pit is a new growth of some sort.

Digging around, I saw that at least one of the worms was still alive!


Since I didn't see any remaining food in the bin from when I made my first food placement, I decided to give Number 4 some of Chuck's goods: those grape stems and husks. At this point, the grape stems and husks were becoming pretty moldy. I'm sure the worms were chomping at their tiny bits for some of that action! So I dumped a good few tong-fuls in each side of the bin.


And then I buried the grape bits with the paper goods in the bin. We'll see how it goes over for these immature guys.

All of the feeding above happened September 4th.
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Today is Nov. 17th. Time for new news:

While you'd think it'd be about Number 4, it's not. It's new news.

I told you that I'd received a bunch of lemon halves from one of my coworkers. Ali, the crazy Persian who went on a self-inflicted liquid diet for 10 days, yielded a ton of lemons which he left to leak in my cubicle.

The larger of two bags of lemon halves has been sitting outside my front door since Friday. The smaller bag has been in my fridge. Hey, now, I was sick over the weekend and didn't have the strength or memory to bring the outside bag inside. No matter, the worms will like them whatever their condition. I will feed the worms some of these lemon halves this weekend at the latest.

Stay tuned.

And I swear, I'll give an update on Chuck's grape remnants. Poke a needle in my eye if I don't.