 | Vermicomposting cont'd page 3 Okay, now for the how much, which ties-in with the where. Depending on how many worms you've got and how healthy and active they are, you can feed them about a third or a half of the vegetable waste one normal-sized vegetarian human who eats at home once a day can produce. That's about how much a batch of worms in a Rubbermaid-sized container will like to eat. Play it by ear - (actually, you can hear worms chowing down when you bend down low) - start by putting about a cup or so of chopped up compost in one corner of the bin, not spread all over. The worms will go to it and eat. A few days later, put some more food in the adjacent corner, and see if they are ready to go there. By the time you put some compost into the fourth corner, the food from the first corner should be pretty much gone, assimilated into dirt by the worms. Keep up with the rotation so as not to clog the worms' path, or confuse them. Also, it is necessary to bury the food, so that they will eat it (they hate light), and so that air doesn't get to it and cause it to smell bad. So long as you bury your food, you will have no trouble with fruit flies or composty smells.
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