Sarah Gerber-Esala of Dublin has been vermicomposting for 10 years, using the same bin and batch of worms, at three different houses. But coming home to Columbus, I realized that I needed to bring my worms indoors, because there are extreme temperatures here, both on the cold and the hot side,” she said. “When I lived in San Diego, it was easy to do outdoors. She also notes that vermicomposting not only can but also should be done indoors. You're teaching yourself some animal husbandry,” she said. See if you can keep the worms alive before going bigger. “Start with a thousand or a couple thousand worms, which is just a pound or two of worms. Jazmyn Benjamin, who runs a Columbus-based business called “Eat the Landscape,” which includes compost consulting and installation, recommends that beginners start small. Once it has an odor, that means it's out of balance,” she said. I keep mine accessible, so it's easy for me to dump food scraps into it. A thousand worms can handle about 3½ pounds of food scraps a week. And you have to make sure not to overwhelm them with food scraps.
Through trial and error, I learned that they like a good healthy layer of paper on top of them. I've kind of fallen in love with it,” she said. Indoor composting with worms: 'I've kind of fallen in love with it'Īmy Densborn takes her worm bin, also a plastic tote with holes drilled in it, on the road for her job as an educator with the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO). As bedding for the worms, he uses paper bags from the grocery store, cut into one-inch strips. As long as you've got a container with a lid, you can use it as a worm box,” he said. “You can go to Home Depot or Lowe's and get a small plastic tote and drill some holes in it and that works fine. Red wigglers can be found online on sites such as Uncle Jim's Worm Farm. Sometimes, if you have enough, you can sell them to a bait shop.” If you do get an over-population, Smilnak said, “Red wigglers are great for fish bait. “What we don't want people doing is releasing red wigglers into the wild, because they're not a native species.” “You can get to the point where you have too many worms in your worm bin,” Smilnak said.
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