coffe grounds, banana peels and eggshells???

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spliff88

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I want to use an all natural fertilizer, old timers tell me coffee grounds, banana peels and egg shell's work? Not really sure. Any answers?
 
green_machine_two9er

green_machine_two9er

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yessir! worm bins or farms break down nutrients in your raw kitchen scraps and THAN they become plant ready. by collecting the worm poop basically
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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green_machine_two9er said:
Any idea how much coffee is to much. being its my drug of choice i feel like my worms get coffee more than anything else...
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I have found my worms don't like coffee grounds much... I use them in my compost pile instead.
equal amounts of fruit are disposed of in like a dy and a half, but coffee grinds take like a month.
Annnnnd I have NO shortage of worms... like almost a solid mass of them.

But all of those I put in the compost pile instead.
my worms just get veggies and fruits, they seem to like those better.
I use the eggshells in the compost pile too, but not very much, I think my calcium content is all good with my other ammendments
to answer your question though, they'll be fine in PURE coffee grinds... that's what my brothers wormbin is, almost 100%
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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DonPetro said:
I save my eggshells to add as a soil amendment. I rinse them off, let them dry then powderize them in the nutri-bullet. I find crushed shells take too long to break down in the worm bin.
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yeah they're even taking a bit in some compost i had made. i may start doing what you are doing with them DP.
 
VTMi'kmaq

VTMi'kmaq

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Rrog said:
Worm compost. Get a worm bin. If you could do only one thing, this would be it. Put your coffee and bananas and eggshells in that. You won't need many eggshells, however
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But don't just take random info like this and try to apply it for example you have to feed your worms equal weight in scraps to there ACTUAL weight, or YOULL over feed them, then they'll die!
 
VTMi'kmaq

VTMi'kmaq

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spliff88 said:
I want to use an all natural fertilizer, old timers tell me coffee grounds, banana peels and egg shell's work? Not really sure. Any answers?
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If your serious, Join a vermicomposting group on a facebook page or something similar.....I LEARNED TON"s more from those groups about the specific's of vermicomposting,
 
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