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MuadDib wrote

Worm Bins! Plastic bins, 40 × 50 × 30 cm, cheap easy to come by, just drill holes in the bottom to allows water out worms in. Not much care is taken about green-brown and the older bins are basically just casings after about a year. If there is odour when I go to use them I put the smelliest material under a layer of less smelly material.

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NoPotatoes wrote

If you happen to have access to pine nut shells, that can be a good way to eliminate unpleasant odors. Just grind them up and sprinkle the material.

That said, vermicomposting should not produce an odor. You might want to root out what is causing that. Maybe you are putting too big pieces of food in, or food that the worms do not like ("spicy" stuff like peppers, onions)? I typically try to cut up my scraps a lot. Helps the worms chew through it faster IME.

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MHC wrote

I bought a box of a thousand red wrigglers.

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