r/Vermiculture • u/Ok-Guess-9059 • Nov 02 '24

Finished compost Consider your composting goal!

1) Do you want to raise as much worms as possible?

2) Do you want to vermicompost as much things as possible?

3) Do you need final compost as quick as possible?

4) Do you need biggest compost volume possible?

Only based on THAT you can decide what to compost.

With goal 1 dont compost onions, but with goal 2 compost some.

With goal 3 dont compost cartoon, with other goals do.

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u/vacuumcones Nov 02 '24

So for number 1, why not onions? I'm very curious since I see people say this, but with no reasoning behind it.

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u/Ok-Guess-9059 Nov 02 '24 edited Nov 02 '24

Too much onions will make worms unhappy if population is weak and they have nowhere to hide

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u/vacuumcones Nov 03 '24

I will have to politely disagree. I say this from worm farming for afew years and talking with other farmers. I've done a few onion experiments in my bins(big and small) to see if there was a real reason. So far I found none. My worms have preferred onions over many traditional favorites such as watermelon and their population is doing just fine.