{"id":3870,"date":"2012-01-11T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/rejuvenating-the-compost-heap\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:39:29","slug":"rejuvenating-the-compost-heap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/rejuvenating-the-compost-heap\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejuvenating the Compost Heap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/compost.jpg' title='compost.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/compost.jpg' alt='compost.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>Compost red wiggler worms slow down their consumption of organic scraps in the wintertime, but we humans keep producing the scraps. So, to reinforce the worm workload, we ordered a thousand more red wigglers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unclejimswormfarm.com\/\">Uncle Jim&#8217;s Worm Farm<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Image &#8211; the compost bin after introducing the new worms. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The worms arrived in the mail today, so to get things started, I gave them a &#8220;drink.&#8221; The worms are packed in dry peat and come in a bag (see insert in photo). The next step was to dig down below the organic scraps in the compost bin to the layer of worm castings below. I added some moist garden soil and put the ball of worms on top of the soil. The instructions that come with the worms say to cover them with a wet newspaper. The worms will absorb the moisture and begin to crawl into the soil and thence start consuming scraps within 48 hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compost red wiggler worms slow down their consumption of organic scraps in the wintertime, but we humans keep producing the scraps. So, to reinforce the worm&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}