I’m a couple of days late with this weeks update, lets just say it’s flu season.
Anyway, this marks 3 weeks since I started feeding 50 worms nothing but potato. Last week all the worms were still healthy and showing signs of eating the potato. This week they finished devouring all the original potato. Today (7 December 2016) I split the bedding within the bin into two parts; That where potato was and the part never fed. The reason was to try to determine if the worms were avoiding the potato or preferring it. 41 of the 50 worms were retrieved from the side that had been fed potato. Only 9 worms were removed from the other half of the bin. This would seem to indicate that there is a pretty strong attraction to the potato as a food source.
The bedding was examined for cocoons and only 6 were found. I expected to find more but some reasons may be:
- The first week everything was extremely dry
- 50 worms was a pretty low population density for breeding
- I’m still recovering and could’ve easily missed a lot.
I believe at this point it’s been proven that potato isn’t a significant risk to the health of compost worms. At this point I have made my conclusions and will suspend this experiment as successful.
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Thank you for doing this experiment. I had also read the potatoes or anything from the nightshade family was bad for my worms so I didn’t want to feed them these items. This is very good news. A good cheap source of food.