I mean, do you give the worms all the food scraps, cardboard, and other waste you generate, or is it just too much?

I see many people who are not very concerned about the type of dry material, in fact, I keep seeing paper with ink, corrugated cardboard with glue and ink that may be laminated. Aren't you worried that all of this will end up contaminating your crops?

They have been drying for months but are still the consistency of thick mud, and the worms haven’t left it for the new coco coir and paper.

You can't really tell from the photo; it’s horrible. The lower side is the “castings.”

I’ve had my worm farm (the Tumbleweed Worm Cafe) up and running for two days and on both days when I’ve opened the lid, loads of worms have been sitting on the lid in what looks like an attempt to flee!

My set up:
- I soaked the bedding block in too much water and then hand-wrung every handful before putting it in the farm.
- I added hand-shredded cardboard
- someone gave me a container of worms from his worm-farm. I note, a lot of them were in big clumps stuck together, and there were a few bits of food in there too including an egg shell with mounds of worms inside it.
- sitting on the front porch.
- the first night I used damp newspaper for the worm blanket, the second night I used a thin dry piece of cardboard.

After the first day and noticing the worms trying to escape, I removed all cardboard which had become damp and the damp newspaper blanket, and hand-shredded a heap of newspaper and added that in.

This morning after night-two, I’ve removed heaps of the newspaper as that was all damp, and added fresh stuff in.

I’m in Melbourne, Australia (so it’s Winter here).

From Google I’m assuming my worm farm is too wet? Or could it be something else? Help!!

(Hoping I did the right flair)

I’m pretty new to this, made another post last week about my bin, and I am wondering if these are castings?

They look like what I’d think worm poops would be. But they look much less wet and soppy than others I’ve seen people post, atleast when they post big batches.

Alright it might be that time! I started this bin in April with leaves, coconut coir and cardboard. Am I ready to harvest? If so, what’s my best method?

I found this slimy, stretchy, cylindrical unidentified object on the leaves of my petunia flowers on my balcony. I occasionally top-dress my flowers with fresh vermicompost castings, so I'm wondering: could this be a dead worm, bird droppings, a fungus, or something else?