violentpatriot

add the following items to the worm bins...............

1. Soft rock phosphate - this will NOT add any measurable amount of 'phosphorus' but it will provide anchors for the fungui to attach themselves to which will help the uptake of phosphorus once it's in a soil

2. Organic rice hulls - provides aeration, it's organic, and will later provide a 'marker' on when a soil has been used enough times to warrant adding soil amendments, rock dusts, etc. once they're broken down which is about 5 or 6 months.

3. Charcoal - lump charcoal is the least expensive and easiest to source. It's the type that the BBQ folks use to 'smoke hawg' meaning that it's not processed like Kingsford Charcoal (which isn't charcoal for the most part). You could also add bone charcoal (koi pond shops will often have this), activated charcoal (expensive but effective) or bamboo charcoal (bring cash. Lots of cash).

4. Organic oyster shell powder - worms need calcium to procreate as well as the grit to use in their gizzards to break down other particles. It's cheap, cheap - under $10.00 for 50 lbs. Oyster shell products are also important to maintain the appropriate PH level in the worm bins.
Limestone is probably going to be easier to source for you than oyster shell powder/flour. Limestone is Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) which is the same form of Calcium found in the specific oyster shell flour/powder from Pacific Pearl in Oxnard California.

Limestone should be about $6.00 per 50 lbs. It is sometimes marked as 'agriculture lime'

and:
Just harvested a bin that I further amended and all I can say is WOW. Among other things, I have never had the amount of cocoons as this one had, literally hundreds per handful of castings.

Here is the mix:

Peat moss- slightly less than 10 gal to fill 2-5gal buckets
~1 1/2 cups of powdered dolomite lime
~1 1/2+ cups of kelp meal
~2 cups of Azomite
~1+ cup rock phosphate, pellets
~1- cup bone meal
~4- cups alfalfa meal (bokashi)
~4- cups wheat bran meal (bokashi)
coffee can full of used coffee grounds
3-4 handfuls of 'playground' bagged sand

Mixed this up and wet it down and let sit for a week or so. Was covered in mold/bacteria/fungus/whatever by the time I was ready for it.

Harvested the bin, keeping a bit of the old bedding for the new bin and added this mix on top of that.

Fed mainly laying mash and coffee grounds and some of the bokashi mixes. Didn't need to feed all that much if I added more of the 'charged' bedding, since there was so much food in it. Used no food scraps at all in this bin. Did add a few banana's here and there, cause the worms love them so.

I wanted to keep this bin sorta separate from the 'normal' stuff you add to bins and I had the other bin for that.

It was an outstanding success! Like I mentioned, I've gotten away from the paper/cardboard bedding, but still added some chunks of cardboard since the worms seemed to love laying eggs on them.

This one didn't have any, but the number of egg casings was easily 4-5x more tan any other bin I've harvested. I really need to get on the stick and build something to separate them out.

This worked out to way beyond what I was expecting, in all ways. A bit more expensive in the sense I wasn't recycling anything besides the coffee grounds, but the alfalfa meal and wheat bran meal is cheap and everything else is what would go into my mix anyway. Well, so is the AM and the WBM, I use them as N sources.