Dried greens - dream of every vermicomposter
For hot composting, you need to balance greens and browns.
This confused GENERATIONS of vermicomposters.
If you want fast vermicompost, you actually need mainly greens.
The only problem? Most of them are WET.
"Browns" are then mostly "humidity control". But worms eat them very slowly.
There are then two good ways how to improve your greens:
- Let them dry on the sun (like banana peels)
- When you want to bake food, you need to first warm your owen. So put you greens there for the first minutes.
Sun or starting owen will dehydrate your greens.
Worms overall love things that were f*cked up in any way (by cold, heat, light, cutting...)
This is even why used herbal tea leaves are one of the best materials to vermicompost: they were cut into milion pieces, then dried, than extracted by hot water, then you slightly dry them again with your hand.
Also grass and leaves are much better then rotten fruits because they are NOT WET. But use my method for the food scraps and worm president will personally come to thank you.