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An Even Better Tower

Saturday, January 28, 2023

I built this back in September and primed it in October.

The basic structure is four columns of 2x4 timber Your will see these more clearly in the next image. The tower is lined with old masonaite that lined the wall behind the wood stove; fake stone!

There are gaps in the seams, one is evident half-way down the left-hand side. These gaps allow air to circulate, and can let excess moisture evaporate.

Vegetable material is dropped in the open top, and castings cascade out of the bottom. The words find the food most ready for consumption. That is, they go where the bacteris are busiest, because Red Wriggler worms have no teeth, and can only scrape the bacterial film from the surfacve of the scraps.

Detail of the foot.

You can see parts of the 2x4 timber each side of the gap.

This side has a door about six inches square and a similar door on the opposite side.

The circular tray (an sled, actually) allows me to flip to the other side quite easily.

I am still collecting undigested paper from the base. After I have dropped scraps in the top (about once a week), I use a (cut-down detergent bottle) scoop to shovel castings, worms, and paper into a bowl which is then tipped on top of the scraps, so that fungas gnats have less opportuity to breed and escape.

Here is a view of some paper scraps – torn up egg cartons – dropped on top of today’s vegetable scraps.

Another view straight down. The paper scraps cover the vegetable scraps completely.