Garden 07 Apr 2008 10:10 pm
wormapalooza
Late last fall I put the worm bin in the shed, gave it a fair amount of food scraps, and more or less forgot about it. Josh put a stack of very heavy chipboard sheets in front of it so we couldn’t really get to it. (Those sheets were supposed to be moved and used in October. That’s another story.) It wasn’t until the other day that I got a look at what was inside.
A whole lot of very fat and healthy-looking worms, that’s what was inside. That worm colony came through with flying colors.
So, if any of you Seattle folks want to start your own worm bin this spring, I have a few handfuls of worms to give away.
on 08 Apr 2008 at 12:48 pm 1.Rachel Hestilow said …
Yay worms! My girlfriend Ari is actually looking to start a worm bin – okay if I point her your way?
(Also, I feel silly that I’ve lived in Seattle for a whole year and a half now and still haven’t met you in person, considering how long I’ve known you on the Internets. Any chance you’d be interested in meeting over coffee or lunch sometime this week?)
on 08 Apr 2008 at 1:21 pm 2.Paul E Ralph said …
MMM…chicken feed. (At least I guess that’s what it’s for. Am I right?)
on 08 Apr 2008 at 4:11 pm 3.Ari Lacenski said …
Woooorms!
That’s me, and I have a couple of different needs for the worms. I’m a bit afraid of starting one – I have two cats, and a small apartment with no good access to the outside. Is there a minimum size for them? I just visited some friends who were doing indoor composting, but in a big rubbermaid storage container that took up a good chunk of their living room.
on 09 Apr 2008 at 3:57 pm 4.craig wareham n joel vogt said …
hey there, we are looking to start up a worm bin soon. we are off to montana once again for a long weekend, but would love some maybe next week sometime
on 09 Apr 2008 at 7:32 pm 5.Cam Sculpin said …
Okay, that’s Ari & Rachel, Craig & Joel, and A&R’s friend — I think that’s all the worms I have to give away. It’s cool to see so many folks wanting to play with worms.
I hadn’t meant to breed chicken feed, but when I do have chickens, I expect I’ll let them handle the excess worms. The most annoying thing about worm composting is getting the worms out of the compost. Chickens, on the other hand, might find that fascinating and delicious work, more power to them.
If I had a bigger worm bin, instead of this wee proof-of-concept one, I could get the little critters to migrate from one side to the other more easily. Eh. If I’m really lucky, the chickens will be so voracious that they’ll handle all the kitchen scraps I can give them, and I’ll wind up giving away the whole worm bin. (If not, maybe I’ll need a bigger chicken.)