Worms its a girl thing

Days of spending hours working on a huge stinking compost pile just are not appealing to me. So about 6 years ago, I began to research a way to compost on a smaller scale. I new the benefits of composting having watched my neighbor use compost on ourclaylike soil and reap the delicious rewards from his garden.But could I compost on a city lot without a pile? Yes, with the help of some composting worms and worm bin. I built my first homemadeworm bin in the winter of 2003, and ordered a pound of worms online. Within 2 months they were all dead. A few months later, afterreading every worm composting book I could find at the local library, I ordered another pound. Those worms lived almost 2 years untilmy husband left my bin in the sun while he cleaned out the garage on hot TEXAS summer day and killed my entire herd. I was not happy.

I bet yet one more pound of worms and some 3 years later, I now have over 100K worms (I think, because I am NOT about to count them) andsupply my local area farmers with worms from by excess. I also teach worm composting classes locally.

This city girl figured out how to make worm composting work. And I know you can too. The benefits of worm composting are that it requires very little space, is odor free AND the worm poop (aka castings) can then be used as fertilizer for your plants and garden.

What about the creep factor? Well, you dont ever have to touch the worms, that is what gardening gloves are for. You can keep themoutside in a bin as long as they are protected from direct sun and temperatures below 40 degrees and above 90 degrees. No you cannot throw some worms in a bucket with some dirt and veggie scraps, its not that simple. But it is not rocket science either. My youngdaughters maintain there own worm bins with little supervision from me. I know you can do it.

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