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Getting started with the Worm Inn Pt. 1

All right, I can't wait any longer. I should have a review up by the end of this weekend (Review can be found by clicking HERE). Get this: With my order I got the optional stand kit which consists of corners and zipties, and then you go to your local hardware store for the 3/4" pipe lengths (It makes shipping easier for the Worm Inn guy). I went to two hardware stores, and neither would cut the pipe into the lengths I needed. My advice for you bikers out there, is to have someone drive you so you can pick up the 10' long pipes, or take a hacksaw and tape measure with you and cut the pieces on your own outside the building. I, of course, did neither so…

Worm Inn review coming soon…

I started realizing how much I miss composting outside as we've had a lot of frigid, crappy weather over the last week or two. The worms have really become friends of mine... I like to put my ear right up to the surface and listen to them wriggle around and munch. I also noticed that being a household of one, I still feel like I can overwhelm my worm bin at times...so what should I do? Order a Worm Inn and another pound of red wigglers, that's what. I heard about the Worm Inn from Bentley Christie of course, and I was instantly curious: Check out Bentley's Worm Inn overfeeding video series starting here... I was sold! Yes, he's being deliberately obnoxious with the amount of material he's putting in,…

a quick worm update.

I haven't fed the worms in over two weeks, now they're finally starting to show their faces a bit more each time I open the lid... they're eating away from their castings and towards the surface. As of yet, they haven't chowed down on the condom I put in there, but the mites/springtails are all over it. While cutting a tomato into smaller pieces over top of the worm bin, my dumb ass cut my finger. I hope they like blood. Whatever. I'm so psyched for the spring so I can put some of my worms into the compost tumbler... winter sucks.