worm bin | Crazy About Compost

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.

Winter Composting (youtube)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7upz5WXZxg Here's my man Bentley showing how to compost all winter using those squiggly, squirmy friends of ours...worms. He always uses cheesy music for his videos, this one is no exception. However, the info is good enough that you nearly ignore the music anyway. Being cold sucks.

My Life With Worms by Bentley Christie (review)

I've been following Bentley Christie's Red Worm Composting site for quite some time now, just reading over the material and watching videos to prep myself for suddenly owning 1,000 pets. Other than the first night where nearly every worm in the bin tried to escape (I realized there weren't enough air holes!), it's been a breeze maintaining them and watching them multiply. His expertise certainly helped me become a professional in short time, and I thank him for that. His writing style is a trip, and I've been begging him to write a guest article for this page for quite some time (feel free to harass him). When he told me he was near completion with writing a book, I was thinking to myself "finally, the end-all be-all worm…