Worms, Worms, Worms
October 20th, 2009 | Author: Shannon
One of my favorite blogs Steady Mom, has “put out there” a 30 minute challenge for us mommy bloggers; here’s my post.
Timer’s set and here I go:
Earth worms are some of the garden’s most handy helpers. Last year for my birthday my mother set me up with a wonderful worm compost bin for in my kitchen, about a month ago I cleaned out the old castings and started over with kitchen scraps, newspaper, and peat moss. This post is designed to guide my readers towards making a worm composter of your own.
First, get a 5 gallon plastic tub. Fill it 2/3rd full of peat moss, newspaper ripped in 1 inch strips and a couple handfuls of dirt. Add fresh kitchen scraps, ideally vegetables and fruits, but some grains are great too, no dairy or meat please! Then add about a half pound of red wiggler worms. Mix it up… continue to add kitchen scraps, let the worms chew ‘em up and poop out castings! This is a delicious cocktail for house plants, seedlings, seed starter, or the garden.
These healthy red wigglers came right out of our garden and the children put them into the bin.
Worm compost bins are fun and educational for children, and the castings are a great treat for the garden.
Off to cuddle my toddler!
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we loved our worm bin when we were renting and now that we have our own home we have a compost heap full of them! Yay for worms.
My husband once gave me a box of red wigglers for my birthday. After years of faithful feeding, I tossed the lot of them into the compost heap, and now when I scoop up a shovel of compost and find some worms I like to think that these are the great, great, great grandchildren.
Fun! I have made worm beds with so many kids over the years — they always go nuts for it.
One of my fave children’s book to go along with this activity is Diary of a Worm http://bit.ly/4qsKyE
Cheers- Bethe @balmeras
depending on where you are, worm bins are nice in cold winters even with an outdoor compost heap cause the worms keep producing- outside they go deep in the ground to stay warm. Cheers!!
You have a great husband! That kind of romance is the best! We have SO many worms this year in our outdoor compost heap it’s amazing….
Love the book! Thanks!