Composting with Worms
I’ve been reading about this because our gardening soil here in Central WA sucks, it’s got a lot of clay in it and my carrots were short, everything else was… blah. Anyway, I wasn’t impressed. I had a small compost and I’m thinking that I need to start a bigger one. I know we plan to move, but a girl who gardens can’t just STOP because she won’t be here in the Spring. What if something goes wrong and I am here, without compost. So I’ll get my new, bigger compost going. What else is there to do in the fall, especially now that we’re eating more raw foods, we have more veggie scraps now than before.
I plan to do a revised version of the rubbermaid composting bins that Sam from Sailing the Hudson made following the wisdom of the amazing Mark and Bentley Christie’s guide to getting started.
I have to say, though, that I don’t plan to buy worms. Worms are like, magnetically drawn to compost bins. I have had a million compost piles over the past 16 years of marriage and motherhood and I have never had a problem attracting worms. They don’t need to be trapped or confined, they don’t want to escape and they reproduce quite nicely.
So I plan to build the compost bin and then just toss in worms from the garden whenever I find them. That has always worked in the past.
Winter is no big deal, the compost generates enough heat to keep them alive, plus mine is in the ground, so they can just go a little deeper to get warm if they need to.
