Worm Hotel… Composting with Worms
Well since we have 3 boys (soon to be 4) we thought it only appropriate that we get well aquatinted with things slippery and slimy. Actually, it was my wife who wanted to make the dive (or should I say squirm) into Vermicompost. Now we have a hotel for worms in our backyard and lots of happy residents chowing down on our daily food scraps. We have several small garden plots on our postage stamp size lot in the city, so I'm sure the ROI for compost is about 20 years at price it took us to build our hotel and populate it. Cynicism aside, I have no doubt that the worm bin will not only provide us with some good compost, but hours on fun for our masculine element. Check out the pictures below. If you want to build your own hotel, here is one basic set of instructions.
Our New Hotel
New Residents.. wait.. maybe not.
The Real New Residents
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steve
check out http://compostingwormbins.com for lots of good info on worms and vermicomposting.
Apr 11th, 2008
Martha/All the Dirt on Gardening
Hi -
We also (well, husband) built a worm hotel this month. Ours is completely different from yours, but I completely agree with you about the cost.
Yikes! I bought worms from 2 online sellers $20 to one and $30 to the other and I did not receive the handful of worms you did.
This is not a low-cost hobby. We did it as an Earth Day activity.
Martha in Muskogee OK
Apr 11th, 2008
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