I don’t care what you’ve heard. Having worms isn’t such a bad thing. In fact, it’s a whole new level of cool I wasn’t familiar with before this recent experience. I feel like I’m a part of a brand new counter-culture of innovative people who find new and better uses for the things they have, do and consume.

I’ve got worms. Eisenia fetida worms in fact. You may also recognize them as “red worms” or “composting worms”. There are many resources of where to find worms: shipped from a website; dropped off at your house; or picked up at a local nursery. I picked mine up from the local nursery City Floral in lovely Denver. And they even came in a little Chinese food to-go box!

The box included “300 Red Worms in various stages (eggs to adult).” I’d say 95+% were alive and kickin’ ready to get their eat on.

The worms most likely didn’t want to stay locked up in that bag much longer so I got to work on my worm bin:

1. I had already cut up the newspaper for the bedding, so my next step was to add some dirt for worm congestion.
2. Then to dampen the newspaper and dirt for the happiness of the hungry wiggling worms.
3. Next, just plop the ol’ worms on top of the dirt in the center of your bin.
4. Finally allow light (daylight or lamp) to shine on the top of the bin so the worms will start working their way into the bedding. This should only take a few hours max. From that point on make sure to keep a lid on your bin

Tada! Now all that is left is to wait a week (I cheated and only waited 3 days) for the worms to get situated to the new environment and hungry for kitchen scraps.

Posted on Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 3:21 pm under Composting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.