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Last time I wrote I had added bread heels to my home bin, and got interesting moldy growths. I'm embarassed to admit I did something very dumb sometime in early September. I was cleaning the kitchen pantry and found an old bag of a protein drink powder that my jogging son used to drink. I assumed (always a bad thing) the powder was made of soy, and dumped it in the worm bin.

It only took a day before my bin was a stinking death zone for worms, and not good breathing for me, either. I don't know… Continue

Don't know what I was thinking when I tossed the end piece of the whole wheat bread into the worm bin. Ever since I've had strange growths on the sides of the bin. They look like soggy cave formations.

My worms have had several unsupervised party weekends lately. I've left them in charge of the condo to attend a college graduation, and while I moved my father into assisted living. I've returned home to find the red wigglers only slightly hungover. None of my neighbors have complained about loud music playing at all hours of the day and night. The only problem seems to be that the bin gets a bit soggy in my absence.

For my next out-of-town run, I'm trying a new tack. Shredded a bunch of newspa… Continue

North Texas worm composters! Don't miss Plano's Live Green Expo this Saturday at the Plano Centre.

The worms and I seem to be in a comfortable relationship. I don't worry about them. They don't worry about me.

Maybe over my Christmas break I'll separate the worms from the compost, or not. My grown sons will all be here over the holidays. If their parties run too late into the wee hours, I'll start giving guided instructional tours of my wormbin.

After a solid freeze this week, I had to clean out the gooey canna stalks and other garden debris around my tiny patio. Found a butternut squash th… Continue