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[GWL]: Can-O-Worms; vermiculture

8/7 Nan & all, After giving the device / contraption a lot of study, I bought
and used the can-o-worms with red wigglers for composting until this spring.  
The worms, in their tidy can, in the basement where they've resided past
winters, froze.  I got so busy doing other thing, I never got to my friendly
bait shop for more wigglers.
     A friend who lives on Bainbridge Island (Puget Sound), WA introduced me
to the whole concept of vermiculture which has its own section in the Seattle
waste & recycling office (I think I have that correct as I did speak with
someone in the Seattle Waste & Recycling Office about vermiculture). Because
of the mild Puget Sound weather, my friend is able to have a large worm
compostor at the back of her property in which she puts all vegetable kitchen
and garden scrapes except for stuff like zucchini vines and corncobs.  
Children at the elementary school where she teaches scrape their lunch plates
in the school compostor.
    In the Northeast, where I live, and where the weather may become frigid,
it is really composting on a very small scale; really much too small for the
area that we have here. The worst thing that may happen is that the worms
become too hot and fry, or too cold and freeze.  Either way they die. I
bought the can-o-worms and set up mainly because I was curious about the
whole process. I talked to people, bought and read books, but, unfortunately
never brought the idea to fruition.
    Children who visit love to see the worms!  If I were teaching elementary
school, I'd certainly set a can-o-worms up on my classroom.
    Another friend in my area who writes children's science books says (and
her husband backs her up) that they'd read that the worms do not actually eat
the garbage, but the molds which grow on the vegetable matter. Unfortunately,
neither could remember the source, and I never pursued the matter
wholeheartedly.
    There was an article in a recent issue (11-12, 2000) of AHS "The
American Gardener" in the directory as Urban Gardening / Indoor Composting.  
My reply and comments about the article are in the 1-2, 2001 issue of TAG.
    Hopefully, I haven't told you more than you really wanted to know.  They
are fun "little guys 'n gals."
Georgene A. Bramlage
AKA Cercis
Zone 4 / 5
western MA
The garden must be prepared in the soul first, or else it will not flourish.
Author Unknown 
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