Even the Worms are Spoiled

crazyearthnut — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:09:17 +0000

I must admit, up until a few months ago, I wasn’t composting for the winter. It bothered me so much every time the coffee grinds, eggshells, fruit scraps etc would go into the garbage, ultimately into the landfill. Then in my naive way I decided to look into composting indoors. Now, many might think, “where has she been?”, but for this ‘want to be country bumpkin,’ I had no clue. I consider myself an environmental NUT; I can’t throw anything away, I make things out of potential garbage, buy local almost all the time, won’t even enter the “W*#!art” store, and drive my family, friends and coworkers crazy!!

So I found VERMICOMPOSTING!!! Ah what a wonderful thing! As Wikipedia explains it: “Vermicompost is richer in many nutrients than compost produced by other composting methods. It is also rich in microbial life which helps break down nutrients already present in the soil into plant-available forms. Unlike other compost, worm castings also contain worm mucus which keeps nutrients from washing away with the first watering and holds moisture better than plain soil.”

Yeah!! The worms are here!!

Basically, you get some red worms; put them in a bin with some moist newspaper, (I purchased my worms online) and then put your kitchen waste inside. The worms and microbes break down the matter, and worm castings & worm tea (tea for your plants not you!) are the result. Both great organic fertilizers!

Tea anyone?

Of course you can buy worm bins, made especially for this purpose, but I don’t buy anything made for a specific purpose, if I can help it.

And so, today after making an apple pie for my family, looking at all the apple cores, and not wanting to overwork the worms, I have decided to put all the scraps into the food processor. Of course why stop with the apple cores, there are banana peels, eggshells, onion skins, grape stems and so much more. So now EVEN THE WORMS ARE SPOILED!! Having their food ground up for them, to make their life easier!

After all, it is for the good of all. The worms are producing tea and castings and when it is time to start the garden I will have plenty of fertilizer, and everyone in my life will have beautiful, delicious veggies!

Well, I guess I’ll go spoil myself and have a piece of warm apple pie, and a cup of………coffee.

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Even the Worms are Spoiled