Checked in on the littlest pets of the house today. They are NOT little and I still think I have my worm phobia. One small tub of tiny worms, where I thought there may have been about 10 to start with turns out five months down the road to be way to numerous to count, and rather than skinny tiny things they are now HUGE LONG FAT squishy squiggly wriggly worms and I mean HUGE LONG and FAT. There are more worms than you could, well, point a veggie stick at.

So far I have learnt how to get the liquid fertilizer out of the farm and dilute it so we have liquid fertilizer for the garden plants, but I still have no clue about castings as I have not done my research in that area but I do know when to move them up a level and take the whatever (castings?) and use that for the garden as fertilizer also.

Ah yes. The worm farm. It is so very exciting. Like watching grass grow really, but it squiggles and wriggles and jiggles…

The main and great news is that the worms are thriving, breeding, (Yes we have baby wormlettes!) and eating happily. I am sure that Lord Worm is going to round his band of worm warriors up any day now and take over the house. And of course I can tell which one Lord Worm is for he is the biggest and squiggliest of them all! (ahem…)

But I am going to have to get a rabbit. We just eat too many veggie things and the worms don’t get through as much as we need them to. So the next step is to give the worms the REAL scraps and the rabbits (oh I said two… how cute) the veggie tops and cuttings that we get each day. This will mean a visit to the shelter to save a cute fluffy bunny and that of course will be a hardship that I, along with my family, will just have to live with at some point in the future. :D 5 years ago

Boy are they have become big and squiggly!
The key thing is here: They are still ALIVE!! YAY!!!

There are other little critters that live in a worm farm too I am learning about, which I read are normal, so I’m not freaking out just yet. Little white mites help eat the bacteria and there are probably hundreds of other organisms I just can’t see. I think that’s pretty cool.

They sure do eat a lot too and they luuuuuuurve their compost food to be wizzed in a blender or the like first. They get through a tub in about two days, the little greedy guts! It’s very exciting to feed them still. My family all hang around the worm farm and watch at feeding time. You’d think they were cute little kittens the way we all coo and squeal.

Problem is they aren’t cute like kittens and I think I have a worm phobia. I’m not sure I actually like the worms. I didn’t mind them while they were tiny baby worms but now they are ENORMOUS and FAT and they are rather creepy looking. Not so sure even a mother can love them!

Still know squat about castings, fertilizer and whatnot but we’re getting the feeding down well and they are still alive!! Plus most of our food scraps (except those who eat meat, as meat does not go in a worm farm) are now going to the worms, not the garbage! YAY! Less waste! :)

Still got to watch out for those big worms though, they may mutate into killer worms when I’m not watching… 5 years ago