Photos: Worm Bin

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One of today's garden crafts was making a worm bin.  You can buy commercial ones, but they're expensive.  All this took was a few minutes to set it up.


This is an old 5-gallon bucket.  Any similar large container with holes in the bottom should work as a worm bin.  This way, the worms will be free to come and go if they need to.




The bottom is cracked.




A hole is melted in the side.




The plastic handle has come off the wire.




I positioned the bucket at one end of the log garden, with the hole facing inward toward the leaves, then packed leaves around it for insulation.




I also stuffed some leaves inside the bucket to serve as food and bedding for worms.




Now I have a place where I can drop worms that I find while gardening.  I can throw in food scraps and cover them with leaves for the worms to eat.  If I want worms to put in a planter, I can probably find some here.  When the bucket eventually fills up, then I can empty it to fertilize plants, sort out some worms to put back in, add more leaves as bedding, and it'll be good to go again. \o/