March 27th, 2007 - Bye-bye worms
Sunday, I got rid of my worm bins. I had such a hassle with them this winter: fruit flies, some nasty little worm-like thing, more fruit flies, noxious smells, etc. Frugal Veggie Mama has her worm bin in her kitchen. I couldn’t imagine it with the way mine went.
So Sunday, I hauled the three of them out of the basement and dumped them in the compost pile. Given their weight and the stairs and the distance to the pile, this wasn’t terribly easy for me. (I’m still feeling those muscles, too!) So I didn’t clean the bins up yet–just couldn’t stand to be near them anymore. I’m going to offer them on Freecycle in case someone else wants to give it a try. I spent about $75 (counting the fruit fly larvacide) and a lot of time on them….Maybe I’ll wait to clean them until someone accepts the offer. Why bother if I’m going to put them in the garbage anyway?
So next winter, it’ll be back to carrying the compost bucket out to the back of the yard again. i think it won’t be as bad this year, however, due to the larger bucket we have. With the little one, as soon as I’d notice it was getting full, it was time to take it out. With the bigger one, if I forget for a day, we’re still okay. I just have to get in the habit of grabbing it on my way to work. (I don’t shovel the snow on the garden path to the compost pile. So I could only go out with my boots on. I never wanted to put them back on after taking them off after work so generally didn’t do it. Maybe I’ll start shoveling the path to make things easier as well.)