Worm Tower

Brilliant idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFuIFnjK-ko&feature=player_embedded#!

I think I will try a few of those. It is a good idea. Some people dig holes and do that but this would be a lot easier.

I'm kind of excited to try it, too. I suppose that if they weren't deep enough, rats and raccoons could get inside, but if you buried them deep and put a simple latch on the stop, you could get around that.

If you just put in veg. remains and coffee grounds and some plant material it should't attract to many things. I say with a funny look on my face!

Gonna do it too! I love the idea. I have dug holes and tried various methods to get the leftover goodness from my kitchen into my garden. Great link Katie. thanks

Incredible idea! We have a problem with our EWA house because things just don't compost over there well (not enough moisture). We compost everything here, but there (where we eat lots of fruits and vegies) we have started throwing the stuff in the garbage because the compost pile has been such a failure. We have tons of nightcrawlers there, so they would love the food to be put directly into the garden, and it would do wonders to enrich the sandy soil! THANKS!

I wonder what he's using as a cap, because that would be simple to make.

I have a gardening friend who digs a hole in her garden, put her food compost in, covers the hole and lets it go. She has had a lot of success and since it's covered up with dirt, nothing comes to dig in it.

I personally like to have the food waste for my compost bins so I have that 'green layer. We don't have that much food waste due to dogs and chickens that eat most anything.

I've tried worm bins but always lose them in the winter. My neighbor's don't freeze and she has her out in the elements even more than I do, so I don't know what the deal is. If I could find what he's using for a cap and make my own, I would try this just for fun, but otherwise don't think I'd spend money on that.

Gwen, That cap is just a drain cap that you can pick up at any hardware store.

Mom and I have been talking about it, and we are going to try to make a few for the gardens in EWA. We figure that we can paint them green and do some stencil work on the outside to make them more like a garden ornament than just some white thing sticking up out of the garden.

Food scraps here go to the critters or into the compost bin, but the other side is a whole different story...

Julie, they would work well in a setting like that. I think its a clever idea.

For people who have critters and compost regularly, it has almost felt like a crime every time we have thrown away kitchen scraps when we are over there. Stuff over here composts so quickly, while over there (because we aren't there all the time to maintain it) the compost just sits and turns into dried waste. Even if it is only slightly bennificial to the garden, the ease of the guilt of "throwing stuff out" will be well worth the time invested in making a couple of them.

I complained recently that about 50% of my front yard crocus were eaten up or just pulled out of the ground. Now I have something pulling the moss up from the cracks in my concrete driveway, and we were both shocked this morning to see my wife's "Alpine Meadow in a Barrel" was dug up. Something is getting pretty wild as there are apples on a tree not 100 feet from the barrel. My wife thinks I should put up more bird feeders, but I don't think that is going help, as something is working very hard for little bits of food.

I'm just going to guess that it's opossums or raccoons . . .

I have been thinking its squirrels or Flickers or both, but the feeder that is up is a suet feeder.