Quick update on the worm bin:
A couple of months ago my worms started committing mass suicide. The room they're kept in (their bin is inside a larger bin, suspended over a few inches of water to keep ants at bay, stored under the table in my laundry room) was covered with dead and nearly dead worms. I opened the bin and determined that they had finished all they're bedding and were escaping the muddy, toxin environment caused by a bin full of castings. So I laid fresh bedding and they revived quite nicely. Shortly after I harvested several pints worth of compost and let the worms be for a bit more. Lately they've again seemed unhappy so I went for a full bin revamp by emptying the whole this on my porch floor, laying in brand new bedding, separating the rest of the worms from their castings (resulting in several more pints, half of which is all gone now after planting mint, spicy mint, oregano, basil, chamomile, lemon verbena, rosemary, and onions, as well as fertilizing the amaryllises, succulents, and the lemon tree), and returning them to their new home with fresh shredded paper on top and some yummy apple cores to much on. Hopefully this will be a better bin than the last one though I'm still thrilled that we've successfully managed our worm bin, without killing them all, for over a year. Yay!
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