I've got WORMS!

"I've got worms!! save that for me!" and all the kitchen staff turn and look with alarmed faces, "that's right, you heard me I've got worms."

Now before you tell what to use to get rid of them let me explain. A teacher at school had worms first. I wanted to have worms too, so he gave me some of his. well the first time I had worms I think they froze or died from no water and they were in the garage, that could have had something to do with it??? any way the teacher had more worms, and gave me another "start". This time I was NOT going to let them die!

I got a wooden box from a tractor dealer. I asked my son-in-law to pick it up for me, he said he would and that was that. time passed and my son-in-law some how never got around to picking up the box. So on my way to work one day, I looked, the box still there,so I would pick it up my self and put it in the trunk of my car and bring it home. Just so happens my son-in-law came by that very day to my work. "Hey," I said "will you pick up the box today?" "oh yea, I ready did" he said. My daughter said "it was a good thing I was with him because it took all we had to pick it up". My turn to laugh, I told them how I was going to pick it on my way home that very day. We all had a good laugh. We walked out to the truck and the box hung out from the tailgate by 2 feet! "and I was going to pick this up! and put it in my car" I said laughing, oh my. We got home with the box and it was all I could do to "help" with the end that I was carrying. We put it down by the shed and said we will move it later. Later hasn't come yet.

Oh yeah back to the worms. I got my next set of "starter" worms and in the box they go. Now I need to feed them. So the best thing is, you guessed it, left over food from the salad bar and other kitchen waste of course. Carrot peelings, cucumber ends, onion skins, you know things like that. and when I mow the lawn the grass clippings will go in there too. The other thing that is good to use is shredded newspaper. so I found good use for the adds that I get in the driveway every Thursday.

I have been feeding(composting) my worms all summer now. After mowing the yard this week I put the grass clippings in the box and give it a mix. By this time I am using a "small" garden fork not to be confused with a "pitch fork". After turning and moving the feed around, I look desperately for my worms!, Slowly moving the feed again, no..., move the feed around again. There!, there is one! right there! Yes I have worm... one worm.

The other day when I added some feed for my "worms", I saw a small crack in the side of the box. Thinking If I was a worm, would I worm out that hole? No say I, because of all this feed in here I would stay in this lovely box!

Now, I don't know if I should ask the teacher for any more worms or not. oh and the teacher? he has them in his class to teach the students about composting.

Someday, I will transplant the strawberry plants to this box and have the biggest and fattest and juiciest strawberries around. That's the plan. In the mean time, save that kitchen waste, because I Got WORMS!