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After months of hardly touching the wormbin - I am filling my third pot with worm poop! Great start for Spring and my seedlings.

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Harvesting the compost. The worms worked so hard for all of this. Some melons seeds decided to become plants, they are persistent. I also found a lot of tiny worms on the bottom.

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The pepper plants could not be prettier

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Went on holidays and the worms only got fed once in four weeks. I was a bit scared when opening the worm compost on return. guess what - they seem happy and are very much alive. All organic material got fully composted, it smells like the forest. Also, there were no dead worms around the bin which means they did not try to escape either. When turning the earth a bit around the plants tons of worms friends showed up. 😅

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Found this moth on my pepper plant. Never seen such a white dotted one before. Life is wonderful, how a plant in a wormcompost attracts even more life. Just hope it isn’t an invasive pest🤣

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The plants I potted in the pot are thriving! They are two chiliplants and before putting them in the worm /flower pot I got one measly pepper after a year. Now they have a bigger pot and all the worm goodness, they have new leaves everywhere and tons of peppers. And the peppers are growing crazy fast as well. Already thinking about which chilisauce I can make….

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Update on the worms in the heat: It was not just the heat, the bin had also turned sour. I had added a big chunk of watermelon and it was too much for the wormies to eat in the heat. I added tons of paper and egg shells to counter it. It kind of worked. After a couple of weeks I also got rid of too big chunks of material. Now, they are going through the whole pot again and the smell is returning to the woody smell I had before the heat episode. I am keeping my fingers crossed for the rest of summer

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It has been crazy hot these last couple of days and some worms tried to escape. It was really sad because I found them completely dried up on the ground. Others were hiding underneath the pot. I put them back in but the pot was just too warm. I cannot put the pot underneath a tree or something to put it in a cooler environment so I needed another solution. I put wet towels around it, also to add moisture to the terracotta, hopefully to regulate the heat better. The worms I had put back in were still on top afterwards but at least I saw them moving again. Crossing fingers that they survive the next couple of days!

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The worms are in the compost!!! They immediately went down so I think they already like their new home.

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The worms have arrived! Eisenia Foetida, 260 hand counted worms from Da Wurmbauer

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Step 2: I installed the wormcompost and planted two pepper plants. The nice thing about this design is that you have a pot and compost in one. Still no worms but they should arrive soon.

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Wormcompost arrived! After three weeks of waiting the pretty pot finally arrived. Next step, worms