#wormcompost

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

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.

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!

The pepper plants could not be prettier

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. 😅

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🤣

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….

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