This week the Garden Club learned about ...
How to build a Worm Composting Bin and what it takes to keep the worms happy!
The garden club kids started off the day by playing in the dirt :)
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| They all had a great time shoveling and breaking breaking down the dirt clumps! |
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| The kids took turns filling up the buckets with dirt and dumping the dirt into the garden boxes. |
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| A lot of the garden club kids are able for the first time to work in the garden. |
Building a Worm Composting Bin
1st step ...
Find two like-plastic storage bins with lids. One foot of surface area per pound of worms. One pound of worms is able to compost a ½ pound of food per day.
2nd step ...
Poke holes in the sides and bottom of one of the bins.
3rd step ...
Get scrap paper or newspaper and tear/cut into ½ to 1 inch strips of paper. The garden club kids had a lot of fun tearing up the paper :)
4th step ...
Get the paper wet! This was so much fun! Who doesn't like playing in water!?!?
5th step ...
Add 1 handful of dirt or about 3 kid size hand fulls of dirt.
6th step ...
Add the worms!
Lets the worms get settled for awhile before you give them any food.
Add ½ lb of compost per pound of worms.
Find two like-plastic storage bins. One foot of surface area per pound of worms. One pound of worms is able to compost a ½ pound of food per day.
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