Vermicomposting

Have you ever heard of Vermicomposting? It is wonderful to do if you can do it. Vermicomposting is a fancy word for worm composting. When you have a bin full of worms living off your vegetable peelings, you can end up with great compost!
   What are some things to put into a worm compost bin? They will eat vegetable peelings, tea bags, coffee grinds, egg shells, fruit and vegetable scraps and many other nourishing things like that. Don't put any animal scraps in your bin though.
   What the worms do, is to feed off the food scraps, then they expel what was digested, and they lay eggs to make more worms. All of this ecosystem creates food that is suitable for plants to live on.

Here is an excerpt from an article off a page on the Internet about vermicomposting:
Many gardeners compost both yard waste and kitchen waste with compost piles, sheet composting or some other method during the growing season. Fortunately, very little yard waste is generated during winter months when cold temperatures make composting difficult. However, usable kitchen waste is constantly being generated and must be disposed of. Vermicomposting is the process of using worms and micro-organisms to turn kitchen waste into a black, earthy-smelling, nutrient-rich humus.


http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/vermicompost107.shtml


Here is another article on vermicomposting:
http://home.howstuffworks.com/vermicomposting.htm


I have a nice worm bin, and have been doing this for a couple of years. I took the bottom layer out and dumped the compost into my garden. I just planted some seeds, so they should benefit from the food provided in the finished compost, thanks to the worms, and all the other micro-organisms in the worm bin.