“Last night, I spent two hours separating my worms from compost. I only got through 1/2 of the first bin. Whew! That took a while. What’s worse is after doing ALL that separating…I put all of it back together!

Two reasons:
1) I was looking through my super fine, super premium compost my worms made  {eek! excited!} only to find that I had BABY, {adorable} red wigglers in the fine compost!!! I didn’t want to toss those babies in my yard where they would likely die!

2) I was looking through my chunky, good quality compost that hadn’t sifted through the screen yet and realized that a) there were some worms I somehow missed in it and b) I REALLY liked the super fine compost and wanted to screen all of it, which meant more work and more time AND figuring out another way to get rid of the pests in the bins.

okay, okay, three reasons

3) I’m hoping the next method I am going to try will go quicker and easier and reduce the amount of worms that are in my finished compost!

Yes, I was reminded that chances are SOME worms will end up in my finished compost, but I want to reduce that as much as possible!

SO very excited my worms are doing so well! They seem to be happy, healthy and they are procreating! Besides, they are making awesome compost that I can’t wait to use!!”