Comments on: You Know You Are A True Worm-Head When…

By: carol ruplenas

carol ruplenas — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:43:21 +0000

When worms arrivve in the mail cold and still and you take the electric blanket off the bed to worm the bin before putting in the worms.
Any your husband has to find extra bedding for the two of you.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:37:34 +0000

A: You offer your guests some worm tea, and you chuckle silently because they think it’s a drink!
B: You get up in the middle of the night just to see how they are doing
C: Your worms eat better than you do (mine LOVE grits and oatmeal, cheap foods available at Aldi).
D: You buy a water barrel just for worm water that doesn’t have any chemicals in it
E: If you were from a different culture, your “juiciest” worms look as if they would be an exceptionally desirable snack!
F: The kids next door decided to call every extra-wriggly worm “Frank” (when they help me harvest the worms, they try to keep all their “Franks” together in a jar to see who found the most).
G: You can’t get enough wild hare poop in your yard (which becomes worm food), and the kids next door get paid quite well if they can fill up a plastic tub with hare poop.
H: I’m PROUDER of being a worm farmer than an architect!
I: You can put “Worm Midwife” on your CV now (I helped some worms “detach” while mating when one in the pair was being pinched so hard, it was going to lose its body, and I have “popped” some cocoons that were very dry when the babies were ready to come out.
J: You substitute the word “worms” for “ants” when I sing “The Ants Come Marching Out Again, Hurrah! Hurrah!” during a cocoon hatching!
K: Even though I am retired for the most part, and don’t go out much, many people in my large town/small city say they have heard of me, and that they didn’t know there was such a thing as a worm farm.
L. People willing listen to me at the grocery store or the doctor’s office when I tell them fun facts about worms.
M. I always seem to keep one HUMONGOUS worm I found in a tub as a pet in the house.
N. The neighbors won’t borrow my plastic kiddie pool (used for harvesting worms) because it’s so dirty and they are afraid there will be worms in the dirt.
O. The plastic kiddie pool used for harvesting flies all over the block whenever there is a big wind storm, despite my putting bricks in it.
P. You get asked by the local Master Gardeners group to give a seminar on vermiculture (and the price of your worms and castings can be raised quite a lot AFTER the talk! You can even sell bagged leaves that have been hanging around under the deck for bedding, instead of raking them to the curb for the city vacuum them up, without making a dime for your efforts.
Q. You always keep some heavy-duty yard waste bags in your car, just in case you pass something that might be good worm food (i.e. sawdust from stump grinders, a big oak tree that puts out huge acorns. . .)
R: Your hamstrings are well-stretched because you spend so much time bent over, just watching your worms.

and finally,
S: YOU’RE A WOMAN, AND FINDING GOOD WORM EQUIPMENT AT DOLLAR STORES AND THE DOLLAR AISLE AT TARGET IS MORE EXCITING THAN BUYING SHOES!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:05:36 +0000

When all of your self-help advice to your friends starts with “do you know about red worms?”

When you get sunburnt sorting through your worm bin even though you’re wearing 55 spf sunscreen. (Seriously, there must be a time warp every time I start to play in my worm bin. Hours can pass in no time at all.)

Your idea of quality time with your kids includes sorting worms from VC on the kitchen floor (and a requisite bath afterwards, of course!)

By: Steve K

Steve K — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:12:48 +0000

“…when quality time with your spouse involves watching movies while hand-shredding cardboard”

awesome. This happened yesterday. she doesn’t even complain about the ripping noise anymore; she just smiles when she sees me bring in my pile of cardboard.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:34:27 +0000

I know I’m a true worm head when,
I go to cook at my Long Term, Nursing and rehab facility, and my co-workers ask me if I want the watermelon rines.

By: Bentley

Bentley — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:29:29 +0000

In reply to craig.

Haha!
Someone else recently emailed me to suggest that I start up a new “you know you are a worm head when” post for 2010. Sounds like a plan
8)

By: craig

craig — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:37:37 +0000

you’ve just read through all the archived posts on redwormcomposting.com in case you missed something cool. you did.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:04:36 +0000

…you visit Redwormcomposting.com multiple times per day.

…you tell your friends that no newspaper or cardboard boxes are safe in your house.

…you stet up your own neighborhood recycling center for cardboard boxes, old newspapers, vegetable scrapes, coffee grounds/filters, and tea bags.

… your friends think you are weird because you take home all the pizza boxes from the pizza party.

… your friends, instead of going to the recycling center, just give you all their cardboard boxes.

… your teacher wants you to write a report on any pet of your choice and tell how to take care of it, you write one about your worms.

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:29:11 +0000

You start a worm bin because you are too cheap to keep buying them, but once you get it going, you won’t let your fishing buddies anywhere near your babies.

By: stewart van horn

stewart van horn — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:14:06 +0000

hi,

i just found your website this evening. i enjoyed your stories. i just started vermicomposting last month, i guess it is going okay.

i am writing about your excess compost materials. i have a small orchard (about 70 trees). i have been placing an approximate 4-foot wide strip of straw along the rows (i get the straw from a farmer who i let plant corn in one of my fields). this straw acts as a mulch as well as keeping down the grass to give the tree roots a place they can grow with minimal competition.

anyway, the point of the story, is that i throw excess kitchen scraps into the rows and cover them with straw. that way the scraps still degrade, but the straw makes it asthetically acceptable to my wife.

hope this helps — i enjoyed your site,

stewart