I just could not resist

Don't wrinkle your nose at worm compost because it is sweet smelling and a wonderful additive to starting seeds or keeping plants growing. Worms are accommodating little fellows who eat stuff that would normally end up in the garbage or down the disposal. If they are fed what they like to eat, they double their numbers every month.

That being said, I could not resist aggravating the woman who has the "organic grower" boyfriend. A year and a half ago, he had about two pounds of red wrigglers. That would be the equivalent of about two thousand worms. These two nuts thought a banana peel would fed the whole bucket of worms for a week and boy were they wrong.

To start with, worms are strict vegetarians who do not eat meat, fowl, citrus, onion or other root crops, or subtropical fruits like bananas. If their worms had been handled properly, there should at this time be about 262,144,000 worms. The woman's whole double garage would be full of containers with worms and bags of worm castings (compost).

Now I am nobody's fool and I know someone who absolutely knows nothing about a subject. When I had active worm bins before, I could not keep up with the growth. I finally got tired of sifting compost and decided to dump them in the garden of that time. I haven't had the inclination nor the back to do the sifting, but my new worm composter does it for me and I am sure it is the first of many containers to come.

Worm compost, vermicompost, worm castings or Super Soil (as it was sold)is a marvelous thing. Worm compost by any name will make your veggies happy and the soil more viable.

A rose by any other name is still a rose, and worm compost is black gold.