Photos: Worm Bin
Feb. 26th, 2026 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithOne of today's garden crafts was making a worm bin. You can buy commercial ones, but they're expensive. All this took was a few minutes to set it up.
This is an old 5-gallon bucket. Any similar large container with holes in the bottom should work as a worm bin. This way, the worms will be free to come and go if they need to.
The bottom is cracked.
A hole is melted in the side.
The plastic handle has come off the wire.
I positioned the bucket at one end of the log garden, with the hole facing inward toward the leaves, then packed leaves around it for insulation.
I also stuffed some leaves inside the bucket to serve as food and bedding for worms.
Now I have a place where I can drop worms that I find while gardening. I can throw in food scraps and cover them with leaves for the worms to eat. If I want worms to put in a planter, I can probably find some here. When the bucket eventually fills up, then I can empty it to fertilize plants, sort out some worms to put back in, add more leaves as bedding, and it'll be good to go again. \o/
This is an old 5-gallon bucket. Any similar large container with holes in the bottom should work as a worm bin. This way, the worms will be free to come and go if they need to.
The bottom is cracked.
A hole is melted in the side.
The plastic handle has come off the wire.
I positioned the bucket at one end of the log garden, with the hole facing inward toward the leaves, then packed leaves around it for insulation.
I also stuffed some leaves inside the bucket to serve as food and bedding for worms.
Now I have a place where I can drop worms that I find while gardening. I can throw in food scraps and cover them with leaves for the worms to eat. If I want worms to put in a planter, I can probably find some here. When the bucket eventually fills up, then I can empty it to fertilize plants, sort out some worms to put back in, add more leaves as bedding, and it'll be good to go again. \o/
