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When the cycle is finished look at the bedding in the first section. If it still has its initial texture, i.e. the paper or peatmoss has not broken down comâ€" pletely and the worms are still flourishâ€" ing, do another cycle of feeding. In four to six months when the bedding is disintegrated dump the container on a plastic sheet and sort out the worms. Put a pound or so and new medium in the original container and start another box using the spare worms. This will double the time between worm sortings and will take care of peak garbage periâ€" ods. The food is buried in the bedding weekly as it accumulates using a differâ€" ent area each time. The best way is to divide the surface into sixâ€"inch by sixâ€" inch grids making sixteen areas in a twoâ€"feet by twoâ€"feet box. Add the food to each area in rotation. A paper on the bin is used to mark off each square as it is used. Cardboard or paper shreddings from office machines soaked in water and squeezed till just moist makes good bedding. Peat moss is another but it needs soaking in water for several hours before being squeezed out to reduce the acidity. It may be mixed with other bedding material to provide water retention. This provides a place for the worms to live. The top is covâ€" ered as worms like to live in the dark. Their food is kitchen waste, apple, banana and potato peel, cabbage and broccoli leaves, lettuce, tea leaves, egg shells and any other vegetable matter. Corn cobs and husks need chopping up and should be added to the mixture before they dry out. Worm Composting Using worms to get rid of kitchen vegetable waste is the easy way to recycle. Several schools have worm composters so ask your children about them. A family of two require a box about twoâ€"feet square and six to eightâ€" inches deep. A four person family may need a 1 x 2 x 3 ft box to handle sixâ€" pounds of garbage a week. The box is filled with bedding material which may be newspaper that has been soaked in water and pulled apart into about oneâ€" inch pieces. > Any left over worms are used for fishing, fish food or buried in the garâ€" den. The worms require a nonâ€"frost area for the winter. I keep one box in the basement.and two boxes in a cold greenhouse. In the cold area the worms do not eat as much as those in the house. Fall is the time when garden refuse and leaves bring the compost bin to mind. The other day I found the lower door on my square townâ€"supplied comâ€" post bin open and saw smooth black compost. I poked and found about half a box of compost. This bin is just a year old. It has been aerated infrequentâ€" ly with a compost tool but has never been turned over. I just add a little kitchen waste, leaves and weeds to keep it topped up. This is called cold composting. It is a slow but easy method. The red worms which are not an outâ€" door worm in our climate are the best for eating garbage. Red worms and kits are available from Canadian Original Vermiâ€"composter Ltd., 507 King St. East, Unit 18, Toronto, MSA 1M3. (416) 366â€"8674. Early Bird Ecology, Smithville, (416) 643â€"4251, Petrie and Childs, Oakville, 842â€"7645, or We Recycle Corp. Milton, 875â€"4929. Use worms to recycle kitchen waste Decorative Pet Worms Microâ€"worm composters may easily be made from twoâ€"litre plastic pop botâ€" tles, worm bedding and two worms. One bottle is cut off at the top of the label, the other at the bottom of the Holes are made in the two ends, a soldering iron will do this. Moist peat moss, shredded paper or other sterile soilâ€"like material are placed in the conâ€" label. 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