FAST, that's how. In a matter of only a week and a half, all the pumpkin insides are eaten and pumpkin plants are sprouting!
I mixed them back in real quick so the wormies could finish them off, too. As you can see from this pic, I am mere INCHES away from the top of wigwam FINALLY!
At this near momentous occasion, I would like to highlight some important things I've learned about worms in the past year or so that contradict what I had read to be true:
1. Worms don't eat their body weight, or even half their body weight, every day. Not even close.
2. Worms don't necessarily need their bedding to be sopping wet, or as some put it "able to squeeze a teaspoon of water out of handful of bedding". Baloney. They do just fine with it damp.
3. Worms will try to escape no matter how wonderful their environment. When I first got my worms, I used a lamp hooked to an
outdoor Christmas light timer in my basement to keep them in. I was feeding them all sorts of wonderful scraps and some were still bent on creeping out- light/no light, delicious scraps/crappy scraps. It didn't matter. Just like people, some just need to get away! Whatever!
4. Worms don't go sterile if you touch them too much. Believe you me, I am always mixing them around, picking them up and examining them, plucking them off the top of the bin and tossing them back in, removing them briefly from the bin to take photos, and they seem to be multiplying just dandy. I estimate I now have about 15 pounds worth, although it is impossible to know exactly.
Those are the most significant that I can think of right now. If you need any worm myths proven or debunked, let me know!
But far more interesting (and photo worthy) were the pumpkin shells they hadn't quite finished just yet:
When I lifted up some of the shells, the worms were congregated in the goo inside and kind of flopped out all together:
This is almost too gross even for me!
