I have adopted a free for all approach to the arrangement of the items in the flower bed. I just randomly put varies plant, herbs, and vegetables in the bed. I still have green onions coming up in random spots from having them in a pot by the sliding glass door about 10 years ago. Same with Dill, I\u2019m okay with that, since it\u2019s one of my favorite herbs. I don\u2019t worry much about anything taking over, since every few years, I have some ground rodent tunnel into the yard and it totally clears everything from the plot. Now that is the reason, I nabbed some old horse watering troughs from Robin. They didn\u2019t hold water for the horses anymore, so I used them as planters for things I didn\u2019t want the visiting rodent to clear out. That lead to having more flowers in pots, which lead to turning the area around the sliding glass door\/doggy door being blocked off with more planters so visitors wouldn\u2019t think about trying to enter the house via that door. (I absolutely love the floor plan of my house, but you have to walk to the very back part of the house to enter the \u201cfront\u201d door. It\u2019s very confusing to anyone visiting for the first time. It\u2019s the reason I now have a doorbell on my yard entry gate.) I now have a lot of planters, in addition to the flower bed. I\u2019ve even been thinking about adding a few more to the area next to the garage where there is just a 9×20 foot gravel pad with nothing on it, but my trash bin, recycling bin, and a rain barrel. I might even put a green house there at some point. Now, it should make a bit more sense now as to why I would think about composting. Besides, it being an environmentally responsible thing to do. Also, who doesn\u2019t love homegrown items over store bought?<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n I should get back on topic\u2026. Vermicomposting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When Josie was showing me her bin, there wasn\u2019t any real odors coming from it. It smelled earthy like potting soil. I really like that smell. Regular composting that I\u2019ve seen pretty much always has a, should we say, pretty strong, that not pleasant in the least bit. This intrigued me even more. I started to look around at the yard, as to where I could put a bin. It would need to be a sheltered area, so it wouldn\u2019t cook in the summer heat or freeze in winter. I didn\u2019t have many options in my yard for it that I was willing to use for that purpose. There are already planters in most of those areas. I also didn\u2019t want a 3\u2019x3\u2019 or larger bin just sitting out in the open, it might ruin the aesthetics of the yard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I started to do some searching on bins. I found that there are a lot of vermicomposting bins for indoors. I was further intrigued. There were also a lot of how to make your own bin out of tubs or buckets out there. These work like the expensive bins that were for sale. When I say expensive, the costs for them where anywhere from ~$75 to $400. Pretty much all of the indoor ones were trays that you have to swap and sort. The outdoor ones like my neighbor\u2019s bin were kind of a continuous feed and you collected the casting from the bottom. To me that seems to be the best approach, as I wasn\u2019t sure I\u2019d enjoy sifting through the trays to move the worms and the cocoons (worm eggs) from the tray I want to harvest back into another tray. This left me with two options\u2026. One that was just about $400 bucks or a more moderate cost at $140 option called the Urban Worm Bag. Shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.png\")
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