Yo, what's up everyone. So I have a quick episode for you today, and it's another worm bin problem.

Suffice to say I've been having some struggles, and this one's interesting because I did not

expect it to happen and actually what ended up happening in my wormbin is something that most people

want to happen just not in their worm bin.

And so let me tell you the story.

So I walked out to put some more food scraps in.

I just made a little tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella salad, and I had some scraps to put in the worm bin.

So I went ahead to do that, and I wanted to pull back some of the bedding and take a look at the

worms.

So what I did is I put my hand down into the middle to pull out a big scoop of the castings and just kind of see how my worms were doing.

And I had to instantly recoil because my hand was so hot, it almost felt like it was burning. And and in fact I bet if I left it in there

it would have been burning and so if you can already guess what was happening is

that my worm bin was starting the hot composting process I ended up putting

my compost thermometer in there and it was already up to

130 degrees Fahrenheit, which is far too hot for the worms. They really don't like anything

above 85 degrees Fahrenheit. And so I said, oh my g gosh I'm going to cook my worms

alive if I let this keep going and so I pulled the tots out I laid out my tarp and

I began to get to work so I actually had to stop the process of hot composting which a lot of people

wouldn't ever think of having to do because once your hot compost starts getting hot you really are

stoked. You're amped about it and you want it to keep going.

But not in a worm bin because the worms are your composting agents and you don't want to kill them, right?

So here's what I did. I dumped all the castings out onto the tarp. I spread them out and man it was so hot that steam was coming off.

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