I added another container of worms divided amongst the 7 totes this month, January. I didn't look for living worms, just added the new ones. They were quite small.
This afternoon I got into the clear plastic tote, the first one I started adding worms to, to see what worms I could find. I put the layer of leaves into a garbage bag and then dug really good around the soil. I counted 10 separate worms, in various parts of the tote, and some of them quite large. I know that none of them are the worms I added this month, as they are all too large. So they are surviving the cold winter. I put the leaves back on as mulching as I do believe that helps keep the soil warmer because the nights have been in the 20s. We are supposed to get snow on Friday and lower temps and then a warmup, and rain on Wednesday. All with nighttime temps in the 20s and teens.
I also noticed that there isn't much of the food scraps that I put in that tote the last time around. It's that tote's time again to be fed with scraps.
I'm leaning towards having a row of buckets in front of the patio to grow some food like herbs, potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, etc. I can make a clear path in my totes so that I can access the yard to take care of the buckets. Problem is the excess rain when we get it, and also the wind.
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