I went out today to feed the totes 5-7, and only got 5 and 6 done. It is still quite cold outside. 5 was pretty solidly frozen for the depth of about 2 inches and around the sides of the tote. 6 was frozen on the top but not so deep and so bad. Tote 7 wasn't frozen on the surface, but just around the sides, and especially on the east side.
I fed all of the totes some banana peel, burying them deep in the tote so the worms can get to them if they survived, and so they will have best chance of composing without the benefit of worms. And then I spread some coffee grounds around.
I didn't see any live worms in the totes but I expect that to survive they burrow down as far as they can go and clump themselves together. I didn't search the entire bins just to find some live worms. I will get more worms on Jan 3. I expect that I will lose some worms, if not all, due to the cold spells, and that's why I buy more new worms each month. When it warms up again, they will start thriving again and multiply and I'll have plenty of worms to work my tote gardens next spring/summer. But I did read online that even if the worms don't survive the cold spells, if they've laid eggs, the eggs will.
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