Compost heap residents

*If you're not a fan of composting like me, look away now!!*

Around this time last year, I bought some "red wrigglers" for my compost heap. They're very hungry worms that compost food waste twice more quickly than standard earthworms. 

The challenge I set myself has been to keep them happy and fed the right stuff. They don't die if you don't - they'll just go off somewhere else.

In the last 12 months, I've used my own compost all over the plot (recently for the 4 new beds at the back, often for bean trenches etc) and some of the wrigglers are now in other places but there's still a healthy amount in the heap, which feed happily and multiply.

It's a good arrangement - I feed them and they help break down food waste and brown stuff into homemade compost quickly, so that I can grow healthy plants and give them more food in return. 

Last time I turned the compost heap, the centre of the pile was pretty busy!