Gardening here has been a true test in patience! A lot has died off and I even replanted some seeds. Now many weeks later some random sprouts are coming up. Until now it has been a squash, a few beets, and my struggling tomatoes. In fact the tomato in the container has done tremendously better than the ones in the box. They are the same variety "early girls". What is more interesting is the one in the container is from Wal-mart and the box tomatoes are from a nursery! LOL So it is hard to see in the picture, but I can see some peas behind the tomatoes, maybe some carrots and some lettuce....who knows. Not sure why they germinated so late.

As for the worms we have feed them almost 40lbs of food. The cocoons must be hatching since I have seen some very small worms in the oldest bin. It has been fun to watch.

cocoons!!

Life science!
I have always noticed that bump on a worm, but never really understood it. Worms have both female and male functions, each worm can fertilize another while creating baby cocoons. As a worm gets mature the bump gets larger and this is where the fertilization occurs. The bump area forms a cocoon that moves down the worm's body and is then shed into the dirt.
This yellow "seed" is a worm cocoon! It is next to a grape stem and half of a broken egg shell. So I guess we are going to have babies :).