Slugs and snails and puppy dog tails

Ah crap. According to the internet, which is never wrong, these;

aren’t actually worm cocoons. They’re slug eggs. Awesome, I’ve just inoculated the new bin with about a trillion of them 🙄. Now this;

on the other hand, is a Peruvian Llama Manure Worm, and I found they and about a half dozen or so of their brethren in various states of juvenility; from transparent thread to that ⬆️ guy (gal). I found them in the same compost pile as the slug eggs, and relocated them and a bunch more unsorted compost into the bin, where I’m sure they’ll thrive. Though I think that’s a slug on their back :/ 

Episode IV: A New Hope

After a tortuous week of watching UPS wind its way from the land of Texas, my new 400L insulated flow through has arrived (that’s 106 gallons for those in Myanmar, Liberia and The United States). Assembled on a fancy new pad of red brick paving stones, and standing 1.2 meters tall (look it up), the new oasis is a sight to behold.
 I chopped up some dried out Jerusalem Artichoke stems to make a mesh base to keep the drainage holes clear. Next up some finished (not sifted) compost from an open air pile. And look; worm cocoons.

Topped with a layer of dried out leaf litter, interspersed with a weeks worth of kitchen scraps, shaken, (not stirred) and a couple shovels of melting snow (free water); I expect the pile should heat up shortly after the snow percolates into the leaf litter. Hopefully it will get warm enough to hatch the cocoons, which are almost certainly the descendants of that ancient race of Peruvian Llama Manure Worms reborn.