08/05/2026
Good Worm Tower idea from Gardening Made Simple
I be posting a video next week to show the outcome of the worm tower I installed 2 weeks ago and added some vegetable scraps. Let's see if the 🪱 found them the worm tower 🤔
For about $21 and one free hour, you can build a fertilizer system that runs itself inside the raised bed it feeds. 🌱
A worm tower is a 4-inch PVC pipe, 24 inches long, drilled with holes across the bottom 18 inches. You bury it in the center of your bed with 6 inches standing above the soil. Red wigglers go in, kitchen scraps go in on top of them, and the worms do the rest — eating the scraps, converting them into castings, and migrating out through the holes directly into the root zone around your plants.
No hauling compost. No turning. No waiting for a batch to finish. The nutrients move outward through the soil continuously, right where the roots are.
The build takes about 30 minutes:
- 4-inch PVC pipe (24 inches) — around $6
- Drill bit (3/16 inch) — around $3
- Red wigglers (small starter batch) — around $12
- A terra cotta saucer or simple lid for the top
Drill 30–40 holes in the bottom 18 inches, bury it center-bed, add worms, and start dropping scraps — peels, coffee grounds, crushed eggshells — once a week. The worm population self-regulates to match your food supply. You never empty it. 🪱
That compost bin in the corner just lost its job.
