Lisa and Badger, I heeded yr advice and put in a bad tomato, within a day it was crawling with worms. I've gone ahead and put in some other decomposing food scraps, some rice and whatnot (can't help it i'm chinese, my worms recieve the chinese staple too)

well my problem is that the bin seems to be too warm. I think the problem might be that there was just too much damp newspaper/cardboard bedding in there to start with (the guy put it in! and then it was too late to take out coz worms went on top) It's very moist in there all the newspaper i put on top is soggy. and it does not smell too great (not enough compost to scrap ratio i think) So I decided to put the whole bin outside, in a super shady spot and see if the worms do alright. If they do, then I think I'll just leave them there permanently. or at least until there is enough compost in there to lightly bury the scraps?

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