Hey,hi Linda & kathi, Kathi,yes, i love my worm bin.i have had mine for about a year now,i will never be with out it.How long have you had yours? Linda,ha ha ha,you should have a worm bin,every one should. I bought mine from The Worm Factory,you have to order the worms seperate,and they olny ship when it warms up a bit. Mechele just bought one,she can tell you when they will ship the worms.I absoultly love it,i throw all my kitchen scrapes in it,and get the reward of good black gold,and worm tea. The two big worms at the beggining are Cocoa & Sammie,you won't find cutier worms any where. Carol

The tag shows it is from Walters in Michigan. They just got MM into mass production last year for sale this year. These were put into small paper "Elle" plugs last year, then transferred into the larger plugs and put into dormancy. They were shipped as the bigger plugs this spring. BTW - If you take it out of the pot, there's a good chance you can actually identify one or both of the paper plugs. Walters has gotten pretty good on the plugs... better all the time... I got Dancing Queen and Satisfaction and June that were all large single eyes with good root structure. But the twenty MM I got like this one were dormant when shipped this spring. As they came out of dormancy, I'd say 50% of them turned into nice MM with 6 or more leaves. A couple of mine have taken about 7 weeks to come out of dormancy and have just sent up one odd eye. And a number of them are oddly colored... streaky or almost entirely yellow - or at least the yellow that turns lighter that makes up the margin of a regular MM. so... this year's batch has a bunch of oddballs. I'm betting Carol will still get some leaves this year, though I'm not willing to guess they will look true to type. I'll be keeping the oddest ones for myself - except one almost all yellow one a forum member just picked up on his lunch hour. It had just a couple of thin bluish streaks. I made him promise to give me the first division if he ends up with Golden Mouse Ears or some spectacular oddity. To be honest - the streaked ones are really attractive, so I'm not complaining too much... but I'll take a financial bath on the poorly emerging ones - unless Carol wants to buy some companions for hers! I haven't spoken to Walters about this yet, so I don't know what kind of reports they are getting from bigger operations...

Thank you Connie, for posting the pictures for me, you are a doll! I think you all may be right, I did have Ice Age Trail, and could not find i in my yard, I guess this is why,:0) I still love it, even in this state,I bet a mature clump, that had not reverted, is just smashing. Thanks again Connie,I will get back to you with the names of the hosta leafs,ok. cAROL

I received a very touching gift from Carol via the Secret Santa swap. She sent me the most beautiful ornament with a quote on it that has touched me beyond words. All I can say is we are very lucky to have Carol here at GW,she is an incredibly thoughtful and kind person. I am grateful I had the opportunity to meet her,and look forward to spoiling her with seeds!;) ~Angie