I plan to make a milk crate tower for some strawberries this week and adding a worm tower, but in the meantime I thought my poor over manured raised bed might benefit from a worm tower as well. Most videos I saw used either a bucket or a pvc pipe to build their tower, but I decided a bucket would take up too much room. And the only cut pieces of pvc pipe I could find were really thick and I wasn't sure if I could easily drill holes in them. I was going to purchase it anyway when I went to pick up some replacement plants (see the earlier post on my raised bed) and saw some stretchy black pipe that I thought would be easier to make holes in and had caps for and I only had to buy one piece of pipe to make several worm towers since it could be stretched out.
I wasn't entirely sure it would work, but I liked it better than the pvc pipe. It already has some small holes running through it which I thought would be good for drainage, but I needed bigger holes for the worms to come in and out. I tried to drill some holes in, but it didn't work out well because the pipe was squishy. So I cut some holes with scissors. It doesn't look very pretty, but it's underground anyway....hopefully the worms don't mind too much. 
I dug a deep hole (had to snip some roots from a nearby tree) and put the pipe in, and then added some shredded newspaper, some coffee grounds, some crunched up egg shells, some veggie scraps and some worms from my mother in laws worm farm. I watered it in a bit and hopefully the worms will like it and in return give me some nice earth for my veggie bed. I'm keeping a cap on the top to keep insects etc out, and I'll just add some scraps to it for them.
Lastly I added some tomato plant food to the plants and mulched the whole bed so that it will retain water in the Florida heat.
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