dave said:Once you get started you'll wish you had started earlier. 
Patti, I agree with Dave, here. You're also lucky enough to be in a slightly warmer zone than here. I kept mine in the garage all last year and, although I suffered some losses, they still did okay with a little added warmth.
Dave, thank you for the suggestion. I'm still nervous about bringing a bug-filled box indoors, but I'll see how confident I am after a few weeks of smothering it in damp newspaper and wet cardboard, LoL! I just hope I don't have a recurrence of last year (my box started to go anaerobic and it was a furious dash for me to get it dried out and to stop smelling. (I had loaded the bin up with a bunch of thrown-away veggies from the supermarket and they all liquefied at the same time. I learned my lesson on that one!)
