I'd save the bath for use with AP or something. You can make a worm bin out of just about anything and I have two built of wood that are great because the breath a bit naturally without needing holes cut all over them. And yes, grow beds make good worm habitat too. I found that a handy way to harvest some worms from a grow bed is to place a plant pot with some moist compost on top of the gravel, when I up ended the flower pot, I found a load of worms in the bottom, this works if your grow bed is heavily populated by worms.
Here is a pic of one of my worm bins.
they should be kept completely shaded as sun on a worm bin can cook away your moisture and cause your worms to leave.
I like having a bin with legs so I can place the feet in containers of mineral oil or water to keep ants from climbing up into my bins. Ants love to make nests in worm bins and our ants here bite making it very painful to harvest worms out of a bin that has been infested by ants. I believe all worm bins should have legs or be on stands that have legs that can be placed in containers of mineral oil (mineral oil is nice since it won't evaporate nearly as fast as water and it won't breed mosquitos the way a dish of water can.)
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