Haha…worm humor.
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I plan on messing around w mine a bit today. Gonna move them from my garage into a cold frame thats set up against the side of the house. I think they’ll do great there for a few weeks til it warms up more outside.
I’m also planning on building a compost bin for yard/plant waste. I’ll post a bit about that today if I get to it.
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It’s amazing what you come across when you are doing other things. Was putting together my new grill (wish it was a new smoker, but that’s for another day) and noticed the grease tray might work really well at the bottom of my worm bin, I am putting together. I tried to find a pic online, but the closest I could find is this Kenmore.
The one for my grill is cheaper, a bit deeper and has a rim around it to screw to a frame. What do y’all think?
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I add kelp, neem, crab meal, DE, and have never had any problems. my bin game really went up a notch when I started growing a cover crop on my bins. ill plant clover, barley, etc and let it get 4-5 inches tall and then turn it under and the worms will be layered in the roots and then break it down when I turn it up. they love it.
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These used to be $19 US regularly, still not a bad deal and they might go on sale.
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That’s a good price they are 3 times that here in Canada.
If people have the room an old bath makes a good worm bin with a sloped floor to the drain plug, I see lots of them going cheap or free, on Facebook market place.
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Used chest freezers work great also. People will give them to you. Pull the working parts out and they are surprisingly light.
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That would be good outside for me, insulated and they have a lid you could semi shut if you needed to for winter.
My worm penthouse is frozen down to about 8 inches deep atm, I checked it yesterday, I was hoping the 10 bales of hay I have stacked around and on top would have stopped it but nah😣
I am hoping the worms are all huddled together in the middle about 16 inches down, and not dead.
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I would bury the freezer. Then cover with straw bales. Also I have seen people use soil warmer cables for the first few inches…plug it in on reeeaaally cold nights.
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That’s a good idea, I have a seedling heated mat 12 x24 I rarely use, I will insert that into the bin this year, before winter sets in 
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Started some bins yeaterday. Nightcrawlers in one and going to pick up some red wigglers in a few mins here
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I checked mine yesterday again, my soil and compost has defrosted and there were several live worms in the hay I had put on top, so I guess some survived winter OK. I will be digging it all over soon as I will be needing some fresh stuff to go into some pots.
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Harvested some castings yesterday. I have to say, they sure seem to be loving the used hamster bedding. It’s natural paper and the thing only eats whole grains.
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Dude that’s a great idea. I have some left over rabbit bedding from my old rabbit. Might have to throw that in for my top layer. Thanks!
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Got a fresh bin started few days back I’m lucky to have these in in my yard in abundance. Dug up about 20 in around 5 min and threw them in the new bin.
These guys eat 2/3 there body weight per day,straight compost machines
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I have no access to fresh worms unless I order online…bah. but fishing season is around the corner. I was just going to buy a few dozen canadian nightcrawlers and put them in a bin of fresh, black earth and let them do their thing for a couple weeks. They may not be as ravenous as the red wrigglers, but would they do the job or would I be wasting my time?
Home depot sells a 3 in 1 soil, ewc and compost…but I just want straight worm shit.
Any thoughts?
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I got started by checking out yahoo groups search for vermicimposting groups unless you live out in the sticks I’d think it would be fairly easy. Some bait places sell “trout worms “ if you see these advertising there probably red wigglers look for the red/orange bands in the tail section of the worm … not much is needed 1/4-1/2 lb will get ya started they reproduce like mad when their happy.
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Night crawlers would work the bottom parts of the bins and the reds the middle to upper parts so a mix in IMO would be great !
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Gonna do some more “digging” for a source for the red wriggles…thanks for the info! A nightcrawler rw mix sounds like they would work the soil pretty quick, eh!?
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@Tappy Yup … I’m about to harvest my bins again I’ll probably get at least 3 harvest a year! 25 gallon smart pots x2 is a lot of worm poo! I don’t use fertilizer any more on my yard or planting beds house plants etc. I’m about to move the pots outdoors in the shady part of the yard suckers will be heavy for sure!
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