Growing worms

 

I would like to have worms around here so when I go fishing, I don't have to
drive a far distance and buy them.  I googled, and they say to lay a
refrigerator on its side and use that for a home.  Fill it with good dirt
they describe.  Keep it in a cool shady place and keep moist.  How hard is
it to just get some going in the garden and dig some up when one needs them?
Or is it better to have a fridge thing and have a good habitat for them?
Just how hard are they to get going and keep going?

Steve

 

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Not difficult at all, though it will take a few weeks to get your
first "crop" of worms.

Google "worm farm" -- you'll find  lots of worm farms who will sell
you worms by the 100's or 1,000's, or, you can by worm egg cases.

I built a new house last summer, moved in in July.  Built six raised
beds, 12 ft X 12 ft.  Purchased 500 worm egg cases.  Filled the boxes
with half-and-half topsoil and compost (several tons, delivered in
dumb truck, moved one wheelbarrow load at a time !!).  Raked in the
worm cases, which hatched, and now I have worms all over the place.

 



You will quickly discover that it's a lot less bother and much less costly
to simply spend the couple of bucks now and again to buy worms when you go
fishing... it only pays to become a worm farmer if you intend to make it a
full time business and market worms, mostly wholesale to those like where
you buy your worms.  Anyway, you're a gardening failure, you can't even grow
a head of lettuce, how are you going to grow woims.  Somehow you remind me
of that weird movie Squirm... Steven B. Squirm! LOL

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/squirm/

 


I have an elderly friend who keeps garden worms in polystyrene containers in
his garage.  I don't know if he harvests them from his garden or breeds tham
so that is no help to you.  I do know that he keeps them in moist soil with
a moist hessian (burlap) sack on the top and just before we go out to fish,
he furkles aroudn in there and shove a few into an old margarine container
along with some soil and off we all go.

You could try harvesting some from the garden and doing as he does because
you might have problems finding then in the garden just when you want them.

 

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I have several areas with rotting leaves directly on the ground that
have nightcrawlers, perfect for fishing.   Also, compost is loaded
with large worms, big and fat.  Make a pile (at least a cubic yard) of
organic material (50/50 green/brown) directly on the ground, introduce
a few nightcrawlers and in a month or so you will have enough worms
for fishing and more.   Taking care of worms indoors is also possible,
though more bother than it's worth.