Harvesting worms

Go buy a few cups of worms and put them in your compost pile. Give it a few months and then you should never run out.

As far as compost pile, grass clippings, mulched leaves, food scraps. You know the drill. Turn over at least once a week and try not to let it dry out.

The best worm beds I've ever found were under Water Oaks where no one ever raked. No idea if that can be duplicated.

Compost piles are generally too hot to bread worms. Old compost already cooked is fine but to top layers just get too hot. Build a worm bed. lots of directions on the net.

3 1x12x8 cedar boards and some 2 ft cedar stakes and you are in business.


Make it 4x8 and over turn the ground inside with a shovel or tiller. Fill it half way with garden soil. Build it in an area with at least partial shade. Add a half dozen containers of earthworms to it. Make sure it gets watered once a week minimum. Cover the soil with a shallow layer of oak leaves. Once a week or so place a hand full or two of chopped vegetable waste on the soil under the leaves and recover.

When we still had land and ponds in Ruston, we had the old fridge too. I think my pow pow would add cow patties to the dirt every once in awhile for the nutritional/moisture content for the worms. It was great to always have it on site for a quick line wetter.

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My Granddad used an old bath tub with a sheet of plywood over the top.

I use a couple 5 gal buckets with lids(holes in lids) black dirt plus some compost and add a little corn meal every week or so. Add enough water so the dirt doesnt dry out.

Rake leaves for MIL and pile them up between the house and pond. It will make her happy and give you a way to establish the worm farm there.

We are about to start keeping a colony of crickets for fishing and my son's future beardy. It's really cheap and easy and the fish love crickets out at our camp.

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Crickets smell horrible. There was a building I was visiting a couple of years ago in Cenla that got overrun with crickets. The whole building stunk like the.

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I plan on using vermiculite so we'll see how that goes.

me too

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Crickets smell horrible

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If you truly hate someone, let about 200 go in their car.