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Post by trudy on Jan 1, 2006 6:28:17 GMT -6
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jan 1, 2006 7:53:18 GMT -6
No, but have considered it, will check the link out Trudy, can't imagine Why I would need more worms, but I guess you an't over-populate them!
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Post by Songbird on Jan 1, 2006 11:24:04 GMT -6
I have friends in Branson MO that do this! It's disgusting, but it really works!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2006 8:13:37 GMT -6
Go for it Trudy! I havent tried but I have heard reports of great success! No, but have considered it, will check the link out Trudy, can't imagine Why I would need more worms, but I guess you an't over-populate them! If you dig a shovel full of soil and have less than 12 worms....ya need more! Hard workin little underground earth tillers
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Post by trudy on Jan 3, 2006 3:50:17 GMT -6
Thats encouraging! Ok I set one up using a wooden box that I drug home that someone had thrown away. About the size of one of those old rifle storage boxes. Drilled some holes in it, put a layer of screen in the bottom and got the paper shredded and in the box. I bought 3 containers of red wigglers from the bait shop. I let them settle in overnight, went out the next morning and they were crawling up the sides of the box, some were on top of the wooded lid. I had put a plastic tub lid on top of the wooden lid and weighed it down with a 5 gal. bucket cause it was calling for a lot of rain and I didn't want them drowning. The worms were in between the two lids. No idea how many escaped. So I put them back in, put some scraps down in the paper and they don't seem to be trying to escape as much. I checked on the late yesterday afternoon and noticed some ants in the bottom of the box. I think they are sugar ants. Got to research on how to control the ants. I don't think they are harming the worms but I haven't been out to check on them yet this morning. Will look in on them on my way out the door going to work. Any of you know of an organic way to get rid of the ants without harming the worms? TIA, trudy
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Post by vickalee on Jan 7, 2006 8:58:05 GMT -6
Where I work I have two "Can O' Worms" that I use for displays for all our visitors (kids love 'em). They are designed for worm composting and with tax, title and license plates you can order one for about $119 (punch in Can O' Worms and do a Google search) They are about 3 ft. high and have several trays that help you to manage your colony of red wigglers (AKA phishin' worms) to Trudy who asked about keeping ants away from the box, try grinding some white chalk or sprinkle baby powder around the base of the box. For some reason most ants won't cross the line. maybe you could even draw a heavy line of chalk around the bottom of the box if your unit sits on a table versus the ground??? Trust me you can't beat the "compost tea" it generates and all of us at work contribute tea bags coffee grounds, banana peels, etc... to make zero work for me in keeping them fed!
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Post by Compost Pharmer on Jan 7, 2006 17:04:31 GMT -6
I second the compost tea. After I spray the garden with the tea and I am walking away, I swear the plants are thanking me for the delicious treat. It makes the plants green up in a short period of time.
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Post by freyaulfr on Mar 31, 2006 6:54:13 GMT -6
I am wanting to this as well. I looked into getting a store bought set up from ebay. It's nice even got spigot for tea,but I want to it cheeper. Thinking of making a stack of plastic boxes with holes in them. It'll prolly do the same thing:}
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Apr 1, 2006 8:18:17 GMT -6
hmmm, I will be researching this more
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Post by deb65802 on Apr 22, 2006 11:43:23 GMT -6
got to love those worms. That is something I am going to start late this summer when I get some of the projects out of the way. in this case for sure more is better much more is much better.
worm castings are the best fertilizer there is. you can make tea with them as well. using it like compost tea.
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Post by chickenfarmer on Apr 22, 2006 20:15:30 GMT -6
Down here everbody has a worm bed or three.... There's a big company down here Jepco Worms.. they make a killing out of selling nite crawlers to the fishermen....
Best container is an old box -freezer with lid...
Fill up the freezer half way with dirt. layer top with shredded newspapers.. and every once in a while wet it down a little.. You can feed em kitchen scraps too.
Worms and thier castings are very rich compost... You can put this stuff on roses and it makes em bolt...
I've seen bags, small bags of worm castings that are expensive in garden centers.. Suprised nobody else who's into organics hasn't mentioned it...
Two-fold... sell excess to anglers, sell compost and I guess three put it in the garden....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2006 20:43:03 GMT -6
Hmmmm - another idea - take a bunch of the worms down to the local "swimming hole" to teach 'em how to swim (heh heh) Bring the fish back, dig deep holes, dump 'em in. My Cherokee ancestors used to plant corn with a side order of fish in the hole.
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