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Comment by Barbara z7bTX on July 26, 2011 at 8:11am

I did the same thing to my worm bin.  I moved them to the shade and after about a week the bin was full of maggots or some sort of white segmented worm.  I threw out the whole mess.  I'll have to get new worms and start over.  (I went by Garden Gal previously). 

Comment by Gladys Hutson -NC7b on July 26, 2011 at 7:01am

Hey Meri Lee...I live in NC and it has been hot here too.  I started my worms this spring and had them in an area that I thought was shaded.  Before I knew it, the area was in full sun by mid-day.  I thought that I had fried my worms.  I kind of gave up on them for a while.  Then one day I went back into the bin and they were still alive.  I had put lots of food in the bin with cardboard and newspaper, so they did not starve.  I then moved them in the shade and have been feeding them and checking on them.  How hot is too hot for them and should I add water or moisten when it gets really hot?

Comment by Meri Lee on July 15, 2011 at 2:12pm

Garden Gal

 Give it a try, I started out with 2 little tubs from the fishing section and now have gazillions and I havent even had them a year. Im betting some may make it depending on how hot it got.

Comment by Bob (Z9B Florida) on July 14, 2011 at 3:05pm

Meri Lee, 

That's basically the same process I use, grab some "poo" mix it in a bucket of water and water the plants.   I used to do the longer immersion process but saw very little difference in the results.   I also keep a 5 gal container of worm tea brewing (with aeriation and molasses) and use that too on container plants and indoor plants.  Wonderful results using red wigglers.

Comment by Meri Lee on July 13, 2011 at 8:01am

I only wish I had started a worm bin earlier, like years earlier. I am in awe of the results that the castings and the tea are making in my garden. I have a refrigerator laying on its back and this is my worm bin. It is  now full of worms and poo. I keep a large tote in the garden full of water and I will take a screen bag full of poo, dunk it in the water to get the good stuff out which I use to water my plants then I will put what is left in the screen bag either in the garden or back in the bin.OMG my garden has never looked so good. I also  have a compost pile but that is cooking and wont be ready for a while! Love love love the worm bin!

Comment by Karen on June 21, 2011 at 10:03pm

" What you really want in your garden, though, are shallow burrowing (endogeic) and deep burrowing (anecic) worms." Oh my god...there are good and bad earth worms?!

Comment by Tessa on June 15, 2011 at 3:48pm

Trying to learn about vermicomposting,If you live in So Louisianna email me

Comment by wholeed on April 18, 2011 at 3:07pm

My bad. WalMart's trout and panfish worms are actually "European nightcrawlers" (Eisenia Hortensis) -- a good endogeic/composting worm.

I got a bunch of these from Beaver Bait Company a few years ago. They were importing them air freight them Holland at the time ...

Comment by wholeed on April 18, 2011 at 2:27pm

I know it's heresy, but brandling worms (Eisenia foetida) are about the least desirable species of worm available.  They are an epigeic species, meaning they feed on the organic matter atop the soil (the duff layer) and breed like crazy before the robins or the weather kill them.

Amynthas gracilis (Georgia jumpers) are a little better. At least they don't repel fish. What you really want in your garden, though, are shallow burrowing (endogeic) and deep burrowing (anecic) worms.

Get some nightcrawlers (Lumbricus terrestris) from the bait shop in the Walmart sporting good section. While you're at it pick up some "trout and panfish" worms. (Lumbricus rubellus, I THINK)  Do what you can to prepare a suitable environment for them.

Worms like the same kind of soil as plants -- moist organic loam with plenty of nitrogen.  In time you will have plenty of worms. There are lots of common species that will make it into your garden if the conditions are right.

For some practical insight about worms in your garden, I recommend: The Farmer's Earthworm Handbook: Managing Your Underground Money-Ma...

 

Comment by Minako Sargent Fukuda on March 28, 2011 at 6:14am

I have plenty of worms now in my compost bin , how do I get them out from one side to the other they are everywhere !the only thing I do not put in is lemon, onion apart from that nearly everything of kitchen scraps! including teabags, at times i put my seasol and powerfeed, bananapeel cut up ,extra comfry leafes which aids in decomposing , nettle liquid , ( soak nettles in water submerged for 2 weeks , nettles can be cooked and eaten they are nutritious ), leaves, grassclippings some branches they are breaking down but it takes time, and watering at times, eggshells crushed, mousepoop ( yes they moved in too) but it still works , and I love the endeffect , nice dark reasonable friable earth!

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