How to maintain a wormfarm??

[slick2526]

Hi, just about ready to put my worm farm in the ground. Ok thats the easy part. Any suggestions on food, beeding, what to cover the box with, and what side of my house to put it on??

[Jon'eye']

Hello slick2526:

I'm no worm expert, but I would probably put the box somewhere that gets mostly shade. Keep the soil nice and moist. I put raked up leaves and lawn clippings a couple inches thick in the garden, and later dug it up and their were hundreds of worms underneath. The layer also kept the soil moist. They must enjoy eating decaying plants and stuff. But the key is to not let the soil get hard and dried out.

May your farm be successful!

Jon'eye'

[IaCraig]

Why????? I don't mean to be ignorant or disrespectful but this sounds silly to me. Are you going into the commercial bait business? Are they special worms or just regular nightCrawlers or angle worms?
It sounds interesting, but I guess I've grown up the Euell Gibbons way of stalking the wild asparagus, or in this case worms and keep them alive in a cool place for months. And if I want a fishing report I pay a baitshop for crawlers and a few hints on where the bite is on.

I must be old....

Happy farming

IaCraig.

[slick2526]

Whi to build a worm farm??? humm think of it this way you pay 2.50 a dozen of worms feed them take care of them in about week you break them in half then you have dozen repeat the other steps then break them im half then you have four doze. See already tripled my investment. Plus i use allot of worms for fishing and theres 5 people im my family that like to fish so it all ads up.