April 21st, 2005 - Growing red worms
I’m very interested in growing my own red worms. I don’t think that’s the right language, but it works for me! I don’t intend to start until at least next fall, but I was thinking about it so did a websearch. Found D&D Worm Ranch in Iowa which sells a kit for $98. (With a name like that, I had to check them out!) Okay, what I want to do is vermicompost. The kit comes with a nice kitchen bucket–I could get rid of the small ice cream bucket we currently use for the outdoor compost area.
That’s my one concern–will I have enough to continue the outdoor compost heap? I want to–we’re building a a new, bigger one this spring! Maybe I’ll do worms in the winter and compost in the summer. (Putting scraps outdoors in winter doesn’t do much–they just freeze.) But then the worms would die in the summer…I wonder how much they need to survive?