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Any tips you can give a new worm farmer, red wiggler specifically. Even if its something that might be common sense is usefull. There was already 1 major setback and we don't want another to happen. Maybe tips on keeping them warm or how to set a drainage, we are in virginia so this is a concern. Thanks for any advice you can give

Hey y'all!

I've been composting for several years and always just given my compost + castings to friends and family who garden.

Do any of you sell yours? If so, how and to whom - stores? direct to consumer?

Thanks!

Hello! I have been growing my indoor “garden” (several cacti, spider plants, flowers, weed, tomatoes, ect.) and I have been wondering about getting compost worms to help my soils (and to entertain me as I plan on having some for viewing). Where’s the best place to start? Is there anything I should know about keeping worms in plant pots? Should I only use the soil and not let the worms into the plants? Is there a size of pot I should use?

I've got a 5 gal bucket, about half full of stuff wintering indoors. I'm paying more attention to the bin than usual, because I SEE it more. The guys are eating mostly banana peels and office coffee grounds.

I usually just kind of toss stuff into my bin wherever and eventually it just turns into castings. Now I'm thinking about it more. I usually freeze the peels/coffee to kill off fruit fly eggs and drop a chunk of frozen coffee/nanners about 6" by 4" by 2" every week or so. How much are these guys actually able to eat? Should I work in a period where I dont' feed them and they just finish up the "leftovers"?

•What is your harvesting/feedings/waterings routines for your farms?

•What do you believe is enabling it to thrive?

A little back story to these questions: I was having issues with my worms not thriving. They're all fat and happy, just not breeding. I believe this is likely due to disturbing my farm every other day for harvesting as they are a main diet for my Axolotls. In an attempt to avoid constant disruption, I've created a smaller temporary farm. My idea is that I can pair harvesting and feeding/watering schedule for the farm, limiting disturbing it to once a week. The harvested worms would inhabit the temporary farm until it came feeding time. Hopefully that will allow a better breeding environment, at least in theory.

Photos of my temporary and main farm

I have several homemade worm bins made from recycled styrofoam boxes. All have worms happily growing in them. During the heat of this years summer I noticed that solider fly maggots (or known as compost maggots) had taken over one of the boxes due to the lid breather holes being big enough for the flies to get in. At first I thought they where bad, but I soon realised that they where eating my kitchen scraps so much faster than the worm bins without them. I decided to add fatty meat scraps to the maggot bin as well and the maggots devoured this as well. The castings from the maggots still looked the same but did have many skin casings from the maggots that turned into Soldier flies.

I've now decided to encourage Soldier Fly maggots to get into at least one of my bins during spring and summer so that I can speed up my casting production for my garden.

What do other's think?