Worm herding
As we wait indoors for Edouard (hoping that he won’t come in looking for a fight) , here’s a little online shopping to feel good about:
Hand made *Worm Inns* make vermicomposting fun for the fashion conscious gardener.
I’m seriously digging on my worms & I recommend them , even for folks who aren’t gardeners. Why fill the landfill when you can feed some green growing things, even if it’s only your houseplants?
They are nuisance free, quiet and the only odor so far is a faint smell of good rich soil.
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Garden Girl on August 5th, 2008 | File Under victory garden, gardengirl | -
August 5th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
As a kid we raised worms for fish bait. We used old refridgeraters laid on their back.[we fished a lot]Raising that many actually got to be work. Thanks for that memory.
Almost everyone who raises rabbits also raise worms. Rabbit droppings make the perfect worm food. Most fishing worms you buy come from rabbit raisers. It just goes hand in hand. Just thought you might want to know.
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Bob,
In a fridge- how cool is that? Did you raise red wigglers or night crawlers? Red wigglers are the best for making worm tea & vermicompost since they breed like … well, like rabbits (since you brought it up) & they really dislike light so they are easy to contain. I haven’t had an escapee yet
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August 6th, 2008 at 10:15 am
My mother would pass out at the prospect. We’ll try it when Tater Tot is older…I think it’d be fun…
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Lol. Just keep Tater Tot from throwing them at Grandma & you’ll be fine
Really, you’d never know there are there– no odor, no noise, no mess. You don’t even have to handle the worms directly.
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August 6th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
We grew three kinds of worms, red wigglers, eel worms and milk worms. The eel worms were small, but the most active worm. The milk worms were huge, well by worm standards, about 12 to 15″ long and oozed white milky substance when handled. I think most people think all worms are slimy like milk worms when they really aren’t.
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