Trueshoe said:
I was recommended to use Red Worms by the bait shop guy for a garden (he admitted knowing very little about gardening but he's heard to use red worms). He said they are very hardy/survivable and produce a lot of worm castings.
Anyone have any insight to this?... Are red worms good are there a better type of worm to use?...
A few tips about red worms from a former worm farmer:
1, Make a bin for the worms to live, use dirt/manuer(cow or horse is best) 70/30 mix.
2, Keep covered with cardboard, they love to eat it and it is a great, free, useful tool.
3, feed them: moldy bread, food scraps, coffee grounds, and dead crickets (this will render your plants BUG PROOF).
4, turn and feed it twice a month. Use a pitch fork, not a shovel.
5, Do NOT let your worm bin get rained on. The worms natural instinct is to climb upwards to avoid drowning. This means at 3 am when the thunderstorms are a-bashing your butt needs to be outside scooping handfuuls of red worms back int the bins. Seriously not a fun chore.
6, do NOT try to cultivate worms in the same pots as your pants. This will not work, and if it does only temporarily, then you have a bunch of dead worms rotting your root system. Also not a fun chore to take care of.
Hope this can help.