Compost Worms, finding your own. Which worms are correct?

www.FredsFineFowl.com brings this short video, showing worms on pavement after a night of steady rain. Which worms are "dirt" worms and which are "Red Wigglers" suitable for vermiculture and compost bins. In search of the real Red Wiggler for kitchen compost bins. Visit Fred's Fine Fowl to see a drawing and directions as to how you can put together your own cheap compost bin. Worms will eat lots of kitchen scraps, including your news paper and cardboard. Worm castings are then used for house plants, roses and many other garden nutrification applications. Stronger plants, recycled waste and fewer fertilizers from the store. Do it yourself.

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• compost bin
• vermiculture
• red wigglers
• worm composters
• Urban Sustainable Living

[damoncaudill]

you have some Alabama jumpers

[HTCSWEOD]

@damoncaudill I KNEW IT!!!! (';')

[kenbear2725]

are there many red worms in georgia clay? would they survive in clay dirt?

[HTCSWEOD]

@kenbear2725 I think for worms to begin to work in clay, the soil would require some amendments like sand to help with drainage along with some organic compost... that's a tough situation. I had to use raised beds in South Carolina because the soil was just too dense. So, clay as is, simply would prove too difficult for your standard earth worms.

[NinoV551]

Are you afraid to touch the worms?

[HTCSWEOD]

@NinoV551 Do a test... give someone a spatula and have the other use their fingers on a 39 degree day... GO... see who gathers the most worms in the least amount of time. In answer to your question more directly.. no

[ChrisBrewster]

You can pick them up with your hands. They won't bite...

[HTCSWEOD]

@free6006 I suggest laying down wet newspapers in your garden... the worms that come to the surface to eat the paper are the ones you should try to use...

[BassMasterFilms]

The ones you said were wrigglers were night crawlers

[kayleeShoe]

I just use any worms I find, and my bin produced a pound of castings in a single month. I'm not sure if this is a good production rate or not, but after adding the castings to our little ivy house plant, new growth sprouted for the first time in months...So maybe everyone should have a few earthworms, too.

[HTCSWEOD]

@MsCymbalCrash In my experience, citrus... peels or otherwise tends to spoil my worm compost and is apt to draw those little fruit flies quickly. Something also to do with the acid in citrus seems to make that material a least favorite with the worms, but they will eventually get to it as it dries out.

[MsCymbalCrash]

If citrus peels are added to the compost, will this discourage the worms? I have read conflicting information about this.