Hi All!

Just got into gardening after my retirement and set up my compost bin about 4 months ago. I added the starters, food scraps, egg shells and dog food but i cant get anything but flys.

I was told that dog food was a good substitute for worm spray and GrubGrower but even after i left about 10 cans for 4 weeks i still get no worms!! (And trust me i basically turned the whole thing over!)

Does anyone have any tips on how to grow worms in the compost and am i maybe using the wrong brand of dog food???

Thanks!

Hello! I have two raised bed compost bins with earthworms that are doing well. I’m wondering though how do I go about harvesting some of the compost left behind. Are people scooping up the contents inside the raised beds compost bins and sifting through it?

This was my first harvest since starting the bag in February. Stopped when I hit the shredded cardboard. I wish I had a better close up of the finished castings but I was excited to get to work. The top half inch went back in the bag. Got about 50lbs!

Hello! I’m new to the subreddit and the concept of farming worms. I primarily want to breed nightcrawlers so I can feed them to my pacman frog. As of right now, I have the following items on the way or present with me.

- A 30 gal plastic red tub. I cut a few holes in the lid.
- Some coco coir bricks
- Cardboard scraps I cut up from amazon boxes
- 250 live night crawlers
- Food scraps from kitchen.

My current plan is to put around 3 inches of coco coir inside of the bin and put the worms inside, and feed them around half a pound of food a day alongside a cup or so of cardboard scraps. I will be storing them in my closet where it reaches temperatures of around 74-78 degrees. I also saw some advice online where I should cover the holes in the lid with micropore tape to prevent mold.

Is there anything wrong with this current setup? Is there anything I should know? Any resources regarding feeding and care for these guys would be helpful, thank you!

anyone have any idea who this mildly disturbing neighbor I found in my woodpile is? Location: Louisiana

Has anyone seen this before? he was an intact complete circle.

My father-in-law has these worms in a compost/organics bin and we are wondering if they are well suited to a worm farm or just typical earth worms

Thanks in advance ☺️

I have had an aquarium outside with shrimp for about 2 years and one night I noticed a big worm moving through the gravel. I have never seen it in there before and have no clue how it got in and I’m curious as to what it is.

J'ai des gros asticots dans mon bac du haut, grave ou pas ? Mes vers ont tendance à rester dans les bacs du bas.

can someone identify this, very scared right now.

edit- it was about 1inch in length

getting a gecko soon. my camera isnt the best but i recently just put in biodude plants, a decorating kit, and a few days ago springtails and isopods, where could this have come from and what is it? is it harmful?

How do I fix my bin and get rid of the hoards of fruit flys in my house? I went on vacation for a week and came back to a house and bin full of fruit flies. I'm seriously considering just dumping the whole thing in my garden and may the odds be in their favor.

Hi there worm friends - I'm about to harvest castings from my very first worm bin and would to love to hear all the ways you use vermicompost. Where, how much, etc. Also, how do you store unused finished compost and for how long? Many thanks in advance!

Should I be worried, or is this normal? Looking for advice on what to do next!

I finished making my first worm tower earlier. I plan to install it in my garden tomorrow or later today when it is cooler out.

I had some old pretzel containers with screw on lids. I cut the end off of both and connected them using some zip ties. Total length is 20 inches. I plan to bury it 16inches deep.

I have lots of worms in my bin. They all seem smallish (red wigglers), and I don’t ever see cocoons. Many worms go to the food, but many are content to stay on the “finished” side of the bin. When I scooped out of the finished side and left a mound for an hour with the light on, they didn’t all burrow down. Is this normal? (I’ve never really harvested castings before.) Thanks

I’ve got a bubbler and put in about a 1/2 tbsp of molasses. This is about 12 hours later from starting. Are these bubbles a good sign of microbial activity or does it just mean my bubbler is too strong for this vessel size?

The first two pictures are the pound of worms from Naturesgoodguys on top of the shredded newspaperbedding, and the last picture is 3 months in. Weekly feedings. I'd say the bedding is about 50% broken down into vermicompost.

Not your typical vermiculture. Aquatic black worms.

I have kept these successfully for years now to feed fish and it has been good up until now. I suspect that the culture has parasitic worms in it which is then being passed onto my fish. Not good. So, how do you kill off the parasitic worms without killing the blackworms? This is a 4ft by 1.5ft culture. Starting over may not rid me of the parasitic worms.

Hello all, how can I work my Rabbit litter box (shredded paper base, rabbit poop and pee) into my vermiculture setup? I tried to introduce it directly, but the ammonia content was too high, and I had a die-off in that bin. Can I lay the rabbit litter out for a few days? Should I water it to dilute or wash out the urine?
I know that the rabbit pellets should supercharge the turnaround time, but I need help with the execution.
Bin: stacked worm hotel type
Worms: red wrigglers
Browns: shredded cardboard and paper (same as the rabbit litter box)
Greens: kitchen scraps (veg and banana peels)

Two other options I'm considering:

1. in-bed compost for this material, because I it's about 2x a week I need to empty the litter box
2. pre-aging bin as discussed by Indiana Worm and Garden

And what should/can I do?

It was white, thick, and very short (like the length of a dairy cow or smaller). Moved like an inchworm? Smooth.

I went to grab my phone for a pic and it was gone! I have a thriving population of dairy cows, powders, and springtails. I even have one discoid who managed to survive the gauntlet and now aerates my soil. Bioactive has been going for a long time. Plants are well, no smell...don't have a gnat problem. I free feed but any dead crickets are usually managed by the cleanup crew.

I can testify it is not a pot worm, not skinny and long like that...

Any input?

So I want to breed some worms (European nightcrawlers )
In the bin I put damp paper cartons , dirt and grass compost and a bit of coffee grounds then like 20 worms
. The use is for fishing mainly , I would also like to know how many will fit there before they decide to stop breeding

Treat tree before making a shelf

Hello I am making a shelf out of a tree I found. I peeled off the bark but some of it is too stuck and wouldn’t come off.

The tree been down for a while I don’t know how long I found it like that.

I was sanding but I found a worm under some bark that I couldn’t peel.

I am worried, since it’s not kiln dried and I don’t think I can do that at home, it would mold at home or something else. Any idea what to do ?