Gardeners, Nurseries, etc. Low Start-up Costs. Rediscover Natural Gardening. New Book for Preview the chapters. Nov 11, Rating Amount of Compost Monthly for Worms by: Pauly Hello Haki, Easy question, not so easy answer : Hypothetically speaking, if the worms lived in a perfect world with unicorns dancing on rainbows LoL : Then the worms would eat their weight in food everyday.
That's 3, pounds per month or 1. But there are many variables that come into play since worms do not live in a perfect world and these variables change frequently. If any of these conditions are off then they will not eat their weight in food everyday. Most Vermicomposters will agree that their worms do not eat their weight in food daily but eating half their weight in food is a more likely scenario. You may have days or even seasons where they eat their weight everyday and then some days that they eat very little.
That is why I give it an overall "half-weight" scenario. Red wigglers are very good eaters and giving them foods that are in the form of liquids and you might even see them eating more than their weight in food daily. So realistically I am safe in saying that , worms will give you 50 lbs daily or 1, lbs.
Moisture will also be a factor as the worm castings start to dry. Nov 12, Rating Amount of worm castings.. You can actually. A lot of farmers and gardeners today are going green these days, and are now opting to use organic fertilizer products for their produce.
So whenever you do decide to sell your worms and its by-products for a profit, you can surely make all the possibilities happen.
You can read through the list provided below to know what can be gained after using this worm by-product. Harvest worm castings and experience more of what these can potentially offer you. Also consider what kind of composting worms to use should you venture into this kind project anytime soon.
You can also buy red worms or nightcrawler worms for this kind of undertaking. You can be sure that investing on these types of worms particularly the red worm type will certainly be worth your time and money.
Experience the thrills of having to raise and breed your very own batch of Red Wiggler Worms. With Free shipping included, also get these earth wonders live right at your doorstep! Get your supply today! Once on the pavement, worms often get disoriented and cannot find their way back to the soil. They then dry up and die when the sun comes out. After a heavy rainstorm, go out on a worm hunt. What should you do when you see worms on the pavement? Stepping on them is not the right answer!
Be a worm rescuer- put them back in the soil where they belong and can survive. Why do we want worms to survive? Worms are hermaphrodites; each worm has both male and female organs. Worms mate by joining their clitella the swollen area near the head of a mature worm and exchanging sperm. Then each worm forms an egg capsule in its clitellum; after days, this is shed into the castings. Egg capsules are lemon-shaped and about the size of a match head. After days baby worms hatch from the eggs.
One to five worms emerge from each egg. In days, the young worms are mature. Worms can live as long as four years. When worms die in the bin, their bodies decompose and are recycled by other worms, along with the food scraps.
Worm castings are toxic to live worms. After all the food scraps in a bin are recycled, the worms will eat their own castings which will poison them. Why should a worm bin be harvested every few months? I splurged and got 3 oz. It was slow going, but 7 months later I have more than a pound.
I can easily tolerate giving away a few oz. Cut the top off of a plastic container for a gallon of milk and poke a few holes in the bottom. These seem to help stimulate reproduction. Hey, that sounds like an interesting experiment! Great article, I was curious about using a larger amount of worms for my boxes to increase their population. I have seen few cocoons in my bins as well.
The food goes in, disappears, castins appear but few if any cocoons. I am sure conditions are not quite right, but it is a frustrating wait. I will keep at it. This is my 3rd year with them. They are good workers and eat more waste than I can produce. I actually collect waste from my neighbor to keep them fed. The DNR lecturer said not to let them loose in our environment. So how do I control the population???
They are captive slaves, I want to be fair. My suggestion would be to give a lot of them away. I am just starting out and before finding red wigglers, had purchased a larger tupperware bin 53L, basically big enough for about a pound of worms give or take Now everything is basically set up with compost and bedding and drilled holes and the works. I finally managed to find some red wigglers from a friend of a friend, but when I picked them up, there were only a few ounces! How long would it take them to multiply?
Kind of looking forward to getting started before winter… Not too worried about them eating all of my waste, I have a regular outside compost, but hoping to get some compost by late spring early summer to throw in the garden… Thoughts? I have found that a mixture of leaves, shredded newpaper and carbord seem to make an ideal environment for my worm but still need to periodically add additional water to bins as it does seem to dry out at times. They just love pumpkins and I will find s of them in one spot just eating away.
Thank you for the helpful information that you have shared on this site. Because if breeding worms lay 1 egg per day you would think you could do allot better Im confused.
Hi Pat Unfortunately, that is next to impossible to predict since there are so many different variables that can affect this. Hugely important factors include temperature, aeration, moisture content, the type of food you are adding, the C:N ratio, and how well you optimize everything. With a system like a Worm Inn or other flow-throughs you should reach a point where you can continue removing castings on a fairly regular basis.
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