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#356922 May 19th, 2012 at 09:27 AM
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Hi, not sure if I am doing this right, but trying to start a new topic, hope this worked! Anyone else have a worm farm? I am attempting one...the lower container has some awesome looking compost, but I am having a hard time talking those wonderful red wrigglers to crawl up to the next level so I can use the compost they have made. So today since I was cutting fruit and vegies I whirled all of it in my food processor, and ended up with about 4 lbs of great scraps. So I put that in the upper tray and am hoping those worms will climb up. Any suggestions? why


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My worm farm is not a commercial one with levels. I posted about it a few years ago, here.
One of my favorite and entertaining places for vermiculture is here.
I just hand pick the wigglers out of my way.


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Oh, and Jonni13 was my old name on the forum. Bill changed it to my preferred name for me.


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Tina #356932 May 19th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
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Thanks, Tina, I've been reading on that web page...it seems like I'm doing everything right, it may be that I am not patient enough! And I think I'll wait a few days, then just move the reluctant wrigglers to the uppermost bin. I have a small old stock tank that I wanted to use, but DH wanted a more "professional" one...he is probably right, cause I think I have to bring it inside for the winter? Haven't gotten to that on the information web page yet. We sometimes do get to -20 so things have a tendency to freeze solid, so wouldn't the worms freeze? So much to learn! Thanks again,


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Yes, your worms would freeze. They may be able to live over in a garage or an outbuilding though. Depending on temps. Do you heat your greenhouse at all?


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No I don't heat my greenhouse, with our cold it would just be cost prohibative. I did plan on bringing my worm farm in the house. I have a small room off my work room. It doubles as a dyeing room, then becomes a seedling room and I figure to "winter" the worms in there and let them continue to make compost! That was another reason to buy a smaller unit that I can move around, the small stock tank would be impossible to move into the house haha (I just pictured trying to do that) Well I'm going to be patient until Tues, then I going to move all the worms up from the basement whether they want to or not!


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Awesome!


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