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September 16, 2014

The Worms!

Our well house has turned into a worm condo. The new set up for the red wigglers is working well and they seem happy. Time will tell.

For some reason, the concrete foundation in the well house ended about 18″ from the left wall. I’m not sure what the former owners were thinking but it was pretty inconvenient when storing things in the well house.

When we had insulation blown in, we added it to the well house too. The insulation is thick in there!

Insulation

Insulation

You can see where Vince had to dig out whatever that box is. This insulation helps keep the well house from getting too cold or too hot and I’m hoping it will be a good habitat for the worms.

Well House

Well House

Vince filled in the gap between the foundation and the wall with sand and leveled it all out. 

Worm Houses

Worm Houses

The worms are all set up now. Two box of red wigglers and two boxes of meal worms. I know we can keep them warm enough in the winter but I’m not real sure I can keep them cool enough in the summer . . we shall see.

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  1. Sandy says

    September 16, 2014 at 9:37 am

    I must have missed the information about why you are raising worms. Fishing? Chicken food?

  2. Verna says

    September 16, 2014 at 5:43 pm

    Ha! I can’t help but think of Lloyd in the movie “Dumb and Dumber”–he and his friend Harry were going to open their own pet store (specializing in worm farms) and call it “I Got Worms”!

  3. karen clark says

    September 16, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    Judy, I received a worm set up at Christmas from my two grandchildren. Did not have much luck with them (The worms were delayed by bad weather, etc.) I am going to try again. Question, why are the legs of the base unit in coffee cans? My worms would never go up to the next level!

  4. Lee says

    September 16, 2014 at 11:44 pm

    I still have my worm set-up but it’s been years since I ‘operated’ it. They did a great job devouring kitchen scraps and providing liquid for a year or two. I still have a number of bottles I filled out in the shed. Unfortunately my colony was invaded by a beneficial wasp, whose sole purpose was to produce larva which devoured the food – maybe even the worms – and all was lost. I’ve since forgotten what that ‘wasp’ was called – it was small and black but could not sting.

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