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FishSchooler
Do you have a place in the yard you can dig? I've always had better luck with a shovel than a flashlight. One or 2 shovel fulls then break it up with your hands should provide a mess of them.
I read you are starting a worm farm. I used to have one in Illinos, and they work very well. However I hear you can't use the nightcrawlers you find in your yard. The reason is they need to dig deep, up to 10 feet, and can't do that in a farm.
So I'm looking at red wigglers or African night crawlers to start up a new one. The Africans are really big, but don't tolerate the cold well. Red wigglers are really good, but don't get as big. I'll probably make a post here soon asking for advice on which to grow. I might do both since they can co-exist in the same farm. BTW I found a guy in McMinnville that sells starters (1,000 or so worms for $20).
If I ever get a farm established I'd be happy to provide starter colony's for free (you end up culling a BUNCH once it gets cooking), but that's at least 6 months out.
I used to have a worm farm and I got mine from my yard and they seemed to do fine. I had an old double sided deep sink with about a foot of dirt then ground newspaper on top of that.
Umm, are you using a flashlight fishschooler?
Yep I was... why?
The crawlers are doing fine in a 1.5 ft deep container. Lots of them are fat and some over a foot long. I have 2 farms, one shallow red worm farm and the crawlers. The red worms are a perfect size full grown. 2-3 inches in length and think enough to slip on the hook without trouble. Big foot long crawlers are too big I think... I dont want to cut one in half or try to put the whole thing on! I'll start selling worms everywhere I go in about a month... 1.25 for half a dozen, 2 for a dozen.
If you use a shovel, wont you be finding the regular earth worms and not night crawlers? Crawlers are too sensitive for reg shovels... I might try that... Dont want to mess up the lawn tho
I sold mine for 75 cents a dozen. Cheapest in town and sold more than anyone else! Everyone else was $1.25. That was in the late 80's.
I haven't bought worms in years. Is $2 a dozen fair? It seems like a lot to me. I guess just make sure you are cheaper than the competition and they will sell.
I sold mine for 75 cents a dozen. Cheapest in town and sold more than anyone else! Everyone else was $1.25. That was in the late 80's.
I haven't bought worms in years. Is $2 a dozen fair? It seems like a lot to me. I guess just make sure you are cheaper than the competition and they will sell.
At joes, its like 5 bucks a dozen I think. At dicks, its 4 bucks for 2 dozen rather unhealthy ones (packed in a tiny 6 oz styrofoam cup with no aeration holes... :shock. But Im sure no one would want to drive 2 extra hours just because they forgot their worms...