Red Worms By The Gob

Duff in VT
#1. May 4th, 2009, at 7:01 PM.

Thanks for the video Bentley. My shipment from your U.S. supplier is due this week…. I had not quite expected one pound to look quite so .. dramatic. That’s a lot of worms !

A question. We get those large plastic coffee tubs with a handle (they hold 1 gal. +/-). Online, I see people setting up individual worm farms for school kids with Cool Whip containers and thought these coffee “cans” would work even better. I would like to give a few worms to the grandkids. My question is… would these actually work as a “mini” worm bin if I had proper bedding, air hole and used only small amount of food? I am thinking 20-30 worms or so in each of these. Do you think the worms would actually survive and reproduce? I know, I know, try it and see, right? But have you had experience with any mini containers?

Mark from Kansas
#3. May 5th, 2009, at 3:52 AM.

Well I can’t leave this one alone!
Bentley, I purchased 4000 reds from you 12 weeks ago. I followed all the tips and research from your web site. Now, I have about 12,000 reds! Thanks a lot. Nobody said your worms would reproduce that fast. I have so many worms, I had to go to a friend’s farm and scoop up dried cow manure from his pasture to the sound of my wife saying “are you done yet?”. THEN I had to build 2 more bins!
I was looking at my 18 gallon tub full of beautiful black vermicompost thinking “that use to garbage”. I was also looking at our sunflowers planted with vermicompost that are 6″ taller than the other the untreated sunflowers, and alll I can say is thank you for excellant worms and a fun hobby.
Duff, good luck with your worms. You won’t be sorry.

Curtis in NC
#4. May 5th, 2009, at 3:54 AM.

Thank you so much….I got 100 for 12.So I wen out a found your website and pick up a pound for $24 more with shipping… some how ome of the worms got out.But, there wasn’t and holes in the bag.The mail lady won ever hand it to me i had o pick it up..She asked, so I told her. The look on her face was priceless…..

Dave
#5. May 5th, 2009, at 2:26 PM.

Thanks for the video. It was very eye opening, and now I know that I definitely got shorted when I got worms recently from a local supplier (it was more like a pound of bedding and about 50-100 worms, instead of a mass of worms). Though, hopefully with a lot of pumpkin, they will quickly reproduce until there are that many.

I’ve found your website to be very informative and helpful in setting up my own worm bin. Though, I do have a question: How often should/can you check up on the worms? Maybe it’s just because I’m new to this, since I want to make sure that I’m not killing them off, but I’ve also read that shifting the bin contents and exposing the worms to light stresses them. I’m not sure what the happy medium is.

Al Wright
#8. May 5th, 2009, at 4:07 PM.

Hi Bentley,
I bought a pound of reds and a pound of euros from you in February and tried my best to keep them separated, but they managed to intermingle in the bin. I’m happy to say, it hasn’t seemed to matter to them, they eat like pigs and keep reproducing. At first I wondered if they’d do battle, but they seem fine in any case. What do you think? Is is any problem? I went ahead and adde dmy “dirty dozen” huge (10″ or longer when they stretch) nightcrawlers from my experimental bin and they all get along well. Now I’m up to six bins and just ordered four more pounds of reds. I use old woodedn ammo boxes and they work well.

michael cooper
#9. May 14th, 2009, at 5:59 PM.

Thank for the video it raised a couple questions plus I broke a bone in my foot and have time to much time to kill… I recently ordered 2000 reds from Garden Worms.com growned and shipped from Uncle Jims Worm Farm in Pa. they may be the same. They made all the right promises, like weighting only the worms, and had a great price. When delievered the box and containts was barley a pound. The 2000 would easily fit in one hand and appeared to be on the edge of death and very small. There was a note attach that they do something to cause them to loose up to 70 percent of body mass. Do you know of such a procdure or did I just get taken.
It has been over 3 weeks I check them lightly (just the top layer) every day or so and I see very few worms, now I am begining to see some very small ones along with some healthy larger ones.
I once watch a video instructing that when using bins you should completly mix up the whole contends every week to provide them with more fresh air.
In the supplier defense the the worms have made a lot of castings plus it has been cold. The biggest supprise is how moist they seem to enjoy their home. I grade the bins of doing well if they do not smell and worms are not crawing out. Is this way good enough
I’m going to mix up one bin I have to see if I were taken or they staying in the center and bottom.
Sorry I did not order from you I found the other site first. However I will for sure do all my future ordering from you. Thanks, Michael, Ky

michelle
#10. May 24th, 2009, at 4:32 PM.

neat, thanks for the vids. they’re really informative

Selene Alderman
#11. May 30th, 2009, at 7:57 PM.

Hi Bentley,
Thanks so much for this video. I ordered from another supplier cause I found them first. They were also close to where I live and I figured the worms would be in better shape if I bought locally. Well, I guess it doesn’t matter how close they are to you if they don’t send you what you ordered.I ordered 1lb. I actually sat down and counted mine, yeah, I’m kinda OC, and only got 500 worms. They were mostly young juvies and not many adults. I’m definitely ordering from you next time! Also, I’ve got a problem with ants in my bin. I tried what you suggested with the honey and borax. I didn’t know what kind of ratio to use but made it pretty thick and lumpy. Then I put it on cotton balls and placed them all around the bin. I did this yesterday and today it seems like there are less ants. I hope so anyway. So thanks for that advice also. Selene