Comments on: David’s Tub Harvesting Method

By: Bentley

Bentley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:40 +0000

I’m sure this could work as well, Chris! You certainly don’t “need” a light with the other approach – it’s simply a suggestion to help speed up the process.
Not sure if it was you who emailed about this, but someone commented on the fact that worms naturally move up anyway, so it would be interesting to do a comparison of the two approaches and see which works better.
I think that’s a great idea!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:46 +0000

This looks great but I am wondering whether you couldn’t put the new bin on TOP of the old one, with something tasty in it, and let them migrate upwards. You wouldn’t need a light. Would that work?

By: Bentley

Bentley — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:05:12 +0000

Thanks everyone for chiming in with your results!

By: rusty mounsey

rusty mounsey — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:33:50 +0000

I used a small id metal screen and just layed it on top of the new bedding turned on the light and the worms went down took the top layer every 2-3 hrs done in a day 2- 5gl buckets full

By: Ann Monroe

Ann Monroe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:44:47 +0000

This method is even easier than he says, as you don’t really need the lights. We just left the top off and stirred the bin up several times a day. It took longer, but within 4-5 days most of the worms had moved down. At which point we put the lid on the bottom bin and put the old bin on top of it; any remaining worms crawled out onto the lid and were easily brushed into the new bin. MUCH easier than any other harvesting method I’ve seen.

By: Cindy Anthony

Cindy Anthony — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:22:06 +0000

This is working great! I made a bin as described. I put my new bedding in a larger bin with newspaper, peat moss, and food scraps. then placed the transfer bin on top and dumped my aged worm bin into the transfer bin. I put a screen top over the bin with a 100 watt light bulb. Like you might see on a lizard cage. It has been 24 hours, and when I checked the aged bin tonight there are very few worms left. I found a couple food clusters & broke them up. I think by tomorrow the transfer will be done! 100% improvement over my prior method of picking and hand sorting. Thanks for the practical idea.

By: Cindy Anthony

Cindy Anthony — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:28:00 +0000

Thanks… this is an idea I can work with. I was struggling with the logistics of the whole bag with holes scenario. I also use these totes and I have an extra right now…so drill time.