Comments on: Help Your Worms Beat The Heat http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/help-your-worms-beat-the-heat/ Red Wiggler Worms, European Nightcrawlers and loads of helpful Worm Composting Information Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bentley http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/help-your-worms-beat-the-heat/#comment-7806 Bentley Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:18:58 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=191#comment-7806 Thanks for the comments, guys! James, I'd certainly love to see a picture of this mystery thing (for lack of a better word) sprouting from your pineapple. Sounds like some sort of fungus to me. B Thanks for the comments, guys!
James, I’d certainly love to see a picture of this mystery thing (for lack of a better word) sprouting from your pineapple. Sounds like some sort of fungus to me.

B

]]> By: Jo' http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/help-your-worms-beat-the-heat/#comment-7790 Jo' Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:07:22 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=191#comment-7790 Hi, My strategy for helping my worms beat the heat is to place a few ice cubes (2 per sqft) inside the bin, on top of the bedding. I do this in the middle of the afternoon either each day or every other day. It seems to do the trick and my worms survived this past heat wave. Make sure you that extra water has a place to run off to at the bottom. You wouldn't want to drown your worms. Hope that helps! Jo' Hi,

My strategy for helping my worms beat the heat is to place a few ice cubes (2 per sqft) inside the bin, on top of the bedding. I do this in the middle of the afternoon either each day or every other day. It seems to do the trick and my worms survived this past heat wave. Make sure you that extra water has a place to run off to at the bottom. You wouldn’t want to drown your worms.

Hope that helps!
Jo’

]]> By: james http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/help-your-worms-beat-the-heat/#comment-7788 james Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:06:18 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=191#comment-7788 Hi everyone I have done a lot of research on worms and curiousty is out there but not weather related. I have created my own worm bin out of a plastic tub. I started out good with a pound of redworms I have had them for about a month. I did not have an odor problem until I gave them pine apple and cantaloupe these mites seem too consume more food than the redworms do so I threw most of the cantaloupe out and noticed something sprouting from the fresh head of the pine apple, this thing 2-3 " inches tall and about half a dozen of them. The pine apple is mostly gone but this spore thing has got me puzzled, thats my issue. Now for the people use drums ice cream buckets any bucket may have too catch rain water and give your red worms a shower it will not hurt them at all just make sure it drains out properly and you have something too catch that for your garden etc. Hi everyone I have done a lot of research on worms and curiousty is out there but not weather related. I have created my own worm bin out of a plastic tub. I started out good with a pound of redworms I have had them for about a month. I did not have an odor problem until I gave them pine apple and cantaloupe these mites seem too consume more food than the redworms do so I threw most of the cantaloupe out and noticed something sprouting from the fresh head of the pine apple, this thing 2-3 ” inches tall and about half a dozen of them. The pine apple is mostly gone but this spore thing has got me puzzled, thats my issue. Now for the people use drums ice cream buckets any bucket may have too catch rain water and give your red worms a shower it will not hurt them at all just make sure it drains out properly and you have something too catch that for your garden etc.

]]> By: Caroline http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/help-your-worms-beat-the-heat/#comment-7769 Caroline Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:55:50 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=191#comment-7769 Wow, these are great suggestions. I think I inadvertently killed off my worms due to heat as well. I had actually contacted you some time ago because I had problems my bin. At first it was too wet and had invited a gnat infestation. I had then mixed in dry soil to dry up my soggy bin and had lost a lot of worms in the process. Well, the population was recovering it seemed and the gnats were under control as well, except a week or so ago when I checked there were no worms anywhere. The apartment shouldn't have gone higher than 85 degrees based on our A/C settings but this is Arizona and the bin sits close to the front door... so too much heat is all that I can think of. I'll try better next time ...in FALL =( Wow, these are great suggestions. I think I inadvertently killed off my worms due to heat as well. I had actually contacted you some time ago because I had problems my bin. At first it was too wet and had invited a gnat infestation. I had then mixed in dry soil to dry up my soggy bin and had lost a lot of worms in the process. Well, the population was recovering it seemed and the gnats were under control as well, except a week or so ago when I checked there were no worms anywhere. The apartment shouldn’t have gone higher than 85 degrees based on our A/C settings but this is Arizona and the bin sits close to the front door… so too much heat is all that I can think of. I’ll try better next time …in FALL =(

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