Comments on: Keeping Worms Outside in Cold Weather https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/keeping-worms-outside-in-cold-weather/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=keeping-worms-outside-in-cold-weather WAY Too Much Fun With Worms! Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: GA https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/keeping-worms-outside-in-cold-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-43538 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:52:33 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=9486#comment-43538 There are two different aspects to this:

1) Worms surviving winter: my own experience in weather much colder than Santa Fe is that in a fairly big pile, they will survive freezing solid and bounce back in spring.

2) “Producing more” – they won’t produce when frozen solid, of course. So you can try Bentley’s suggestions.

But my suggestion would be to try both – keep a bin inside, and a pile outside (using Ben’s ideas). They’ll ‘chow down’ in spring and reproduce quickly then. In the meantime you’ve got your inside bin keeping things ticking along.

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