Comments on: Worm Factory Worm Woes https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worm-factory-worm-woes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=worm-factory-worm-woes WAY Too Much Fun With Worms! Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:44:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bentley https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worm-factory-worm-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-40218 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:44:35 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=6346#comment-40218 In reply to Trish Meyer.

Cool idea, Trish! Thanks for sharing that.
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]]> By: Trish Meyer https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worm-factory-worm-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-40181 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:46:58 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=6346#comment-40181 Just a thought if the worms are all favoring the bottom and lower trays all of a sudden. When this happened to my bin, it was because there was a big red mite explosion and the worms ran down deep. The mites favored the top tray; when I threw the whole tray out, I did not find one worm in there.

To stop them going down to the bottom tray and wallowing around, I now use a “buffer” tray. The buffer tray is a few inches of DRY shredded cardboard. The worms don’t like it dry, so they stay in the next tray up. Eventually the dry cardboard may get a little too damp, so I use the top inch or so in the top trays and add more dry cardboard. So far so good; I’m only getting 1 or 2 woms a week in the bottom tray instead of dozens.

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