Comments on: Worms in Compost Tumblers https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worms-in-compost-tumblers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=worms-in-compost-tumblers WAY Too Much Fun With Worms! Thu, 06 Jan 2022 23:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Douglas Waldrep https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worms-in-compost-tumblers/comment-page-1/#comment-1050640 Thu, 06 Jan 2022 23:58:27 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=4305#comment-1050640 Worms do well in tumbling com-posters as long as their environment is maitines with correct amounts of food and water. Tumbling doesn’t bother them.

]]> By: Tan https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worms-in-compost-tumblers/comment-page-1/#comment-41989 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:36:37 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=4305#comment-41989 I have two tumblers, and two vermicompost buckets, and was wondering what you thought about the idea of putting works into my tumblers over the winter? Do big bins of mostly composted material seems like a toasty winter home?

]]> By: Nancy https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worms-in-compost-tumblers/comment-page-1/#comment-31071 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:20:39 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=4305#comment-31071 p.s. Bin #3 (the worm bin) gets frozen apple cores and banana peels too 😉

]]> By: Nancy https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worms-in-compost-tumblers/comment-page-1/#comment-31070 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:58:33 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=4305#comment-31070 Thank you for addressing my “worms in the compost tumbler” question! Living here in hottttt south Texas, I also “pre-compost” from our homemade tumbler (which we got instructions off the Boy Scouts website to build ourselves). I did leave just a few worms in and oddly, they are alive as of this date and quite large.

Our tumbler is “bin #2”. Bin #1 is for the freshest stuff, and bin #3 is for the worms. Bins 1 & 2 are just old recycled plastic tubs with holes drilled for drainage/aeration.

I started my worm bin last December with a $2.50 tub of 30 fishing worms from Walmart. I can’t tell you how many thousands I have now. Thank you so much for such an informative website!

]]> By: Maggie https://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/worms-in-compost-tumblers/comment-page-1/#comment-30141 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:40:50 +0000 http://www.redwormcomposting.com/?p=4305#comment-30141 I have been living in Alberta going on 5 years now and have an earth machine backyard composter. For the first 3 years I lived here I tried everything including proper ratio of brown to green additions, watering, turning, even compost accelerators and never got an inch of useable compost despite all the hard work.
Last summer I added a handful of red wigglers to my composter left the lid off so mother nature could water it for me and left it alone completely, aside from adding my food scraps. Last fall I had the most amazing compost ever! I would not even think about backyard composting anymore without the use of red wigglers.

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