Worms wanted

19 years ago

Would anyone who finds themself in possession of a very large worm population care do a trade?

In exchange for some worms, I have a variety of hybrid daylilies, a truly perennial cactus (zone 4), a pink lotus for you water gardeners, pink yarrow, peony, dwarf deep purple iris, mountain bluette, many varieties of stonecrop, including one pink flowering stonecrop.

This is an off the top of my head list. If there is anything in particular you would like, let me know. I may have it.

I was away from home for a while and I think I left my worms too much high-moisture food. Many crawled out while I was away. The very very little ones crawled up on the sides and perished there. I don't know what else I could have done wrong. I've taken the whole thing down and started out with new bedding. The number of worms I was able to salvage is very small. And I'm not sure all of them are going to live. They are alive, but they just don't move.

If you would trust me with some of your worms, please let me know. Thank you. Carmellia

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wormlover1
19 years ago
Hi Carmelia,

I wish I could help you out on the worms. I too am recovering from most of my worms dying during the Winter in my above-freezing-but-not-heated garage.I allowed things to get too wet and didn't really have the right bedding for the worms. I was using one inch strips from corrugated cardboard boxes. Which were OK for them to eat but they didn't really want to mate and reproduce in that bedding. As my whole colony was on it's last legs, I turned for help from my outside-in-the-snow-frozen-solid compost bin in which there had been many worms in the fall.
With the loss of my colony (herd?) I went to see if there were any worms that survived the freezing temperatures. At the bottom of the compost pile there was a ball of compost that was not frozen. Perhaps their body heat or some chemical they excrete keeps the surrounding compost from freezing. Perhaps they just keep retreating to the last unfrozen place in the compost pile.
Anyway, I passed some of that fine compost that they were in through a screen of 1/4 inch hardware cloth and the resulting fine compost made just the bedding the worms liked. I took half of the rotting foodwaste out of each tray and threw it into the compost bin. I filled the empty half with the fine compost bedding. Soon the estimated quarter pound of worms that I still had alive were breeding up a storm. I love to see all the worms lying on top of the WF trays scurry for cover when I take of the tray above. I think my hardy stock is going to recover.
Good luck with your own worm exploits. It sounds like you have some beautiful plants to offer in exchange for worms.
samekid480
19 years ago
A trade would be fun! If you would be interested in my big beautiful compost worms I can collect some for you. I posted earlier and Bill said that will work well. I collected some for my worm bin, they seem to be happy and doing thier job in the bin. Let me know if you are interested. Samantha
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kaylin002
19 years ago
I'd also like a trade if anyone would care for it? I have lots of orchids? I'm not sure what else I could trade for.

If anyone is near San Gabriel, CA we could meet up? Also willing to pay for worms too
socks
19 years ago
Kaylin, go to Jeff's Sporting Goods, believe it's on Valley. You can call ahead to be sure they have them.