Sharon:
The best worm bin citizens are red wrigglers; which, yes are also sold
as bait worms. But they are only recommended for use IN worm bins and the
bins must be indoors over winter in the North. Outdoor beds should already
be full of their own worms--naturally.
Red brandling worms are excellent for both. We don't do vermicomposting
on site here in Bloomington, IN (zone 5), although we do worm finishing of
compost in our community garden bins.
Michael
One of my fellow community gardeners brought up a question I couldn't
answer, so I thought I would
Hi Sharon,
While the red wiggler is the popular worm for composting, most of us who have
been doing it for a while know that the European Night Crawler is equally
good at composting and has the advantage of being larger thus serving double
duty
as a great fishing worm. I raise both of them
Is there a worm that is a good compost worm and also useful as fishing bait?
The worms that naturally appear when I add kitchen wastes to a part of the garden would do just fine. Especially when they're nice and big and fat. However, pity the poor fisherman who tries to steal one of my
I am working on a newsletter article for our gardening group that grows a
wide
variety of food items , usual american as well as many from
a variety of ethnic tradtions. I'd like to include some reviews of recent
cookbooks that have a good whole foods vegetable/fruit orientation. Some
past
Hello all you wormy folks,
I don't dispute your red wiggler recommendations, my compost bins are filled
with them and they are very good workers. But as far as using them for
fishing, be extremely cautious how you use earthworms. Most species of
earthworms ain't from here and have no
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