worms

[ianwuzhere]

lil worm pack is now $5 at the store- like 50 cents a worm now, ive tried to keep a bunch indoors in a bucket but didnt turn out too well..

does anyone pick a bunch of worms and keep them alive during the winter months for bait?

[er-e-is]

I pick a bunch of nitecrawlers in the spring and keep them in a old cooler in the shade behind my house. A little ice on those really hot days and they last most of the summer. Don't see why the reverse wouldn't work through the winter. Just don't let them freeze. I put some native dirt and some worm bedding in, some egg shells and sprinkle corn meal on top periodically.

[ianwuzhere]

ya i think the moisture may have been off on my one test bucket- or lack of corn meal...
if price of worms keeps going up i mite have to figure it out.

[kodiak80]

At the price of gas, worms are still cheap in the big picture of things.

[er-e-is]

If only you could harness the gas that comes off a bucket of rotten worms and use that.........

[Osage]

Friend of mine kept crawlers in his cellar,kept damp news paper on top of the dirt and fed them used coffee grounds!

[salmoncandy]

dude i always have a few doze in my fridge, Just checked the ones i put in there in may and there are more than when i started. I keep them in the dairy crisper and add a used teabag every month or so,

[Dunner]

ya i think the moisture may have been off on my one test bucket- or lack of corn meal...
if price of worms keeps going up i mite have to figure it out.

My dad had great success growing them in a 68 liter rubbermaid container in the basement. The trick is to have some regular dirt in a layer so that the worms could have somewhere to go if the balance is off.

Newspaper, hay, coffee grounds and some select compost scraps did the trick.

[Drifter_016]

Back in Ontario I built a 36"X16"X16" wooden box with a hinged lid and a ventilation screen on top.
It was filled most of the way with commercial worm bedding.
In the spring I would go to baseball diamonds and pick crawlers at night.
Usually got a couple of thousand and they would last for years with little work.

[ianwuzhere]

thats the fun part is catchin all the nite crawlers.
 grassy lawns and parks at nite especially after a lil rain, armed with ice cream buckets and flash lights- tippy towing around tryin to get as many as u can
- turns out to be fun sat nite dates - beats pretending to have fun standing around a bar with an over priced drink in yer hand