Redworm Tips

 Remember, redworms feed on in the top 6 to 8 inches and on the surface. If you have problems with the worms crawling at night you may need to have a 100 watt light bulb over the worm beds. A damp dark night or heavy rains tend to start the worms crawling around. Worms will double in there numbers every 60 - 90 days. Worms can be stock 1 pound per square foot or less.

Simple ways to raise redworms

• Raise redworms in the basement in an old outbuilding under shade trees.
• Keep your bedding at least 8 inches deep.
• You can use soak peat moss for a day or two before adding redworms. 
• Raise your redworms in a compost pile, for the redworm is a compost worm.
• Don't let your beds dry out, alway's keep your worms and bedding wet. 

Feed for Redworms

• Any Horse, cow, pig, or rabbit manure will do.
• We use Rabbit manure. Check your local feed store to see who buys rabbit feed in bulk they can help you.
• Some feed stores have worm chow made for growing worms.
• Chicken laying mash works good.
• Chop up cardboard, black and white newspaper, the tube in paper towel and toilet paper works as a feed for redworms.
• Coffee grounds and filters in fact the first time I grew a few redworms in pure coffee grounds. Tea bags
• Anything you would use for your compost pile the redworm will eat. Oak, maple birch leaves will work, aviod pine needles to acid. 

• 5 gallon plastic buckets.
• 55 gallon barrels cut in half either way.
• old bath tubs.
• water troughs these come in all sizes.
• build a box with treated wood I recommend no wider than 30 inches and as long as you wish. I keep mine worm beds at about 6 feet long easy to manage.
• make sure all containers can drain well.
• use concrete blocks and make a raise worm bed best in the southern states.
• make shallow pits and line it with a thin layer of concrete be sure to cover it from the rain.

When feeding your redworms manure from horse, cow are rabbits on your worm beds I suggest 1 to 3 inches. How often will depend on how many worms you have in your beds. If you have an average of 1/2 to 1 pound of worms per square foot then 1 to 3 inches will be added once every 10 to 14 days. Depending on the conditions one being tempature which is idea at around 60 to 70 degres. If the conditions are cold 40 degres are below the redworms will eat less.

Redworms needs to have total darkness I place cardboard boxes on top of my worm beds. This does a couple of things 1.) it help to keep the surface dark when you lift up the boxes the some of the worms are right on top of the bedding. 2.) Having the cardboard boxes on top help to hold the moister in when the weather start to warm up. The redworms will also eat on the boxes which it good, for the boxes that are held together with the glue is high in protein and the worms love to eat the cardboard.

If you have your worm beds up in the air in plastic barrels I would paint the outside with black paint, if they are the clear plastic type. 

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