Redworm Tips

A 3 x 20 foot worm bed will hold about 50,000 to 60,000 mature redworms with several harvest per year you will be able to harvest around 200,000 redworms a year. That is about 50 to 60 pounds every three months or so. Not a bad return.

Redworms are prolific breeders. A thousand mature breeders, properly cared for and allowed to multiply may give you half a million of breeders, growing more redworms and egg capsules within a year. In order to have this many worms you will need many acres of land to do this.

Redworms will eat all kinds of things from bread to coffee grounds and tea bags. Paper waist like old cardboard and black a white newspaper. Cardboard will bring on all kinds of worms fast they will eat and breed at a very good rate. The glue in the cardboard is protein based and the redworms will grow and reproduce at a fast rate.

Ways to cover your worm beds. Wet burlap sacks,feed sacks, cardboard, many layers of newspaper. These will all work to cover the worm beds, over time the worms will eat the covering and will turn it into worm castings you will then need to replace them.

Keep your worm factory in the shade, in your basement or garage or in an barn or some out building some folks even put there worms in there home and even under the kitchen sink.

When buying Redworms I would make sure they are the true type, ( Eisenia Fetida ) These redworms should be reddish color. Here at pollardworms we carry the true redworm ( Eisenia Fetida )

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