Originally posted by: AWMoose on 12/15/2006 12:38:32 AM

We used to use an old icebox buried in the ground. Fill it about 3/4 full of paper & a good worm bedding. The idea is to use layers of each. After a while it will all be mixed together. Buy a few dozen worms or catch em in your yard if your lucky like me. Put the worms in and let em multiply. We used to put scraps from vegtables and used coffee grounds in for food. Plus about once a month turn the dirt with a pitchfork. We used to get about 50 dozen worms out of the box a year. When winter came we put several crushed cardboard boxes over the top of the dirt and covered it up till spring. After the icebox rotted in the ground I could find Crawlers in my yard all summer just by watering the grass. I moved to Illinois and got lucky my neighbors yard has Crawlers we catch by the coffee can full when we need em. They used to sell them for 50 cents a dozen. Then after a while I went to get some & she told me to catch em anytime I wanted some. Only rule is let them know before hand so they know who's crawling around thier yard in the middle of the night.

Originally posted by: bigbassfisherman on 12/14/2006 6:14:33 PM

I use worms(nightcrawlers) alot when catching bait fish and stuff and it can be costly seein as how I fish a whole lot.I have heard about people makin worm farms or something that is a box or something that worms reproduce in and I was really wantin to do it to save money.I think I heard one time about papa_d talkin about it.If yall know any thing about it id be much obliged for the help.

thanks,Tim Winegard

Originally posted by: C F Hall on 12/15/2006 11:33:19 AM

BBS, maybe this will help you
http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/E...ormbin.htm

Originally posted by: bigbassfisherman on 12/15/2006 7:40:32 PM

Thanks fer the info.

Originally posted by: Eric Staggs on 12/18/2006 11:50:53 AM

All I can hear in my head right now is the character on Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd and Harry are talking about what they are going to do:

"I say we stay here, we both get jobs, and save up for the Worm farm". God that is funny stuff.

Originally posted by: lbt on 12/18/2006 12:51:37 PM

we used a old bathtub @ my meemaws as kids, or just dumped are old wormes in a mulch pile to find um later.

in my yard if i drive a stake in the ground and tap the sides, it brings tons of worms up some as big as small snakes, if the worms don't cum up they might be to deep in the winter but if you keep bang'n the stake they should keep cum'n up and eventuly be easy pik'ns....what not to do, i put 1/4 cup of bleach in my kids pool this summer to keep it clean and algea free, i had the pool full for a while and even added more water but when i dumped it i had a worm hollicost....millons of worms came up in a split secound and most died, i never knew so many worms could be in such a small area i was in aww for awhile...I won't kill my dirty friends like that again....

the info from CF Hall looks good....

Originally posted by: Celliach on 12/18/2006 1:14:25 PM

Go back to the top of this column and click on the "Find" button. Type in "worm farm," and don't forget to uncheck where it says "Search current forum only." You'll find everything ever posted on these boards that pertains to worm farms.

Originally posted by: papa_d on 12/18/2006 3:14:55 PM

I have a small one in my Bedroom Closet. I have a large Coleman Cooler with shredded Mulch and coffee grounds. I also add banana peels on occasion. I thinks I've got about 30 dozzen in there now + rugrats crawlers... <!--graemlin::D-->

Originally posted by: pillman on 12/18/2006 4:02:48 PM

Old Papa-d, he had a farm e-i-e-i-o, and on his farm he had some worms, e-i-e-i-o