A worm bin like the worm factory 360 is the best place for them; go get one if you plan to keep them indefinitely.
I was being (partially) facetious above, but you do need to give them a temporary home with food and water. Keeping them in a fridge will slow them down, but it won't save them for very long. Many will die in transit even in cool weather. The others simply eat them.
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Was looking at that bin. How long have you had it? Works good? I wanted to put it in the mud room or basement.......how bad is the stink? Rotten stinky or good soil stinky?I was being (partially) facetious above, but you do need to give them a temporary home with food and water. Keeping them in a fridge will slow them down, but it won't save them for very long. Many will die in transit even in cool weather. The others simply eat them.
This is the type of bin I use. They say it doesn't smell, but my wife and daughter forced me to move it from the basement to the garage. Some people....
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If you want to build something, get a milk crate and put a pillow case inside of it (doesn't have to be a pillow case, a burlap bag or anything breathable that you can tie will work), add a lot of shredded newspaper and moisten it (don't soak it. Add worms, cover with more paper, then add a melon sliced in half with the cut ends down. Then a little more paper, and tie the bag at the top. That is important because the worms will try to crawl out. This won't last forever because the worms will eventually eat through the bag. If you keep a light on it will help; they don't like light.
But it will keep them alive as long as the temps aren't too extreme and you keep the paper moist and the food available.
Well I have them still in the box it came in from 2 days ago stored in a cool dark place... I want to add them to my 45 gal smart pots but i haven't added all my compost and chopped down my cover cropped or added hay on top yet so should I wait til I do all that first then add the worms ? Or is it okay to add worms before all that ?
Well I'm gonna be putting them into my 45 gal smart pots ina week once I add a humus layer, and add hay on top should i do it then or is it ok to add the worms to my containers now? I just have 1500 worms sitting in there bags in the box so I want to put them somewhere....
I realize that obviously, thats why I'm trying to figure out where to put them ?!??!
Out of curiosity, what happened that you have the cart in front of the horse? ie. If the pots weren't close to being ready, why'd you order all the worms prematurely?
Why do people pop seeds before having any plan or equipment? It's like buying gas for a car you don't have yet.......
Just get your 45 gallon pots ready and put the worms in them.
I have the v1 version. It works well but this version seems better. Mine is higher and narrower, which tends to jam the compost in at the bottom to the point where you have to claw it out. It also has draw strings at the bottom as opposed to a zipper, and the sides aren't breathable.
Yeah I saw it a few years ago and it looks like a good product. Good to know someone that actually has one.
Sure you can but worms in a container will not live forever without food. Putting some live worms in your pots is beneficial but only because they make vermicompost out of whatever they reside in. It’s the vermicompost you want; not necessarily the worms. I mean yeah a few worms lurking around in the soil is good for aeration but they won’t survive long inside a pot.
