Super soil is good. But is it really the best?

Beaver, I don't live in the desert, but Texas sometimes seems like one and we don't have basements either. To vermicompost here, you have two options. You can put your worm farm in the garage as an insulator, or you can do as I did and go bigger. We built a flow through compost bins out of 55 gallon drums last spring. As the drum fills, the worm bins have more mass to help insulate from the crazy heat we get during the summers. Although the bins are outdoors, I do keep them in a shaded area with little to no direct sunlight. My worms thrived through a summer of over 60 days of 100 degrees or higher. One thing though.....always bury your worms meals beneath the surface and don't overfeed them. If you don't the stench in the summer is pretty bad.

The bigger the biomass of the bin, the easier it will be for the worms to handle the temps. Another option would be Black Soldier Fly Larvae. They eat more than five times what a worm will and die quickly after becoming flies.