Night Crawlers

Qweetzy · 03-25-2011, 02:03 PM

I've been thinking about making a worm bin for myself. I want to have night crawlers handy for casual fishing but then again, I'd love to have the castings for my garden. Does anyone have a link to how to make a worm bin or can you tell me how to make one. I'm tired of paying for the critters at Wal Mart.

SweetSassyLady · 03-26-2011, 01:41 PM

@Qweetzy-I can understand about being expensive. We usually stop at a nearby bait shop and buy ours, it's just simply easier and we are usually in a hurry to get to the lake.

I found this one on Wikihow. If you do a search, you can find a bunch that are ready made and EXPENSIVE!

Grandpa · 03-27-2011, 12:11 AM

Having the tools to make it helped, but I took an open topped 55 gal drum, cut it in half, top through bottom, then welded the two halves back together at the top making the 6 foot trough. punched tiny holes along the bottom (# 4 brad) for drainage The lined it with old carpeting, shredded a bunch of newspapers in 1 in strips, wet that down, then put in about 5 inches of compost/peat mix and covered with burlap bags. Put in the shade and spray the burlap every morning with water and the worms did just fine. In the fall, the dirt got mixed back in the garden and the next spring did the same with new compost/peat.

I had the worm shockers to get the critters out of the ground and each day we would replace the worms sold the day before. Kids put up a couple signs and they would sell 10-20 dozen a day. Kids made good money for college and they kept the garden watered so the worms would be close to the surface for harvesting.

Betty · 03-29-2011, 07:58 PM

When I was a girl my grandfather had a worm box down in the basement. It was a kit that he bought. The box was the size of a tackle box and he could buy the substrate and then added from time to time.

Ilovelife · 03-31-2011, 02:33 PM

I buy mine, but I am always careful. I still have a picture of my little sister who thought the tub of worms we got from the shop was food. In the picture she has a mouth full of night crawlers and 2 of them dangling out of her mouth. Anyhow, I would be nervous to have a worm box, what if my kids did that? Ewww.