How-To episode for you guys today! In this one I’ll show you how I’ve been breeding and raising my own worms. I don’t know about you guys but I spend a lot of money on worms for fishing every month. Not exaggerating when I say I possibly spend $100 a year. I use worms for bait fishing, Bass, and some Catfish species. Since it’s so easy and cheap to make a worm breeder box, I decided to try it out and its really paid off only 2 months in. All you need is a container with a lid, preferably one that has latches to keep it closed and prevent your worms from getting out. Some soil, I use Miracle Grow’s Nature’s Care Organic Potting Mix. And Worms. This $10 investment can really pay off if you do it right.
Some key points to remember to make this project successful is:
1.Make sure your soil is always damp and moist. Worms need moisture to survive and keep happy.
2.Make sure they have plenty of food. I use cricket feed from Petsmart/Petco. $4 and will feed them for months. You can use old vegetables too.
3.Chose your soil wisely. A lot of commercial gardening soils and potting soils have harmful chemicals that will harm and kill your worms.
4. Choose your Worm breed wisely. Some breeds like Canadian Earthworms need to be cold and pretty much refrigerated to stay alive. I use big Red Worms and they do fine in warmer climates.
5.It takes time. This will not happen overnight. It took me a month before I started to notice worm eggs/cocoons and little babies. But once they started to get comfortable my box has cocoons and little worms everywhere. My population of 60 worms to start off has tripled in only a couple months!
Follow those steps and you should be fine. Breeding and raising these guys is not hard. If you find your worm box isn’t producing I can guarantee It’s because you have one of those 5 points wrong. So hopefully this can help you guys out and save you some money because it sure did for me!!!!
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Great video I did exactly what you said and I have been doing it for just over a month and I can see a lot of babies and a lot of eggs thank you
How many times a week do you spray water
And how long after playcing them in the box do you start feeding?
Great video, thanks.
Ten dollars?
For the container, compost, and worms you're talking fifty dollars worth in rip off, taxed to the nuts England.
Fantastic video about setting up a worm farm ! I am a subscriber to you now . Love from Oklahoma 👍
Materials cost $10 in 2016… $30 in 2022.. will probably be $100 in $2023 😂
Do you need to drill holes in the bottom? Or is drilling holes in the top only ok? Thanks!
Great vid , thanks for the tips, $10 6yrs ago, $60 today…. but still worth it…
how warm of an environment to store them in? Like a garage in the house etc… I'm in Arizona as well. Just curious if 100*F is gonna cook them.
WHERE did you buy those two containers of worms? That is an important part of the story. Give the place and price.
Love it! No need to BUY "cricket food." Use leaves and kitchen wastes, preferably organic (either bought or from your own organic backyard garden).
I asked about how often you feed them. I found it in the comments. Thank you, great video. I'm going to do it.
Great video! I'm going to try it out this week. My husband and I just got a cabin on Crescent Lake in Florida. We aren't there all the time, about 15 days a month, so I'm going to try to supplement with some eggshells and bananas while we are gone. I may have to ask my neighbor to worm sit… 😉
This is really helpful because I am moving to the boonies and need to start breeding for my pacman frog
I'm getting ready to start a worm farm on my homestead. This seems like a good and simple way to get started. Is this method still successful for you and do you still recommend starting out this way?
I always found average garden worms good for trout fishing, usually grey or red in colour , but havent had any success with bought worms or any composting worm varieties. Just what i experienced. Ive never caught a trout on a red tiger worm which used to sold as trout bait. Don't see them much these days. Fishing shops here are marketing an African variety(s) for bait, but I have no success with that either. Power bait seems to work quite well, but the marketed bait worms are questionable. Im going ok with garden worms as long as its not the marketed variety.
this channel proably isnt active anymore but how big are the totes you're using in the video
Worms don't like transparent containers like this
+ Make holes on the top so they can breathe
Around 10 or so dollars 5 years ago. Paying that price alone ruffly for the soil alone now. Still cheaper in the long run.
So how would that work in Arizona? Would we have to keep it in the refrigerator?
Thank you for this. I will be doing this to have a supply for my axolotls!
