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Without a Winter Worm Worry

I live in a super old and drafty house, and in the wintertime I always wonder if my worms will survive. The worms reside in the colder half of my basement, but apparently it's no problem for them: I was reading my Worm Briefs email subscription and there were testimonials of people that had worms surviving in both sub zero and above 100F temperatures! Check this out: "I've had redworms survive Winnipeg winters for 2 years in a row. Frost gets down past 6" as I recall (could be wrong) and we do get rather severe winter temperatures. This year we have a thick blanket of snow but last year the sledders were complaining quite a bit. Not sure of temperatures under the snow but this evening we're at -32…

Plastic Worm Bin-07-12-12 (article)

I'm a regular reader of Bentley Christie's redwormcomposting.com and he just posted recently about his new worm bin aging experiment...check it out: http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/plastic-worm-bin-07-12-12/ As he demonstrates, it's really important to add your materials long before you get your worms so the insides are nice and damp (but no pooling on the bottom) and the contents are mixed up evenly. I had my bin for a few months, but the upkeep on it got to be a little much for me, and that's when I switched to the Worm Inn...no more moisture issues with that thing. Although I recently skipped town for a little over a week, and when I came back I thought my worms were all dead from a dried out system...luckily I still had time in this 100F+…

My Life With Worms by Bentley Christie (review)

I've been following Bentley Christie's Red Worm Composting site for quite some time now, just reading over the material and watching videos to prep myself for suddenly owning 1,000 pets. Other than the first night where nearly every worm in the bin tried to escape (I realized there weren't enough air holes!), it's been a breeze maintaining them and watching them multiply. His expertise certainly helped me become a professional in short time, and I thank him for that. His writing style is a trip, and I've been begging him to write a guest article for this page for quite some time (feel free to harass him). When he told me he was near completion with writing a book, I was thinking to myself "finally, the end-all be-all worm…