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RE: Worm buckets! December 8, 2018
The red wigglers in the fishing section of Wal Mart are good composters. I started a small worm bin as a class project. We started with 5 little containers of worms (I think it was around 100 worms, all together), and by the next year, I had to break them up into two separate bins. They reproduce very quickly!
How quickly? Cause I'd love to have half a dozen of these buckets set up for em :)
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Under perfect conditions, they are supposed to be able to double the population within a few months, as long as there is space for them. It was actually really cool to learn about. They lay their eggs in little "cocoons" made of slime, and those cocoons can dry up and sit dormant for years until conditions are good for the babies to hatch out.
If you're interested in what to watch for, check out The Earthworms: The Birds, and The Bees.
Oh my God, that's an awesome post!!!!
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So how many can you sustain in a five gallon bucket?
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I'm not sure. I just noticed that, for a while, I was finding lots of those little cocoons, and then they stopped. When I split them up, the cocoons started showing up again. I guess there's something about population pressure that causes them to quit laying eggs.