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LonghornBoater
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Fishing Worms
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7/12/2009 4:24:06 PM
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How difficult would it be to build/make a "worm farm" in a remote section of my yard? I would love to be able to dig for worms as a prelude to fishing with granddaddy and am ruining my yard looking for the things.
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Mack
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Fishing Worms
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7/12/2009 5:28:52 PM
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Not what you are looking for, but... I store left over worms from the "Blue Boxes" in a 5 gallon bucket filled with mulch/compost type soil, similar to the soil that comes in the boxes you buy. I keep it under the house in the crawl space, covered with a cloth, and feed them with coffee grounds and small amounts of organic waste, stirred into soil. Water lightly on occasion. They keep for months well. Easy to add to. Easy to get a few at a time to fish.
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Mack
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More on a Worm Farm>>
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7/13/2009 6:01:33 PM
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A bucket in the crawl space is probably not what you want. I Googled "Worm Farms" and got several hits on how to do it. Interesting reading. Try it.
A friend at LM found a shady spot(important) in his yard and buried (to ground level) a bathtub he got at a salvage yard for almost nothing. Knocked a couple of holes in the bottom for drainage, covered the bottom with window screen (so they cannot escape), filled it with compost/dirt and threw in a couple of boxes of Wigglers. Depended on rain to water them, and morning coffee grounds/evening salad trimmings/fruit peels/ to feed them.
There is room to go deep if dry weather, or shallow when wet. Easy to turn over with small shovel and pick up.
Good luck. Let us know what you do, sounds like fun.
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Feb
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Fishing Worms
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7/14/2009 12:05:15 AM
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Interesting discussion. I had read some of the same things on the internet to include the discarded bathtub set-up. I have also read you need to keep your worm beds above ground and in their own worm beds where you can easily shift the soil and food around for the worms. I seem to recall there were plans of how to construct the worm beds.
When I retired, everyone ask me what I was going to do in retirement. I stated: I was going to start a worm farm and sell to all the local bait shops. Otherwise, I was going to test my worms with the fish as a quality control process. LOL
I did do some research at the time just to keep my co-workers guessing about my retirement plans and figured out it was much more work than I wanted to do in retirement. LOL
I do buy worms and keep them in the refrigerator. They seem to last for months at a time just being refrigerated. Much easier than raising them.
Can you actually grow pink worms in this area? I have heard they will only grow in Florida. They seem to be the favorite worms for Lake Martin fishing. I do not know, but it may have to do with moss??? I am guessing the moss has to be worked in with the soil of the worm beds???
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muddauber
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Fishing Worms
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7/14/2009 7:20:19 AM
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I've got a shaded section alongside the driveway. Added topsoil, bought some flat tails and added em to the soil. Tends to be leaf covered and slightly moist all the time. Small pitch fork to dig around with yields plenty of worms.
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