Get Worms From The Garden?

[big rockpile]

Thinking of taking a plastic Tote with holes bury it some in my Garden and put Kitchen Waste in it drawing Worms.

Will this work?

big rockpile

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I have used a bottomless plastic compost bin stood on aviary wire laid on the ground. An unprotected bin of kitchen waste attracts vermin, they can't chew into the bin because it is rounded, and they can't tunnel in because of the wire. It certainly attracts worms. The ones that are attracted to the kitchen waste are quite different, and they take a while to multiply, but then they make wriggling masses embedded in the composting waste.
I would say get something like an old food bucket, take the end off so you have a cylinder, stand it on some mesh on a bit of bare earth, find a bit of metal sheet to put across the top and keep it filled with kitchen waste as it rots down. You won't need a whole bin full like I had, I was doing it for the compost.
It seems worms can really get places. My daughter has a small back yard that is concreted over, she grows in pots and used an old container she found to make a compost heap like that on the concrete, worms found their way into that.

 

[Anniekay]

You'll attract more worms more quickly by removing the bottom all together.

 

[GFTL]

Just bury the scraps all across your garden. The worms will find them and the whole garden will benefit, not just 1 area.

 

[big rockpile]

Oh I'm thinking fishing too.

If i could get around better after rain I can get couple hundred Nightcrawlers.

big rockpile

 

[GFTL]

Oh I'm thinking fishing too.

If i could get around better after rain I can get couple hundred Nightcrawlers.

big rockpile

You don't have to do that. Like they say " build it and they will come".

 

[tim41]

I bury my veg scraps direct into my raised garden bed into different areas of the bed. Few days later all scraps are gone. Got hundreds of worms both big and small. Use a marker rod so I don't do the same area twice in a row. Been doing that for a lot of years now with great success. Even do it in my large pots.

 

[MiTmite9]

I have used a bottomless plastic compost bin stood on aviary wire laid on the ground. An unprotected bin of kitchen waste attracts vermin, they can't chew into the bin because it is rounded, and they can't tunnel in because of the wire. It certainly attracts worms. The ones that are attracted to the kitchen waste are quite different, and they take a while to multiply, but then they make wriggling masses embedded in the composting waste.
I would say get something like an old food bucket, take the end off so you have a cylinder, stand it on some mesh on a bit of bare earth, find a bit of metal sheet to put across the top and keep it filled with kitchen waste as it rots down. You won't need a whole bin full like I had, I was doing it for the compost.
It seems worms can really get places. My daughter has a small back yard that is concreted over, she grows in pots and used an old container she found to make a compost heap like that on the concrete, worms found their way into that.

Worm eggs often come in with worm castings or organic potting soil.

 

[Charlie 001]

Believe it or not there are different species of worms. To keep it simple compost worms lovely things ,quite red in colour, Not the same as worms in the soil ( bit bland in comparison). Compost worms won survive long in the soil so don’t bother scooping them up and transferring them
best thing to do is simply pile lots of well rotted organic matter on top of the soil. The worms will eventually make their own way

 

[tim41]

Thats why I bury direct scraps into my soil. I bury 6 inches deep. Have a few different types of worms. Bigger ones bury deep in the soil. Two different kind of smaller ones who don't bury deep at all. Turn over a spade of dirt and see a lot of different types of worms. Bought worms a few years ago. They lasted about a week and were gone. Also keep a few inches of shredded leaves and grass clippings over my raised beds. Charlie 001 is right. The right organic pile will give you the worms you need in the garden.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Believe it or not there are different species of worms. To keep it simple compost worms lovely things ,quite red in colour, Not the same as worms in the soil ( bit bland in comparison). Compost worms won survive long in the soil so don’t bother scooping them up and transferring them
best thing to do is simply pile lots of well rotted organic matter on top of the soil. The worms will eventually make their own way

Compost worms always turn up when I make a compost heap, so they must be able to survive for a reasonable time in the soil. My daughter lives in London and has a concreted yard, she grows things in pots and started some compost in a large can she found, the worms found their way to it across the concrete, and I would be surprised if anyone else much has a compost heap in her area. Thinking about it they must have evolved before compost heaps, and they must be able to explore looking for vegetable matter in or on the earth and then move on to the next lot when they have processed it.
I looked them up once, there is quite a range of species eating everything from microbial matter to dead leaves, some will pull leaves down into the soil, some just look for where they gather when they blow. The ones making casts on the surface are usually the ones after microbes and such in the soil, they take the soil in, process it for food and excrete the rest.
If Big Rockpile wants them for fishing I don't know, but I would guess, some may be better than others, you might even find the taste in worms differs with different kinds of fish. The sticklebacks we kept as kids loved ordinary earth worms, but we had to chop them up, dropped them in hot water to kill them first.