A Cheap Way To Raise Worms

[bigbill]

In the fall I plow up all the piles of leaves in the street and dump them in a cool shady spot. It doesn't  get any direct sunlite too. After a few years of doing this I now have a worm bed full of worms. After all its a natural compost pile of leaves. I do plan on adding night crawlers and red wigglers to it soon too. Right now I have trout sized worms. But it's free and working with no work. I may need to cover it with a tarp in the winter too.    Bill

[aqualkinbush]

If you have a woodpile those can attract tons of worms. My friend keeps a pile of logs for his wood fireplace and when he goes fishing he goes out a day or two in advance and collects worms from under the wood. Last time I went with him he had a whole mess of good fish catching wigglers.

[Snakehead Whisperer]

Throw some used coffee grounds, sliced apples and wheat flour in there to plump those worms up.  

[livetofish28]

Bread

[gramps50]

Purina Worm Chow

[xbacksideslider]

Listening to the radio the other day, a guest who wrote a book about the ecological change wrought by the arrival of Europeans to North America, he said that earth worms were not native to North America and that they arrived here in the root balls of tobacco plants.

[gramps50]

I was raising European Night crawlers for a while in a Rubbermaid been in the basement. Used peat moss and shredded newspaper for the bedding. At first I fed them kitchen scraps but it seemed to draw critters so I switched to Purina Worm Chow or I made my own out of corm meal and oatmeal, put them in the grinder and made a powder out of it also added some egg shells for grit and calcium  This was going pretty good as the ENC's will reproduce as long as there is enough room to support them. I stopped fishing with live bait so I pretty much don't do much with them now. Still have some I think but haven't been down to check lately.

[Bankbeater]

Egg shells, and coffee grounds.

[berwind19]

When I was a kid, I dug this deep hole in the ground and buried one of those Styrofoam coolers. I used to catch nightcrawlers with my dad at first, and then as I got older, by myself.  I would dump all my worms in there.  Put coffee grounds in there once a week. After I got older, I dug it up and there were still worms in there! Must have been in the ground for at least fifteen years!