Feed your worms BETWEEN THE ROWS!

Feed your worms 5 21 11

I know... I hear it all the time. "My garden has tons of worms"...

A) I doubt that you have any idea what a ton of worms looks like.

(attitude day, sorry...)

B) Let's calculate.   they eat 1# per day per pound of worms.   Let's be conservative and say they only eat 1`/2# per day.    Did you give your worms 1,000# of food yesterday?

C) If you don't feed them they will leave.    Picture this (from an old post)...   August 2010.  I turned over my garlic patch and found great garlic, dry bedding and NO WORMS!   

When was the last time that I fed them?   Fall of 2009???   Where did they go???   The adjacent compost heap.  The green lawn?   Worm Heaven?

This year I'm composting grass clippings and horse manure and putting the kitchen leftovers (microwaved) between the rows.   Let's see how we're doing in August this year.

Critter.