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They like temperatures around 70s and humid environments. I read they become slow below 50 and they die at 33 F. I’d put them inside my garage and put a heavy quilt over, or inside a kitchen cabinet.
I created a place in the ground about 2 feet deep with weed mesh at the bottom.
It’s dipping down to -9 tonight. I am wondering if they will survive. Guess I will find out this summer
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As the Swag is twice the capacity of the tray systems, it’s much less likely that your worms will suffer, though they DO slow down when they are colder.
You can remedy that by feeding them things that ‘warm up’ like fresh grass clippings, (if you can get them in winter!), fresh animal manures, and stuff like chicken mash heats when compacted and dampened. It gives them a little heat cover.
Keep the Swag full, so the worms are in maximum bedding.
Cheers
Hey FGE, I presume you must be talking fahrenheit! As I’m an Australian worm farmer, I’m more used to seeing people cook their worms in the smaller plastic tray systems, but yes, of course measures need to be taken to protect any live stock form extreme temperatures.
If you’re getting minus zero temps, then you should have your worm farm in a garage, shed or in a protected basement.
To be continued……..
Hey reaper, I have used those old tray ones as well as the Swag, and can tell you the Swag is WAY better. It holds heaps more, and I don’t keep losing my worms down in the bottom trays, or drowning them.
The manufacture and material is really good quality, and mine’s been going for about 4 or 5 years so far.
I’ve been into vermiculture for a long time, and this is the best one I’ve found for domestic use.
A lot of the cost of building these is in the labour. The sewing involved is actually pretty complex.
That’s something we like about it. It means less of the money goes to oil companies for manufacturing plastic and more of the money goes to giving people jobs.
good on ya just seems like a lot of money for a swag that doesnt look that complicated to build im using a 3 piece tray worm farm thats fine for me but this swag really interests me
Brilliant. My mum has one in Scotland and says even in the cold there it’s going well. I have just bought some for presents so my friends can all make their own fertiliser and grow veggies and stuff.
Good luck.
They like temperatures around 70s and humid environments. I read they become slow below 50 and they die at 33 F. I’d put them inside my garage and put a heavy quilt over, or inside a kitchen cabinet.
Good luck.
I created a place in the ground about 2 feet deep with weed mesh at the bottom.
It’s dipping down to -9 tonight. I am wondering if they will survive. Guess I will find out this summer
YES!
Below 33 F worms are toast.
Continued……..
As the Swag is twice the capacity of the tray systems, it’s much less likely that your worms will suffer, though they DO slow down when they are colder.
You can remedy that by feeding them things that ‘warm up’ like fresh grass clippings, (if you can get them in winter!), fresh animal manures, and stuff like chicken mash heats when compacted and dampened. It gives them a little heat cover.
Keep the Swag full, so the worms are in maximum bedding.
Cheers
Hey FGE, I presume you must be talking fahrenheit! As I’m an Australian worm farmer, I’m more used to seeing people cook their worms in the smaller plastic tray systems, but yes, of course measures need to be taken to protect any live stock form extreme temperatures.
If you’re getting minus zero temps, then you should have your worm farm in a garage, shed or in a protected basement.
To be continued……..
If the temparature drops to 25 degrees in the winter I wonder if the worms would freeze to death in that thing
Hey reaper, I have used those old tray ones as well as the Swag, and can tell you the Swag is WAY better. It holds heaps more, and I don’t keep losing my worms down in the bottom trays, or drowning them.
The manufacture and material is really good quality, and mine’s been going for about 4 or 5 years so far.
I’ve been into vermiculture for a long time, and this is the best one I’ve found for domestic use.
A lot of the cost of building these is in the labour. The sewing involved is actually pretty complex.
That’s something we like about it. It means less of the money goes to oil companies for manufacturing plastic and more of the money goes to giving people jobs.
good on ya just seems like a lot of money for a swag that doesnt look that complicated to build im using a 3 piece tray worm farm thats fine for me but this swag really interests me
Brilliant. My mum has one in Scotland and says even in the cold there it’s going well. I have just bought some for presents so my friends can all make their own fertiliser and grow veggies and stuff.