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Can composting worms really double their population every 90 days? A lot of people make that claim. However, what I have heard is that they don’t double their numbers, but their biomass, every 90 days.  And since most of the new biomass is juvenile worms, the total number of worms will be far more than… Continue reading Will Composting Worms Double their Population Every 90 Days?

A question often comes up about putting composting worms in soil, perhaps in a garden bed. My personal experience says that worms will live quite well in a garden bed, provided there is a very thick layer of organic mulch. Composting worms live in the decaying mulch, not in the soil. But is that really… Continue reading Will composting worms live in soil?

One of the items that is often on people’s do not feed lists is citrus. If you have been reading this blog for long, you know that I like to feed worms foods that they are not supposed to eat. I had to give citrus a try. The reason people give for not feeding citrus… Continue reading Will worms eat citrus?

I have done a lot of experiments feeding worms all kinds of things you are not supposed to feed them. If something is on a do not feed list, I have probably fed it to my worms successfully. But there are a small handful of things I have found that my worms would not eat.… Continue reading What NOT to feed your worms

I use a lot of onions in my cooking, so I wanted to know if I can feed them to my worms. This is one of those tests where I already knew the results, I just wanted to document the results on video. I have been feeding my worms onions from the very beginning, before… Continue reading I cook with a lot of onions. Can I fed them to my worms?

Eggs are usually on the do not feed list, so I just had to give them a try. After a very successful experiment with raw eggs, I was curious if it made any difference if the eggs were cooked, so I set up a feeding experiment with hard boiled eggs.

Sometimes when I do worm feeding experiments, I already know what the results will be. I just want to document those results, so that others can learn from the experiments. Sometimes I do them because I don’t know what the results will be. Gelatin was one of those experiments, and the results were not what… Continue reading Gelatin is a favorite kid food, but is it a favorite worm food? I decided to find out.

Who in their right mind would feed their worms raw eggs? I would. But then, I may not always be in my right mind when it comes to feeding worms.

People often say that you can’t feed hot or spicy foods to your worms. Is that true? I decided to find out by feeding jalapenos to my worms.

One of the things you will often find on people’s do not feed lists is dairy. I am always interested in how far you can break the rules, so I did a worm feeding experiment with yogurt. Here are the results.