Northwest Wigglers is proud to add the WORM INN to our product list of  worm composting bins.  This is a wonderful design that is made from breathable materials.  Keep it in your kitchen, your laundry room, or your garage.  With the Worm Inn you don’t need to bend down to feed your red wigglers.  Hang it at hip level for easy filling.  Just pull the draw string on the bottom to release the castings.

Continuous flow worm bins are built with the worms habits  in mind.  Composting worms are top dwelling worms.  As your worms consume the material in the bin, you will be adding your new food and bedding to the top of the bin.  The worms will keep moving upward and leave their castings behind on the bottom of the bin.  This method is a low maintenance way to harvest castings and care for your worms.  Check out the Worm Inn here!

Worm Inn Flower Power

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Save $20 on Alabama Jumpers during the Month of February!  Alabama Jumpers are great worms that can help aerate even the thickest clay soil.  Just drop them in your garden, provide them with some damp organic material, and they will be very happy to go to work for you in your yard.

This is a great price for these highly desirable after worms.  Don’t miss your opportunity to get started with these blowout prices.

Red Wigglers are great composters but do not do well in soil.  These are huge nightcrawlers that will JUMP out of your hand.

Worms only eat DEAD material, leaves, damp newspaper, etc. THEY DO NO HARM TO ANY LIVING PLANTS.

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Question: Can I put red wigglers out in my garden?

Answer: This is a yes/no question. Red Wigglers are strictly a composting worm. They live off of decaying matter on the grounds surface. Unlike the worms you may find out in your yard or garden, they do not burrow down into the soil. If you garden is rich with organic material ie leaves, grass clippings, food scrapes, ect… they will be happy to feed and deposit castings in that area. Some people will pocket feed or trench feed their worms in the garden to keep them happy by burying food scraps. Without this type of food source available, the Red Wigglers will either move on or die off.

For a great garden worm try our Alabama Jumpers.  They do well in clay and sandy soils.  Because they have tougher skin than the red wigglers, they can burrow down and in doing so they help loosen up the soil.  (Depositing castings along the way)

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We get asked this question a lot.  Can Red Wigglers and European Nightcrawlers cohabitate?   Yes they can.  In fact, these two types of worms have very similiar qualities and do very well together.  Both can survive in temperatures between 40 -95 degrees.  They both are the most active in temperatures ranging from 65-85 degrees.  Although the Red Wiggler is the most well known composting worm around, the European Nightcrawler comes in a close second.  They are great composters and will eat from the same food sources as the Red Wiggler.

You may hear people say that you cannot keep Nightcrawlers in a bin because they are not the right type of worms to use for composting.  This maybe true of other varieties of Nightcrawlers and earthworms that you may find in your backyard.  In fact, the European Nightcrawlers do very well in all types of worm bins.  We have a few pounds that we keep in a Gusanito Worm bin and they are quite happy.  They migrate up through the trays with ease.

The European Nightcrawlers are similar to appearance to the Red Wigglers.   However, you will notice that they are quite a bit fatter.  These worms have a nice girth to them that make them a great bait worm.   I personally prefer the European Nightcrawlers over the Red Wigglers because of their size.  Most kids at the schools we go to also seem to have the same opionion!

So if you have trouble deciding which worms you want to get for your compost bin this spring, why not try both.  We now sell these two great worms together in mixed batches.  You can find them here:  MIXED WORMS

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Come visit us at the

2010 Country Living Expo

& Cattlemen’s Winterschool

Saturday January 30, 2009

Loction:   Stanwood,  Washington

Presented by WSU Extension, WSU Livestock Master Foundation
and the Cattlemen’s Association

For more information visit:   http://skagit.wsu.edu/CountryLivingExpo/

We will have worm bins including the new Worm Inn (coming soon), Red Wigglers and European Nightcrawlers on hand.    If you are planning on attending the Country Living Expo,  you can  pre-order worms and bins to pickup at the event.  Contact us for more information.

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