Can I leave a worm bed outside in freezing winter temperatures in Ohio?
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Question by tracywil0701: Can I leave a worm bed outside in freezing winter temperatures in Ohio?
I’m considering worm farming (red worms). I live in a townhouse so I’d have to keep the worm farms on my back porch. Can they survive winter’s freezing temperatures, and summer’s scorching hot temperatures? Also, I’ve heard that newspaper is the easiest bedding to use. Can you use pages with color print, or just the black and white print? Thanks!
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3 Responses to Can I leave a worm bed outside in freezing winter temperatures in Ohio?
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Yes,
They go into hibernation during the winter-
Joe M
May 12, 2011 at 3:51 pm
As long as they can get below the frost line which is typically 3 feet. No color the dyes will effect the worms.
dodger
May 12, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Absolutely not. Your worms will die. Worms must have temperatures of 50 to 85 degrees to survive and multiply. My worm farm is easily contained in my house. I have a 18 gallon wal-mart container. I drilled airholes all around the top of the container just below where the lid snaps shut. I use newspaper bedding all the time and, of course, the kitchen vegetable scraps. It does not take a huge space to create a worm farm. My container has probably 4 000 to 5000 worms and creates enough worm compost to fertilize my 30 by 40ft garden. I keep the container in a remote corner of the house and no one would even know I have a worm farm if I didn’t tell them. It just looks likes a storage box. If you want more info please feel free to email me.
juncogirl3
May 12, 2011 at 4:50 pm