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[Papa Mouse]

Here is an idea to teach your young kids about earthworms and recycling of some household food discharges and composing for your flower beds and gardening...raise common earthworms.

All you need to start them is some type small container, newspaper (Non glossy), a couple small pieces of lettuce, a little water and a couple earthworms found in your yard.

This could be educational for them too.

As they progress they can expand to other household discharges such as green items, fruits, cardboard, etc.

Or pick a regular spot in your garden without using a container. The big kids (adults ) can really compose and enrich your soil.

The earthworms will start multiplying in a little over a month or two.

Who knows....maybe one of those worms will catch that big fish.

[lauren-roxy]

Thanks for the tip!!

[home4us123]

tip. Thanks!

[Caldercup]

I would suggest reading up on vermicycling a bit: there are things you can do to improve your yield and make life more comfy for the wormies.

One trick is to use a series of dishpans that sit into each other and stack up. You put the food scraps (etc) into the top layer and the worms crawl up from the lower layers to get at it, leaving the bottom layer full of the "black gold." You can then dump that into your garden and later use it as a top layer.
Eileen

[Papa Mouse]

Reading about vermicycling is very informative and educational and I even recommend reading it.

However my intentions on this subject, as I mentioned, was directed to young kids with very basic information in hopes that if they were slightly interested that they might try it and keeping the cost to a very minimum. Most will probably become interested in other things soon and abandon the project. Once the project is abandoned the worms can be added to the garden.

With this project the young kids will not reach the point of obtaining very much liquid gold or any sizeable amount of castings. I know because I started with a few earthworms and even used vegistable sceaps from a market. I eventrally abandoned the project myself after many months.

If you are really interested in raising worms then get ino it and the best of luck to you.

For young kids wishing to try to raise worms you will learn learn much.

For a project add an inch, or more, schdeded wet (squeeze most of the water out) newspaper (non gloggy) to the bottom of some type pan (or bucket), put your worms in, add some scrap cut lettuce and put another inch of wet newspaper to the top. You can keep the pan outside or in the garage to keep any animals out. When the paper on top starts to get dry sprinkle water on it to keep it damp. Don't worry about adding food as the worms eat the newspaper. Add lettuce from time to time and eventually more newspaper. Go ahead and add pieces of other vegistables, meons, etc. Remember that the worms come out at night and eat. If you want to see the worms just pull the top layer of newspaper back and return. In a month and a half, or so, baby worms will join the others.

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