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I am not a worm expert and I did not sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I did drive past one a few weeks ago. Translation, I can give you a few pointers, but no expert advice. I think as with bees, the creatures know exactly what to do, where to do it, and how ... but we humans keep sticking our noses in to try to do it better :)

I have an old iron bathtub from a farm house and it goes back and forth from water trough for my donkies, and a home for nightcrawlers that I raise.

We do a lot of fishing here, so nightcrawlers are fairly reasonable to buy a couple of good boxes and that it really all you need to get started.

After filling the bathtub about half full so that there is at least 8 inches of rich, loose, garden soil. I purcased mine at the garden center. It has decaying wood shavings in it, as well as some spaghnam moss. You can always add spaghnam. Keep the soil damp, but not wet or near muddy.

Night crawlers eat decomposing matter, or anything finely ground and soggy enough to be consumed. For night crawlers used as pets or being reared as food for other animals, feed them things that will keep them healthy, so they'll live longer or so they won't poison the animals to which they'll eventually be fed. Chicken mash is a common food used by night crawler farmers. There are two types--chick starter and laying mash, with the latter being the more nutritious.

If you don't care what happens to the night crawlers once they're fully grown (for people who raise night crawlers to catch fish), feed them fruit and vegetable skins, molded bread, and finely shredded paper-based trash. Make sure the food is damp, or they won't be able to consume it.

We have a hard frost here in Benderville this morning and y’all didn’t warn me to turn the waterline off to the garden. The Weather Bug says it’s 33(?)but the Benderstats say 26 on one and 27 on the other. I tripped on something while filling the bird feeders yesterday morning and whacked my head on the sidewalk but got my hands down enough to break the impact but still had a small knot.

Ok, I’ll put some night crawlers to work. I’ll get some chick mash and I always have shredded papper, just sitting here I shred a lot of letters from ???? and even newspapers. I’ve been putting the shreds in the compost pile so now I’ll divide it. Do they take long to reproduce?

What are red wigglers? The same as night crawlers?