u/Secret-Bowler-584

Questions on temps…indoor vs outdoor

Just starting out in this adventure I have had several questions and with much research I have found several answers and even more contradictions. So after just starting with a small recycling container worm bin I realized that I need a long term plan in case i don’t accidentally kill these red wiggles.

I realize that my next decision for a long term plan will be determining my appropriate container and that will depend on if I store them indoors or outdoors. I’d rather store them outdoors in my garage, but I have read that the temperature range for red wigglers is between 40 and 85 degrees F. I live in the Boston mountains of the Ozarks in zone 7b. We reach well below freezing in the winter and as high as 100 in the summer. I’ve read of others managing this, but I wonder if using a CFT in my garage is really even a reasonable consideration in my environment.

I have been looking at the Urban Worm Bag, Worm Hotel, and Vermibag which all seem very nice, but I wonder how size of the bag affects heat distribution in both summer and winter.

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u/Secret-Bowler-584 — 3 days ago

First bin questions

I constructed this to get into vermicomposting and now I have a few questions.

Using a recycling bin I drilled several 1.5” holes them covered them with some stainless mesh I ordered from Amazon.
I used a harbor freight plastic welder and it just didn’t perform well at all. It ended up stopping after less than an hour of use. I wasn’t able to embed all of the metal sides quite to my satisfaction. My concern is could injure the worms? Should I go over the edges in with some type of HDPE glue or am I over thinking this?

u/Secret-Bowler-584 — 4 days ago