Comments on: Worm Compost Bin Outside? http://www.kitchencompost.info/compost-worms/worm-compost-bin-outside Begin a kitchen compost program Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:58:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jay http://www.kitchencompost.info/compost-worms/worm-compost-bin-outside/comment-page-1#comment-6214 Jay Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:33:59 +0000 http://www.kitchencompost.info/compost-worms/worm-compost-bin-outside#comment-6214 Vermiculture is a good way to acquire good quality compost. about your question it really depends on the type of earthworms. Some earthworms spend their whole life close to the ground's upper layer of soil and leaves. Because these earthworms don't have a cozy winter shelter, cold temperatures kill them. So to keep their species alive, they lay several eggs in tiny cocoons. The cocoons keep the eggs from freezing or drying out during the winter. The next spring, a whole new group of worms hatches from the eggs. Other worms, like the night crawlers people use as fish bait, live in two places. They spend time on the surface, but they also can burrow deep into the soil. Some of their tunnels can be as deep as 6 feet or more. To survive the winter, night crawlers nest in little chambers at the bottom of a deep tunnel. They coil up and cover the insides of the chambers with a slimy mucus to keep moist. (Worms can't breathe if their skin dries out.) Night crawlers don't hibernate, though. Hibernation is when animals, such as bears and groundhogs, go into a really deep, uninterrupted sleep, no matter what. Night crawlers will occasionally come up to the surface during the winter -- but only if there's an unusually long warm spell to bring them out.<br><b>References : </b><br> Vermiculture is a good way to acquire good quality compost. about your question it really depends on the type of earthworms.
Some earthworms spend their whole life close to the ground’s upper layer of soil and leaves. Because these earthworms don’t have a cozy winter shelter, cold temperatures kill them. So to keep their species alive, they lay several eggs in tiny cocoons. The cocoons keep the eggs from freezing or drying out during the winter. The next spring, a whole new group of worms hatches from the eggs.

Other worms, like the night crawlers people use as fish bait, live in two places. They spend time on the surface, but they also can burrow deep into the soil. Some of their tunnels can be as deep as 6 feet or more.

To survive the winter, night crawlers nest in little chambers at the bottom of a deep tunnel. They coil up and cover the insides of the chambers with a slimy mucus to keep moist. (Worms can’t breathe if their skin dries out.)

Night crawlers don’t hibernate, though. Hibernation is when animals, such as bears and groundhogs, go into a really deep, uninterrupted sleep, no matter what. Night crawlers will occasionally come up to the surface during the winter — but only if there’s an unusually long warm spell to bring them out.
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]]> By: Colby http://www.kitchencompost.info/compost-worms/worm-compost-bin-outside/comment-page-1#comment-6213 Colby Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:54:59 +0000 http://www.kitchencompost.info/compost-worms/worm-compost-bin-outside#comment-6213 Worms go deeper under the ground in winter time to stay warm, Forcing them to digest a significantly less amount of compost. Also the topsoil and the (Vegetables fruit in the compost) would freeze in winter, making the compost almost useless. My advice is to Convince your parents to let you keep it inside, perhaps in an area that no one ever goes. Note: if you mix compost regularly the smell and attraction of bugs lessens significantly. Hope i helped.<br><b>References : </b><br> Worms go deeper under the ground in winter time to stay warm, Forcing them to digest a significantly less amount of compost. Also the topsoil and the (Vegetables fruit in the compost) would freeze in winter, making the compost almost useless.

My advice is to Convince your parents to let you keep it inside, perhaps in an area that no one ever goes.

Note: if you mix compost regularly the smell and attraction of bugs lessens significantly.

Hope i helped.
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]]> By: Anthony http://www.kitchencompost.info/compost-worms/worm-compost-bin-outside/comment-page-1#comment-6212 Anthony Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:29:59 +0000 http://www.kitchencompost.info/compost-worms/worm-compost-bin-outside#comment-6212 if u but alot of dirt i think it will<br><b>References : </b><br> if u but alot of dirt i think it will
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