Warning: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

What do you get when you mix a guy with too many worms, too much lettuce, a bad camera, and too much free time?

Worm Salad – Blue Cheese or Ranch?

Actually, you get some interesting worm experiments!

First off, anyone that knows me realizes that I’m a BIG advocate of controlling the amount of produce scraps that you feed your worms at any one time. I’ve helped too many people trying to bounce back from overfeeding their worms, and dealing with the problems associated with overfeeding. Not fun.

I feed my worms lettuce quite often. Many times, before the lettuce even breaks down the worms are already swarming it. So, I thought to myself…….

Lettuce has some qualities that most produce does not, specifically:

It does not contain sugars that attract fruit flies.
It does not break down into a vinegary mess.
It contains and holds water pretty well.

But, could it be used as a bedding by itself?

So….1 pound of worms later, let’s see how the worms do on a straight diet of lettuce, no bedding.

I’ll keep you posted.

This experiment revolves around using European Nightcrawlers (In picture above) as fishing bait.

I’ve sold a LOT of European Nightcrawlers to fisherman. I usually send them off with the reminder, “Now you never need to buy bait again”! Is it true? Can you easily raise your own Euro’s for perpetual bait?

Let’s see what happens in a controlled experiment.

1 quart container filled with soaked newspaper shreds
12 European Nightcrawlers
A teaspoon full of Oatmeal sprinkles on top of the bedding
Time

Should be interesting! Stay Tuned!

I’ve never been a person that believes everything he reads. Bias abounds! I’d much rather test theories for myself. If pictures are shown to substantiate the theories….even better!

Besides the occasional fun article, I’m going to start posting various experiments with worms.

After thinking long and hard about what to call this, I decided on (Drum Roll Please…..)

EXPERIMENTS WITH WORMS!

Hope you enjoy the name as much as me.

Come back often to see what I’m working on! Should be fun.