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Welcome to Mama's Worm Composting

Hello, and thanks for visiting my Buy Worms site. This site was built to help support my business and main website called Mama’s Worm Composting. Many of the links here will redirect you to the main site, but both sites contain valuable information about how to get started using worms for composting.  

Beginning the process of composting with worms can be a little daunting, especially for those who are nervous around little squirmy animals. However, if you check back on this blog periodically for support and advice it will help keep you sane and help you succeed in raising your own herd of wiggly worms.

Roughly 30% of landfill space is taken up by our uneaten food. Help reduce that number while making rich compost for your garden by composting with worms.

Thank you for visiting Buy Worms, and I hope you return again soon!

Buy Worms: Time to Plant Your Fall Garden!

My family is moving... TOMORROW... to a home with a nice little backyard. Already my eyes are bigger than my stomach as I start to plan an enormous fall garden. But where will the kids play? :-)

At Buy Worms, we feel there is no time like the present to get started planting and using your worm composting vermicompost as your fertilizer. Those of you who have been around here for a while will remember my winter veggie garden last year at Saaba's house; this time let's hope the house doesn't burn down! Check out that gardenHERE.

Please visit THIS SITE to learn about which vegetables are suited to fall planting in your area (scroll down to find your first frost date). If you're in the SF Bay Area, remember that I am now selling vermicompost, a rich combo of pure castings and partially processed horse manure that is FULL of baby worms and cocoons (perfect for aerating your garden). 

In coastal California we have the luxury of being able to plant most anything year-round. Those of you in the colder states may need to get crafty with your greenhouse plans to make your winter vegetable dreams a reality. Check out free plans for greenhouses HERE. 

Thanks for visiting Buy Worms. Good worming!

 

Buy Worms: I'm still alive!

Well, surgery recovery was hell (though the first two days of drugs were kind of nice). I'm pretty much back in action, though I must ask that anyone watching this blog be patient with my lack of posts. Remember, I have two psychotic children full time during the day, and by evening it's all I can do to drag my butt up to go harvest worms! 

Thanks for hanging around Buy Worms to check in. I promise that someday in the future I will harness my worm-wit once more and hopefully provide some level of entertainment. :-)

Jen

 

Patience is a Virtue

Tomorrow I will be going under the knife where my tonsils will be unceremoniously sliced from my throat. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Sadly, the Brady Bunch recovery from a tonsillectomy was sort of a lie, and REALLY a lie when dealing with an adult's recovery from such a procedure. I will be in bed for a week and then home for another week.

For any new worm orders placed between now and August 30 you can expect shipment on August 30. In exchange for your patience I will be happy to add an additional 50% of worms to your order. 

Thanks for your interest in Buy Worms, and wish me luck!    

Worm Castings Available!

 

Finally, after a year and a half, I have enough material to offer you some high quality worm castings for your garden! This material is more accurately described as "vermicompost", as it is not 100% castings. This compost is about 50-65% pure castings and the rest partially processed organic mulch and pure horse manure (no shavings). This is great stuff for your organic vegetable garden!

The compost is available for pickup most days in Oakland or Emeryville (depending on the day) and is just $20 for a 33 gallon trash bag full. Email me for an appointment! 

Thanks for visiting Buy Worms! As always, if you wish to buy worms from Mama's, please visit here. 

Buy Worms: Worm Tea Bags

 Introducing a new product from Buy Worms and Mama's Worm Composting: Worm Tea Bags! 

Contrary to popular belief, worm tea is not the seepage that comes from the bottom of your worm bin (called leachate), but is in fact a brewed "tea" that you make from finished worm castings and a catalyst (such as molasses). Be forewarned that using leachate as a foliary spray or soil drench can be risky business; the contents of the liquid coming from the bottom of your bin change in stability and nutritional content with changes in your feeding habits, changes in moisture content in the bin and changes in the weather. It is generally considered safest for your plants to use finished castings to brew tea.

Now at Buy Worms we've created a product that takes the guesswork out of worm tea for you! Commonly used to help reduce Black Spot, Rust, Powdery Mildew and pests in general, worm tea can be used as a foliary spray or as a soil drench for liquid fertilizer. Mama's Worm Tea Bags are a mixture of worm castings and a catalyst (ingredients below) to create an easy-to-use mixture of tea; simply shake several times over the course of 24 hours and then spray! For even more powerful results an aquarium aerator may be used to increase the number of beneficial microbes that are breeding in the mixture. When you're finished with the teabag, bury it in your yard; as the tea bag itself decomposes, the leftover worm castings will benefit your plants in the soil. 

Each package comes with 6 tea bags and produces 1 gallon of worm tea per bag. 

Price: $11.99 per container, includes USA shipping

Ingredients: worm castings, seaweed extract (Ascophyllum nodosum), micronized humic acids, mineral powder and other botanical ingredients. 

 

To buy worms, click here.

Kill Fruit Flies in Your Worm Bin

It's taken me quite some time to finally figure out how to keep fruit flies and fungus gnats out of my worm  bin, but after much exploration and failure I have finally discovered the secret. It is as simple as a large cotton (or other breathable) sheet draped over the entire worm bin system. 

New to worm composting? Buy worms HERE!

Fruit flies and fungus gnats breed either in the air while flying or on surfaces outside of the "nest" (aka: your worm composting bin). While it's almost impossible to prevent the incoming larvae that may exist on the skins of fruits in your worm bin, the addition of the thin fabric sheet prevents them from escaping once mature to continue the breeding cycle. When you lift up the sheet to feed or check on your little red worms you may notice a few flies fly out; this is ok as long as you put the sheet back on when you're done so they can't get back in to lay their eggs!

At long last, I finally have an indoor worm bin without a fly problem, and I owe it all to the extra bedsheet I had lying around. Want even more fly protection? Tape up a couple of fly strips along the interior sides of your bin to catch any newly hatched monsters as they crawl up the sides of your worm composting bin. 

Got questions? Always feel free to email me here!

If you're ready to buy worms for the first time, always check back with Buy Worms and Mama's Worm Composting for tips and advice!

Link to Buy Worms and Receive 10% Off!

Hello fellow wormers! I am offering a new promotion to past/present/future customers. Any of you who have a website or a blog can now link to Buy Worms and receive 10% off your entire order! This includes composting worms, worm composting bins, compost tumblers and anything else you may find on this site. Here are the rules:

• Your site or blog must be current and active. If it's a business website then a simple link on your links page will be great. If you have a blog, please place the link in your sidebar (most blogs I've seen have a list of links displayed in the sidebar vs. a links page, and this is preferable to me). 
• After you have inserted the link to Buy Worms (http://www.buyworms.net), place your order for any products from my site.
• EMAIL ME. Please send me a link to your blog and let me know where the link to Buy Worms can be found. 
• After I view your link I will refund you 10% of your purchase price through paypal. 
• This offer is good for one order per customer, so choose wisely!

Thanks for visiting Buy Worms!