Uncle Jim's Worm Farm European Nightcrawlers Composting and Fishing Worms 2 Lb Pack

A couple of months back, I put 2lb of these in my raised bed, (8’ x 4’, 22” high, the bottom half being 50/50 soil/compost and topped up with Mel Bartholomew’s vermiculite/peat/compost SFG mix.) The second night was damp and I was racing around picking up escapees and returning them to my Worm Tower. I feared that I had lost all of them, except maybe a few that had stayed in the tower. Forward to now and I recently planted a number of potted seedlings in their squares. No massive digging, just enough trowel fulls to make room for their roots. Pleased to see worms in just about all the squares, three of them in one square. They weren’t exactly hugely long, maybe averaged about 5 or 6 inches, but nice and fat, wriggling well and a good plump band, the name of which escapes me but I believe it is a key part of breeding activity. I dropped them back in my worm tower where they quickly made it back underground. The consignment arrived quickly and the worms left their bags being a good size, looking active and perfectly fine, no signs of dehydration or other problems. Updated July 1st 2018 Replanted some of my squares where I had had peas. Many, many active worms of all sizes in each trowelfull. The ground was alive with worms getting out of the light. Also turned over the contents of my worm tower and the lower section was also full of active worms of all sizes. I could probably use this bed as a commercial worm farm!

These European Night crawlers were big and fat and alive! They were sluggish/sleeping at first but once they went into the moist warm media in my worm bin, they woke up and began burrowing. All arrived healthy, ready to compost and go into the garden to aerate my soil. I did not find a dead one in the bunch. I also ordered the red wigglers and they arrived at the same time (different box) and we're in great condition, too. I intentionally ordered in March so weather would be comfortable for their cross country trip from PA to CA. Nice packaging. Comes with worm instructions. Fast shipping. I am very happy with this first time purchase and will not hesitate to purchase again from Uncle Jim's in the future.

Lots of worms more than I expected my second batch came extremely healthy too. These guys offer the best worms on the market for sure.

I'm impressed! My order of 2 lbs of European Nightcrawlers arrived today. Uncle Jim's Worm Farm shipped them the same day I placed my order and they arrived this morning at my home in central Florida. I ordered on Wednesday and they arrived the following Saturday morning. The worms were lively and in excellent shape with zero dead loss. I didn't count or weigh the worms but each of the bags felt like a pound and there were definitely hundreds of worms in each bag so I'm happy with the quantity shipped. I put the worms in my already established compost bins and they dug right in. In about 10 minutes they had all disappeared into the peat moss. A few weeks ago, I followed Uncle Jim's video on how to build a bed with peat moss, water and corn meal. I introduced my first order of 250 worms into that bin, fed them corn meal, coffee grounds, paper scraps and other suitable kitchen food scraps and they grew and multiplied. A few escaped the first couple of days but I salvaged most of the escapees and returned them to the bin. I then found out that a good way to encourage them to stay in until they're comfortable with their new surroundings is to keep a light over them (preferably fluorescent or LED). After a couple of days, I'd turn the light off for 30 minutes or so to see how they did. In about 3 days, no more escape attempts. For this two pound batch, I put a pound in my existing bin with the older worms and the second pound in the new bin I set up a week ago. I have the light back on will keep an eye on them until they're settled in.

this is my second purchase from this seller, bought smaller red worms last fall, 1st order got hit by cold weather and i thought they had not survived, called and a replacement order free of charge was on the way a week later and they are now thriving in my garden tower, so when i needed composting worms for my raised bed i checked their video on utube and decided to buy the european ones because they can withstand colder temperatures. worms arrived very well packed and in great shape and are already out in the garden. i would recommend for a new buyer to check out utube made by jim,s worm farm first to get the right worms for your climate. i live in sw oklahoma and we have some cold days and the red worms would have died the first winter had the been outside - his video explains what composting worms are available and what the differece between is - anyhow i love them - they all my kitchen waste and in return i got excelled compost from them in no time and lots of tomato plants since i had thrown spoiled tomatoes right into my kitchen leftovers, two weeks after i removed the compost from the composting garden tower new tomatoe and some pepper plants sprouted all over my finished compost - it will be interesting to see what type of tomatoe or peppers will show up this summer