3 Methods I Use to Separate European Nightcrawlers From Their Castings (And 2 I'll Never Use Again)
What I Do When My Worm Castings Look Like This This is a handful of (mostly) finished worm castings. Other than a few bits of organic matter here and there, the castings in this bin full of European Nightcrawlers are ready to be harvested. It's taken about 3 months to get my vermicompost to achieve this beautiful, rich "chocolate cake" consistency but it's right on time to fertilize my warm-weather crops when I plant them out in the garden. The only thing that I have left to do before I can use my worm castings is to separate the worms out of them. These are 3 methods that I use to separate compost worms from their castings, and 2 methods I'll never use again: Method #1: Horizontal Migration My European Nightcrawlers would migrate from the finished castings into the newspaper bedding. Horizontal migration is a popular technique used by worm breeders to get compost worms to come out of their castings naturally. It's the least stressful method for the worms b