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How do I get babies out of castings when harvesting?

Q. We are trying to collect casting but our casting has so many tiny baby worms every time we try to collect. These tiny baby worms won't move down to lower pile like the adult worms so it has been very difficult.

Can you advise how we can get the baby worms to move down ? We can see the worms just keep multiplying.

A. It’s such a tricky one! 

The god news is they will continue to grow even if they are in the castings in the garden, which is great for your soil. One way that you can try to attract the babies all to one spot is to put a fresh avocado skin in face down for a week and let the babies accumulate in there. From there you can put that patch into another tray before emptying castings. It also works with wet corrugated cardboard, and I’ve had success with eggshells stacked inside one another too. 

While there is no surefire way to salvage all the babies out of the castings, you can grab a nice little population of them with this method. 

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