Quote Originally Posted by the image reaper
since you're experienced, maybe you can help me, too ... after his post reminded me of doing that a million years ago, I went outside, and filled an old ice chest with my premium-quality potting soil I had left in the bag ... I figured I'd go buy a couple dozen nightcrawlers, and toss in it ... the theory being, the ice chest helps keeps the pests outta my soil, and the soil will gradually get a bit better from the worms doing their thing ... I can fill a pot with soil, throw some new bag soil in to replace it, and the cycle repeats ... too optimistic of me ?? ... I can always go fishin' ..... :smokin:
Worms eat rotting material and they need a certain amount of oxygen. What is your idea behind using worms in premium soil. Unless you add food i.e newspaper/cardboard/waste food e.t.c e.t.c the worms won't have enough to eat. By all means use the soil as bedding but the idea is to add your waste materials which get eaten and shit out by the worms, that's the good stuff. The soil alone won't get the treatment because it dosen't have enough food in it.

I suppose you could add purely soil if you wanted to but the quality of it would be pretty pathetic.

The fastest working compost worms are Red Wrigglers.