Worm ranch - white babies?

[drache]

earthworms do fine with the compost
it's just that they are a bit slower and have no loyalty to your compost heap, whereas apparently the red wigglers do
I do give my compost plenty of leaf litter which might be more appealing to the earthworms - I think it has something to do with the ph

[DrKate]

earthworms do fine with the compost
it's just that they are a bit slower and have no loyalty to your compost heap,

Hm... When snickersnake said "worm ranch" I figured it was one of the tiered home-composting bin systems that you dump your food scraps into, not an old-fashioned compost heap. That's pretty intensive feeding, generally all food scraps and no yard waste. I don't think regular earthworms can process food scraps nearly fast enough to keep everything from just rotting (and attracting flies). When you buy one of those systems, typically they come with a mail-away certificate for compost worms, which are red wigglers...

Snickersnake? What kind of compost system (and what kind of worms) do you actually have?