Fungus gnats just adore moist soil. If these were houseplants everyone would be saying not to water so much. Since you are trying to sprout seeds, you need to keep them moist. Your miracle-gro bag evidently had holes in it that allowed water (which frozen) and fungus gnats to get in. My main control of fungus gnats may not work for you. In the fall I make sure I douse the soil of any plant coming in the house as well as all plants that stay in the house with a water mixture of 1 tablespoon of lime to 1 gallon of water. Not sure if it kills them, repels them or both but it seems to work for me. What type of plants are you growing to help others with their suggestions? tj

i agree .... on repotting... i would have done it a few weeks back ... but what i dont know.. is if you can do it.. without aborting the fruit ... also... think long and hard about what cures you use in soil ... if you plan on eating the fruit ... many things to ponder.. and i would also defer to the citrus peeps ... but one thing for sure .... WATERING IS NEVER A SCHEDULE thing ... you water when it needs water.. and most trees like the media to nearly dry before you water again ... insert finger and find out.. or learn to do it by weight of pot ... get this.. the thing that happens.. when the media doesnt dry enough.. is you get weird bugs living in the media.... and that might be right where you are right now ... so though you think the issue is the media... the root cause.. might be your watering .... [there is almost a root pun there] i wish you luck ... ken ps: now the real .. next question is... have you ever grown a tree indoors???? .... it might be a wild ride ... especially if you are up north.. in the great white north... and have a forced air furnace ... and that again.. is where watering might become a nightmare ... besides indoor humidity issues in winter .... one thing for sure.. your outdoor summer watering schedule.. will be near useless indoors .... this is where it gets real hard.. if you havent figured that out yet.. lol ....

it will be an indoor bin. it can't be kept outdoor it will fry the worms it gets too hot outdoors not are their any shaded areas at my house. it's a wooden cooler. basically you take one of those large plastic white containers build a wooden frame around it and thats how it is. the wood and plastic are fused together with glue most likely it's a beer cooler novelty cooler it's not 2 seperate coolers to begin with it's both plastic and wooden. the frame is wooden the cooler is plastic. i will try to find a large nail and hammering it in hopefully this works i will try this tomorrow after school i need to make a new worm bin and a bigger one as well

Karen, don't worry your worms are doing fine. Like Otis said the worms will gradually move up into the next tray as the food supply becomes depleted in the lower tray. Your lower tray (in the pic) looks like it still has food/shredded paper in it and the worms are still working on it. Don't forget, the worms don't really eat the food until it begins to decompose. Even when they do start to favour your newest tray you will always find some lingering in the bottom tray. Just make sure the upper tray contacts the bottom tray so they can migrate upwards easily. When the bottom tray looks like it's just castings and you want to harvest it try moving the bottom tray to the top and put in in a bright spot with the lid off. That way whatever worms are still in that tray will tend to move down away from the light into the active tray below. At that point I've found you can usually remove most of the castings from that tray without coming across many worms. If the worms seem slow to go down into the active tray just scrape off a few castings at a time. Once you start to see some worms, stop scraping for a bit and give them a chance to continue moving into the lower tray. Hope that makes sense! Have fun and good luck with your worms!! Harry