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Worm Farms
 

WORMS and WORM FARMS

Worms will eat.

  • Food and vegetable scraps, but not citrus or onion or garlic.
  • Coffee grounds, tea bags and eggshells
  • Leaves.
  • Paper and damp cardboard

Worms like.

A little wood ash or dolomite every two weeks to ensure that the worm farm does not become to acid.

To be fattened and toughened with a mixture of
5 parts chicken layer pellets
2 parts wheat bran or wheat meal
2 parts wheat or corn flour
1 part whole wheat flour
1 part dolomite or agricultural lime
1 part powdered milk.


Commercial worm farms are now being used to recycle waste, worms can chew through half their body weight in a day, they are very efficient recyclers.

Worm farms will double their population every 2-3 months if you keep the worms happy, not to wet, not to dry and not to acid. So you might consider a larger worm farm after a while. Old baths can be converted into worm farms.

Wear gardening gloves when handling worms and worm castings, and always wash your hands thoroughly.

Worm Farms are simply the best way of disposing of everything from leaf mould and grass clippings to coffe grounds, tea bags and soggy newspapers. Worms are nature's recyclying system and given a happy home they are very efficient.

Worms like a warm, moist position, sheltered from direct sunlight. And a worm farm in the right position will make for happy worms. Worms best suited for worm farms are a little diffeent to the normal 'garden worm', redworms (Eisenia fetida) also known as 'red wrigglers' are really great workers, tiger worms, and indian blue worms are all commonly used.

You can construct a simple worm farm by using an old polystyreene box, the type with drainage holes, although the new commercial 'stackable' worm farms are really effecient and we do use these ourselves. Worms like a nice place to start living, so try a bedding mix of moist well shredded coconut fibre or 'coir peat' well rotted, but not to moist compost will also do.

What will you get from the worm far?

Liquid fertilizer or 'worm tea'. Use this as liquid fertilizer, make sure you use it immediatly, or ensure that you aerate it before use by pouring back and forth between containers.

Vermicaste or worm castings. This is just the best fertilizer you can get, 'natures own'. Use one cup to 1 gallon of water as a liquid fertilizer.
 
 


 





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