Product Description
250g box of worms for your worm farm. It is said that worms will eat anything that was once alive, although the food needs to be soft or wilted for the worms to break it down. Cutting or shredding allows the food scraps to soften faster for the worms. Worms also eat wet shredded egg cartons, hand towels, bags, vegetable peelings etc. a fortnightly sprinkle of garden lime helps keep the pH balance neutral.
Avoid too much citrus peel or onions. Fats, cooking oils and oily foods interrupt with the worm’s ability to breathe through their skin.
Harvesting the castings means to empty the worm castings out of your worm bins. In some commercial worm bins you need to remove the lower level trays where the worms have finished eating and have moved up to the higher levels for more food. However, in a single level worm farm you need to scoop off the top 15-20 cm layer, this being your worms, put this aside. Remove the remaining rich material, which may still contain some worms to the place of your choice, replace the layer containing the worms back into your container ready to start the process again.
Any smells? Only if the worms are overfed and the food becomes mouldy. This can happen when you first start off your bin. 250 worms will eat about 250 grams of food in a day and a half. As the worms increase so will the amount of food they eat. Do not have food more than 5 cm deep.
If I go away? If the worm farm is covered to reduce moisture loss then the worms can be left up to three weeks. More harm will be done by your worms drying out than not having fresh food for three weeks. If you are going away for longer, it maybe advisable to get someone to feed and water them.
You may find other organisms living with your worms, but few of these are harmful.
Avoid too much citrus peel or onions. Fats, cooking oils and oily foods interrupt with the worm’s ability to breathe through their skin.
Harvesting the castings means to empty the worm castings out of your worm bins. In some commercial worm bins you need to remove the lower level trays where the worms have finished eating and have moved up to the higher levels for more food. However, in a single level worm farm you need to scoop off the top 15-20 cm layer, this being your worms, put this aside. Remove the remaining rich material, which may still contain some worms to the place of your choice, replace the layer containing the worms back into your container ready to start the process again.
Any smells? Only if the worms are overfed and the food becomes mouldy. This can happen when you first start off your bin. 250 worms will eat about 250 grams of food in a day and a half. As the worms increase so will the amount of food they eat. Do not have food more than 5 cm deep.
If I go away? If the worm farm is covered to reduce moisture loss then the worms can be left up to three weeks. More harm will be done by your worms drying out than not having fresh food for three weeks. If you are going away for longer, it maybe advisable to get someone to feed and water them.
You may find other organisms living with your worms, but few of these are harmful.