Worm Farms

Tumbleweed

Creating a Worm Farm is a great way to recycle organic kitchen waste into a highly nutritious soil conditioner – plus its fun and easy for the whole family to get involved.

How it works

Worms take your leftover food scraps and turn them into a dark, soil-like material with a pleasant earthy smell – known as worm castings. They also produce a liquid called worm tea. Worm castings and worm tea, diluted 10:1 with water, are wonderful additives to any garden. You will see exceptional results in the color, quality and quantity of all your fruit, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants.

Compost worms can be purchased from most hardware and garden outlets or search for “Compost worms” on the web.

Five easy steps to set up your worm farm

Assemble your worm farm following your unit’s simple instructions.
Position your worm farm in a convenient shady spot in your garden, or inside in the laundry, kitchen or garage. TIP: Make sure it’s easy to get to so that ‘feeding it’ doesn’t become a chore!
Fill a bucket with water and place your coir block in it to expand.
Fold and place cardboard packaging into the base of working tray 1, then spread the expanded coir block on top.
Spread your worms (min 1000 composting worms) on top of the bedding, and cover with a worm blanket and replace the lid.

Only choose compost worms

When you set up your worm farm you’ll need to add about 1000 worms to get the farm underway. While there are many varieties, the ones you need are compost worms or more specifically “reds” “blues” and “tigers”. These worms have a hearty appetite and they breed quickly – which is important because you want your kitchen scraps to be eaten as quickly as possible. As a guide compost worms will eat anything that was once living. This includes:

Left over vegetable scraps, fruit and vegetable peelings
Tea leaves/bags and coffee grounds
Vacuum cleaner dust or hair clippings (also animal)
Torn up newspapers, egg and milk or soaked pizza cartons
Crushed egg shells (These will help with the pH balance)
The greater the variety of material you use, the better the castings will be.

Sprinkle a handful of soil on top of the food scraps every time you feed your worms then sprinkle a teaspoon full of TUMBLEWEED Worm Farm & Compost Conditioner once a week.

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