Worm Farms for Sale

Remember worms like dark cool places, so keep your worm farm shaded. Avoid citrus or onions, worms hate onions and citrus and will run away (literally try to climb out of the worm farm) Meat scraps are not suitable for worm farms, worms will eat meat scraps, however meat scraps attract flys and maggots. Use the castings on the garden or in pot plants, or mix with water to create a liquid. Use the liquid waste as a fertilizer, but dilute it with water.

How to Make a Worm Farm.

Without doubt the easiest way is purchase a ready made worm farm, and these come in a range of sizes and materials. Size is important as you will be surprized how quickly you can fill up a worm farm.

Worm farms can also be made from old bathtubs and other large containers that have drainage at the bottom. With this method instead of stacking containers on top of one another allowing the worms to move up as they digest one layer, the worms are contollled to move from one end to the other.

The secret in building a worm farm is to find a cool dark place to position the warm farm, preferably close to where the scraps will come from. So maybe close to the kitchen, or in a shaded part of the vegetable garden.

Worms used in worm farms do best on a mixture of Nitrogen Rich Materials and Carbon Rich Materials.

It is best to ensure that you have a mixture of these two types of material to help promote a healthy worm farm. Vegetable scraps and peelings alone tend to get a little to damp. Its OK to turn the contents of the worm farm every week or two to help with aeration.

What can you put in a worm farm?

Nitrogen Rich Materials for worm farms include:

• Vegetable and food scraps (not meat or dairy foods)
• Tea leaves / tea bags
• Soft stems from plants
• Dead flower heads
• Grass cuttings (Limit the amount of grass clippings to 1/5 and allow them to decompose for a few weeks before adding them)

Carbon Rich Materials for worm farms include:

• twigs & sticks
• shredded or torn dampened newspaper or cardboard
• wood ash
• sawdust (from untreated timbers only)
• fallen leaves (limit to 1/5)

A mixture of Coffee grounds and crushed egg shells (from cooked eggs) is also good for worm farms. The mixture of coffee grounds and egg shells helps balance acidity.