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| Starting a bin |
| Harvesting |
| Reproduction |
| Worm Castings |
| Feeding Red-Wigglers |
| Common Worm-farm Problems |
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- Feeding the worms
Start by adding food scraps regularly in small amounts. Put the food into the worm
farm underneath the newspaper, carpet or Hessian. Be careful to not overfeed your
worms. Only feed them once they have partly eaten their previous food. The secret
is not too much of any one thing – worms like a varied diet just like people do!
Worms also don’t have teeth, so if you chop or mash your food scraps it will be
eaten quicker. Pick a new spot each time.
- Worms will eat:
· Most Fruit & Vegetable Scraps & Peels (except citrus fruits, onion, garlic and chilli).
· Tea bags/tea leaves.
· Coffee grounds and filters.
· Crushed Eggshells provide calcium.
· Newspaper, cardboard, egg cartons and pizza boxes (shredded and soaked).
· Old flowers and small amounts of garden waste.
· Pasta (No Meat) & Rice
· Bread & Cereal (ideal to moisten before adding)
· Hair and small amounts of dust from vacuum cleaner
- Worms don’t like (i.e. avoid feeding these to your worms):
· Onions, garlic, citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, limes, mandarins) and chillis – worms
breathe through their skin and these are too acidic for them.
· Meat
· Seafood
· Dairy products (milk, cheese)
· Oil
· Too much bread, pasta and rice
· Pet droppings (some people do feed their worms these)
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