Sunday, November 27, 2011

What You Should Ask In Reference To Worm Farming

By Kristen Spiker


Getting started on a worm farm is not that complicated, all you need is a bit of passion for recycling and some trivia about worms. Here is a bunch of some worm trivia that could help motivate and inspire you more with your worm farm venture.

To do that, you have to build your own worm bin. This consists of several boxes, shredded newspaper, and a strip of insect screen as well as the red worms. You can probably find the first two in your garage, the third from the hardware store and the last in a nursery.

Therefore, one of things that you can do to help the environment is to grow your own worms and use them as a natural garbage disposal. You can dispose of your organic wastes such as food scraps and give it to the worms. The worms will take the food and produce a wonderful, chemical free fertilizer for your garden. You can maintain a worm house either indoors or outdoors.

Build a place for your worms to live. Once you have your worms and your soil, it?s time to build a good environment for them to grow in. Worms love dark and moist places, so pick a place in your house that is cool and away from the sun. The darker the better, and if it?s a little humid, that?s even better.

Is it ok to water the worm bed regularly? Watering the farm will enhance the production of liquid fertilizer, but make sure not to pour too much water into it or it could drown the worms. Take note that food wastes are about 80% water, which is released as the worms break them down.

You can build the bedding yourself or make your own as there are instructions how to do this in books and online. If you want to avoid the hassle, then buy your own but be aware that there are only a few of these around since this worm is only new in the US.

One of the most fascinating things about worms is that they spend most of their lives eating. They don?t sleep and the only time they ever take a break is when they have to reproduce. Worms never overpopulate unlike us humans because they have a way of maintaining the balance between the food and the space that is provided to them.

Is it normal for these worms to gather on the lid of the farm when it is raining? Yes, since it a normal response for these worms to react this way during the rainy season to avoid getting drowned. Simply move the worm farm boxes over to an area where it does not get exposed to too much rain and replace the worms back to the farm bedding.




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