Vermicomposting With Our Worm Friends!
Vermicomposting uses red worms in a process that turns organic waste into odorless (earthy-smell), nutrient-filled worm castings (worm manure).
You can absolutely use vermicomposting if you still want to make use of your food scraps at home.
What you'll need for vermicomposting For this process, you should need the right kind of red wiggler worms to assist you.
These cheap but valuable creatures can spend all their days just munching and consuming all of your natural wastes.
They can work all the time, and won't require intensive care; and they'll only stop at what they're doing when it's time for them to mate.
And since they'll only need your organic scraps to live and continue thriving, and a comfortable container to house your worms, maintaining them comes out at a very low-cost.
You can even make your own or check-out worm bin's and red worms for sale online.
Apart from these facts, you can feed your worms the following food scraps: coffee grounds, shredded paper and egg cartons (previously soaked in water), fruit and vegetable peels, and crushed egg shells.
Also make sure not to feed them highly acidic fruits and vegetables, as well as meat, poultry, fish, and other dairy products.
Useful tips on vermicomposting You'll need a worm bin or container that is plastic or wood-base; and is definitely not treated, painted, or stained with chemicals (as these are harmful to your worms health).
You can start this project by drilling a number of holes on the top and base of the container.
This will help keep your bin well-ventilated (top-area), and will also serve as a drainage system (bottom-area).
After this, fill your bin with shredded newspapers (an inch thick or more) and or peat moss, and then water it.
Make sure your bedding for your red wigglers is moist and not soggy (may also produce a sour-smelling and spoiled bedding), as this also becomes a part of your worms diet.
Afterwards, fill and mix your bedding with more organic waste.
Keep this immersed for about less than 2 days before placing in your appropriate composting worms.
Also keep them in a place that's out of the sun, Worm Casting benefits After your worm friends have finished digesting your food supply, red worms composting will gradually produce what we call as worm castings.
This has been a vermicomposting guarantee, as it's safe to use for plants and soil.
Aside from that, worm castings can also be made into quality-made natural fertilizers.
These worms have a neutral pH (just like water), and are filled with loads of nutrients (richer than good topsoil).
You can even make another worm by-product, and be able to come out with some excellent worm tea (typically used as a liquid fertilizer and is meticulously achieved through the soaking of worm manure in water) out of these worm castings.
You can absolutely use vermicomposting if you still want to make use of your food scraps at home.
What you'll need for vermicomposting For this process, you should need the right kind of red wiggler worms to assist you.
These cheap but valuable creatures can spend all their days just munching and consuming all of your natural wastes.
They can work all the time, and won't require intensive care; and they'll only stop at what they're doing when it's time for them to mate.
And since they'll only need your organic scraps to live and continue thriving, and a comfortable container to house your worms, maintaining them comes out at a very low-cost.
You can even make your own or check-out worm bin's and red worms for sale online.
Apart from these facts, you can feed your worms the following food scraps: coffee grounds, shredded paper and egg cartons (previously soaked in water), fruit and vegetable peels, and crushed egg shells.
Also make sure not to feed them highly acidic fruits and vegetables, as well as meat, poultry, fish, and other dairy products.
Useful tips on vermicomposting You'll need a worm bin or container that is plastic or wood-base; and is definitely not treated, painted, or stained with chemicals (as these are harmful to your worms health).
You can start this project by drilling a number of holes on the top and base of the container.
This will help keep your bin well-ventilated (top-area), and will also serve as a drainage system (bottom-area).
After this, fill your bin with shredded newspapers (an inch thick or more) and or peat moss, and then water it.
Make sure your bedding for your red wigglers is moist and not soggy (may also produce a sour-smelling and spoiled bedding), as this also becomes a part of your worms diet.
Afterwards, fill and mix your bedding with more organic waste.
Keep this immersed for about less than 2 days before placing in your appropriate composting worms.
Also keep them in a place that's out of the sun, Worm Casting benefits After your worm friends have finished digesting your food supply, red worms composting will gradually produce what we call as worm castings.
This has been a vermicomposting guarantee, as it's safe to use for plants and soil.
Aside from that, worm castings can also be made into quality-made natural fertilizers.
These worms have a neutral pH (just like water), and are filled with loads of nutrients (richer than good topsoil).
You can even make another worm by-product, and be able to come out with some excellent worm tea (typically used as a liquid fertilizer and is meticulously achieved through the soaking of worm manure in water) out of these worm castings.
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