The amount of food that worms can eat depends on the size of your worm bin and the number of worms you have. As a general rule, worms can consume about half their body weight in food per day.
Don’t worry about your mealworms wiggling a bit – we promise you will get used to them and you will be rewarded by you garden birds
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After 2-3 months or when your Subpod is full, you can harvest your Subpod compost.
What to do if the worms try to escape from your worm composter! There could be several reasons why your worms are trying to escape on the first night:
If your kit begins to smell add a good handful more of Bokashi Bran as it is likely the waste is putrifying rather than fermenting.
Obviously these must have entered on your food waste in some form so the first step is to add your food waste more regularly to avoid this issue.
Not at all! A soil factory can be as compact as you like.
A really good soil has up to 1 million worms per acre!
It depends… most gardens aren’t ideal for birds as it is difficult to find a lot of natural food if the garden is a mixture of paving and lawn.
Our composting worms are mixture of species (mainly reds and dendras) selected for their composting ability
The Urbalive Worm Composter is a home wormery kit that can be used indoors or outdoors for composting kitchen waste with the red worms. The perfect wormery for households, classrooms or offices.