If your Subpod smells, it indicates that food is rotting before the worms can eat it or there is not enough oxygen in the system.
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.
Normal earthworms, also known as "garden worms" or "lob worms," are not typically suitable for composting.
Maggots are the larvae of flies and usually gain access via eggs laid on the food scraps you put in.
Ants in a vermicomposter can be a nuisance, but they are not harmful to the worms or the composting process.
The great thing about a tray system wormery is that a: It's off the floor so very unlikely to be attacked by rodents and B: Worms compost waste as you add it so they really help to neutralise the odours. We have had no problems with rodents with Urbalive or other tray system worm composters.
Do not put intensely spicy foods into your worm composter, such as ginger or an excessive amount of citruses, as well as milk products, meat products, bones, oils, lard and other fats.
Creating quality composts takes approximately 2-3 months.
Living and working on a farm, we like to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible.
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.