The worms will breed to match your food supply. They regulate their numbers and size to match the conditions. As the adults eat the waste and move upwards the eggs hatch out so to make best use of your wormery you need to add waste really regularly.
Our composting worms are a mixture of species (mainly reds and dendras) selected for their composting ability. [read more]
Without predators to chomp them in the wormery worms will live for upwards of three years! [read more]
If you cut a worm in half you do not end up with two surviving worms [more info]
Composting with worms operates year-around. You can place your wormery either indoors or outdoors.. [read more]
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.
Unfortunately, no. Dog Poo contains Pathogens
Not at all. The nosy among you beware and also make your children understand this - it's not useful to disturb the compost ..[read more]
No. Woodlice are primary composters so eat organic waste and produce compost so they can live along side your worm population.. [more info]
The main thing to ensure your worms work well for you is to feed them regularly with kitchen scraps. Usually adding waste every couple of days is the most efficient way of ensuring they are working. They don’t like a glut of waste, and underfeeding means you won’t get them working to their optimum level.
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.