Composting with worms operates year-around. You can place your wormery either indoors or outdoors.. [read more]
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Cardboard is great for your worm composter (as is a sprinkling of lime mix) A ratio of 25-30% volume of shredded cardboard or equivalent will ensure the compost doesn't get too wet and there is air circulating. Avoid the really shiny boxes like soap powder and go for newsprint, egg boxes etc.
Red worms are hermaphrodites which means they are both male and female (although it does take two to tango). [read more]
Yes, and it's very important to remember this. Give your worms enough time to settle and reproduce, don't swamp them with food from the get-go. [read more]
If you can get a healthy population of worms in your soil they will make you an ongoing supply of topsoil so to encourage them to breed..[more info]
They are not baby composting worms as these are the same colour as the worms, only smaller.. [more info]
You can either download a PDF copy of our wiggly catalogue, or request a physical copy to be sent to you through the post.
Worm tea is an excellent liquid fertiliser for herbs and indoor plants as well as the garden. [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.
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.