The worms like to eat the food when it has gone soft, but before it rots. [read more]
Without predators to chomp them in the wormery worms will live for upwards of three years! [read more]
Using your Compost The compost is very rich in nutrients and organic matter and can be used as an excellent medium to grow plants.. [more info]
Worm tea is an excellent liquid fertiliser for herbs and indoor plants as well as the garden. [read more]
Fruit flies can enter Subpod when you are adding your food waste. They can also get into the system before your food scraps are added to Subpod if there’s a loose lid.
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]
Worms need nurturing just like all of us. There are a few basic requirements that will ensure they eat and breed and therefore make compost for you. ..[more info]
Assuming you are adding your food scraps every couple of days as you lift the moisture mat you will see the worms working just below the surface.
There are a few types of mite that love a worm composting kit and this is all normal and part of the ecosystem. However, as with most things if they start to take over the kit this can become a problem. There are two main types – a reddish brown mite and a white shiny round mite. Both are tiny and if numbers become huge they eat the food and your worms will tend to burrow deeper into the kit and this in turn stops the worms from reproducing as effectively.
They can consume their own body weight per day in food and so this means that they are processing 90 kilos a year..[more info}
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.