Your wormery composter is particularly suitable for peelings and leftovers of fruit and vegetables, such as potato peels, apple cores, green tops of vegetables, etc.
I would avoid this – first of all there’s the trudge to the bottom of the garden but also this sort of waste has a tendency to attract pests.. [more info]
When your worms are weighed and packed here at the farm they are sent with some bedding of wheat bran.
Bokashi composting is an anaerobic (oxygen-free) process that uses beneficial microbes to ferment food waste.
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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.
They are not baby composting worms as these are the same colour as the worms, only smaller.. [more info]
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.
A Worm’s Diet… Try lots of different foods. Just like us they do not thrive on just one food, so all sorts of fruit, veggies.. [more info]
Worm blankets are made of a water-absorbing, air-permeable and light blocking fabric.
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.