Once you fill one tray and it looks like worms soon will not have anything to eat, load the next tray as well as at the start. [read more]
You will soon see if your worm composter is too wet – it looks visibly sodden.
When your worms are weighed and packed here at the farm they are sent with some bedding of wheat bran.
You can do - they will definitely help work through the material.
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.
Don’t worry about your mealworms wiggling a bit – we promise you will get used to them and you will be rewarded by you garden birds
There are a few methods to harvest worm compost without the worms:
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.
As the adult birds feed their young they are looking for food rich in protein and liquids. Baby birds have no access to water and it’s needed to sustain life so this is provided by live food of one form or another.
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.