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Compost Worm Feeding
Requirements for
compost worm
feeding?
Your compost worms will consume all
your house hold organic kitchen waste and yard
trimmings, as well as all your old news papers and scrap
paper, you can also put all your pet waste [pet poo] in
you worm farm and the worms will eliminate this for you
as well without any smell or pest problems.
Worms like:
- Fruit peelings and vegetable scraps
- Tea bags
- Bread
- Rice
- Grass cuttings (after heating stage)
- Organic green yard waste (after
heating stage)
- Animal manures (beware of worm
medications)
- Scrap paper
- Newspapers
- Napkins
- Soil or sand (To help with their
digestive systems and provides a source of decomposer
bacteria.)
If worms are not consuming a
certain food, do not put in again.
Warning: If you are using animal
manures, make sure that the animals have not been given
any worm medication, as this will be fatal to your
worms. We age all our animal manures for one month
before feeding to our worm stock.
Worms don't like:
- All
fatty foods (The oil can suffocate the skin breathing
worms.)
- Onions
- Garlic
- Chillies
- Capsicums
- Any spicy foods
- Dairy products (will make your worm
farm smell)
- Citrus foods
- Meat (Will cause flies and maggots
and make the bin smell)
It is very important
to only feed enough food for a couple of days at
a time, when there is only a small amount left re-feed
the worm farm but in a different position in the worm
farm. As your worm
stock increase you can increase the amount of food that
you are feeding.
Make sure that you keep an eye on the
moisture levels in your worm farm, as some food has quite
a lot of moisture. You might find that you will never
need to add water if there is enough moisture in the food source.
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