Worm farm makes my home more eco friendly
We’ve been filling our worm farm with vegetable scraps and cardboard paper daily for over 5 years. Natural powerful fertilizer in dark liquid form the worms produce will bring back into beautiful growth also not well looked after herbs. In my view and from my experience, having even a small size worm farm at home is another great step in creating own eco friendly home and another move in helping the environment all of us share, in several practical aspects.
Kept under the bush protected from the strong sun runing a worm farm is very easy and it doesn’t consume time at all. Rather it creates extra free time. Worm farm isn’t one of those things which need to be kept in mind, these worms know how to occupy themselves. All they need is to throw scraps of veggies in. Then if you enjoy watering your indoors and outdoors plants you can simply use this liquid fertilizer, if it’s being collected into a bottle. It can’t get any better or easier.
For those interested in all factors: if you don’t mind to look at vegetables or fruit breaking down there isn’t ANY other. These worms are actually pretty smart, they know how to control their population numbers and they do control it constantly. For example if you give them scraps regularly and there is plenty of food they increase they number very fast to manage to cope with all the organic material. On the other hand if there is less or not enough food, or in cold winter months, their number decreases adequately. The whole worm farms, worms, the high quality soil and liquid fertilizer they produce are odourless! That means if you produced enough food for the worms also in winter the farm might be put somewhere accessible inside and be productive. A dark spot in basement under a staircase would do. Here in Queensland these worms survive outside even at night in winter because temperature increases again during the day.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Worms are always a good source of nutritious soil.
August 9th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
This is pretty neat. Most people would really get grossed out by the worms, but if they make a good fertilizer, who cares. Thanks for the great tip and I am going to try this out.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 am
I recently watched a demonstration on worm farming and the couple who gave it stated they keep a mini worm farm under their kitchen sink in a rubbermaid container with drainage holes atop a collector. It beats walking to the compost heap when you’ve just got a few scraps. She did stress the importance of using ’small’ worms. Thank you for a wonderful website! I’ve really enjoyed it and learned much!