#compost worms

THESE ARE INDIAN NIGHT CRAWLERS!

Preparations to feed The Worms courtesy of my dad who can't stop buying bananas every time he goes to the store

Worms can suffer in the garden wilds in Summer. Here's an easy way to help them out.

Worm havens can really benefit your garden. The Summer heat is punishing to all of us and worms can suffer as much as we do. Those that live in worm farms can be nurtured by a kind worm farmer. Those that live in the wilds of the open garden do it tougher. We can help these hard workers make it through the heat. Compost worms live in the top 15 cm of the soil where the most oxygen and organic…

Quality Compost Worms to Bring in More Sustainability

Worm Castles are a great improvement on the old, black, heavy plastic worm farms but, in my eyes, they have a disadvantage, especially in the cold, wet weather (ours are outside all year). When the top two trays are full, the weight causes the castings in the bottom-most tray to compactand become a solid block. This compaction doesn’t seem to affect the worms much and I’ve been told that the…

Worms in water – a bioponics solution.

I’ve been finding a few worms in the bioponics beds. I was cleaning out one of the bioponics tubs that had held the Tomatoes last season and saw that I had a few helpers. As I pulled up chunks of the old root mass, I saw a few worms doing their thing deep down in the clay ball and scoria mix. They were quite happily helping me to clean the dead organic material. I shouldn’t anthromorphise, they…

Cleaning out the worms can yield many surprises. Join Athena and I as we do just that.

Athena is the cleanup crew! It’s lockdown here in South Australia so it’s time to get some of the chores done. Because the weather has been cold and wet, the worm castles haven’t had a thorough cleanout for a while. I like to leave an extra tray of castings in the castle for a bit of extra thermal mass and to give the worms a larger area in which to search for a comfortable place. Eventually…

Our friend, Annie, who breeds composting worms gave me a great tip a while back. It’s one I’ve been following and it works a treat.

The tip is to freeze the vegetable scraps that are going to be fed to your worms. Then thaw them before feeding them.

Freezing causes the water in the cells of the scraps to expand, making them burst. This means, that they break down much faster in the worm farm and…