In worm composting, the worms love a wide range of food types. Examples are food scapes, fruit, vegetables, manures & mulches. They like a small particular size, so it is easy to digest.
Do not feed your worms acidy fruits such as citrus, meats or manures, like chook manure. Chook manure is very acidy, as chooks do not separate urine from there poo in there bowl system. Meat attracts vermin. You do not want a plague of mice or rats running around your worm composting system.
Worm composting can be great for getting rid of all your kitchen waste, up to full scale production using excess farm wastes or green wastes from council pickups or even wastage from your local green grocer.
Worms’s compost will produce either a juice substance or a solid material. Depends on how you like to setup your worm farm. Worm composting can be very rewarding either for the home gardener or for commercial production.
When setting up your worm composting system, you can start out with as little as 2kg of worms. Every 2 months the worms will double there population. So in a very little time you can have a high population of worms. You know when it is time to take some worms out when you turn the worm compost and the compost is crawling full of worms.
When you put your worms into a container / bed that you are going to use, always allow enough room for them to populate. They will control there own population levels in the worm composting system.
You will need to find a container (or a bed to start your worm composting system). You could use a polystyrene container, a old bath tub, a wooded box on the ground, add them to your existed garden compost system or build your self some raised (easy to work and harvest ) worm composting beds. It depends on want you want to collect out of your worm composting system.
A raised bed will allow you to collect the water extracts out of the worm composting system, plus the solids. The main thing is remember is to be able to collect the worm extracts when it comes to the liquid. If using a container, then you need to have a hole about ¼ up from the bottom, so the water can drain out. raise bed method, you can have a solid base with holes in it for the water to drain off into then a bucket or old guttering to collect the excess liquid. The liquid will have a yellow to dark brown colour in texture, depending on the concentration of the liquid. A higher nutrient value can be achieved if you only water to keep the worm composting system moist.
The liquid extract out of a worm composting system contains millions of organism including bacteria and fungi species. It is great to use on all crops as a liquid fertilizer. Or as a base with other liquid fertilizers that are soil stimulates such as humic or vulic acid, kelp and fish products.
