Composting By Worm Farm
Worm farm - kitchen organics composting system.
We love our worm farm it is just so easy to collect organic scraps from your kitchen and place them into the top of a worm farm. We have a small compost bin in the kitchen to collect our fruit and vegetable scraps which we generally only empty into the main worm farm about once per week. Then just let the worms and other micro-organisms do all the hard work turning your food scraps back into healthy organic soil which you can use to grow your vegetables. The worms and worm farm even survived the heat radiation from the bushfire which came within metres of their location along our house wall!
Worms are clean and tidy pets and no trouble at all. To ensure our worm farm keeps working well we maintain by:
- Keeping them in a shady place as too much sun on a hot day can kill them.
- Ensure that they have enough organic waste to keep them going – if you stop feeding them they will eventually die out.
- We don’t put in loads of citrus peels as this can make it a bit acidic. Small amounts okay.
- We generally don’t put in bones although the odd one may get in there and the worms can break it down.
- We add plenty of paper for carbon, newspaper or brown paper bags (nothing with nasty dyes).
- We empty the worm juice from the bottom compartment about every 6 – 8 weeks and dilute 1 part with 10 parts water for great organic fertiliser which we spread over all our growing fruit and vegetables.
- We generally use a 3 or 4 tray rotation and once the top tray is full (about every 3-4 months) the bottom tray has been composted completely. We mix the finished bottom tray compost into our vegie garden to improve the soil nutrients and then return the empty tray to the top of the worm farm for refilling with organic kitchen scraps.
- We remove as many worms as we can from the soil we are about to put into our vegie patch as the worms in the worm farm are a different species to garden worms and won’t survive outside the worm farm. We put them back into the worm farm so they can keep doing their recycling job.
Worm farms can also be used to break down biodegradable corn starch plastics…
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My partner and I started a worm farm about 4 months ago and it has been the best thing for our garden. Once the worms get going, they produce the most amazing black juice that we add when watering our plants. Our strawberries, herbs, and lime tree have grown so much since we started adding the juice.
It has been so impressive, that some of our friends come over with a container and take worm juice home for their garden!