Print PDF
Favorite
Email
Step 6Worms move in
Technically speaking there are at least two types of garden earth worm;
- The strong and daring that live in the top layers of the soil and leaves
- The deep dwellers who prefer to deep and dark, coming up only when the rains make it the only option.
In theory the first kind are the right ones for the job in our high rise, however the only time actually brought the right ones ( hardware stores and garden centers in NZ) was when i had my first "can of worms" a very good commercially produced Rolls Royce of indoors worm farms. since then i have just recruited direct from the garden and the all seem to look the same and do the same...
so choose the source of your workers and add them to the bedding to sleep off the jet lag.
Place the food container on top, and about 5cms of food across its bottom, a liter of water to wash it all down and plonk on the lid, and keep and eye on proceedings every couple of days.
About every week you will need to;
1)Ensure the basement is emptied. This is great liquid fertilizer and is often called worm pee
2) Pour about one liter of water in to the food container making sure to disperse this over its entire length, to keep the worms moist and help keep their bedding clean (and ultimately creating the worm pee)
3)Ensure that the bedding material still reaches the base of the food box
4)Add more food to the top box as you did to start with.
- The strong and daring that live in the top layers of the soil and leaves
- The deep dwellers who prefer to deep and dark, coming up only when the rains make it the only option.
In theory the first kind are the right ones for the job in our high rise, however the only time actually brought the right ones ( hardware stores and garden centers in NZ) was when i had my first "can of worms" a very good commercially produced Rolls Royce of indoors worm farms. since then i have just recruited direct from the garden and the all seem to look the same and do the same...
so choose the source of your workers and add them to the bedding to sleep off the jet lag.
Place the food container on top, and about 5cms of food across its bottom, a liter of water to wash it all down and plonk on the lid, and keep and eye on proceedings every couple of days.
About every week you will need to;
1)Ensure the basement is emptied. This is great liquid fertilizer and is often called worm pee
2) Pour about one liter of water in to the food container making sure to disperse this over its entire length, to keep the worms moist and help keep their bedding clean (and ultimately creating the worm pee)
3)Ensure that the bedding material still reaches the base of the food box
4)Add more food to the top box as you did to start with.
| « Previous Step | Download PDFView All Steps | Next Step » |
 |
Add Comment
|
