Worm Farm - High Rise

Step 8 How it works

How it works
The worms move up in to the feeding box chomp and gradually turn your offerings in to lovely sweet smelling worm casts, some of the nutrient value of which runs through in to the worm pee box.

Eventually the worms will fill the dinning room with worm casts at which point it needs to be emptied.
1)Reserve about 5cm of the worm casts
2)Give the dinning room a heavy water this brings the most of the worms in to air seeking mode either on top of the dinning room table or back in to the bedding.
3)Empty the rich worm casts to a use of your choice
4)Top up or replace the bedding material depending on condition
5)Start the process again by adding the 5cm reserved worm casts to the bottom of the dining room container and all the rescued worms to the bedding

Obtaining worms
If you are starting fresh then then you need worms. Technically i understand there are at least two types of worms in New Zealand, those that live in the humus (compost layer) and those that live deeper.

I have always used the compost worms without difficulty, trapping them by placing pieces of carpet or commercial 40 litre bags of potting mix (how i discovered this) flat in the garden for a few days to a week, then harvesting when i lift.

You can also by worms in a box from some garden stores / Hardware stores

Worm Reproduction
Well feed worms make more worms... as simple as that - you can if you look closely see little white eggs,(cocoons)hence the reason for including handfuls of worm casts in any new start.

There is plenty of information, regarding worms on the Internet - it pays to get to know your workers just like any big boss.