You Need Composting Worms

You Need Composting Worms
By Chris Downs

Composting worms are the workers that help turn your waste into great compost. If you are composting, this article will help you with what you need to understand what they do and the environment they need to thrive. You will also learn the best worms for composting. They have been the machine of turning plant material in to great compost, plus they create worm manure, also known as worm castings.

Worms eat organic material and as they eat, they create worm castings, worm manure. They not only need food but they also need a habitat with bedding materials. As the worms eat the food and vegetation is broken down and actually enriched as they digest it. The nutrient rich worm castings can then be harvested and mixed with other composted material to make a nutrient rich fertilizer.

Worms also need a hospitable environment for them to thrive and complete their job. Ideal living quarters can be created initially by adding lots of bedding material such as straw, shredded old newspaper, fall leaves and shredded cardboard. The right amount of moisture is also needed, and should be similar to that of a well wrung out sponge. Higher moisture levels do tend to work better for worm composting especially if you are using a watertight worm composting bin.

Things you want to avoid and never put in your food supply for your composting worms is as follows;

Human/pet waste
Non-biodegradable materials
Dairy/meat
Oils/grease
Harsh chemicals

The best worms for your compost containers are:

Red Wigglers, White worms and other worms that create a heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable and vegetation waste. Those are the three best worms for composting material. There are other worms, like Blueworms, but they are better suited for the tropics, and not really suited for compost bins.

These are fairly basic guidelines. It is also better for your worms if it's a little rotten and moist and stinky to begin with as they prefer the microbial soup that forms on rotting material. If you buy one of the plastic bins for worm farms you don't have to wait to add your worms, but it would be best to add some rotting material so they have something to eat and to get started.

So you have learned which worms to use, how they work, and how to make a great environment for your worms. You will be able to have great compost as you create a perfect place for your worms to thrive, and use your composting worms to have a fantastic garden.

Start now creating your wormy world of composting.

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