When the Worm Farm is Full
Another customer question from my time working in the nursery.
Question: The top layer of my worm farm is full of food scraps and won’t fit any more in. What do I do now?
Answer: The short answer is that you need to wait until the worms have eaten all the existing food scraps before you can add more.
The longer answer: you can also increase the rate at which the worms eat your scraps. The slower way is to increase the number of worms. They will breed and grow more numerous the longer you have the farm - they might only eat a small amount when it’s brand new, but as the population grows they will eat more and more.
The second way is to blend the scraps in a food processor or blender before you put them in the farm. The worms are tiny and seem to prefer slightly rotted food, so if you blend it into into a vegie smoothie it breaks down faster and they eat it much faster than if you were to throw in entire potato peelings or fruit rinds.
Tags: questions, worm farming
January 16th, 2009 at 12:41 am
How is the worm farm going? Getting some nice compost from it?
January 30th, 2009 at 6:55 am
‘vegie smoothie’. *shudders*
i can deal with that if i imainge lovely fresh fruit & veg in a delicious combo .. but the stuff that i put into my scraps? yuck. lol! different strokes for different worms, i guess. hehe.
February 28th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
what a great idea, now all I have to do is get some new worms, try not to kill them like the others and use the blender for my mountain of scraps