Really, getting started on a worm farm is not that complicated, all you need is a love for recycling and some worm trivia so here’s a bit of worm trivia that might help motivate and inspire you with your worm farming.. How much will the worms eat? Well, mature worms which can eat up or over three times their own body weight every day and for those that are just starting in the great worm farming world and what to know how to make the worms eat more and be a lot more productive.

The answer is simple – shred, mash or blend food scraps since these will make the food more digestible and is very easily eaten by the worms. You also need to maintain their bed temperature near 23-25 degrees Celsius since it’s at these temperatures that worms feel their best, but stay away from acidic foods as it will screw up their digestive system. These are some things you’ll want to not feeding your worms period manure, onions, citrus fruits or peelings, garlic, garden waste sprayed with insecticides, dairy products like milk and cheese or meat.

Watering the farm will enhance the production of the fertilizer but avoid adding too much water into it or it could drown the worms. Keep in mind that food wastes are nearly eighty percent water and that is released as the worms break it down. So, if you happen to pour water over the system every couple to few weeks be sure to just add sufficient water to ensure the worm bed remains damp and cool, and you will easily have a constant supply of fertilizer. You can’t harvest the worms because they regulate themselves within any given or available space and the amount of food made available to them. Here are a few other questions that you might end up asking.

Why is it normal for worms to congregate on the lid of the farm when it is raining? It is a normal response for the worms to behave like this during the rainy season to keep from dying. Just take the farm containers to an area where it’s not exposed to very much rain and put the worms back on their bedding

Why don’t the worms just relocate to the top level of the tray? It may be because you having added some new food before the worms got to complete the previous feeding batch. Worms instinctively to stay with leftover food and won’t go out of their way and new food source until it’s done with what was already left. As a result, before adding additional trays, halt the feeding of the worms for at least five days so that you’re certain the original food is gone and make sure that the levels in the working tray needs to be at the right height for the worms to be able to go up to the next tray.

Do worms have the ability bear high temperatures? Worms can tolerate a temperature ranging between ten to thirty degrees Celsius. so if temperatures hotter than they can stand, move the farm into a shady, cool location where it can regulate the moisture and the humidity. In cold temperatures,be sure to cover the box with old garments or carpets, blankets and wool shavings to keep the temperature up. It’s also a good idea to feed the worms at least a quarter more than you’re supposed to since more food digested on the worms part gives way for more heat to be created inside of them. So pay attention to these ideas and soon you’ll be able to creating an awesome worm farm.

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