Fortunately, your worms consume almost every relegation of food and other biological waste that you feed them.They are micro -organisms that they eat, and not especially from food waste.Instead of eating food waste, they wait until many tasty microbes have started to grow on the surface.
Do not add to your worm meat, dairy products, processed or fatty foods that produce a scent when they break down and cause an environmental balance in your worm hills (fruit flies, attract moisture problems, etc.).
Feed your worms a rich assortment of the following fruit, vegetables and organic waste, including:
- Fruit and fruit peel, crust and coreels
- Eggshells
- Coffee grounds and filters
- Tea bags
- Older fertilizer of every vegetable-eating animal (rabbits, horses, cows, lamas, etc.) Note: Make sure you do not use fertilizers that contains the dorming medicine that can kill your worms!
Avoid feeding your worms too much citrus at the same time because citrus peel contains a hard chemical.In small quantities it is fine to add citrus, but keep an eye on the quantity.harmful to worms.
If you have just started a new worm trade, it is important not to overdo your worms.environment.
If you buy local worms, you can buy them in buckets that contain worms and their host environment.Stay in containers that do not have enough oxygen.When the active compost is broken down, it is heated and consumes oxygen, which in turn makes the worms overheated.Worms we we seller before we see them to our customers to be heated during the worms during during shipping and transport.
When are you going to feed your worms?
Your worms and their ecosystem are healthiest when you feed them just enough food.How do you tell how often you have to feed your worms?Willing to eat again.And check them every day or two;When you see them running in the last batch food that you have fed them, it's time to feed them a handful.
It is very natural for worms to avoid food waste that you have just added.
The only place rule
In all things, organic, we recommend feeding the worms in one place, usually in the middle of your waste.
Worm Bin Care and Maintenance
So it's a few weeks since you first have your garbage dump and you have fed your worms at least once.
Here is what you should pay attention to:
- The bed that you draw up before you have added worms
- Your worms must start visiting the bag of food waste that you have placed in the garbage dump.If you carefully dig around the area and lift the food that you have placed, see worms gathering against the food source.
You must also see other insects and activities in your waste.Rijs insects and micro -organisms.Not to worry;
The dry grated paper that you added when you first made your worm compartment, must absorb part of the moisture of the fruit and vegetarian waste that you have placed in the middle of the waste.Processor, instead, breaking off and making it available faster for the worms and other microorganisms.
The life of (wormbin) party
If your new waste can be determined, the number and diversity of organisms that live in it will arise.Don't be afraid if you see small creatures at work in your waste - these created the composting of food.
The micro -organisms that live in your worm section will not try to escape, and why would they have everything they need in your worm baking.Territory in your house.
These organisms are not interested in feeding with your house plants - in fact they can only consume the relegation of organic matter.
The following are the organisms that live and thrive in your worm box - the more of them, the healthier your waste and more productive it will be by breaking down your green waste:
- Springtaarten (Collembola Family) White, Gray or Brown in color, Spring Tails have six legs, three different body segments and two antennas.
- So whether pellet error (isopoda), so -uncomfortable because of their tendency to roll up when threatened, so bugs fragments and eat some of the most difficult materials with a lot of cellulose and lignines.Two antennas.
- Mites (Acarina) are usually the most common and visible inhabitants of a worm section that feeds with overdue organic compounds, fungi and other organisms.
- Potworms (enchytraidae) or white worms are white, wire -like worms that many people often fail for baby -redworm.You see an excessive abundance of white worms in your worm compartment, the area is probably too wet.
- Fruitvliegen (Diptera)!
- Millipedes (diplopoda) are long, slowly moving, fierce animals found in small numbers in your worm compartment.Millipedes are long and segmented with two pairs of legs a day. Body segment and two antennas.
- Centipedes (chilopoda) centipedes is similar to millipedes, although they only have a set of legs on most body segments and a large pair of pliers.If you see one, you must remove it carefully by hand.
- Bacteria are by far the most organisms in your waste with fungi and fungi.
Tips for good wormback -care
Worm bins are not difficult to maintain, but if you follow these tips, you must support a healthy, productive composting environment.
Do not add any water to your worm compartment, unless a large part of the trash can is extremely dry to touch.Out and is very concentrated - plants can actually kill, if not considerably diluted with water.Worm compost to bring further oxygen into your system.
Lift the dry grated paper or waste every few weeks and gently dig on the bottom of the drawer and make sure that the worms do not disturb too much.Is this sign that you have to add air to your system and improve the drainage, so that surplus liquid has a clear path from your trash.
Let your nose be your guide.Every time you feed your worms, lift the lid and take a large touch.Perhaps you have added green waste that produces the scent, or maybe your worm box is anaerobic.the system.
Keep your worm compartment in an environment with a fairly constant temperature that is not too hot or too cold.Never hold your worm section in an area that receives direct sun exposure, or in an area that gets colder than 5 degrees Celsius.
If you keep your worm section outdoors, keep worms cold and not too hot.
Changes: Is there anything else that I have to add?
Some worm composts add amendments to their garbage bins that contain lime, oyster shells, rock powder and eggshells.balance.
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