Composting With Earthworms

There's no doubt that compost is a great benefit to the garden but many of us can't be concerned to take the time to create a practical compost.

Luckily there are many of little workers in the garden who will be happy to turn your garden waste into the most precious type of compost for free.

Naturally I'm chatting about composting worms. Keeping a worm farm takes up not a lot of room and the mere presence means you will have a handy way to use kitchen leftovers and unwanted organic waste. The castings that worms create are rich in nutrients and are suitable to condition the dirt when added in good enough quantities.

A worm farm will not stink, is cheap to buy and maintain and easy to use. There are loads of ready made cheap worm farms existing. Some of the best are made of plastic and can be stacked in trays on top of one another allowing the worms to move without difficulty from one box to another in search of food, leaving you with the compost to move straight to the garden.

As for the worms themselves, there are many places online to buy cheap composting worms in bulk. Close to 30,000 worms will turn over 2 pounds of waste every day and you will be startled at the quantity of compost produced. A worm farm can be established with an original group of 200 worms and they will begin to grow as they feed and grow.