The fact of the matter is that worm farming is a superb means to recycle your organic waste since worms will eat just about everything of your waste and covert them into fertilizer. The fertilizer from your worm farm works for garden soil as well as potted as indoor plants plus the fertilizer makes for a great vegetable patch as well if you have one in your backyard.
For a small scale worm farming project, the only things you'll really need are a box with holes at the bottom, to allow excess water to drain out, as well as bedding. Papers, leaves, and even cardboard are adequate materials to created bedding in the interior should be a little moist when placed inside the container. Be careful not to wet it too much just sprinkle with some water and then put your red or tiger worms inside the container and then put with a few scraps of food. Start out with a little bit of food, and make it larger as the size of your farm increases.
It would be best to know your worms when you're starting when you're making a worm farm, earthworms don't make for very good worms. Red, tiger, or compost worms are the most ideal for farming and fertilizing as this type are better adapted life in captivity and are good in digesting organic matter and that's good, because it's what you'll be feeding them: kitchen garbage.
Castings are not the only product of your farm cause the water that flows from the drain or holes of your container is also a good liquid fertilizer. Some customize their containers and place collecting basins underneath the holes to collect the liquid that comes out. Whether you believe it or not when worm castings and water residue are used as fertilizers, flowers tend to bloom earlier and when used in a vegetable patch, the produce turns out better and some say the they even taste better.
Worm casting is dubbed vermicompost and the process with which it is created is known as vermicomposting. The field has already been established and there are also many experts in this area and many commercial resources where you can get materials like worm containers and supply of worms.
After a number of months, the worms will have made a few suitable castings on the top later and a good time to harvest it would be about the time it's full. Many techniques in harvesting the castings and an effective way would be to just open the lid and expose the container to light. Worms are highly sensitive to light and by letting in a lot of light to the surface, the worms will begin to burrow inside. You can then scrape the castings when you can tell that worms are no longer visible on the surface.
Another technique people use is to place food on one face of the container which encourages the worms to move toward that area then several weeks following, the worms will have gone to that side so castings left on the other side can be scraped.
You worm farm should constitute a regular food intake of fruits and veggies don't feed them any kind of citrus fruit as this will make the container and castings acidic which is not good for the plants or for the farm. Egg shells, leaves, newspaper and ripped up and soaked cardboards are good food for your worms however, putting dirt into your farms is never a bad idea as long as everything is completed in moderation.
