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How to start a backyard worm farm

Worms. The very essence of every flourishing garden. They are great for improving soil quality, turn your kitchen scraps into a valuable, incredibly rich fertiliser, and also make for an undemanding household pet.

With a block of coir, some newspaper and handful of worms ready to go, setting up a simple worm farm couldn’t be easier. Your worm farm can be a ready-made layered structure, created in an old bathtub, an in situ garden worm tower or something like a Hungry Bin (a large scale compost).

You’ll need:

Something to house your worms: work out which worm farm you’re using. There’s a lot of designs out there, but they all work the same way. 

For any worm farm that has a tap at the bottom, setting it up with at a slight forward tilt for any liquid to drain out is a good idea. You can leave the tap on with a bucket underneath to avoids any build up of sediment that can clog things up.

Worms: Once you've sorted out your worm farm you’ll need to source some worms, these can be from a hardware store, community garden, council or a generous worm giving friend. You'll want about 1000 worms per person using the worm farm – so for a family of four you’ll want to add 4000 worms to munch through your scraps.




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