Worm Farms

Ironbarkbob's Worm Farm

Lucky's Worm Farm

My worm farms are used in the vegie garden. The worm castings is used at the same time I sow the seeds or the seedlings. The buckets catch the worm water and this is used watered down on the leafy vegies.

A before shot for you to see what can be turned into worm castings.

The finished product, beautiful smelling worm castings.

Urbanwombat's Worm Farm

Wombat's wormfarm

Some find a good read will pass the day!

The food crusher

Rough plan

My first farms were made from 12L plastic crates, the type used by fisher people. I found these crates had some inherent problems eg inadequate ventilation - even after drilling extra holes, the plastic did not 'breath The crates were too small for a well set up farm.

So my worm farm is twin chamber and of home handy person construction.

Construction :

The box is made from tongue and groove pine timber (from Bunnings ) and 50x30mm pine battens it is held together with screws and nails,the open bottom has a welded wire floor and the lid is made from scrap timber.

The whole farm sits on a plastic create lid. (see rough drawing for some idea of how it was put together).

How it works:

Start by covering the floor of one chamber with 50mm damp coconut fibre + worms then damp news paper.

Feeding:

I feed small amounts of kitchen scraps that have been crushed into a mushy pulp , this is done with home made crusher,sledge hammer head welded onto an iron tube.

because these kitchen scraps are very sloppy paper is included (normally kitchen towels). I don't place the food in even layers but rather create small islands for the worms so this makes meal time a real adventure.

Each week a handful of lime is added + a few sprigs pea straw.

As soon as side one if full start on side two and when it is full side one is ready for harvesting.