Your Worm Farm will thrive on a little extra attention this Spring!

A Worm Farm is fun to keep and an economical way to recycle your kitchen scraps into nutritious food for your garden. But as the seasons change, it’s important to check your worm farm and adjust its environment. By ensuring the conditions are maintained at optimum levels, your worms will come right up to the surface and work at their most efficient levels.

With spring just around the corner, you need to keep an eye on the temperature and moisture levels in your worm farm. You’ll also need to keep your composting earthworms well fed because as the temperature rises they will become more active. Your composting worms will start eating more and in doing so, produce more castings (or worm poo) which is fantastic news for your plants – because it’s just what they need to spring back into life!

With this in mind, here are some easy ways to get the most from your worm farm this Spring!

Tips and tricks for your worm farm

1.   While composting worms love the warmth, hot afternoon sun on your worm farm can be very dangerous to their health. Indeed, composting worms are happiest with a temperature range in their bedding from 18-25 deg C. As the season progresses, move your worm farm to a place that attracts afternoon shade.

2.   The warmer spring weather will increase your composting worm’s intake of ‘food’, so feed them regularly with a good variety of household food scraps.

3.   Water your worm farm each week then drain your worm farm to extract the fresh ‘worm tea’. This will give you fantastic nutritious liquid food for your plants and ensure your worm farm stays moist and cool.

5.   Add some extra ‘Worm Conditioner’ to enhance your worm farm’s environment. This will encourage your worms to eat faster and in doing so, produce more castings and juice for worm tea. Tumbleweed’s Compost and Worm Farm Conditioner helps neutralise acidity and balances the pH levels in your worm farm. It is made from natural minerals so it’s perfectly safe to use on organic waste that will later be thrown onto your vegetable patch in the form of worm tea.

6.   To gain maximum benefit from your worm juice, dilute it to the colour of weak tea and use it while it is as fresh as possible.

7.   As you prepare to plant new gardens, dig-in your worm ‘castings’ in small amounts around the drip line of your fruit trees or in the new garden beds.