Worm Composting Tips: Giving Your Red Wiggler Worms The Right Food
Worm Composting
Worm composting is one of the easiest and most effective types of composting. The process is so convincingly simple that you can do it right after you learn how to do it! that one might find himself starting to compost after reading an article how to do it!
Worm composting also produces a very rich kind of organic fertilizer that more and more home garden farmers actually choose to practice organic gardening and worm composting for the purpose of providing rich organic fertilizer for their home garden farms.
Worm composting is so effective at processing and getting rid of organic material that some people practice it just for the purpose of ridding their homes of biodegradable matter! Now this is fine of course. These worms can eat almost anything that you put in their compost tumblers. But that does not necessarily mean that they can eat anything and everything that you put into their compost tumblers! That is why we are now going to discuss what materials you can and cannot use in worm composting.
Good worm composting food
There are lots of biodegradable materials that are suited for worm composting. Worms can find fruits to be very appetizing! Apples, pears strawberries, peaches and all kinds of melons are very appealing to worms. And they do not only like fruits they also like peelings too!
Banana peels are very good worm feed and are very economical as well! Like fruits, worms love vegetables too. Cabbages, beans, carrots, celery, cucumbers, corncobs, corn, tomatoes, squash and all kinds of greens are very good worm foods. Cereals and grains are also very good foods for worm composting.
Pasta, oatmeal, rice, corn meals and pancakes make good worm feed also! Not only that, worms can also eaten other stuff such as newspapers, cardboards, paper egg cartons, paperboards and brown leaves! This is why worms are very good trash caretakers – they eat almost everything!
Bad worm composting food
Now if there are good foods to feed your worms, then there are also bad foods to feed your worms. These are materials that are not suited at all to be worm composting foods. Fish, dairy products, poultry and meat are not very good meals for your worms as these might attract bigger consumers such as rodents. Worms are also not too fond of junk foods and sweets. Fruits with high citric content such as oranges, limes and lemons are also unfavorable for your worms. But the most unfavorable materials to feed your worms are non-biodegradable materials. Rubber and plastic materials, aluminum foils, pieces of glass and dog or cat feces are not to be put into your compost tumblers!
Knowing what is and what is not good material to compost in worm composting is important as it affects heavily the welfare of your worms. And if you for your worm composting project, it will even affect your finances. That is why knowing everything that you can about worm composting is important if you want to have and maintain a good, working worm composting system.
