Wormery For Organic Garden Compost
July 30 2007
Are worms the perfect solution to composting kitchen waste?
At Wiggly Wigglers they think it is! Not only is the Organic waste converted into rich, dark compost, worm-assisted composting is a wholly natural process that is fully self-sustaining, reduces waste volumes by up to 80%, neutralises odours, and tackles a wide variety of wastes. Who could ask for more?!
So what is a wormery?
Wiggly Wigglers define wormeries as self-contained systems, usually about the size of a small dustbin, that are used mainly to compost kitchen waste. Their favourite is one called ‘Can-O-Worms’ which is so small that it can be put almost anywhere, and most customers like to keep their ’Can-O-Worms’ just outside the kitchen door to make life as easy as possible!
Worms can help speed-up composting wherever there's organic waste to be found, from taking care of a few vegetable scraps in the kitchen to digesting the fallen leaves in a mighty jungle, but best results are obtained with soft organic wastes such as vegetable peelings, tea leaves, coffee grounds, stale bread, pet hairs and even vacuum cleaner dust!
Due to their small size, wormeries are not really suitable for composting large amounts of garden waste such as pruning waste (these would need garden composters).
Wiggly Wigglers only supply native worm species so there is no possibility of causing any environmental damage from introduced species.
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