Common Worm Farm (Wormery) Problems
1.My Worm Farm Smells:
If the worm farm is too wet or the are being overfed your wormery can start to smell. Solution: Stop feeding the worms until they’ve eaten the food already in the worm bin. From that point on, feed the worms smaller amounts of food. You can also add shredded newspaper to help dry it out
2. Worms Don’t Seem to Be Breeding:
Worms need the right conditions to breed. Correct moisture, temperature, and the right food are all necessary to create more worms in your worm farm. Worms don’t like direct sunlight or huge fluxes in temperature. Be careful with sugary foods or grains. Adding these foods create acidic conditions within the farm and the worms will not breed. Solution: If your wormery gets too acidic, add a little lime to bring down the pH. Do this for a few weeks until you’ve buffered the acidity.
3: I Have Ants or Bugs in My Worm Farm:
Generally a sign of overfeeding. Bugs and insects are attracted to rotting material
Solution: This is a simple one. If your wormery has legs, place the legs in bowls of water. Ants can’t swim
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How do I keep the Worm Castings dry enough to harvest and wet enough for the worms?
Glenn,
If you have a multi layer worm bin then you stop feeding the top tray. Once the food/material is fully composted you put another feeding tray on top. Eventually, most of the worms will move up to feed and then you can take the composted tray out to dry. I usually put it on back on top and don’t have a problem with the worms coming back because there’s not much to eat. It’s takes a while to learn the art of the feeding the worms the correct amount so you don’t get everything soaking wet and kill the worms. Getting too dry is generally not a problem if you are feeding them regularly. Hope that helps a little.