Adding a wormery to your home and garden is a great idea for so many reasons. Many people choose to start a wormery as an extra way to recycle and combat food waste, and to generate fertiliser to boost plant growth. Worm composting is convenient and makes a satisfying hobby that doesn’t require hours of work.
If you’re thinking of starting this as a new project in your home, take a look at our five top reasons to start your own wormery.
Makes good fertiliser
Wormeries create a rich fertiliser that can be placed on your flower beds and lawns. Worm compost is bursting with nutrients that your plants and lawn can easily absorb, to boost growth and overall strength and health. Worms break down waste matter by eating it, digesting it, and passing it from their bodies as worm casts. Worm casts can provide essential nutrients, such as iron. Plus, it can improve the quality and structure of the soil.
Waste management
Kitchen scraps can build up quickly. Having somewhere extra to put your peelings and leftover vegetables can help prevent more waste entering landfill that could be put to good use. What better way to recycle than a way that makes your garden thrive? Worms can eat a lot of scraps very fast, which can reduce the volume of waste in your space. A pound of worms can eat around 60 pounds of scraps in just a few months. That’s impressive!
Eco friendly
When you buy fertilisers for your garden, while they contain nutrients, they can also introduce high nitrogen and phosphorus into the environment, which has a negative effect on the planet, particularly oceans and aquatic life. Plus, artificial fertilisers can pose a threat to pets and small children. Switching to home-made fertiliser from a wormery can eliminate those dangers, and have the same effect as other options, but without the side effects, and additives. For just a little extra effort to maintain your wormery occasionally, you can care for your garden in a way that gives back to the planet and adds nothing else.
A fun hobby
As well as being functional as a way to eliminate waste and bring health to your plants, keeping and looking after a colony of worms can be a rewarding and satisfying hobby that many come to enjoy. Many people come to see worms as a type of pet! Watching the behaviour of your worms is fascinating, from their feeding to how they move around and burrow in the soil. If you have a glass wormery, you can see all the way to the bottom. A wormery can be a great educational tool for children, helping them to understand nature and how the soil works through experience.
Easy to maintain
With the correct information on what to feed your worms, and how often, the right temperature, and the best materials to use, it’s easy to keep your wormery thriving. Making sure it’s kept damp and dark, and placing food waste in the tub is the only work that needs to be done once you’ve established a regular rhythm. It really is the worms that do all the work.
Are you interested in starting a wormery for yourself? Check out more of our blog posts for further information on how to start and maintain a wormery.
In our online shop, we sell wormery starter packs to get your composting project off to a great start.