How to be a good parent to your worms - Sustainable Gardening Australia Footprint Flicks

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🐛 Worms are a gardener's best friend as they provide multiple benefits for the soil and plants.

🍃 Worms help to aerate the soil and improve the water-air proportions, creating a healthier growing environment for plants.

💩 Worm poo is a fantastic fertilizer that slowly releases nutrients and helps plants fight off diseases.

🏠 Building a worm farm is easy and requires simple materials like polystyrene fruit boxes and newspaper.

🥦 To feed the worms, give them kitchen and vegetable scraps, fruit peelings, grass clippings, autumn leaves, paper, tea bags, coffee grounds, and crushed eggshells, while avoiding meat, dairy, and citrus.

💧 Worm farms should be watered every couple of weeks to maintain moisture and encourage worm activity.

🌱 Collecting the vermicast, or worm poo, from the top box can be done by creating a cone-shaped pile to separate the worms.

🐛 Overfeeding, adding meat or dairy, and allowing the worm farm to become dry are common mistakes to avoid when taking care of worms.

🌎 Worms are essential for the health of the soil and sustainable gardening.

Timestamped Summary

00:08 Introduction to the benefits of having worms as pets, such as producing fertilizer and reducing carbon footprint.

00:25 Explanation of how to make a worm farm, including using polystyrene fruit boxes and adding bedding materials.

02:00 Adding the worms to the top box of the worm farm.

03:10 Feeding the worms with kitchen and vegetable scraps, while avoiding meat and dairy products.

04:01 Tips for maintaining the worm farm, such as adding water every couple of weeks.

05:06 Addressing common issues with worm farms, such as overfeeding, attracting flies and maggots, and dry conditions.

06:45 Dealing with extreme temperature days by bringing the worm farm inside or providing cooling measures.

07:18 Conclusion on the importance of worms for soil health and sustainable gardening.

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Q&A

What is the benefit of having worms in the garden?

Worms help aerate the soil, produce fertilizer, and reduce your carbon footprint.

How do you create a worm farm?

You will need two polystyrene fruit boxes, punch holes in the bottom of one box, line it with mesh or insect screen, add a small hose or tap, and place the other box on top.

What should you feed worms in a worm farm?

Worms like kitchen and vegetable scraps, fruit peelings, grass clippings, autumn leaves, paper and cardboard (soaked in water), tea bags, coffee grounds, crushed-up eggshells, and aged manures or compost. Avoid meat, dairy products, and citrus.

How do you maintain a worm farm?

Feed the worms about 2 centimeters of food every few days, sprinkle water every couple of weeks to maintain moisture, collect and dilute the worm castings for use as fertilizer, and remove the vermicast without disturbing the worms.

What should you do if there are issues with the worm farm?

If there is overfeeding, lay off the food for a few days. Flies and maggots indicate the presence of meat or dairy products, so remove them using bread soaked in milk. If the farm is too dry, add water. If the worms are suffering from heat exhaustion, take the farm to a cool spot or hose them down on hot days.