Mysterious creatures that turn our green waste into a power pack of microbial- and nutrient-rich castings, worms are essential to both soil and plant health.
Creating your own worm farm is inexpensive, easy and a fantastic way to turn vegie scraps, coffee grounds, newspapers and even eggshells into a rich resource that builds soil and increases plant health. Low maintenance, worms require little more than a couple of handfuls of vegie scraps each week applied to their shaded home, and what they will give you in return is pure garden gold.
WORM TYPES AND BREEDS
With around 1000 species of worms in Australia, there is a species suited to every application. Worms can be separated into three types, there are worms that do better in a worm-farm setting, called epigeic, worms that would rather live in your compost, called anecic, and worms that are happiest deep in your soil, known as endogeic worms.
Epigeic, which is Greek for ‘on the earth’ is the type best suited to your worm farm. Surface dwellers and generally red in colour, they thrive in densely populated numbers and
