How to develop a small scale vermicomposting unit for home?

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So you would like to start a Vermicomposting Unitfor home. To makeVermicompost at home is may be a great way to reduce the waste you're throwing out to landfill and can help you create homemade organic soil fertilizer and conditioner for your garden.

Did you recognize that the average Indian kitchen bin is made of up to eighty percent food? Why not get some new down to earth friends who'll appreciate the food more than the tip will. We will ride you through all four steps. Unless you already know where you would like to go and then you can just jump straight to that section.




How does one become a worm farmer?
First source a worm farm and a few eisenia fetida composting worms. When deciding how big your worm farm needs to be and how many worms you need, give some thought to how much food you throw away per day.
Worms can eat up to their weight worth of food in a day so, if you throw away two apple cores and a carrot you would like this many worms to consume it. 
If you're unsure about what proportion of food you throw away just buy a large box of worms to get you started. Choose a well-constructed worm farm so pests can't get in. Remember it isn't a pest farm it's a worm farm. We have founded you a worm farm.




What materials does one need?
Grab a pair of gloves and an apron, so you do not get too dirty. Then source two sheets of newspaper, a Hessian cloth that's as wide and as long as your worm farm, grab an outsized bowl or bucket, your worm farm, worms and therefore the coco fiber brick that came with the kit.
Place the coco fiber brick in the bowl and cover with water and wait two hours for it to expand.
While you're expecting your cocoa fiber brick to expand, move your worm farm into a cool, dark, dry area faraway from the hot sun.
Spread Newspaper on the bottom of your first working tray. Once your coco fiber brick has expanded grab it out of the bowl and layer it over the newspaper placed over first bottom tray, it should still be quite wet.
Add the worms on top of the coco fiber keeping any bedding that came with them then cover with the worm blanket.

A worm blanket is often made out of any old fabric, today we're using hessian. And now, let your worms settle for a week.

Add kitchen waste and paper scrapes in the second tray, add some soil and some amount of vermicompost and mix them and keep in on worms tray, sprinkle adequate water and let it settle for pre-digestion for a week.
Then, after a week mix earthworms containing coco peat of first tray with the food scraps containing second tray and cover with the bedding. Replace the blanket and therefore the lid and voilà, you're ready up.
You simply need one tray until it fills up. So, your worms are settled and happy in their new home. Now, only sprinkle water on alternate day to keep bed moist enough.

Let's discover the best way to feed them.
Make sure you feed them regularly. If you feed them huge amounts food  or so the worms cannot get through it fast enough and the food waste goes sour and starts to smell.
When you lift the blanket and there are still lots of food scraps remaining, don't add another food for some days.
To add more food dig a small trench next the previous one. Continue this until you reach the top of the farm then jump back to where you started.
There are plenty of different food scraps in the average Indian kitchen.


Here may be a list of some food you can feed earthworms.
Raw and cooked food, vegetable scraps,coffee grinds, tea bags, and tiny bits of paper and cardboard etc.

Here are some you ought to try and avoid:
Dairy, bread, meat and eggshells (but you'll if you crush them up). 

Here are some you can't put in:
onions, garlic, uncooked potato skins, and citrus peel.
Click below, a free printable label, for your worm farm of the complete list of foods they like or don't like.
Make sure you tear the food up into small pieces because worms have small mouths.
And finally, ensure to check the water levels. The bedding and food scraps should have the adequate level of moisture(20%) as a wet kitchen sponge.
If worms get too dry they stop moving and eating.

Worm farm not going so well?
Looks like we've got some troubleshooting to do.
If your worms aren't eating everything it's probably because you're feeding them an excessive amount of food. Before you set in more food check that there aren't too many food scraps remaining.
Because remember worms can only eat up to their weight each day. Maybe you would like a bigger farm or maybe you should feed them less.

Flies turning up uninvited?​
Maybe because you are not covering the worm farm properly. Are you burying it during a trench, covering it with the hessian blanket, ensuring the lid is tightly closed?
Remember we said don't feed them meat, bread, dairy? It isn't because they're gluten intolerant lacto-vegetarians, it's because it makes for stinky farm.

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