Worm Farm

Raymond got these stackable containers for me to make my worm farm. We attached some fly mesh to the handle area to keep the flies out and the worms in and drilled some drainage holes in the bottom.
We also got a plastic tub and attached a tap so that I could collect the worm 'tea' for the garden.


I ended up doing some research on worms before getting any and apparently the most common compost worms, tiger and reds, are not really the best to use in warmer climates, though they will survive just not eat as much or breed as much. So instead I got a mixture of five worms that contain the African Night Crawler, Indian Blue and The Gardeners Friend Worm as well as the red and tiger worm. The other worms function better in hot conditions and grow much bigger so they tend to consume more food.
I also got 1000 worm capsules which apparently produce around 5 baby worms on average each. We were very excited to see them hatch and now have heaps of babies. They will take a couple of months to reach maturity but it is pretty interesting to watch and a cheaper way to increase the number of worms fairly quickly.