How to Make Vermicompost | How To make Vermicompost at Home From Kitchen Waste
Vermi-composting, that is composting with worms is super easy and great for plants. All you need is a box that you put some worms in and some organic material. One can keep them inside the house (the smell is not a problem), so they are always at a comfortable temp. If you keep them outside, just pay attention to keeping them out of the sun when its hot and in the sun when its cold, that’s probably enough, depending on where you live.
To make a worm bin you need two plastic bins. One bin sits inside the other, and has some small holes drilled in the bottom so water can drain from the compost into the second bin.
The first bin don’t actually do anything to, except put some kind of spacers at the bottom. Here put some small old Tupperware containers but just about anything will work, some scraps of wood, small coffee cups just about anything you can think of. This is just to create a space that excess water can collect.We only need one lid for the system, and want to cut some holes to allow the worms to breathe.
Having a lid like this helps keep the smell down if you keep your worm bin inside. Drill a few holes in the lid, then covered it with landscape fabric, the stuff you put under rocks and mulch to keep weeds down. Just about any kind of fine netting should work fine, this is just to keep the worms from escaping. Keep it in the basement and or below the portico never you will be been able to smell bad.Get the worms from any near by nurssery or there’s no reason you can’t collect your own worms if you do a little bit of digging, especially shortly after a rain, you want red wigglers or earthworms.
You can put just about any organic material in the bins, but don't use meat or dairy. you may have also heard that citrus is bad, don't use it.
After a few months the worms will have reproduced and number in the thousands. They will produce wonderful compost in much less time than a normal pile.
