What Type of Worm is Best for Vermicomposting?
1. Red Worms or (Eisenia fetida) are the best type of worm for composting food waste. These worms are surface worms and stay in the top 18 inches of the soil. A CLOSED CONTAINER works well to confine the worms and keep the process going. 2. Worms are easy to care for but they require food, moisture, oxygen, and a dark place to live. 3. Adult worms produce three cocoons a week and each cocoon will contain at least three baby worms and sometimes ten or more. 4. Every three months the worms should be harvested or separated from the castings. What Do You Feed Worms? After one week you can start adding fruit or vegetable scraps of any kind. Peelings or rinds from apples, avocado skins and pits, banana peelings, berries, cantaloupe rinds, carrots, (worms don’t like citrus as much as other fruits), cucumbers, grapes, green beans, greens of any kind, lettuce leaves, melons and melon rinds, onions, pears, pineapple, potatoes, tomatoes, or, strawberries, etc. They also like brown and green leave
