How to Feed Worms

Once you know what to feed your worms, the question is often asked, "How exactly do you do it?"

Here's how...

It's pretty simple, really. Every so often, take your collected food scraps and bury them in the dirt of your worm bin. There's no magic formula as to how often to feed your worms. Part of that depends on how often you have a collection of food scraps to feed them.

If you keep a chart, you can keep track of where you buried the last waste, and go to a different location within the bin.

Dig a hole in the worm bedding and deposit the food waste. Cover the waste with a couple inches of bedding to keep the flies down and aid in the composting.

Another way to do it is to wrap your food scraps in newspaper and bury it in the bedding. One way isn't more superior than the other, it's mostly a matter of personal tastes.

What if I overfeed my worms?

That can happen. And the biggest indicator that you've over-fed your worms is the smell of rotten garbage. A solution to this is to aerate your worm bin and add more bedding to the mixture. This will disturb your worms, but won't be harmful to them.

You can also just wait it out--allow the natural processes of decomposting to take place. During this time, don't add more food waste to your worm bin.

A third solution is to set up another worm bin temporarily with a fresh batch of bedding and empty some of your worms into the new container.

Regardless of the solution you choose, your worms will be none the worst for it. And before you know it, your worm bin will lose it's rotten garbage smell and be running smoothly again.

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