The moisture will need to be just damp but not soggy or else oxygen will not get through. You need to make them feel as comfortable as they can in their new home so they can settle in quickly. The moisture and temperature of the bedding is very important when you start the wormery. As you may already know the bedding will need to be made of carbon rich material such as shredded newspaper, coir, or just normal compost soil.

Knowing this can help you calculate your volume of bedding. So the bedding does have to be at least 6 inches deep to give the worms room to move around. It does not matter how deep the worm bin is, because the worms stay within 6-12 inches of the surface anyway. The quantity of worms will then depend on how big your system is! I have previously mentioned that for every square foot in the bin you can add about 1 pound of worms. Habitat, correct temperature, correct moisture, oxygen and food.įirstly with the habitat which is the bedding, it depends on how much worms you need to put in your system. Worms need very basic things to be happy, but you will need to keep these basic things right to have a healthy working wormery. It actually doesn’t really matter what kind of system you use, the importance of controlling the feed, bedding and other factors is essentially the same or very similar. What you mean as a bin system is probably simply a large box which contains bedding and worms.

He also goes on to explain step by step on how he creates his bedding and harvest his worms. This guy called Mark Yelkin has created quite a good system using buckets to breed his worms. During my skiving session from work I actually found a Youtube video displaying exactly what I mean. I have previously mentioned about the tray/bucket system where you can effectively control the growth and breeding of your worms. There are many different bin systems you can use to start a commercial business. “What is the optimum formula for bedding for breeding worms and feed to put in this bedding? I would like to start a small commercial business, not using beds, but a bin system.” ~ Karen Ciccini

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