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What and what not to feed your worms and how to feed your worms

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There are certain things that worms love and there are other things that can ruine or kill all your worms.

Things that can be fed to worms

  • Vegetables
  • Fruits
  • Coffee grounds
  • Tea bags
  • Plain breads
  • Rice
  • Pasta
  • Melons (they love this!)
  • Brown sugar
  • Crushed eggshells
  • Cheese (small amounts)

What not to feed the worms

  • Citrus
  • Meats and bones
  • Garlic
  • Heavily spiced food
  • Hair
  • Milk, yogurt, butter
  • Eggs
  • Fresh manures
  • Poisonous plants
  • Oils
  • Salt
  • Wood ashes
  • Metal, foil, plastics

Feeding the worms

  • Collect food for worms
  • Wash all vegetables! You can blend the food to make it easier for worms to eat.
  • Give the food to the worms. Remember to put it at another spot everytime you feed them.
  • It doesn’t matter how many times a week you feed your worms. As long as they have enough food. But not too much!
  • Bury the food about 5 cm deep.

1 pound of worms = 1 pound of food waste.
This can rise depending on how the worms are doing.

Brandon Koots

Hydroponics Curacao

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What to feed your worms

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This article isn’t a long article. It’s just to give you an idea of what worms like to eat.
Many people don’t know what exactly they have to feed their worms.
Well, worms eat every waste of people and animals. But there are a few things they like the most. I know this because when I feed them one of these things, they eat it faster than other things.
What they like the most:

  • Pumpkin
  • Papaya
  • Cucumber

    • You can try it out too. Feed them on of these and go look the next day at the spot you placed it. You will see a lot of those worms there together. Maybe they already ate their food. This also depends on how many worms you have.
    My worms are doing great now! I give them papaya and cucumber only. Because I know they love them. But now I’ve started growing pumpkins. I have 4 plants growing right now. And these pumpkins are planted for my worms.

    Brandon Koots
    Hydroponics Curacao

    Email: support@hydroponics-curacao.com

    Feeding your worms

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    It’s easy to feed your worms.
    The best way is to dig holes in the ground/soil and bury the food in the holes. They will go there faster than if you put the food above the soil. Because the worms don’t like too much light. And to get to the food above the soil, they will have to get in light. Remember not to put the food always at the same spot. Put it every time somewhere else.
    Worms love soft fruits. Like pumpkin, watermelon, melon and papaya. When you give them one of these fruits, you will find the worms the next day eating. They can finish their food in just 1 day. But food like carrots, will take longer. Because it’s harder.
    Don’t give your worms too much food. Too much food and will attract other animals to come to your bin and most of the times they don’t help in the process.
    When you give your worms something they eat and treat them well, you will have worms growing faster and increasing faster too!
    I’ve decided to plant 1 pumpkin plant and 1 papaya plant. Everything I harvest from one of these plants, I will give my worms as food. But if it’s too much, which I think will be, then I will take some of them for me and my family.

    Brandon Koots
    Hydroponics Curacao

    Email: support@hydroponics-curacao.com

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