Anything from advice for beginning vermicomposters with the Vermicomposting 101 Series or interviews with experts, the Urban Worm Blog has you covered!
Why Won’t My Compost Get Hot?
A compost pile that won't heat up is the most common disappointment to the new composter. The leaves are raked. The food waste is collected. The pitchfork is ready. After mixing them together, our intrepid composter impatiently waits a few days before opening the...
Worm Castings 101: Your Guide to Soil’s Favorite Food
Welcome to the Urban Worm Company's Guide to Worm Castings! This article will do a deep dive on worm castings, nature's most potent fertilizer. We'll detail the benefits of worm castings to your plants and soil and cover how to make, harvest, and apply worm castings....
Mites in Your Worm Bin: Why They’re There and How to Control Them
New worm bin owners often expect their worm bin to consist of worms, bedding, food waste, beautiful worm castings, and not much else. Other critters simply weren't part of the deal. But when you've got a worm bin with rich, decomposing food waste and humidity levels...
Guide to Red Wiggler Composting Worms: Everything You Need to Know
This guide will introduce you to the red wiggler to include a deeper on dive on the species and information on breeding, life cycle, and reproduction. We'll talk about how to maintain red wigglers and why they should be the go-to worm for most composters. Introduction...
Red Wigglers Vs Indian Blues: How to Tell the Difference
There are some surprising discoveries new vermicomposters will make as they begin their vermicomposting journeys. Maybe it's learning fun facts about worms having 5 hearts. Maybe it's discovering that there are over 7000 species of earthworms and that only about 5 to...
What Do Worms Eat? A Road Map for What To Feed Your Worms
Worms eat organic matter. Anything that has been living eventually becomes worm food. That includes dead plant material, fruits, vegetables, and microbes, both dead and alive. Even you and I would become worm food, given enough time and decomposition by nature's other...
Complete Guide to Continuous Flow Vermicomposting
If you have explored taking your vermicomposting beyond the hobby level, you have likely heard the terms “continuous flow through," or CFT vermicomposting bins. We worm people like our lingo and our terms can be a bit confusing, so this article will introduce you to...
Winter Vermicomposting: How to Keep a Worm Bin Warm When It’s Cold
With the approach of winter here in the Northern Hemisphere, the single most common question I get is "I live in (name a state that gets cold in winter). How do I keep my worms alive?" My first answer is "Move them indoors or move to San Diego and we don't have to...
Why Worms Won’t Help Lifeless, Compacted Soil
Without fail, we take at least one weekly inquiry from a potential customer who wants earthworms to help rehabilitate their soil. The assumption that introducing worms will bring aeration and life to compacted, lifeless soil is both reasonable and intuitive. It's also...
Why Are Worms Crawling Up The Walls of My Bin? Are They Escaping?
Nothing concerns a new worm bin owner more than when they see worms crawling up the sides of the worm bin, leaving them to wonder what they did wrong to cause this. Unzipping the lid of your Urban Worm Bag or opening the top of your Hungry Bin to see what appears to...
Urban Worm Guide to Coconut Coir: How is It Used and Why?
The Urban Worm Company is pleased to announce the arrival of Urban Worm Coco Coir, a sustainable, low-salt, pH neutral alternative to peat moss. Coconut coir is often used as a worm and reptile bedding and the Urban Worm Company has used coco coir as the base layer...
How to Prevent and Eliminate Fruit Flies in the Worm Bin
The risk of fruit flies in the worm bin is pretty much a fact of life for anyone who wants to get started with vermicomposting. The bigger risk - to me anyways - is that someone will encounter fruit flies and give up vermicomposting forever. In an effort to prevent...