Wormery Food

Please find below a few examples that will help you understand what is good for you wormery and what is not.

YES PLEASE

• Many kinds of fruit and vegetables, peelings, cores (as long as they are not too big and hard), but see below for some exceptions
• Tea leaves and tea bags, coffee grounds
• Egg shells
• Flower heads and soft leaves (not the stems or the hard leaves)
• Torn up paper and cardboard (but not shiny); and it should be moistened first; this provides fibre and roughage and helps prevent the compost from becoming slimy. If you have a paper shredder, that is the ideal to cut up paper
• Paper towels
• Pasta, rice, cereal
• Bread, cake, biscuits, pizza
• Baked beans
• Small quantities of straw, leaves or grass cuttings, well distributed
• Hair; human or animal
• Lime mix, every couple of weeks or so (commercially available) or fire ashes

• Worm treats (commercially available)

NO THANK YOU

• Any non-biodegradable material, plastic/metal
• All citrus fruit and skins, for example oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, clementines, satsumas, mandarins, etc (they are acidic)
• Onions, garlic, salt
• Food containing fat or vinegar
• Meat or fish
• Bones
• Animal manure, unless you are certain that it does not contain any any vermicides (to kill parasitic worms in the animal) as it will kill your worms
• Hoover contents
• Oils, soaps, solvents, paints