With a worm composter, you create compost from organic waste quickly and easily. Worm compost is a natural and nutrient-rich fertilizer and food for all plants. This method of waste disposal is an ongoing process. The worms double every three months, so there are always enough worms in the composter to ensure that the waste is processed into compost.

How does a worm composter work?

Place the worm bin outside in a sheltered spot. Worms love fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, tea bags, eggshells and even torn pieces of cardboard, straw and leaves. The worms can be fed daily.

Everything you need to get started right away

The worm hotel comes complete as a set and is available in two variants, plain wood and brown wood. The dimensions are 40.5x38.5x67 cm. Our worm composter includes everything you need to start composting: all the necessary wooden trays, a drip tray for the bottom tray, root cloth to cover the trays and a coconut basket to cover. All your customers have to do is add worms themselves.

Worm composter step-by-step plan

Show your customers how easy the worm composter works with the step-by-step plan below.

Here's how to make the worm composter ready to use in 7 steps:

1. Place the green plastic drip tray in the least deep container

2. Cover the tray on top of that completely with root canvas

3. Line the top tray with mesh on bottom and root cloth on sides

4. Create a base for the worms in the top tray

If you ordered worms, first place a layer of well-soaked cardboard (possibly supplemented with fallen leaves) in the bin and add growing soil on which the worms will later come.

If the worms are self-collected or obtained from a compost pile, make an airy layer of well-soaked cardboard, fallen leaves and garden soil.

5. Place and distribute the forms around the container

6. Give initial feeding

When worms are ordered, add a thin layer of the provided dry worm food. You don't feed again until this runs out.

Is it getting moldy? Then add more "brown" like growing soil, brown cardboard or fallen leaves.

No dry worm food? Put a thin layer of uncooked and crushed organic waste with a layer of small torn brown cardboard on top.

7. After feeding, place the coconut mat on top of the worms

The coconut mat prevents the worms from wandering. It keeps the compost moist, it stays dark and prevents fruit flies.

How to make the best compost

Now the worm composter is ready! From this point on, it is important to check the composter regularly:

• After a few days you check to see if it is already actively eating. If not, leave the worms alone. If you do see activity and less food residue, feed.

• The worms need about two weeks to acclimate. Is the food getting better? If so, you can add an uncooked layer of up to 5 cm of kitchen scraps.
• In case of mold or rot, wait to supplement and add extra cardboard or fallen leaves to absorb moisture.
• When the first bin is full, swap it with the bottom bin. The worms will naturally find their way up. Be sure to cover the drip tray with a fleece or cotton cloth to keep the worms from drowning.
• After six to eight weeks, check the drip tray underneath. This is where worm leachate will collect. Dilute this with water (at a ratio of 1 to 10) and you have perfect nutrition for all indoor and outdoor plants.

Additional tips for the best results

• In the first two weeks the worms sometimes want to crawl out of the container. You can prevent this by leaving a light on. Worms don't like light.
• A temperature between 15-25 degrees Celsius is ideal to keep the worms productive. So don't put the composter in the full sun in the summer and also not in the freezing cold during winter. An unheated dark shed is ideal.
• Never allow thick patches of undigested waste to form in the bin. Air and space are needed for the worms and to prevent rotting.
• Coffee grounds with filter bags can also go in the bin. Not too often or too much at once.
• Brown egg cartons can also be torn up in the bin, this gives structure and air to the layer.