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How Worms Can Deliver The Very Best Compost You’ve Used
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Vermiculture or vermicomposting is the method of using worms to break down organic matter into useable compost for your garden. This method is catching on throughout the US, and you can often find “worm bins” for composting in your gardening catalogs.
To the uninformed, keeping worms in a bin outside or even in your home is pretty odd. However, vermicomposting has a range of different benefits that heavily outweigh any initial ick factor or hesitation over taking on a new project.
Benefits of Vermicomposting
Here are just a few benefits of harnessing the power of worms for composting:
1. Can Be Set Up Indoors.
Worm bins can easily be set up right in your home or even in a kitchen corner. A properly maintained worm bin doesn’t have a noticeable odor and to visitors it often just looks like a trash can. The real benefit of having a compost system right in your home is that you can add your table scraps right away rather than throwing away food or having to carry it out to your compost pile.
2. Organic Matter Composts Quicker.
In comparison to traditional composting methods, the vermiculture composting process is done in a third of the time.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/survival-gardening-2/how-worms-can-deliver-the-very-best-compost-youve-used/
