Description

We sell 250g Composting Worms Tiger Worms “Eisenia Fetida”  with appropriate bedding. They are composting worms for use in worm farms. They are known under different names like tiger worms, red worms, red wigglers, composting worms…

To avoid the worms remaining in the depot, we only ship them from Monday to Thursday (rural: Monday to Wednesday).

It helps to add pumice to your worm farm if the material in your worm farm is clogged and wet. Pumice stones help aerate your worm farm. If necessary, we also add pumice pebbles, crushed oyster shells, saw dust, coconut coir and lime.

We sell pumice in quantities of
1 liter
or 20 liters
Please bring a bucket with you when you pick it up.

Our pick-up address for worms, pumice and oyster shell is:
Our address is: 79 Wakefield-Kohatu Highway, Wakefield (near Nelson)

If you live in the Tasman/Nelson area, you can apply for a Waste to Wonderful subsidy for 250g Composting Worms Tiger Worms (Eisenia Fetida). You can download the voucher for this subsidy from our website and enter the code “#WORMS20” at checkout, which will deduct $20 from your order.
Please bring the completed voucher with you when you pick up the worms.

Download $20 voucher for compost, worm farm, or bokashi (pdf 931 KB)

To help set up a worm farm we are selling a booklet explaining how to build different worm farms and how to maintain them. The booklet can be bought as hard copy or downloaded as PDF.

The booklet is called Rosemary’s Worm Farm. It explains to children and adults how a worm farm works. The first part is a children’s book with pictures and explanations. The second part shows how to build and maintain different types of worm farms, stackable worm farms, rotating worm farms, worm farms for collecting worm tea and more, even a worm farm if you want to add horse manure on a large scale.

Problems with a worm farm

Fruit flies >>> Sprinkle lime in the worm farm. Be sure to bury the kitchen waste under the top layer of the worm farm. That way the fruit flies can’t get to the leftovers. Some people use so-called worm blankets. You can use an old wet cotton shirt if you want.

Many worms are climbing up the worm bin to escape >>> The reason may be that they don’t have enough oxygen.

The worm farm smells foul and is soggy (anaerobic) >>> Add more bedding and feed the worms less.

The worms don’t eat the food >>> In the cold season they don’t eat much. Another reason could be feeding too much for the amount of worms.