Our wormery has been going for about 4 months now and seems to be doing very well. After trying the worms out on several different foods they seem to absolutely love melon rinds and banana skins. I put a melon rind in a few days ago and it has all disappeared apart from a very thin layer of the outer skin which is a bit waxy. However, they definitely don’t like potato peelings much. I’ve had some potato peelings in there for weeks and they are just not disappearing at the same rate as the other food. I’ve heard that this might be due to the high starch content in potatoes but I’m not really sure so if anyone knows the reason please get in touch, as I’d be very interested to find out. All the other foods seem to disappear eventually so I’m assuming that the worms are happy with their diet overall. I’ve decided that I’m going to leave the potato peel in there just to see if it does disappear eventually and how long it takes but I won’t add any more just yet.

One good sign that the worms are happy is that there are loads of worm cocoons in the wormery which means my worms are breeding! At least I hope they are worm cocoons – all the websites I have read say that they are little yellow pods but mine have a definite green shade to them! Again, if anyone know about this, please let me know.