Special-Tworms.com - Worm Composting For Your Home & Garden!
We raise only the finest red worms for sale. These worms work hard breaking down organic waste and turning it into the finest soil amendment known to man. Worm castings or "black gold" provide the soil with essential minerals and enzymes only found in worm castings.
 We provide a full range of worm and worm products for the home composter and gardening enthusiast.
Why Worms?
Worms have long been known to provide the soil with essential enzymes and nutrients. They do this by consuming decaying organic matter and leaving behind their excreta or castings as they are called in the industry. There are thousands of species of worms in the world, but most are recognized in one of three categories,
- The Redworm.
All these worm types are used for fishing bait with the nightcrawlers and earthworms being the most popular because of their size.
The story changes when it comes to worm composting. The redworm, although being the smallest, is by far the most voracious eater of the three. Under optimum conditions it has been reported that a redworm can consume its body weight daily. In the real world they consume about half their body weight daily. A good rule of thumb is 800 to 1200 redworms to a pound, therefore we can expect 4 lbs of redworms to consume 14 lbs of waste per week (2 lbs/day x 7 days).
When used in a home composting system, a typical family could expect to divert 728 lbs of organic waste from the landfills each year!! This is just from using a 2’ x 2’ worm bin. It takes about 1 sq. ft. to accommodate 800 to 1200 worms. By using a 2’ x 4’ bin a family could divert over 1400 lbs of waste each year!
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