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Having a worm farm is easy and also a lot of fun. Worm farms can be bought from garden centers, but they are often quite expensive, the alternative is to build your own. Worm Farm Materials: · 3 styrofoam boxes (all the same size) · Hessian sack · Peat or soil enough to fill half a box · Worms (1000 manurial worms is ideal) · Table or rack to keep the boxes of the ground Method: 1. Make approximately 20 holes in the bottom of box 1 and 2. The holes need to be small but big enough for a worm to fit through. 2. Put the worms and soil in box 1, arrange the box as in the diagram above. Place in a shady position, by putting it on a stand provides easy access and keeps it away from ants. . 3. Make sure the soil is kept moist and that the worms are feed every day by adding fresh kitchen scraps on top of the soil. To prevent acidity add a crushed egg shell once a week. 4. Once box 1 is full put the kitchen scrapes in the bottom of box 2, eventually the worms will work their way up the holes and inhabit box 2. Once this happens empty out box 1 into the garden, this box is full of the nutrient rich worm casting, worm eggs and the odd worm or too, all dynamite for the garden. 5. Now put arrange the boxes with box 1 on top, then box 2 and then the base box and continue steps 3 and 4. 6. Over time you will notice liquid building up in the base box, dilute it and use it as a liquid fertiliser. "
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