Tumbleweed's Tube-O-Worms is now available online. The Tube-O-Worms contains 1000 live composting worms rolled into a snug tube creating the perfect environment for their safe journey directly to you. These happy worms are the perfect addition to get your worm farm working well.
Maggots in your worm farm – what are they and what do I do?. A common experience with home worm farms is lifting the lid to discover a writhing mass of maggots, usually white in colour with a segmented body. Whilst your initial reaction may be one of horror and disgust it is nowhere near as bad as it looks!!
Coming home and finding brown paper packages addressed to you is just the perfect end to the day, isn’t it? When I first got my worm café, I was so excited! I’d used worm farms at school, but we’d never had one at home. It had always been the one thing that I didn’t do at home to reduce my waste. Bucket in the shower – yes, collecting rain water – yes, worm farm – not quite yet.
Tumbleweed are so pleased to announce that we will be having guest blogs from the lovely Angus Stewart - Angus is a popular presenter on ABC Gardening Australia, he appears regularly on radio and is an award winning author. We are so pleased to have his extensive knowledge on composting and worm farming and he will be giving some great tips and ideas
Worms take your leftover food scraps and turn them into a dark, soil-like material with a pleasant earthy smell – known as worm castings. They also produce a liquid called worm tea. Worm castings and worm tea, diluted 10:1 with water, are wonderful additives to any garden.
Tumbleweeds Compost Bins are being used all over the world in many different environmental conditions. We have recently received great stories of one of our Compost Bins being successfully used in Russia in temperatures below -20C…, the bin is covered in snow and still working!
