This also helps to provide other beneficial soil creatures with air and water. Vermicomposting is simply composting with worms. These worms are incredible garbage eaters. They tunnel through the earth eating their weight in kitchen waste every day so even a small bin of red worms will produce many kilograms of rich, sweet-smelling compost. Worms turn the soil by moving deep soil up to the surface and by dragging plant material underground, thus helping to bring humus into deep soil.
Red wigglers reproduce very quickly.
It takes about three weeks for an egg to develop and as many as 20 little worms can be hatched from one worm egg. The bedding can be mixed, but the important thing is to keep the bedding as moist as a very well squeezed sponge. Now add the worms and start feeding them. Remember they are hungry and eager to devour your vegetable and fruit peels, coffee grounds, tea bags and egg shells. Don't give them meat, fat or dairy products.