Composting Worms

Dendrobaena worms are the ideal worms for home composting kitchen waste, being nature’s own natural composters in muck/composting heaps and other places with high organic matter. In good conditions they will eat half their own body weight in waste a day, if the conditions are ideal they can eat more. They are prolific breeders, adjusting their population to the size of container and available food, they are also cold hardy and tolerant of wet conditions.

We offer mixed sized worms - smaller worms who will consume a lot of food whilst they grow, and larger mature worms that will drop their eggs to increase the population of your wormery - the more worms you have the more they will eat!!

If you have a traditional garden composter of the ‘Dalek’ type that is sitting on bare earth buy composting worms to add to it to help speed up the composting process. Alternatively buy worms to start your own wormery or re-populate an exisiting wormery.

Worms are weighed clean on retail grade scales, packed in a good quantity of fresh peat, put inside a breathable bag with secure tie and sent in a postal box to reach you in the best condition possible.

Buy Composting Worms

Please see our Wormeries section for everything you need to set up your own composting wormery and start reusing that kitchen waste.

Worms can be posted first class Monday to Thursday, or contact us and collect in person.

Dendrobaena worms are also very efficient composters of kitchen food waste, turning it into valuable compost for your plants and garden. You can buy worms for composting to add to your existing compost heap to help speed up the composting process or buy a Can-O-Worms wormery – a complete package for kitchen waste composting including housing, accessories and a full kilo of worms to really get you started.

Food waste accounts for approx 1/3 of the waste that we throw away, add to this all the compostable materials like cardboard and paper and that’s a lot of waste each year! By composting your kitchen waste you can divert it from going to landfill (where it would compact, ferment and produce the greenhouse gas methane) and make a whole new, useful product – COMPOST!

Caring for your Composting worms

• Keep them out of strong light and heat.
• Keep them moist.
• Transfer to your wormery as soon as possible.