How To Make Your Own
Worm Farm In A Bottle

What You'll Need

• Empty 1.5 litre soft drink bottle

• Small stones

• Sand

• Soil

• Dead leaves or a small amount of shredded newspaper

• Food scraps such as lettuce, vegetable peelings, banana skin (do not usemeat, citrus or onion) that have been finely chopped

• Worms (collected from garden or tiger worms from a worm farm)

• Black paper and sellotape

• Cut the top section off the bottle and drill some holes in the bottom for drainage and a few holes about 2-3 cm from the base for air flow

• Use a hole punch to put some air holes in the bottle just below the neck of the bottle

• Add a small layer of stones to the bottom of the bottle for drainage, then a5cm layer of sand

• Add approximately 5cm soil and a few leaves (or shredded newspaper)

• Add 2-3 worms

• Add a small amount of chopped up food scraps

• Continue to layer with soil, leaves and a small amount of food scraps,adding a couple of worms with each layer until it almost reaches the top

• Finish with a layer of soil and dampen with water

• Put top back onto the base and wrap in black paper as worms do not like the light

• Check periodically to see the work the worms have done

• Feed and add water if necessary - worms like it damp but not too wet