Bathtub Worm Farm
It will let us consolidate all the different worm farms we have into 1 large.
Bathtub worm farm. The secret to a successful worm farm is good ventilation and drainage. The guidelines below are general instructions and need to be read in context with your circumstances. Of special note is the drainage layer used. But we can harness these worms to do so much more.
This is just a wooden deck that fits down into the bottom of the tub. Every gardener knows that worms in your soil is a mark of a healthy happy ecosystem. For this diy demonstration we sourced everything for our bathtub worm farm from our garden shed gumtree and facebook marketplace. Building the bath worm farm.
The first step will be building the draining frame for the farm. This worm farm uses recycled materials and minimum use of any new materials. Making a worm farm from a bath tub new page content coming soon the video below shows how to make a worm farm from an old bath tub. Worm farms don t drain excess liquid called leachate off through the bottom of farms very well without a drainage layer.
They aerate the soil add nutrients and so much more. 10 steps to make a bath tub worm farm. Photo by j j acres. Here are our building materials which cost a total of just 79.
Putting the worm farm together. Our made from trash bathtub worm farm. Building a cheap but effective worm farm in a bathtub is a great idea if you also have an aquaponics system or a vegetable garden close by. Costa has made a timber frame for the bath tub out of recycling a futon bed frame and timber sourced from old pews to use for the load bearing timber.
You can really make a worm farm container out of almost anything get creative with you what you have and just apply the same principles. Building the bath worm farm timber frame. Costa has made a timber frame for the bath tub out of recycling a futon bed frame and timber sourced from old pews to use for the load bearing timber. The fish can always benefit from a tasty snack of live worms.