Create This AWESOME Worm Tower to Feed a Garden

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Using worms as a source of fertilizer is both good for the environment and sustainable.

They also provide a natural way for you to aerate your soil and if you use several worm towers, you can cover a pretty sizeable amount of space inexpensively and efficiently.

You need a 2 foot section of 4″ PVC pipe. (This is a 10′ pipe, it will make 5 towers.)

You need one male clean out cover and one female threaded adapter.

Drill 3/4″ holes in the pipe for the worms to crawl out.

Use a Rubber Mallet and pound the end cap on the 4″ PVC pipe.

Dig your hole. Make it deep enough so that only about 2 inches of your tower sticks out above ground.

A post hole digger  makes this quick work.

Put the worm tower you just built in the ground and fill in loosely with dirt around it. You don’t want to pack the dirt.

The bottom is open to the ground. Yes that is correct. You want the worms to crawl out. They will come back if you feed them.

Put in some wet bedding. Shredded news paper works well. So does peat moss or just grass clippings.
Next add a handful of worms.

Don’t forget. They like all the trimmings from your kitchen vegetables.

You need to feed them every few days.

Pretty simple right?

With just a few tools and materials and some elbow grease as well as remaining attentive to your worm tower, you can provide your growing space with a natural source of fertilizer that will both attract worms and in turn they will aerate your growing space.

To learn more gardening tricks, check out Life is Just Ducky!


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