Worms For Composting

Although most of us think that all the worms that live in the garden are the same, is actually untrue. There are around 28 species of worm in the UK and their roles are very different.

Worms live in different depths of soil, and are grouped into three main categories. Deep, Shallow and leaf litter. Commonly found deep burrowers are Lob worms, (Britains largest species). Shallow worms include the grey worm and lastly are the litter dwellers that live in and under moist surface material (rocks, leaves, dung heaps and compost heaps.) These worms are often plentiful in the garden, and are the ones you need for worm composting.
As there is so much confusion about which worm is best for composting, we decided to make it an easy decision for you. We sell a mixture of all the composting worms below.
There are 3 main composting worms found in the UK they are :-

• Red Worm (Eisenia andrei) also known as red wrigglers
• Tiger Worm (Eisenia fetida) also known as brandlings, Manure Worm
• Dendrobaena (Eisenia hortensis) also known as Dendras, European Nightcrawler

Red worms as their name suggests are red and the same size as the Tiger Worm (around 5 cm's)
Tiger worms and Dendrobaena are very similar to look at as they are both stripy, however Dendras are twice the size and fatter (around 10 cm's long)
Having all the worms living together (and they seem to get on really well - no arguments so far !) will cover virtually all conditions.