List the steps for preparing vermicompost.

1. Dig a pit about 30 cm deep or select a wooden box.
2. Spread a net or chicken mesh at the bottom of the pit or box. You can also spread a 1 to 2 cm thick layer of sand.
3. Spread some vegetable waste, including fruit peels, over the sand layer. You can use green leaves, husks or pieces of newspaper, dried stalks of plants and dried animal dung.
4. Sprinkle some water to make the layer wet. Do not use an excess of water. Do not press the layer of leaves or waste so that it has sufficient air and moisture.
5. Put some redworms in the pit.
6. Cover them loosely with a gummy bag or an old sheet of cloth or a layer of grass.
7. Redworms need food. So you can provide them as food—vegetable and fruit peels, coffee and tea remain, and weeds from the field or garden. Bury this food about 2-3 cm inside the pit.
8. Do not put salt, pickles, oil, vinegar, meat, and milk products. This may cause the growth of disease-causing organisms. Redworms do not survive in very hot or very cold surroundings.
9. After 3–4 weeks, put some waste food in one comer of the pit. Most of the worms will shift towards the newly added food.
10. Remove the compost from the vacated part and dry it in the sun for a few hours. The vermicompost becomes ready for use.

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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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