Can worms eat peanut butter?

While worms are able to digest animal and dairy products, these substances may cause disagreeable odors and attract flies. Avoid feeding them oils and fatty foods like peanut butter, which could become rancid.
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Do earthworms eat peanut butter?

Dairy products including butter, sour cream, milk, whole eggs (egg shells are ok) and cheese. Canned sauces, peanut butter and other processed food. Citrus foods like lemons, limes and oranges.
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What should you never feed worms?

Avoid feeding the worms large quantities of meat, citrus, onions and dairy foods. Some processed food also contains preservatives, which discourage the worms from eating it. These foods won't harm your worms, but they will avoid them and those scraps will break down and rot in the bin.
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Do worms eat peanuts?

The do's & don'ts of a worm diet

Do not feed them meat or bones, dairy products or greasy leftovers; they also do not like acidic or stinky fruits or vegetables (e.g. citrus or onion). Worms LOVE watermelon rinds, avocado or peanut shells, banana peels, coffee grounds and tea bags (be aware of nylon tea bags).
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What do worms like to eat most?

The Best Worm Foods for Your Soil
  • Fruit peels (not citrus)
  • Melon rinds.
  • Carrots.
  • Coffee grounds.
  • Teabags (check if biodegradable)
  • Bread.
  • Cereal (unsweetened)
  • Pasta (plain)
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What happens if you overfeed worms?

Over-Feeding Causes Odors

The worms' job is to eat the food before it gets super-rotten and stinky. If you add too much food at a time, they cannot keep up. Too much food can also push the air out of the bin, leading to foul-smelling anaerobic decomposition.
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Do worms drink water?

Worms do not drink water through their mouths, but they do need water to live. How much water is enough? To understand this answer, you need to know how worms breathe. Worms use their skin for breathing and not a set of lungs.
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Can worms eat cereal?

Pureeing your table scraps will make them easier to eat, which means the worms will eat more of them! What about other kitchen scraps? Leftover cereal grains are great worm food.
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Can worms eat cheese?

Dairy products such as milk, cheese, and yogurt should never go into a worm bin. Even non-fat varieties are bad for composting worms.
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What do worms hate?

Worms hate: meat or fish, cheese, butter, greasy food, animal waste, spicy and salty foods, citrus.” The food-to-worm ratio is not precise, nor is the amount of castings they will produce. The rule of thumb is that a pound of worms will eat one to two pounds of food in a week.
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Do worms like sugar?

Worms love 'em, as long as they're organic (and do not contain any pesticides that could kill the worms). Just be aware of how much fruit you're adding. High sugar content will elevate the pH of the bin and might require you to rebalance the levels.
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Can worms eat cooked rice?

Bread, rice, pasta, processed foods - you can add the odd crust or bits of cooked rice off the dinner plate, but don't add lots of starchy foods. Worms don't like them and they may go off or attract pests.
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How do you fatten up worms?

Feed your compost worms a thin layer of the grain-and-eggshell mixture three or four times per week to fatten them. Be sure to keep the compost moist by misting with water or applying moist newspaper every time you add the feed mixture. Don't feed your compost worms too much coffee grounds.
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What to feed worms to make them big?

One of the surest ways to not only grow big worms, but also keep your worms healthy, is to spray you worm bedding and added food with a weak mixture of VermaPlex® (a liquid soil inoculant fertilizer made from worm castings) and water (80 parts water to 1 part VermaPlex®).
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What should I feed my worms?

Worms will eat anything that was once living,
  • Leftover vegetable scraps, fruit and vegetable peelings.
  • Tea leaves / bags and coffee grounds.
  • Vacuum cleaner dust or hair clippings (also animal)
  • Torn up newspapers, egg cartons or soaked pizza cartons.
  • Crushed egg shells (these will also help with the pH balance)
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Can worms eat oatmeal?

Fruits and vegetables (uncooked or peels) – you can feed your worms any variation as long as it's not citrus based (you'll have to stay way from lemons, oranges, pineapples and all that since it has high acidity levels) Starchy food wastes – these can be in the form of bread, oatmeal, and pasta.
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Can worms eat bread?

Yes, in moderation, bread, and in fact, all grain based foods, are worthy of your worms' processing power. Stale bread remains just as full of nutrients and building blocks for worm growth as the fresh stuff. However, these starchy foods can end up a gooey mess.
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Can worms eat boiled eggs?

Bread is totally fine. Just be aware that any large slices will likely grow a huge crop of mold and they take a long time to break down enough for the worms to tackle it. Hard boiled eggs will be eaten, but they will rot and smell. Skip the eggs.
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Can worms eat toilet paper rolls?

Many people do not have a use for the tube inside of toilet paper rolls. The good news is, you can use toilet paper rolls to feed your compost worms.
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Do worms eat popcorn?

Apples/peels, baked beans, banana peels, biscuits or stale bread, cabbage, celery, turnip leaves, cereal of any kind, coffee grinds/paper filters, tea leaves/bags, watermelon, cucumber, egg shells, cantaloupe, pizza crust, popcorn, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots and other vegetable peels & leaves — the list is long.
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Do worms eat candy?

Sugar- Keep sugar to a minimum, especially processed sugars. Your worms actually feed mostly on the bacteria cultures that develop on food that rots and sugar creates a rich environment for the bacteria.
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Is tap water OK for worms?

A. Its likely that the worms would prefer rain water but tap water is fine even with chlorine in it.
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Will tap water hurt worms?

City drinking water from your tap often contains chlorine, which can be harmful to your worms. Buy dechlorinated water, or dechlorinate tap water by boiling or letting it sit out for 24 hours to allow chlorine evaporation. Space.
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Do worms like bananas?

Bananas are a great and inexpensive snack for both us and our worms. Those peels are desirable to compost worms no matter what shape they're in.
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