What can't I feed my worms?

[Iona Bayley]

I know that I shouldn't give them any pineapple at all and only to put in onion or garlic in small quantities and only in a well established worm farm. Anything else I should be avoiding?

[Megan]

Mine like banana skins too! They have to compete with the roses though, I bury the skins under two roses that I grew from cuttings

[Iona Bayley]

They seem much mor settled now....I haven't had any escapees for nearly a week and only a few are still in the bottom level, the rest have moved back up to the bedding and food. I have no idea whether this is because the worm farm has dried out a little or whether moving it nearer to the garage window helped, but the wormies seem to be much more active and are muching away on a few food scraps. They seem to particularly like devouring banana skins :-)

[Megan]

I've not fed our hair yet but have fed my dog's hair to the worms! Have they settled in yet?

[Iona Bayley]

Thanks....I'll have a read. I've added some human hair as an experiment today as well. I figure it won't do any harm to the soil where the worm castings will eventually be added.

[Megan]

Here are a couple of useful pages with answers to "what to" and "what not to feed your worms".
http://www.ipcc.ie/wormbin.html
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_you_feed_red_worms
I've feed cooked citrus pulp leftover from making marmalade and the worms didn't suffer - they also like quince pulp, in fact any cooked fruit pulp from jelly making.