Compost worms

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This pack contains Eisenia compost worms of French origin — adults, juveniles, and eggs — delivered in approximately 500 g of compost that feeds them during transit.

It will start a wormery, a buried pot, or a compost garden planter, and will yield the first compost in around 6 months.

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The summary

  • What you receive: a batch of Eisenia worms — adults, juveniles and eggs — in approximately 500 g of compost.
  • What they are for: starting a wormery, a buried pot composter, or a garden composter.
  • Day one: tip the contents of the bag onto the surface of the composter without burying them.
  • What they eat: their own body weight in peelings per day, between 15 and 25 °C.
  • The first compost: approximately 6 months to get started, 3 months once the colony is established.
  • How they arrive: live, in a damp cloth, approximately one week after your order.

Batch of Eisenia worms to start a worm composter, adults, juveniles and eggs

The Eisenia compost worm pack, of French origin, contains adults, juveniles and eggs in about 500 g of compost. It is used to start a wormery, a bury-in-the-ground pot or a garden composter. With this colony, the first compost is ready in about 6 months, then in 3 months once the worms are established, compared with about twelve months without worms.

Worms of the Eisenia genus, of French origin, make up this batch of compost worms, at every stage of development: adults, juveniles and eggs, together with the soil microfauna that helps get a worm composter started. The worms travel in about 500 g of compost, which feeds them during transport, and they settle into your composter on the day you decide to start.

A compost bin without worms still works, but decomposition then relies on micro-organisms alone and takes about twelve months. With a colony, allow around 6 months at the start, while the worms multiply according to the food available, then 3 months once they fill the whole space. Worms are all the more useful in a compost bin placed off the ground, on a worktop, a balcony or in a planter, since garden worms cannot get into it by themselves.

🧬 Surface worms

Compost worms are epigeic worms: they live in the surface layer of the soil, in the leaf litter and decomposing matter, and not in the deep soil like the worms that dig the burrows in a garden. This is what lets them live in large numbers in the composter where you put your peelings. Two species of this kind dominate the practice in France: Eisenia fetida, the manure worm, striped purplish red and 60 to 90 mm long, and Eisenia andrei, the Californian worm, bright red and 50 to 80 mm long.

Adults

They begin feeding as soon as they are introduced and start to reproduce.

Young plants

They take over as the colony grows.

The eggs

They hatch in the composter and renew the population.

The microfauna

It accompanies the worms and takes part in decomposition from day one.

Sawdust from the very first bedding

A bag of wood shavings provides the dry matter that the first additions of peelings call for. A handful after each addition absorbs excess moisture and maintains the aeration the worms need, which stops your still small colony from ending up in a waterlogged bedding. Ordered with the batch, it lets you set up the worms and make your first addition on the same day.

Keep the bag of worms cool and out of direct sunlight

If you are not putting the worms in place on the day of delivery, keep the cloth containing them moist and store it in a dark spot, away from light and heat. Set them up as soon as you start your composter, and never leave the bag in direct sunlight.

Once settled in, the worms feed and breed most actively between 15 and 25 °C, in material that is as damp as a wrung-out sponge and well aerated. Below 5 °C their activity becomes almost nil, and above 30 °C the temperature can be fatal to them; and they shun light, noise and vibration. These conditions determine where you place your composter far more than its size does: a mild kitchen, a utility room or a half-shaded planter suit them, whereas a sunny windowsill or a freezing balcony does not.

🍽️ What the colony consumes

A compost worm eats, on average, the equivalent of its own weight in food waste every day. Your starter colony will therefore handle only small quantities at first: begin with modest amounts, cut into small pieces, and increase them as the population grows. You can feed them raw or cooked vegetable peelings without sauce, coffee grounds and tea leaves, and crushed eggshells; they cannot tolerate garlic, onion and leek, which act as wormers, nor citrus fruit, meat, fish or dairy products. A handful of sawdust after each feed keeps the balance right.

🐟 Worms in the grow bed

In aquaponics, compost worms also have a place directly in the grow beds filled with grow medium, those filled with clay pebbles or gravel and flooded then drained. If you add them, they live in the intermediate zone, neither dry nor permanently waterlogged, where they help break down the fish's solid waste as well as dead leaves and roots, which limits clogging of the grow medium. Worms intended for this use must never have been fed meat or animal waste. The vermiponics guide details the conditions for this practice.

📦 The batch on receipt

The batch is dispatched about a week after the order, in a cloth that keeps the worms and their compost moist during transit. It suits the worm composters in the catalogue, from the indoor terracotta wormery to the pot buried in the garden or in a planter. On opening, place the contents of the cloth, worms and compost included, on the surface of the material in the composter, and let the worms burrow down by themselves, since light drives them inward.

Technical specifications

The essentials

Type
Eisenia, epigeic wormsSurface-dwelling worms that live in decomposing matter.
Origin
France
Stages
Adults, juveniles and eggsWith the soil microfauna that supports the start-up process.
Compost for transit
Approximately 500 gIt feeds the worms during transit and joins your composter along with them.

To budget for separately

A composter
A worm composting bin
Dry matter
Coarse wood shavings

In the box

  • 1 batch of compost worms, adults, juveniles and eggs, in damp cloth
  • Approximately 500 g of transport compost

Genus, origin, growth stages and transport compost: values from the manufacturer Agrotonome, recorded on 07/10/2026. Temperatures and consumption: technical sheet 18 from the Réseau Compost Citoyen.

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A 700 g parcel containing live organisms. Please make sure someone is in on delivery and open the bag the same day, especially in hot weather. The exact shipping costs and final delivery times are shown in your basket once you have entered your address. Plant or living organism: this product is excluded from the right of withdrawal (article L221-28, 4° of the French Consumer Code), as it deteriorates quickly.

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