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I have seen a few ideas for making a wormery, still considering it, but saw this today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scUTrypz ... r_embedded

Anyone tried anything like this ? thought it might be good in permanent beds like between fruit bushes. I have a length of 20cm+ diameter piping I could use. Hmmmm.

Or any other thoughts on wormeries ? Currently all my kitchen waste is going into tumbling composter or chickens, so dont actually 'need' anything else. I have tried a wormery a long time ago, killed them pretty easily !

Cheers

That's excellent. I had very poor results from a worm bin - this looks much more hopeful. And you can grow plants round it!

Looks like a neat idea, but being small will need very regular attention.

Much mystery is made of womeries, especially by those who want to sell you something, including the worms.

You don't need anything but a drum or metal dustbin (you can use plastic, but I found rats like to chew through the plastic to get inside) with some small pencil sized holes drilled in the sides just a little way up from the bottom. Keep a lid on it. Fill with vegetable waste from the kitchen as an when you have some. The worms will just appear and do their work. Have a couple of bins, so that when one is full you can leave it to completely decompose, then use as needed

I've kept bins going like this for years, doing nothing special, no watering, adding nothing special, just adding our vegetable waste. Before that I tried a womery given out by the council, with worms and special starter feed, ph balancer, etc, etc. The worms disappeared out of there as soon as they could.

I just use an old water butt that had split and leaked. Put some soil in to start it off and top up with everything out of the kitchen. The lid keeps mice and rats out, they haven't managed to chew through it yet. An old plastic jug sits under the hole where the tap used to be to catch the juice. It's been brilliant. It takes about a year to fill it and then I leave it a year before tipping the contents out (I have two now so I alternate them).

Zoe