Anyone know anything about buying a wormery or where to get one?
Can anyone give me any poinnters on buying a wormery or where to get one? we love natural stuff in our garden and it appears the more bugs the better so the next addition is due to be a wormery. any advice appreciated :)
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Permalink Reply by Higgledy Garden on -
There's a company called wiggly wigglers (seriously) google will show all....
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Permalink Reply by Mark Willis on
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I also recommend you look at www.getcomposting.com They offer a "can-o-worms" at £50. This organisation wotks in partnership with many local councils, so you may be able to get what you want at a cheaper price.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Rideout on -
See what your council has to offer first, but they are usually the wheelie bin type wormeries which work fine but are a bit of a pain to empty. the can o' worms type which has 3 or 4 stacking levels are great but they are pricey.
You can make one by stacking tyres stuffed with shredded paper on top of 4 paving slabs and covered with waterproof lid weighted down to stop rodents getting in. These can either be very successful or turn into a slurry stack, you have to get the mix right and start with a thick twiggy layer at the bottom for air circulation.
I think wormeries are great for small gardens but as they are an enclosed unit better to go for a compost bin if you have room as will increase your gardens ecosystem more.
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Permalink Reply by Mark on -
You can often get them on freegle (nee freecycle) as they involve a lot of work. Don't bother to buy worms though if you have existing compost bins with active compost ie full of worms. The worms in a compost bin trad or "dalek" aren't earthworms but a different species. As you can gather I am not a big fan - I get tons of compost from my four daleks and if I want liquid feed I'll make comfrey tea. And most wormeries don't take up appreciably less space than a smaller dalek so I do wonder about them. If they get too hot the worms die, if they get too cold/dry/wet the worms die and you have to fanny about making sure there are not too many onion skins or citrus peel whereas in traditional composting such things have already decayed a lot before the worms feed on them.
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Permalink Reply by peter on -
take a look at wormcity I bought the beehive shaped one last year.
Mark is right they can't take everything. the worms don't like leeks, garlic, citrus, onions CURRY !!!!
they love pizza though..
I have millions of little bugs in mine, crawling and jumping things, its a right little nature patch
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Permalink Reply by James Fowkes on -
cool site, funny name :)
Higgledy Garden said:There's a company called wiggly wigglers (seriously) google will show all....
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Permalink Reply by James Fowkes on
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Good idea thank you. We have a giant compost bin, ladybird house and Bee home so i think we are seeign how many creatures we can get into our garden! :)
Sarah Rideout said:See what your council has to offer first, but they are usually the wheelie bin type wormeries which work fine but are a bit of a pain to empty. the can o' worms type which has 3 or 4 stacking levels are great but they are pricey.
You can make one by stacking tyres stuffed with shredded paper on top of 4 paving slabs and covered with waterproof lid weighted down to stop rodents getting in. These can either be very successful or turn into a slurry stack, you have to get the mix right and start with a thick twiggy layer at the bottom for air circulation.
I think wormeries are great for small gardens but as they are an enclosed unit better to go for a compost bin if you have room as will increase your gardens ecosystem more.
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Permalink Reply by James Fowkes on
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Love the logo on worn city, useful site thank you
peter said:take a look at wormcity I bought the beehive shaped one last year.
Mark is right they can't take everything. the worms don't like leeks, garlic, citrus, onions CURRY !!!!
they love pizza though..
I have millions of little bugs in mine, crawling and jumping things, its a right little nature patch
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Permalink Reply by James Fowkes on
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Thank you all for the useful tips and advice
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Shirley on -
There was an excellent post on the Home Farmer forum about making your own...
http://forum.homefarmer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=983&p=82...
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Permalink Reply by Higgledy Garden on
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The wormcity ones are made in the uk using recycled plastic which gets my hippy vote.
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Permalink Reply by Mo on -
Interesting discussion - it seems to be leaning toward 'they're not worth the bother'? Has anyone anything positive to say?
We have been pondering, mainly because we haven't got one I think. We have compost 'heaps' and a 'dalek' for stuff that might attract pests, and we use nettles and comfrey to make liquid feed.
We'd thought of going for the stacked tyre option because we know we can source these but now I'm thinking we don't really need one.
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