Original Organics Junior Wormery

Red, Wet and Wriggling. Worms for composting. It seems that a few people have problems in keeping worms alive in their wormeries, if you follow these instructions then all should be well. Mine has been up and running for about three years now with no major problems. Cost. When bought the bin cost £40.00 from Heighly Gate but prices vary according to size and of course, manufacturer. Setting up. My wormery is a proprietary brand and purpose ...
...as long as the same basic principles are followed. The container for the worms is a wheeled bin with a pre-formed step inside, or conversely a sump hole, there is a tap at the bottom to extract the liquid which should be done weekly as worms are notoriously bad swimmers. On first getting my wormery all I got was the bin, an open weave plastic sack, drainage material, worm bedding, accelerator, moisture mat and a voucher to send off to get the worms. ...

carpathian 13.08.2001 · Read full review
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...source becomes depleted in the original box. A home made wormery like this will leak leachate so it must be stored somewhere that will allow drainage, particularly if you need to add water to the mix. Worm fact#5 Worms will eat any kind of vegetable and fruit scraps, animal manure, leaves and will even eat damp cardboard. Pretty omnivorous eh!! Now you’ve set up your wormery (come on what have you been doing all this time, get on with it), ...
...A good indicator of how well your wormery is doing is the size of the worms; not surprisingly nice fat worms are good. If your worms are not breeding (i.e. there are no little ones….) it’s an indication that there might be too many worms in your bin. As for disadvantages they can attract pests if you don’t manage them correctly, but they don’t smell, you might expect them to but them worms tend to eat the smelly stuff and ...

DiazX 22.05.2001 (19.10.2001) · Read full review
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I've just bought a wormery for composting kitchen waste and it is absolutely great. For about 25.00 you get a special dustbin, fitted with a shelf and tap, a supply of special compost worms (which you never have to touch) some earth to start them off and full instructions. Basically after a week or two letting the worms settle in you start filling the bin with all kitchen waste, raw or cooked, and the worms eat their way through it, producing liquid ...

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