Can anyone recommend a good wormery?

[wormcity]

Hi CM

Sounds as if you have a downer on wormeries to me !

Ultimately, for most people in most circumstances, where the option to operate a standard garden compost exists, wormeries are expensive and unnecessary.

expensive - yes if you buy a made one - but then bespoke furniture is always more expensive than flat pack !!
A wormery can be made from anything.
We have emails and photos from people using old chest freezers, old baths, styrophone trays, old plant pots, that have been composting with worms for many years. Im sure they dont think they are uneccessary.

Its also impossible to give an 'exact' figure - as depending what goes in a worm, can change the end product. Example - manure - (horse, pig) paper, potato slurry.

Ronnie

[Becci]

Ronnie - now you mention it it is your Wormcity I was considering not the WormCafe - I had discounted that one on the basis of it being virtually the same as the Can-O-Worms. I very much like the look of Wormcity. The only thing that is putting me off is that reading your feedback (which incidentally is a credit to your company) it tends to have a problem with escapees! Are there any ways to keep them where they belong, without having to put the whole thing in a bin bag every night?

Jason - I think you're spot on. I very much like the idea of studying worms; the compost is less of a consideration as we have other compost systems. We've just emptied them and had about 20 wheelbarrow-fulls of the stuff. It will be interesting to do a like-for-like comparison with the wormcompost in due course.

Your mum sounds great You wouldn't catch mine going within 40 feet of a worm!!

Thank you all so much for your advice

Becci x

[Jason Green]

Originally Posted by Becci

Your mum sounds great You wouldn't catch mine going within 40 feet of a worm!!

Thank you all so much for your advice

A pleasure, and thank you

[wormcity]

Hi Becci

Escappees are a problem in any wormery at the beginning, and all worms are affected.

Basically you are putting worms into a system that is alien to them, there are ways to help the worms settle in quicker by putting some soil and some used compost (or even some of the compost from the bottom of the compost bin) This helps innoculate the wormery with different bacterias, moulds, fungis that worms live with on a daily basis and will help them feel at home.

We always recommend that you use a bin liner of something similar just for the 1st week, and it only needs to be wrapped around the tray.

The worms will soon stop wandering and happily settle into the wormery.
As long as you are aware that it might happen, then it doesn't cause a problem

Ronnie