On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 09:09:49 +0100, Judith in England
wrote:



The material in the top of my wormery has gone quite soggy. The area beneath
(where the worms "live") is quite damp - but not too wet.

I only put vegetable matter in the wormery.

Is there something I can mix in with the rotting veg to absorb the moisture?

Well, dry stuff; obviously.

Water in wormeries is a bit of a balance - the worms secrete a mucus
and that will hold water, so if you are continually adding stuff that
is just a little too wet you may not notice until the mucus is
saturated, and then it all goes runny. Some other animals have this
secretion, most noticably the hagfish (though it uses it's mucus to
confuse and escape predators, not for environmental comfort).