my wormery has a tap at the bottom for draining. Haven't tried it as
fertilizer yet, but surprising how much liquid it sheds


"Edmund Greening" wrote in message
...
My wife got all enthusiastic about wormeries a couple of years ago. We
used
to feed it devotedly with kitchen waste, but it was a pain to keep
draining
off the excess liquid. The worms got waterlogged!

We had gallons of liquid fertiliser which I used on the allotments. Didn't
seem to do much good (as Which? also reported). We dispensed with the
wormery and put the remaining worms into our two "Dalek" compost bins.
They
thrive there and make beautiful compost without the wormery hassle. We put
garden waste, kitchen waste and loads of shredded paper in. We did have an
infestation of rats last year, which needed lots of rat poison and we try
not to put meat in the bins now.

My conclusion: buy your hubbie a nice "Dalek" and some lovely worms from
the
local fishing tackle shop.

Ed

"teapot" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 15:25:05 -0000, "Pauline Jones"

wrote:
My husband is a very keen gardener and has a large compost heap. He
has
our
large garden and 2 allotments. I thought it might be a good idea to
buy
him
a wormery for christmas. Will it be of use to him or will it be too
small
for him to be interested in and I will have wasted my money?

Any ideas would be gratefully recieved.


aha, one of my specialised boring subject (to rant on about at partied
when no one
else is interested usually!)

Wormeries are different to compost bins in that they will take cooked
food
(no risk of
rats) and even fish bones. They also get through cardboard and
newspaper.
Mine
is outside the kitchen door and this makes it easy to feed.

But the best bit is that a liquid is produced by the worms that can be
diluted and
used as an insectiside and a fertilizer. I got about 10litres of the
stuff last year, from
the ordinary wiggly wormers grey bin. You also get lovely compost every
year.

I hope he enjoys it if you get him one.

teapot