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Old 29-11-2005, 03:03 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Wormery: Has anyone got any ideas for making one?

Hiya,
I liked my wormery so much I bought another on ebay. It was the
'original wormery' (you can find pictures of it on the web its
basically a bin with a tap) and cost me £12 I think. Real bargin. This
Winter I got one of those pastic sheds in a 10% off sale and put both
the wormerys in (and some bubble wrap). Hopefully they will be ok. This
worked out £40 cheaper than the wooden shed charged for one wormery by
one of the wormery makers. The only thing I would say is that flies is
a real problem. No matter what I do they are always there and there
seems to be no way to really get rid of them. In Summer they are really
bad. I have to use one wormery and then the other to try and keep the
numbers managable. The wormery is by the back door which is useful, but
as I clean out my bunnies each day I have to goto the compost heap each
day anyhow. We use lots of onions, which means I keep 3 storeage bowl
in the kitchen (this is a pain) - one for the wormery, one for too acid
things and one for coffee (recently read you can put this straight on
the garden which I have been doing.) The flies and making sure the
drainage is working (sometimes blocks up and so it all becomes too
damp) is the biggest pain I would say. I also shred all our loo roll
and put egg shells through the magimix as something to keep the acidity
down. I will have had the 1st wormery for a year now. There was a
learning curve with it. Either down to bad luck or just being dumb, who
knows. But I found that with my compost heap also so there is not much
difference there.