wormeries
 

There seem to be lots of styles and prices of wormeries on the net. I'd
like to get one of the cheaper ones but concerned that they wouldn't be
efficient. Any comments on wormeries?

wormeries
 

g'day june,

you can make your own i have a pic of one i made on my site, you can
use those polystyrene boxes from the fruit n veg places, old bath tubs
can be used, so when it comes to manufactured ones they will all work
how well may depend on how many worms they can carry.

for me now i cut out the middle man and my gardens are my worm farms
too easy.

len



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wormeries
 

"gardenlen" wrote in message
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g'day june,

you can make your own i have a pic of one i made on my site, you can
use those polystyrene boxes from the fruit n veg places, old bath tubs
can be used, so when it comes to manufactured ones they will all work
how well may depend on how many worms they can carry.

for me now i cut out the middle man and my gardens are my worm farms
too easy.

len

I have seen a couple of old bath wormeries as well Len. The baths were
covered with boards, old carpet and plastic and the plug hole was used to
drain off worm tea in to a bucket underneath.

rob

I think there's no point buying a worm farm at all June. between my garden shed and the fence is a metre space. A lot of people have this situation, it's an ideal space for a worm farm. What I did was block off one end with wood and raked the ground into a slope running down from that end. I lined it with Black plastic that runs up the sides of the fence and shed.

I dug a hole at the low end and sunk a plastic half barrel into the hole and ran the end of the plastic into that. I actually leave a 9 litre bucket in there for ease so the barrel only catches overflow. So the space for worms is pretty big :-), about four metres long one wide and 90mm high. i have misters and a shade cloth roof, because even in the sheltered spot it can get hot, I'm in Australia. I use the misters just enough and that space takes all I can throw into it. worms propagate very very very fast indeed.

I fill up one end and then rake it fw'd being careful not to rake the plastic liner obviously. then as worms work their way back into the fresh pile you can remove the cubic metre or so at the front. A cubic metre of worm casting/compost makes a great potting mix when added to some coarse sand and rottted sawdust i can tell you. And the liquid run off just gets chucked around the garden as the whim takes, there's no shortage.