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Sn!pe wrote:
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Hello Urglers;

Can anyone offer advice regarding the pros and cons of wormeries
versus compost-bins please?

Our worms died. But perhaps we didn't look after them well enough.

I reckon we had too few worms (and too small a wormery) for two people -
we
cook from scratch most days, and dinner involves onions and garlic which
apparently they're not keen on, and we have banana skins and orange
peel,
and tea bags. And we should probably have put paper and the dried
sea-stuff
in more often.

One major drawback to the wormery, of course, is that to get to the
compost
you have to remove the layers of food and worms. With a decent compost
bin
you just lift a panel and dig out a bit of compost. Apparently.

G'day, Linz!

Never done it, but isn't a wormery supposed to have a coarsish mesh
bottom so that the worm-worked material drops out? Apparently.

But if you don't have the mesh there, the good stuff would just be there, at
the bottom, without having to fall through a mesh.

Franz

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Hello Urglers;

Can anyone offer advice regarding the pros and cons of wormeries versus
compost-bins please?

IRTA the pros and cons of women versus compost bins.

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Franz Heymann wibbled:
Surely it will all work out well if your wormery was in a plastic bin with a
small door at the bottom. Then, if you kept feeding from the top, there
will never be much by way of worms right at the bottom, and the good stuff
can simply be scooped out as needed, with minimal disturbance of the worms.

Well, it's a plastic bin right enough.
And I have a Leatherman, AND I can open it without removing my thumb.

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:48:46 +0100,
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Franz Heymann wibbled:
Surely it will all work out well if your wormery was in a plastic bin with a
small door at the bottom. Then, if you kept feeding from the top, there
will never be much by way of worms right at the bottom, and the good stuff
can simply be scooped out as needed, with minimal disturbance of the worms.

Well, it's a plastic bin right enough.
And I have a Leatherman, AND I can open it without removing my thumb.

The trick is closing it again without removing same... I well recall
losing a sliver of skin first time I did it, and then a larger one
when demonstrating said silliness to friends.

J
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Hello Urglers;

Can anyone offer advice regarding the pros and cons of wormeries versus
compost-bins please?

A wormery

could be as small as a bucket
produces a concentrated liquid fertiliser
plus a rich humus fertiliser, but not in large enough amounts to enrich
a whole garden.
needs to be protected from hot sun in summer and kept frost free in
shed or garage in winter.
recycles newspapers
needs a certain amount of regular attention and care otherwise the worms die.

A compost bin

needs to be a metre cube in size to work well
is a useful way of disposing of large amounts of waste green material
including lawnmowings
produces much larger quantities of finished material than a wormery
can be sited almost anywhere
works regardless of climate, temperature and neglect.

Both can easily be made for nothing out of recycled materials.

Janet.

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Hello Urglers;

Can anyone offer advice regarding the pros and cons of wormeries versus
compost-bins please?

Hello Sn!pe, (from urg) it all depends on whether Sn!pes eat worms - I
bleev they does innit.

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Hi Linz - remember the barbecued carrot?

Jasper moment, I'll google....

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:48:46 +0100,
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Well, it's a plastic bin right enough.
And I have a Leatherman, AND I can open it without removing my thumb.

The trick is closing it again without removing same... I well recall
losing a sliver of skin first time I did it, and then a larger one
when demonstrating said silliness to friends.


You're the last person I expected to run across in uk.rec.gardening!

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Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

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Sn!pe wrote:

Hello Urglers;

Can anyone offer advice regarding the pros and cons of wormeries versus
compost-bins please?

Killed the xpost..

Why? You don't have to have a fizzical shed to post in urs, you knows...

Wormeries.. need less care to be successful once setup. Need more
sheltered site than Compost bin..

Various designs.. Suggest the HDRA s booklet on Worm composting as a
place to start.. from home made to ready made..

We have an 'original wormery' (shown on this page..)
http://www.greengardener.co.uk/wormeries.htm

A very Sheddy project -

No we didn't pay 50 quid for it.. We hauled it out of a skip where it
had been discarded by its previous owners.. We find it works very well.
Its sited under the shelter of a mature tree. And gets protection from
frost in winter in a frost free outhouse (Actually a greenhouse or the
shed..)
That said there are homemade designs around for a similar construction
using a black bin.. (About 8 quid retail)

Even more Sheddy. Oy, Skipweasel, you've got competition!

I would also recommend the HDRA for compost bin designs.. The
'recommended' approach involves 3 bins.. 1 current, 1 to turn into and 1
for matureing.. Given that a 1 metre heap exhausts its air every 7-10
days you have a lot of turning for the 'ideal' compost But most people
get away with lots less.

Cheapest bins are of wire, pole and cardboard construction.. Most
expensive.. The sky's the limit!-0
www.organicgardeningcatalogue.com for those booklets..

Hmmm. Sn!pe's a Sheddi. Guess which he'll choose.

I'm taking bets now. Emu for odds. (And sods)

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Never done it, but isn't a wormery supposed to have a coarsish mesh
bottom so that the worm-worked material drops out? Apparently.

This one doesn't. It has a bit in the bottom where a liquid collects
that is supposedly a good feed, but the rhubarb isn't especially big, so
I dunno. Maybe if the worms hadn't snuffed it it'd have jbexed better

Prollyberry drownded them innit.

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Can anyone offer advice regarding the pros and cons of wormeries versus
compost-bins please?

IRTA the pros and cons of women versus compost bins.

A very pertinent RTA, that. I'll give it some thought.

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Rusty Hinge wrote:

Cheapest bins are of wire, pole and cardboard construction.. Most
expensive.. The sky's the limit!-0
www.organicgardeningcatalogue.com for those booklets..

Hmmm. Sn!pe's a Sheddi. Guess which he'll choose.

Ta for that, both; I'm reading in the Shed first,
ATM I've only got urg on my other newsreader (a reboot away).
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"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , Linz
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One major drawback to the wormery, of course, is that to get to the
compost you have to remove the layers of food and worms. With a
decent compost bin you just lift a panel and dig out a bit of
compost. Apparently.


That never works. Best is to have 3 heaps, one filling , one
stewing, one being used.

*sigh* and one day, if we ever do anything with the garden, this would be
possible, and would indeed give us something to do with the compost we
produce!

Hi Linz - remember the barbecued carrot?

In a vague kind of way. Nice to see you, Kate!

Hi Linz - remember the barbecued carrot?

In a vague kind of way. Nice to see you, Kate!
ello, is barbecued carrot a shed thing too!

Ron Clark wrote in message . ..
On 26 Aug 2003 12:34:06 GMT, "Sn!pe"
wrote:

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Hello Urglers;

Can anyone offer advice regarding the pros and cons of wormeries versus
compost-bins please?

You can't grow yer lunch in a compost bin, ole son.

Pedant Mode On

Oh yes you can. Fill it wiv erf and grow spuds innit

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