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Is it an outdoor or indoor one? I only ask because we have a large black compost bin in the garden which effectively becomes a wormery fairly soon, ie. open the lid in hot weather and the thing is full of red tiger worms squirming and squelching around (not earthworms). Bit freaky. Ours has got pretty infested with fruitflies but your bins sure don't stink any more...
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We have this one'Can-0-worms' and have had it for a few years. Very straight forward to use, add your kitchen waste, even the odd egg shell, kithen roll tube(!), and as the worms eat it and do whatever they do to it to make compost you rotate the trays. I think I've said this on another thread about worms - but the juicey bi-product that collects in the bottom tray is very good for the garden as is the compost itself.
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Don't composting worms just evolve from the process of composting? I recently had to empty a compost and was amazed at the number of worms in there - great football sized clumps of them! I just put them on the garden and they unraveled and wriggled underground unseen in a flash. I too was surprised (not having cultivated a compost of my own) that there was no smell at all. I was concerned that a compost might attract rats, but really have no idea whether that is a consideration?


Sorry if that doesn't actually answer your worms question!

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Our Wiggly Wiggler wormery is about to be commissioned - will update you on progress after a month.


We used WW worms to bring life back to a dead garden. It was overgrown, unkempt and uncared for. The soil was solid - and nary a worm, bug or any other form of smal life was to be seen. The addition of a ton or two of top soil and then a large sack of worms placed in strategic holes all around the garden worked. Whenever we dig now we see worms aerating the soil and plant life seems to flourish.


On a related subject - gardens - how do I keep cats and foxes from using it as a litter tray?? Tried sonic scarers, costa fortune in batteries and don't seem to work. Any other solutions out there?

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I have a kitchen composter that Marmora Man kindly sold to me a few months ago. I don't have a composter or a garden to put the waste in after it's processed in the composter - so does anyone want it?


Basically, I'm offering a bag of partly rotted kitchen waste with the promise of more to come - you'll be pleased to hear that there's no charge for this ;)

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Update. I got a wormery from Wormcity.co.uk

It's like the WigglyWigglers one, but is square and not round, and is made in Europe of recycled plastic rather than in Australia.

It's easy to set up, costs about ?50 and arrived wihtin two days of ordering.

Right now, the worms are eating the coir provided and the shredded, damp newspaper I put it, as well as some worm food that came with it. In about two weeks I can start feeding them with leftovers, so I'll update, because that is what EDF needs - a wormery-based blog, right? Nero

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I got one of those cheapo wormeries from the council, they look nice because they are made of wood, and are quite compact.


Problem is I produce far more veggie etc waste than I can use in the wormery. I now think I would have been better getting a (very) small compost bin, and saved all the hassle of the worms (eg wondering whether they are surviving the cold weather or have all snuffed it :)) )

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