Wormery - Brighton & Hove

Kay_Peel

Good explantion amyandoli. It sounds very sturdy, portable, cheap and even I could probably make it.

Can't thank you enough.

Kay

Pots'o'dosh

I really wanted a wormery as I believe they make really great compost but they are a bit pricy (£100ish). I had a look on e-bay and bought some instructions from someone on how to make your own, for £4. He e-mailed them straight through and although i haven't actually made it yet it doesn't look like rocket science. If anyone interested look under "home & Garden" and then "Garden and Plants" and then "Fertilizer/soil improvement" then type "Wormery" next to the search bit.

kethry

a quick google gives this site, which seems fairly straightforward. I think with most wormeries you pay for the worms themselves and the box, rather than the knowledge. I expect as more people get them the price will come down.

thanks for the tip though!

keth
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Smurf07

Hello all

I am about to purchase a wormery. My household consists of me and my husband. Could anyone advise how many litres we should get and if there is an advantage to getting a wormery with the various compartments. We don't have a garden but have a roof terrace where we have several plants so can use the compost for that but don't require lots of it. My main motivation for getting a wormery is to reduce the amount of kitchen waste going to landfill.

Any suggestions appreciated.

arkonite_babe

Have a look at the Useful links sticky

There are a few links there to sites where you can get some advice about home composting and wormeries. Wiggly wrigglers is a good bet, they are really friendly and helpful.



HTH

Edited to add:

If you are stuck for space etc, THIS might be a better idea for you than a wormery. Apparently it doesn't smell and you can "compost" food scraps etc as well

tigerlily

I bought a wormery from a seller on ebay and am really pleased with it. It cost £27 including everything needed to start and the postage. It came with both written instructions and also a DVD which was helpful.
There is just me in the house so I got quite a small one but there were bigger ones available, my worms are very happy and munching on my kitchen waste, I am on the second box already. Mine is outside the door and I have a little tray (one that strawberries came in) by the sink to put things in and once a day I transfer it to the wormery. If I can help any more please feel free to ask.

Lady_Pink

I was just wondering if wormeries were likely to attract rats? :eek:

We had a garden composter on the go earlier this year, but we had to pass it on to my mom as it was attracting furry little (well, quite big actually!) visitors. It was basically acting as a big free supermarket for them, as they came over from the fishing ponds at the back of our garden to feast, burrowing under the bottom of the composter, even when we barricaded it in. We noticed the difference in the amount of waste in our wheelie bin- I'd like to get rid of our kitchen waste by composting again, but with a baby on the way I'm even more loath to act as a rat soup kitchen. I was having a little look at the wiggly wigglers site - they all seem to be rather expensive!

So - can anyone answer the big rat question, and point me in the direction of any good websites for info/cheap wormeries?

sknowles92

Ooh, me!

I've just done what your considering because I got sent a special offer. I've shared the offer in the other forum here - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=547054

Not sure if it is what your looking for but its worth mentioning!

elantan

lady pink ...i am just starting out with composting and am waiting for my bins to arrive.... but had read a book it stated that you shouldnt get rats with compost bins as long as you dont put meat/fish etc in but stick to grass cardboard..please tell me you put fish and meat in yours i really dont want rats ...i'm hoping to go on to a wormery soon ..now i'm panicking incase of rats

Lady_Pink

elantan wrote: »

lady pink ...i am just starting out with composting and am waiting for my bins to arrive.... but had read a book it stated that you shouldnt get rats with compost bins as long as you dont put meat/fish etc in

I don't think our rats read your book! I'm no expert on composting, so I can only give you my experience, but we didn't put meat or fish in, but we certainly had rats! I don't know if it was because our garden backs onto some "fishing pools" (a couple of ponds and lots of overgrown foliage) and we're probably on a "rat run" anyway but after a few weeks of kidding myself that things were composting in a very nibbled at fashion, we couldn't ignore the little holes dug under the bin, or things being dragged out of the bin. They must have been having the time of their lives! When I saw one staring back at me while I was at the kitchen window, then on another couple of occasions, we had to get rid of it. We also got rid of the bird seed feeder that was nearby, that could well have been attracting them too. I saw them a couple of times, even after we got rid of the bin, but after a few weeks I didn't see any more. I guess it takes them a while to figure out it's gone for good, and change habits. We also put some rat poison down, which did seem to disappear (they had a little run down the side of the shed and our garden fence).

On the other hand, my mom and dad have been composting for years at the bottom of their garden and don't seem to have had any bother, so I suppose it depends on whether you already have rats lurking nearby - and perhaps what you put in your compost bin. If it's just garden waste you might be ok, but we were putting in veg peelings etc, which they seemed to enjoy :eek:

Good luck with your composting - I hope you fare better then we did! I just need to know now if a wormery is likely to attract rats - we're not in dire need of the compost as we only have a small garden, and most of it's grassed, but we wanted to reduce the amount we're sending to landfill.

PS sknowles92 - thanks for your post - I'll have a good look at that. I noticed they're not the tray system ones - I quite liked the idea of the trays as it seemed easier - will you let me know how you get on with it once it arrives please?