Message Board - Pests, Weeds and Diseases: Worms

I've been thinking about going a bit more organic and setting up a wormary to help with composting. Does anyone have any experience of using wormaries, and do they need a lot of looking after? And where can I get one? Thanks for your help, Harry.

I've got a small wormery at home, I just put a small amount of food scraps and garden wast in it from time to time, and the worms love it. I get a fantastic soil and liquid fertilizer come from it. They are simple to maintain once your worms get established.

Hi Harry,

Wormeries are great for the garden as they not only recycle your waste material, they also give you good quality compost and liquid fertilizer in return.

The 4scapes shop sells a selection of wormeries, paste the following link into your web browser and have a look

The worm works wormery

If you, or anyone else, has any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Colin

Wormaries are good ideas, I've always intended to get me one. But I thought you had to have special worms, are they called Tiger worms? Are they easy to get hold of, where would I go?

Hi Billy,

The wormeries sold in the 4scapes shop come with Tiger worms or alternatively, if you are giving the wormery as a present, we will send the wormery with a voucher for the worms, which can be redeemed at any time.

Colin

Thanks for the info, I'll have a look in your shop, they sound just what I am looking for.

These wormeries sound great, I think I'll get one for my kids. Can you put any old scraps in for the worms as my Gary never eats his broccoli.

You can put most food scraps in a wormery, just don't over do it, as the worms can only eat so much in a day. Don't put too much moist material in the wormery either, they don't like too much gravy with their peas, it just turns to a messy mush and kills off the worms. What's wrong with broccoli?