killerflies
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Building your own wormeryHi all!
Just wondering if anyone has any advice or tips on making your own wormery??
Im trawling the net and will put together some sort of synopsis in a few weeks but if anyone has any (pictures) information that they'd like to share, please do!
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keithrawlins
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i dont knowany thing about them ,but waswondering if you got any farther with the projct.
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blowin
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If you are talking about small /domestic scale then the commercially supplied wormeries are a total rip-off imho . You certainly don't need to pay a fortune for the " special" worms . Most of the so-called super-worms are nothing more than ordinary Brandlings aka Tiger Worms . These are the relatively small ( to about 3" ) red and white stripey things which will appear as if by magic in any mature compost heap which has even a little bit of manure in it , also under plant pots and even under eg damp newspaper left on the patio overnight . They are hermaphrodite so don't need a partner in order to reproduce and their population can increase at a phenominal rate if they have a bit of the right food .
I have never actually made one but suspect that the £100 wormery can be constructed from nothing more than a few of those plastic in / out trays you see in the office plus a colony of worms from the bottom of the nearest heap of well rotted chicken sh*ite . I am not sure whether a heap of bull sh*ite would be as productive but you will find that in the same place as the trays so it might be worth a try 
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