How many have got a worm bin

maderedundant · Post by **maderedundant** » 31 Oct 2007, 01:03

I have one just outside the kitchen door into which goes all my kitchen waste apart from the strong tasting stuff like onions and citrus fruits.
I bought my 3 tier worm bin from the recycling centre next door to the tip I worked at before being made redundant.
It cost me a fiver but it was a big saving on the price of a new one. The worms were from a smallholding, also next to the tip.
The bottom two layers are now nearly ready to be emptied out and filled with kitchen waste again and the worms are breeding like billyo.

Paul

Tania · Post by **Tania** » 31 Oct 2007, 09:06

I haven't got a worm bin, but add a tub of worms (from the local fishing shop) to my 3 compost bins each spring, and let them get on with it. I've not got a huge garden but put everything that is compostable from the house and garden into them. It is great when one is "cooked" and I get a lot of pleasure shoveling out the homemade compost.

lancashire lass · Post by **lancashire lass** » 31 Oct 2007, 11:13

it's on my list of things I'd like to set up on the new allotment plot! )cof(

TassieDev · Post by **TassieDev** » 31 Oct 2007, 13:32

I'd love one, but they're really expensive. I know you can make one yourself but I haven't been much of a DIY'er :oops:

I might make one when we get to the new house (at the moment the less stuff i have to move the better!!)

Dave · Post by **Dave** » 31 Oct 2007, 15:41

go to chicken keeping
page 5
two thirds down
instruction for a worm bin
ther is a link click on it

the bin will cost you Â£5-Â£10

Tania · Post by **Tania** » 31 Oct 2007, 16:51

Can someone post the link here 'cos I couldn't find it

Dave · Post by **Dave** » 31 Oct 2007, 16:54

www.whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/Easywormbin.htm

if you want you can use
irish moss peat
on top of some newpaper

do not use general compost
or dirt from the garden
it may contain non organic things

only irish moss peat

good luck

PK · Post by PK » 31 Oct 2007, 22:23

I have a worm bin. You have to remember to keep draining off the excess fluid. I save mine in 4lt milk containers and use as a fertiliser for my container plants and green house veg.