Home Made Wormary

[cambourne7]

Hi

I bought 2 water butts ( in fact very large plastic containers from a jam making firm) only got around to using one. I was watching gardeners world and he used a wheelbarrow to make a wormary.

I was thinking of using my spare container to do the same thing for my leaf mould.

The butt has a lid and a tap at the bottom, i can add some polystrine to to bottom to allow the liquid to fall and i can use this as a feed. Do you think this would work?

[cambourne7]

[OllieC]

Sounds perfect to me, Cam... Our little one it took a few goes to get started - I kept adding too much stuff & it killed all the worms. Do you plan to top it up as you go along?

[hopalong]

Sounds good. I get lots of juice out of mine and it makes a good plant food (diluted 1:10). Also get lots of very rich compost. You need to make sure the worms don't drown, so permeable polystyrene in the bottom is a good idea.  Adding cardboard and shredded paper also helps to absorb excess moisture and sweeten the mix.  You need to avoid too many things that are very acidic - especially citrus peel.  You probably know all this already!

[cambourne7]

thanks guys

I was thinking of drilling holes around it and yes layers of cardboard though it :) idealy I want to fill it 1/3 after the winter and then top it up every month.

[springs]

Put four house bricks in the bottom and then put wire mesh over. put your cardboard over that. The first one i made all the worms drowned. 
Makes the best liquid feed. ratio 10 to 1.

[hopalong]

Here's a picture of some "worm tea" shrouded in bonfire smoke. It doesn't take long to get this much from the wormery. (If you look closely you can see a Northern Line train going by in the background).[attachment=1]

[littlebabybird]

do they not get frozen in the winter?
the worms that is?
lbb