DIY Wormery

Hi guys can I get any advice on building a DIY Wormery has anyone got any photos of what you have built?
I'm disabled with fibromyalgia so I'm only on a low income so everything I do has to be on a small budget.

I don't really know much about this but it does sound really interesting hobby to do.

any info would be helpful like care of them as in where to keep them in winter/summer and can they survive a cold winter? or hot summer, can they be kept in one place or does it have to be movable

oh the best worms to buy for the UK and how many to start off with?

thanks for any help

 

so I need £10 worth of worms to start with, what size dalek composter do you use? cant seem to find them on ebay.
how is it all set up to start it off??

 

do they have a bottom to them? and I don't see a tap? are they not meant to have taps?
so do you just put a bag of soil in for them to live in them just keep adding food stuffs?

sorry for all the questions this is all really new to me lol

 

What's shown in the photo is a composter, rather than a dedicated wormery. Really useful for the composting of garden and some domestic waste, and I guess importing some tiger worms (aka brandling worms) speeds the process up! Brandlings will also arrive naturally, lots in both my composters now.

Lots of local councils offer and deliver reduced price composters, to encourage people to recycle. Both mine came that way. Input your postcode to see if your council does the same: Compost Bins - Getcomposting | Get your Council Compost Bin

Wormeries are a bit different - take a wider range of domestic waste and can provide liquid feed via a tap as you mention. You can buy them but they do seem more expensive than composters: https://www.wormcity.co.uk/

But you can evidently make your own much more cheaply. I'll be interested to see if anyone has done this, as it's something I've considered doing too!

Meanwhile these instructions seem sensible: How to make your own wormery

And a video:

Hope that helps, and that others can provide some practical experience for you!

 

oh right, that looks good will give that a go I think, Thanks for that

 

glad I never started my wormery its snowing here now but will start one when it starts worming up a bit