Wormery

As I only have a small garden, I'm very tempted to buy a beehive style wormery, which I feel would fit in quite well.

I was wondering if anyone had tried them and how successful they are. I'm also a little concerned about what I would need to do with it during spells of cold weather and these seriously low temperatures we've been having.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Jovi

 

We have had a "can o worms" wormery for four years now. In that time we have only ever added worms once and i supect we didnt need to, It was probably just me being to enthusiastic.

We since learned that they self regulate the population very well and you can see hundreds of little worms born every spring. In winter we just wrap it around the outside with bubblewrap to stop a total freeze. The worms dont seem that bothered about the weather and have survived -12c here with the above mentioned simple bubble wrap of their home.

The big benefit for me is the worm tea produced by the system, it makes a great fertiliser and there is always plenty of it. The compost conversion rate is in my experience a great deal slower than those supplying these systems would have you believe. But thats only a minor inconvenice and wouldnt put us of using a wormery.

 

We've two 'dalek' type bins that we use as worm composters and have had them now for about 7 years. The rate of composting is I reckon at least four times faster than the conventional compost heaps we also have, and though to start with I used bubble wrap on the bins in winter I now no longer do so and the worms survive fine.
Worm compost is richer in nutrients than normal garden compost.

See -
http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/Thread-Compost-Trials-Results.html

 

Thank you all for the advice, much appreciated.

I think I'll go ahead and give it a try. :thumb:

 

There is no conflict with a wormery imho, we have always had a compost heap as well. The compost heap is much bigger and for us at least, faster than the wormery. I find the wormery give us much finer compost but at a slower rate and the big advantage is the worm tea.
We use the wormery for kitchen scraps mostly and the garden stuff goes into the composter. If you want more liquid fertiliser i would definately recommend getting a wormery.