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jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 07 8:21 am Post subject:

cab wrote:

Jamanda wrote:

How are the worms doing Cab?

Haven't arrived yet

That's taken a long time then. Who did you order from?

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 07 8:24 am Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

cab wrote:

Jamanda wrote:

How are the worms doing Cab?

Haven't arrived yet

That's taken a long time then. Who did you order from?

I suspect that my paypal echeque took a few days to clear, its from a reputable seller on ebay.

Hedonists

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 95
Location: Romford, Essex.

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 07 7:59 pm Post subject:
Can I suggest a couple of threads: https://forum.downsizer.net/about4053.html https://forum.downsizer.net/about6229.html The 2nd includes a couple more links To answer your question about the paper... shredded paper works fine, so long as it isn't shiny (which means sadly that most of the junk leaflets that come through the door are no good).

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 07 11:44 am Post subject:

Well,they're settling in okay I think. Arrived Wednesday. The instructions said to feed them the bran feed supplied with the worms for a couple of weeks, then get them on to scraps a couple of handfulls at a time.

The block of coir that came with them swelled fill the bucket it was in, they're in amongst that with a handfull of soil (again, according to the instructions) and thats got torn up, damp newspaper on top and then the lid.

I must say, they were pretty acive, they went right into the coir, didn't hang around at all. Pretty little things.

alison
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 07 11:46 am Post subject:
Cab Where did you get them from?

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 07 11:50 am Post subject:
From these guys, but on ebay: https://wormcity.co.uk/

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 07 12:52 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

From these guys, but on ebay:
https://wormcity.co.uk/

thats interesting, they are the company that keeps getting google adverts on my gmail account when the update notifications for this thread comes in

alison
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 07 12:53 pm Post subject:
I would never have thought of buying a wormery on ebay!

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 07 3:46 pm Post subject:
They are only 5 miles from me I might go and take a look. Alison have you ever thought about doing it on a larger scale, like the Ads in CSH? We are thinking of doing it when we move.

alison
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 07 5:31 pm Post subject:
I have thought of it, but I think the marketing opportunities aren't quite there for us. My friend, not too far away has some big brick built wormeries and there are various problems that they haven't really overcome.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 07 9:37 pm Post subject:
They seem happy enough, I mean they're alive and they seem to be slowly chomping what I give them... What foods do they REALLY like?

alison
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 07 10:01 pm Post subject:
I'll look tomorrow, but have you read / got worms eat my garbage. It is an entertaining and informative read

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 07 10:05 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

They seem happy enough, I mean they're alive and they seem to be slowly chomping what I give them... What foods do they REALLY like?

Isn't this missing the point? They are suposed to eat stuff you want them to not the other way around

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 07 9:36 am Post subject:

cab wrote:

They seem happy enough, I mean they're alive and they seem to be slowly chomping what I give them... What foods do they REALLY like?

Mine have never really graduated past 'seem happy enough' They don't like onions, and will ignore them unless there is nothing else to eat. I think I decimated my worms by daft mistakes at the beginning, and they've never quite recovered.

They still give me enough worm tea through the summer to feed all my pots, and enough worm casts to top dress them, so I'm happy with them. Can't honestly say they've revolutionised my gardening, though. I have higher hopes for them overwintering in the garage.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 07 8:20 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

cab wrote:

They seem happy enough, I mean they're alive and they seem to be slowly chomping what I give them... What foods do they REALLY like?

Isn't this missing the point? They are suposed to eat stuff you want them to not the other way around

Kind of, but I rekon spoiling them to bulk out the numbers once in a while can't be a bad thing.

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