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cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 9:35 am Post subject: Wormery! Wormery!
Just ordered one yesterday, so worms and boxes and stuff should come Monday ish. The one thing I'm unsure on is bedding; shredded newspaper okay as worm bedding?

lettucewoman

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 7834
Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 9:44 am Post subject:
don't they live in the soil in the boxes?

JB

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7757
Location: 91° N

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 3:03 pm Post subject:
I was looking at getting one of these as a way to compost a lot of my kitchen waste rather than add it to the main compst heap. Anyone know if this is a particularly good (and rodent proof) way to handle kitchen scraps?

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 3:09 pm Post subject:

lettucewoman wrote:

don't they live in the soil in the boxes?

Dunno. Read in various places about coir as a bedding, in others about shredded paper.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 3:15 pm Post subject:
It'll probably come with a "how to keep your worms alive" leaflet... A friend found out the hard way that you shouldn't put citrus skins in a wormery .

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 3:38 pm Post subject:
Sorry, just read the title again. Were you waiting for someone to add "They've all got it wormery!"?

hamster

Joined: 24 Apr 2007
Posts: 448
Location: Wokingham (Berks.), UK

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 3:42 pm Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Sorry, just read the title again. Were you waiting for someone to add "They've all got it wormery!"?

I was tempted...

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 3:52 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

lettucewoman wrote:

don't they live in the soil in the boxes?

Dunno. Read in various places about coir as a bedding, in others about shredded paper.

Shredded paper (preferably previously used as animal bedding) works quite well I think (if I remember correctly from all those years ago)

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15047
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 4:41 pm Post subject:
I started mine on coir, which it came with. If you want a brick (of coir!) I've got a couple kicking around doing nothing.

treaclepuss

Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 139

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 6:58 pm Post subject:
I seem to remember that a friend who had one used to put in an old jumper for the worms!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 7:00 pm Post subject:
Do they feel the cold badly then?

treaclepuss

Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 139

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 8:14 pm Post subject:
I think it's to keep the worms nearer to the top where there's more food to work on. The original kit had a kind of duvet supplied but I suspect it became passé

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15047
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 8:30 pm Post subject:
It's to keep the moisture in and keep it nice and dark at the top to get them up into the fresh waste. Mine ate theirs, and now have an old leather skirt instead.

jamanda
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Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 07 9:44 pm Post subject:
How are the worms doing Cab?

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 07 6:52 am Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

How are the worms doing Cab?

Haven't arrived yet

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