I went on a lovely cycle ride with my friend from work and we found ourselves in a small village which was holding a market, full of local people selling their wares and giving advice. We bought bread, had a coffee and cake and filled our baskets with plants (chili peppers and courgettes for me). Hidden in the back was a young couple offering advice on composting and, yes, wormeries. They had received a wormery as a wedding present.
I described my wormery and I was advised that it sounded like it was too acidic - it's a bit slimy. She recommended tearing up some loo rolls and mixing it in to balance it out a bit more...and she said that it takes about 6 weeks for the worms to settle in, not just 2.
So we have torn up some loo rolls and mixed them in, found some live worms (she said we had the right kind) and we'll try again.
2 comments:
Very impressed with the wormery efforts. Our compost bins seem to heave with worms all the time without being introduced so if you want any let me know! Nice to see you and 'kind husband' on Sat night.
Toni
A wormery indeed. Betony's boyfriend emptied both (now three - but one is new) compost bins last week to allow us to start filling them up again. We now have one full of good stuff, one empty and the third just going through the teething stages of compostery. For it/them to become wormery's - I suspect I would need instruction?
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