My work colleague has now kindly shared her experience of keeping worms. She says that you need lots of them - 200-300 and that she bought them and some worm food to help them settle in. She said that if you have a semi mature compost heap, they would consider that good food as well and that they must be kept damp all the time.
I think I will follow her advice and move them into the garage where they won't have to put up with the variations of temperature (although it's quite cool now). Her other useful tips are:
- water them with a fine rose
- shred new food and add it in by gently digging
- you should have a bed of garden compost and non edibles and then put your vegetable offerings on top of that
- you can put about 1 lb a day of vegetable offerings in the commercial wormery that she has
- the water that drips through needs to be diluted if the worms are working efficently.
Well, we're off on a cycling holiday so I will leave them with some food and water for the week and hope that they appreciate being left in peace. I promise to then move them into the garage (they don't smell) and look after them. I will double the population and make sure the whole things stays sweet and take more photos so you can see how this is going.
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