Success!

The wormery had been left to itself for a little while. I moved it to a permanently shady spot and hadn't added anything recently. It's been cool and rainy as well.

This weekend, the sun shone instead of the rain we were predicted so I thought I'd start again and follow all the advice of my worm expert since I wasn't convinced that much was happening. I gently tipped the wormery into a large plastic bucket and look what I found! Lots of fat, happy worms and a lot of brown, wet, sludge which doesn't smell. I had been watering the wormery since my expert says that they need to be kept damp.

I've now gently put them back on a layer of compost and some shredded newspaper and added the divider and a layer of kitchen waste for them to crawl up to so I can extract the good stuff from underneath.

In the meantime, I'm going to keep watering them and using the 'juice' to feed the blueberries which are now inside the conservatory so the birds won't be tempted to strip my bushes. You'd think they'd be happy with the strawberries I didn't get around to netting until today but I think they like blueberries even more.