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Making a Wormery at Home
- Find a container for your worms.
A plastic bucket, a wooden box, or a special worm bin bought from a shop all work well. Line the container with a few sheets of newspaper.
- Half fill the container with bedding. It's best to use some well-rotted compost, but scrunched up damp newspaper and some dirt will also work.
- Water the bedding, then add the compost worms and cover the box with a layer of hessian.
- Now you're ready to feed your worms.
Put in all your fruit and vegetable scraps, but don't put in fat, oil or meat scraps. Worms don't really like orange peel, lemon peel, onion or garlic either. Add water now and then if your worm bin is getting too dry.
- After about six months you'll probably have too many worms for your bin.
Empty half of the mix onto the garden, or split it into two and make a second worm bin.
- You can also separate the worms from the castings.
Divide the mix into small piles on a big sheet of plastic. The worms will move downwards, away from the light. Scoop off the top layers from each pile, which have no worms in them – and put this onto the garden. Use the bottom layers of the piles to start a new worm bin.
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