A simple way to build and maintain a large population of a Eisenia fetida worms. Also known as red cradlings, fishermans’ worms, tiger worms etc.
They eat decaying organic matter and turn it into beautiful compost.
Siting a wormery on the ground makes it an easy process. Less problem with swings of temperature.
9 Replies to “Wormery on the ground, for amazing compost”
Comments are closed.
We make massive wormeries in our plot. Everything is piled up over a season then covered in 2 layers of landscaping fabric for a year. In spring we do the Big Reveal! A gentle rake of the surface and it is ready to plant into.
I'm a renter and have a wormery in my kitchen. No, it doesn't smell bad, if anything it's a spring soil smell. I took several buckets of castings this spring, used them in the starter trays, then into the pots I am limited to, along with the plants.
I make an "extract" by taking 2-3 large spoonsful of the compost into a large tea strainer, pour either rain water or tap water that's had the chlorine compounds neutralized (citric acid, just a tiny bit).
I use that to water house and garden plants.
And the liquid that the heap produces is liquid fertilizer.
Um was that snakes?
Do you buy worms specific for this or garden worms.
I also have four inground garden worm buckets where the worms happily live in my vegetable garden and come and go. We feed the buckets the yellowed leaves and other trimmings from the vegetables as well as a bit of manure and/or cardboard and/or leaves and the worms return to us two buckets a year of wonderful castings. Plus they roam throughout my vegetable garden depositing their castings throughout!
I am going to build one with layers and use the juice too. The wee is a very good fertiliser. ???? 1kg of worms is 30 quid. Hopefully need to be bought only once.
There's a coop group in Hamburg, Germany doing a no-dig garden. Your relaxed teaching style is reaching around the globe. I had a quick question, when you say extreme temperatures don't matter, would that apply to continental European climates too which tend to have colder winters?
really good, thank you