From old bathtub to wormery. The bricks and bits of old paving are holding down a fine mesh screen in a vain attempt to keep the rats out. The plug hole is blocked up with a piece of paving and a large pebble beneath it leaving no gaps.
This replaces my last large wormery made from a garden storage chest left by the previous owners. It gave a couple of years of use but fell apart. Hopefully this will be a bit more sturdy!
The other marker of the turning of the seasons is the #wormfarm has been evicted from the conservatory.
We really neglect the poor blighters, but they seem to hang on in there. We have had this for a few years now, still with its original worms. (Well, their descendants I presume.) I have popped some veg waste, shredded card, and coffee grounds in the empty middle layer and shifted the bottom tray at the top and left it open to encourage the worms to migrate downwards.
I also collected the worm wee in a big screw top tub.
We should make better use of their wormy efforts really.
Next job was mopping the clearish 2/3 of the conservatory including the tragic job of soaking the dried corpses of escapee worms off the lino. π’
@sleepy62 @Broadfork @alexisbushnell We've been thinking about composting ideas for our little garden too. I'd be interested to learn about your wormery adventure as it goes along.
As things start to warm up and the frost risk recedes, it's time to start giving them our green waste, plus some coir and cardboard to even it all up. Hopefully in a couple of weeks they'll be back up to full processing power and the #wormery will be taking all our wastes for recycling in the garden as #compost
It'll be interesting to see how this changes as winters get warmer too over the next few years
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