barginbin
18,11,07, 19:40
... As always there will be people with different ideas this is the way it works for me.
I went into Hypervalue and bought an oblong clear plastic container with a lid, it also has wheels which may come in handy one day.Its around 4 times the size of a Shakespeare box and the same shape and it cost me a tenner. This is far better than a plastic dustbin for 3 big reasons.
1. Its clear and the heat builds up making the food rot back quicker, Greenhouses arent black right ??
2. When the heats on the little buggers bonk like the clappers.
3. Its a much better shape with a larger surface area, easier to work with,and because its clear the worms dont crawl up the sides as they hate the light.
I drilled decent drainage holes around a centimetre each in the bottom and then put it on top of a small wall in my garden. This to save me getting backache when using it, and I put a brick under each corner to aid drainage.(very important)
I took some weed repressant that I had handy but sacking or any old material that will allow liquid to pass through, and put it over the bottom. Then go to Wickes and buy a bag of ballast, £1.39 and tip it in. Your worms dont like this and wont dig through it.
Go to your local stables with garden fork wellies and buckets and ask them can you take some worms.Find yourself an area in their old dung heap were theres loads of them and fill your buckets up.Its worth digging round for 5 minutes and you will find hotspots.My box took 3 fertilizer sacks full.Tip your worms in their new home but you dont want it more than two thirds full because you have to feed them.
Tea bags ,coffee grains,garden waste,left over veggies,fruit.Some people dont put fruit in because you get fruit flies, they make no difference and the red worms love fruit.
I dont put in onions or egg shells, eggshells bloody hurt if you get one down your finger nail and well onions just stink.
I left mine for a month when I first made it and just fed them every day, (we go through loads of tea bags). Now I can just disturb the top layer and drag a 3 pt tub and fill it in a second, put the lid back and go and catch some skimmers. Hope this helps
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I went into Hypervalue and bought an oblong clear plastic container with a lid, it also has wheels which may come in handy one day.Its around 4 times the size of a Shakespeare box and the same shape and it cost me a tenner. This is far better than a plastic dustbin for 3 big reasons.
1. Its clear and the heat builds up making the food rot back quicker, Greenhouses arent black right ??
2. When the heats on the little buggers bonk like the clappers.
3. Its a much better shape with a larger surface area, easier to work with,and because its clear the worms dont crawl up the sides as they hate the light.
I drilled decent drainage holes around a centimetre each in the bottom and then put it on top of a small wall in my garden. This to save me getting backache when using it, and I put a brick under each corner to aid drainage.(very important)
I took some weed repressant that I had handy but sacking or any old material that will allow liquid to pass through, and put it over the bottom. Then go to Wickes and buy a bag of ballast, £1.39 and tip it in. Your worms dont like this and wont dig through it.
Go to your local stables with garden fork wellies and buckets and ask them can you take some worms.Find yourself an area in their old dung heap were theres loads of them and fill your buckets up.Its worth digging round for 5 minutes and you will find hotspots.My box took 3 fertilizer sacks full.Tip your worms in their new home but you dont want it more than two thirds full because you have to feed them.
Tea bags ,coffee grains,garden waste,left over veggies,fruit.Some people dont put fruit in because you get fruit flies, they make no difference and the red worms love fruit.
I dont put in onions or egg shells, eggshells bloody hurt if you get one down your finger nail and well onions just stink.
I left mine for a month when I first made it and just fed them every day, (we go through loads of tea bags). Now I can just disturb the top layer and drag a 3 pt tub and fill it in a second, put the lid back and go and catch some skimmers. Hope this helps
tight lines