Has anyone made their own wormery

[Jess2008]

Hi

I would like to start my own wormery, however, having looked on the website the cost of one (sans worms) is quite expensive.

Has anyone built one from scratch? My question to any who have, once you get all the raw materials, would it just have been just as cheap to buy one?

Thank you.

[peterstorm1985]

Did you try Southwark for a subsidised kit? Unless you can get the materials from skips, it might be the cheapest way of doing it.

Southwark wormery

[Annette Curtain]

Jess

I have a wormery. I did think of building one as i'm fairly adept at that kind of thing however, I luckily found one of the Can-O-Worms type second-hand for ?10. It spent a further ?30 odd on 2kg of worms and coir etc.

The benefit of this can type is collecting the "worm tea" in the bottom tank. It's an amazingly powerful fertiliser,so strong you have to dilute it 1-3 parts water. It's made my tomato plants grow like crazy and produce a mass of fruit this season, which i'm very happy about.

So, if you can build one that collects the "tea" in a tank then great. If not keep an eye out for the C-o-W type as it's dead easy to set up.

Good luck.

Nette (tu)

[Jess2008]

Thanks Peter and Nette

I'll try the council and see what they say.

If I get any gems, I'll pass on here.

Cheers all.

Jess