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Like most living things they die if you don’t feed them. So when your compost is almost ready there are often fewer worms.

The worms are called brandlings and I had them for making compost but my son nicked them for fishing :-| :-D :-D :-D. You can buy them at fishing bait shops and add them to the compost bin to do their work

We have a worm farm, as they are called here in Oz. We've had it for just over a year now and the thing is really churning out the good stuff, both solid and liquid.

We also have a couple of compost bins and we do find earthworms in them, but as someone else has said (Island?) they are totally different to the worms used in the farm.

The soils here, which are basically sand, need a heck of a lot of 'building up' as we are situated on what is known as the Swan Coastal Plain

Thanks Von that is the sort of info she is looking for.

"Nobody loves me,everybody hates me,

I think I will go and eat worms"

I can't remember the rest but I think it involved a big, at woolly one and a long,thin slimy one..

Not that Sharron (your post 12:52).

Simply, 1950s school food humour! ;-)

Pat, our LA gave compost bins free to anyone who wanted one - but that was years ago so I have no idea whether they still do that.

Thanks for mentioning wormeries Anng :-D
I've had a read about them and think they are a great idea!
I'll be on to Von later....... :-D :-D

Maggie :-D

It was very funny being give a ‘lecture’ on worms not weeing. You can’t call it worm feed or worm juice because that gives the wrong idea.

I couldn’t think of anything else to call it.

Thanks all. I deliberately didn't put it on the hobbies thread as it is very under used these days. I will pass that facebook reference on Island thank you. I thinks she knows what they are used for but rather wanted to hear from someone who actually had one, how good they are etc.

I’ve had a wormery for years now. Makes excellent compost and feed.

The first one was a bin but I changed it to one with tiers which is much easier to manage.

I'm sorry, I just had to look that up!!! :-|

I used to have one but in such a small garden I didn’t really need to compost. The liquid is good for feeding plants but got thoroughly told off when I offered someone else a bottle of worm wee. Apparently worms don’t wee :-S

Luckily my friend knew what I was offering.

Pat..... the gardening thread in Hobbies and Crafts is Anng's.
:-S

Looks like finishing school stuff, that!

No. Have you had too much coffee? :-0

Here’s a little ditty that we used to sing at school - just to get the juices flowing :-S :-0

Anyone who is squeamish can stop reading now!

Worms for breakfast, dinner and tea,
Nobody knows what they mean to me.
The big ones slip and the little ones slide
Right in the middle of my inside.
Oh, cut off their heads, suck out the juice,
Throw the skins away,
Nobody knows how I survive
On worms three times a day.

Anyone else remember that?

Yep just as I suspected.......

This one is open to read Ann - Cheshire East Composting and Wormery Club

Enjoy :-D

worms which turn up in compost heaps are red worms so presumably only live in that environment. Earth worms turn the soil - I've never seen an earthworm in our comost.

Ann, we do have a keen veg grower here on GR. I can't remeber who it is though.
Have you tried doing a search on FB? I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a wormery group LOL

You can get small ones for children as a science experience.

Yes Joy they do.

Our council, when we lived in UK, sold compost bins at a reduced rate and you could get worms from them to help start your compost.

Worms love to eat the vegetation and I think it's their waste product that makes rich compost as it's already had some breaking down through the digestive system.

They seem to be naturally attracted to compost heaps, don’t they Pat!

We have a hedgehog who has been visiting us almost every night and must hoover up a lot of ‘nasties’ including worms - but worms are good for ‘’tilling’ the soil so you’d think our lawn would be poor. OH, however, has tended it like a baby since March 2020 and it is the best it’s ever been.

Your friend doesn’t want to eat them, does she Ann, because it brought to mind a friend’s son who, when he was a toddler, used to eat them if she didn’t watch him carefully. :-S

He’s a strapping lad now!