Well, it was bound to happen

People are so predictable

Having made a stance against the ludicrous situation my father has put the family in, he's finally noticing that I ain't flipping speaking to him :mad:

So he's made some sort of peace offering :suspect:

I now have a jar of worms!!

oh, and a plastic compost bin with no bottom to it :huh:


So what do I do with this present? :confused:

strange...

That's what I meant by a garotta!! A compost bin with no bottom!!

Well why didn't you say? :roll:

what do I do with it then? :huh:

I don't know... I just fill it when our little tub gets full up and needs emptying into it, mum deals with it...

seal the bottom, fill it with water, stick some fish in it, use the worms as bait. Your father is a generous man.
:)

Nah, he's given me a water butt too - and that's now beautifully full of water :)

Looks much better having a green one instead of a blue one in that spot too :thumbsup:

if you're selling it....:thumbsup: I'm on the lookout for a new composter

cor a jar of worms !

how are family relations now that the worms have been offered and accepted ?

PS I'll have 'em if you don't want them.

I think your dad has provided you the beginnings of a wormery, however not sure how it really works, I do know the worms help compost the rubbish quicker, there must be some info available on line!

I was kind of hoping that somebody here would know, Kim!

They did this on telly a few weeks ago, on 'it isnt easy being green'. You will have to seal off the bottom cos the little blighters will try and make a run for it.

They said there was info on the website, think its bbc.co.uk/lifestyle and look for the gezzer with the massive tash, Dick Strawbridge is his name. Otherwise just google 'wormery'.

Ta-ra
Matt

i would fork over the ground were the composter is to go add composting material and worms

Loosen the ground where the composter is going to go, stick the composter over the loose ground, add worms, add garden waste and leftovers form the dinner table, stir it occasionally, and in a few months time youll have compost.

I love my composter, it stinks.

I thought composters weren't supposed to stink? :confused:

Re- escaping - that's what I thought :huh:

*goes to google*

They pong if you dont stir them up properly. I went for ages without stirring mine and it stank like the devil.
I cured it by taking a knife and stabbing it all over, allowing air into it from the middle and bottom.
As I stabbed it, stinking white liquid flowed out and gassed most of the neighbourhood.

I make sure that I stir the thing weekly now.

ew :hihi:

But if you give them plenty of stuff to eat in their new home, surely they wont want to escape.

I was thinking of putting some worms in my compost bin as it seems to be taking an awful long time for the stuff to turn into compost (started about this time last year, got about a centimetre of compost at the bottom!), but if the little blighters will just escape out of the bottom I don't think I'll bother.

They wont escape. They`ll stay, breed and eat!

I also leave the lid off on warm days to attract flies and other insects, they all do their little part and now i have spiders, centipedes... an entire minature ecosystem going on in there.
Every now and again I take the lid off and scoop a lot of the grubs, maggots and little creepy crawlies out and lob them into the pond. Gives the fish a treat.

So where can I get compost bin worms in Sheffield then?

Dont know about where to get em in shef but you can buy them on ebay!

Think there called Dendrobaena worms, check it on google.

I know of this one, but it's online www.wigglywigglers.co.uk (http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk/) bit pricey though.

Ordinary garden worms will do the trick just as well. Shove a few spadefulls of soil into the bin and lob some worms in. Slugs, snails, lob the lot in!
Soil is 99% insect and invertebrate poo anyway so anything that you can lob in will process the waste and turn it into...well... waste.

Dont know about where to get em in shef but you can buy them on ebay!

Think there called Dendrobaena worms, check it on google.
Yep - them's the ones :)
http://zeldia.cap.ed.ac.uk/Lumbribase/Earthworms_in_Focus/Earthworms_in_Focus-Pages/Image21.html
red stripey ones that breed like nobody's business :thumbsup:

Scoop - I'm sure you can have a handful of mine when they get going :)

Yep - them's the ones :)
http://zeldia.cap.ed.ac.uk/Lumbribase/Earthworms_in_Focus/Earthworms_in_Focus-Pages/Image21.html
red stripey ones that breed like nobody's business :thumbsup:

Scoop - I'm sure you can have a handful of mine when they get going :)

Oooh, cheers. Will you put them in a container though. I couldn't possibly touch them :gag:

Nah, I'll leave them in a heap of 'waste' on your doorstep :hihi: