Mini-Wormery

TOP TIP from plot 130 (with thanks to Ray & Sue)



Start a mini-wormery at zero cost. Collect newspapers (avoiding multi-colour ones) and stack in a neat pile on the earth by your compost heap, kept in place by surrounding bricks and one on top. Wet the paper (or just let the rain do so) and in time the red brandling worms will move in and up through the pile. If you have a new compost heap and are impatient, scrounge a few worms from the owner of a manure heap (I have a good colony). The worms dessicate the paper eventually, and it can be torn into strips and added to the compost heap or put in runner bean trenches, etc. I started one in our first autumn in 2006 and it was very active the next year.