Home Made Worm Farm - Page 3

 g'day luke,

you can use almost anythng from those large styrene vegetable trays to
a 1/2 plastic 44 gal drum, see the pic of our 1/2 drum worm farm on
our site.

nowadays we cut out the middlemen so to speak all our vermicomosting
happens in the garden where it is needed.



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 thanks len, got a few ideas now, now off to the dump to get some scrap

 Luke wrote:

Well, we use a variety of "worm farms"

1) Two lots of some brand stackable trays, run as one farm.
2) old bath tub on a stand, just load it up and keep topping it up, then
take stuff from each end 1/3 or half every 3+ months.
3) the 1 metre cube slow compost bin which is just four sides sitting on
the ground. it usually gets loaded, topped up and left, then, after a
few  months the top 6-12" gets thrown in as the base of the next one,
aka I transfer the worm masses into the new one.

1 & 2 have the advantage that we can collect whatever liquid drains out
the bottom, then use it on the vege garden, but I prefer 3 for "compost"
production and the ease of care.

For 2 & 3, we chuck in whatever we want, including bush prunnings,
citrus, onion, etc, then mesh/sieve(1/2"x1/2") the output into the wheel
barrow to get the "compost"/"soil".

We have also done the 20 & 40 litre drum trick, aka cut top and bottom
out of round drum, place in middle of garden bed and then load with
mixed vegetable matter. the worms can come and go and spread the compost
around the location. When everything is composted, you can lift the drum
and spread the compost, alternativer, lift slightly, skew sideways
spread compost out of bottom, reseat and recharge for a worm farm that
travels around the garden bed.

 

 Hi Luke,

I have for the past few years had two that I constructed from the 60
Litre rubbish bins with their lids, similar to what I once saw on Don
Burkes show some years back, although he only used buckets.

Just drilled heaps of 25mm holes in bottom and side and the buried
these bins to about 100mm of the top in the ground.

The worms seem to like the stable temperature and can come and go as
they please, and do their aerating thing in the soil surrondint the
pots.

Probably have to empty the castings  1 ~ 2 times per year. Juice just
leaches out into surrounding soil, doing hopefully everything some
good.

Just use the castings in your garden or pot plants.