Bucket of Worms. Worms for fishing and composting. The Worm Works Wormery.
Wormery
We stock what is in our view the best stacking tray wormery available on the Market today. The Worm Works is tried and tested with 1000's already sold. See our testimonial page.
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- Worm bin with lid
- 3 Composting Trays
- A Bedding Block
- 1 kg of Worms in a bucket*
- * Ideal as a scraps bucket!
- Worms supplied in bedding with cocoons
- 2 kg Lime
- Comprehensive instruction book
- Bucket of Worms guidelines
Price: £89.00 .
Value Deal
The Worm Works wormery complete with:
- As listed above
- with 500g (not 1000g) of Worms in a bucket
Extra trays for large families are available at £10.00 each. (24hr delivery service is standard - see order page for details)
We supply The Worm Works wormery in three subtle colours; British Racing Green, BLACK and TERRACOTTA (Click link to see image), that that look good wherever you put them in your garden or home.
The Worm Works wormery is a stacking tray system made of high quality, 100% recycled plastic, with a 5 year warranty on materials and workmanship. Basically, the worms work their way up through the levels of the wormery leaving compost in their wake. As each tray is fully composted it can be emptied and filled again with food waste.
WHY BUY FROM US?- We are worm farmers!
- We supply the correct weight of worms, in the correct packaging, in the correct amount of worm bedding. The worms are carefully mixed with a special mix of up to 4 different types of worm bedding and placed carefully in a 5 litre bucket on the same day as they are sent. This helps to ensure that the worms are happy in their new home. Firms which buy in pre-packed small amounts of worms can easily appear to be cheaper than us but as with all things in life, you get what you pay for. If you choose the latter we will be happy to sell you a wormery rescue pack next year.
Click here for more reasons to buy from us. Click here for the advantages of the Worm Works wormery.
If you still have any queries, you may find the answers in our FAQs on our home page.
Marketing wormeries
We have found that marketing wormeries is quite a tricky thing to do. When we had the idea a few years ago, we thought it would be a reasonably straightforward thing to do. Promote a really good product at a reasonable price. Just point out all the positives of your product without rubbishing others - simple, but no - That is a simple farmer's idea of how it ought to be done.
The Problem
Competition is good but only if it is fair!!
When one of your major competitors are ambiguous about the amount of worms supplied, supplying no where near enough worms enabling them to undercut your price, you feel that it is your duty to point this out. However pointing things out without ranting is very difficult. Which brings us onto another little rant.
Another competitor is ambitious to sell loads of wormeries; which is largely based on the Worm Works design, with deeper trays and a different lid and sump design. We do not want to knock their product, as it will probably work reasonably well. However, they have chosen to go down the route of - we have deeper trays - mine is bigger than yours type of marketing, which is ok but slightly misleading.
The whole point of stacking tray wormeries is to create lots of surface area out of a compact design. The number of worms in a wormery is driven largely by surface area. Composting ability/capacity is driven by worm numbers and temperature, so just because you make the trays deeper with a higher volume it does not mean they will compost more waste; For instance, one big vertical dustbin might have a big volume but only has a small surface area meaning it doesn't make a good design for a wormery. You need a high surface area to volume ratio.
We feel that we have to strenuously point out that it is number of trays and surface area that is one of the most important aspects of having a successful wormery, not volume, which is of some importance but only in relation to surface area.
I commercially farm worms in big trays but the depth of medium/compost in these trays is only 2-3 inches because I know it is pointless having it any deeper.
Sorry for the long rambling rant but we feel it necessary to point out a few facts when there is so much rubbish written by people who are over eager to sell their wormeries.
We have found that marketing wormeries is quite a tricky thing to do. When we had the idea a few years ago, we thought it would be a reasonably straightforward thing to do. Promote a really good product at a reasonable price. Just point out all the positives of your product without rubbishing others - simple, but no - That is a simple farmer's idea of how it ought to be done.
The Problem
Competition is good but only if it is fair!!
When one of your major competitors are ambiguous about the amount of worms supplied, supplying no where near enough worms enabling them to undercut your price, you feel that it is your duty to point this out. However pointing things out without ranting is very difficult. Which brings us onto another little rant.
Another competitor is ambitious to sell loads of wormeries; which is largely based on the Worm Works design, with deeper trays and a different lid and sump design. We do not want to knock their product, as it will probably work reasonably well. However, they have chosen to go down the route of - we have deeper trays - mine is bigger than yours type of marketing, which is ok but slightly misleading.
The whole point of stacking tray wormeries is to create lots of surface area out of a compact design. The number of worms in a wormery is driven largely by surface area. Composting ability/capacity is driven by worm numbers and temperature, so just because you make the trays deeper with a higher volume it does not mean they will compost more waste; For instance, one big vertical dustbin might have a big volume but only has a small surface area meaning it doesn't make a good design for a wormery. You need a high surface area to volume ratio.
We feel that we have to strenuously point out that it is number of trays and surface area that is one of the most important aspects of having a successful wormery, not volume, which is of some importance but only in relation to surface area.
I commercially farm worms in big trays but the depth of medium/compost in these trays is only 2-3 inches because I know it is pointless having it any deeper.
Sorry for the long rambling rant but we feel it necessary to point out a few facts when there is so much rubbish written by people who are over eager to sell their wormeries.
If you are an insomniac, please feel free to read the above for a good remedy for your condition!
The advantages of buying a wormery as supplied by us:
- Some suppliers of these wormeries only supply them with a small number of worms. It is our belief that 150 grams of worms or less is not a
sufficient number of worms for your wormery to have a realistic chance of success.
The time required for those worms to breed up to sufficient numbers to digest a worthwhile amount of scraps would make even the most patient person
frustrated.
We have chosen to supply the Worm Works wormery predominately with the more acid and moisture tolerant Dendrobaena worms . You may receive a handful
of tiger worms in your bucket as some people like to have a mix of worms.
Please let us know if you are using the wormery as a method of breeding worms for fishing and we will ensure that you receive pure Dendrobaenas and include a bag of worm meal to help fatten your worms. (see our Worm Facts page for some pros and cons of both main types of composting worm)
When considering where to buy your wormery, make sure that you check the weight of worms that you will receive. Beware of companies not quoting the weight of worms supplied as you may end up with as little as 50g of worms. The most common reason for failure of any wormery is overfeeding, you therefore need as many worms as possible to give them a chance to breed to high enough numbers to cope with all your kitchen scraps. So the more worms the better, adult worms being the best as they will start breeding immediately. See our Worm Facts page for a comparison of Dendrobeanas vs Tigers. We recommend using a kilo of composting worms but are now supplying the Worm Works wormery with half a kilo of worms for those of you on a budget for only £79.00. If you chose this option it will take your wormery longer to reach its full composting capacity. - We despatch our worms in a bucket with plenty of bedding, not just a packet containing a small number of worms. A kilo of mature worms is weighed and placed gently back into their familiar bedding along with some cocoons present in the bedding. The advantages of this are that should you not have the opportunity to set up your wormery immediately or it is a gift, you will easily be able to keep the worms until needed, provided the care instructions on the bucket are adhered to. Additionally, when you do set up your wormery, you place the entire contents of the bucket into the wormery. This means that the worms are already in familiar surroundings and do not need a 'settling in' period, thus avoiding the common problem of escaping worms in the early days. The presence of cocoons means that you will have young stock coming on immediately (we've had the wormery for about 3 weeks and we are really very impressed with it! .... we've noticed many conjoined worms and lots of new cocoons,....the proliferation of teeny little new worms in contrast to the huge, fat, happy big worms who are making short work of our household scraps!!).
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The advantages of The Worm Works over other types of wormery:
- A 16 page illustrated booklet is supplied with each wormery. This tells you everything you need to know, from how to set up your wormery, through all aspects of feeding/maintenance to harvesting your wormcast. We also provide a 2 page quick set-up guide which draws on our own experiences of using the Worm Works and of composting with worms.
- The specifically designed perforated lid aids ventilation and prevents water logging.
- The lid has basic bin management guidance printed on it so you know how to cope with whatever situation you are confronted with, whether it be what to feed the worms or how to achieve the correct moisture balance.
- The Worm Works has a shallow sump with a gradual gradient allowing the worms to easily crawl out, without drowning, should a few they find their way there.
- Each tray rests on the compost in the tray below, allowing the worms to move freely between trays. In some other stacking tray systems the trays rest on each other, making it difficult for the worms to move up to the next tray to feed.
- New improved taps.
- Worms need surface area to work effectively and each tray acts as an additional surface area for the worms. The size of the trays has been designed with both the worms and wormery users in mind. Worms mainly work in the top few inches of material so a deeper tray would be pointless. Also the trays are a manageable size and weight when full of damp vermicompost.
- Unlike some wormeries, whose legs have been known to buckle under their own weight as they fill up ,The Worm Works is very stable and strong. As with most stacking wormeries, the sump tray is screwed to the base to keep the wormery steady while lifting trays.
- Should you have a large family and need more composting capacity, additional trays may be bought separately. The wormery can be stacked high without loosing any stability.
- The Worm Works is tried and tested with thousands already sold. Just see our testimonial page.
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HOW WE CAME TO SELL THE WORM WORKS WORMERY -We had been doing research for many months previous to the creation of www.bucketofworms.co.uk, to design a worm bin that would work effectively and to get it manufactured. Unfortunately the costs were too high for us, but we managed to locate a worm bin that we believed would be efficient. Again costs were too high for us to obtain them ourselves but the manufacturer contacted us when an Irish company adapted the worm bin and created the Worm Works wormery in early 2007. We are proud to be the first company in Great Britain to start selling the Worm Works wormery.