Bucket of Worms. Worms for fishing and composting. The Worm Works Wormery.

Wormery

The Worm Works wormery comes complete with the following:

Black worm bin with lid
3 Composting Trays
A Bedding Block
1 kg of Worms in a bucket
Worms supplied in bedding with cocoons
2 kg Lime
2 kg Worm Treat
Comprehensive instruction book
Bucket of Worms guidelines

Price: £89.00.

With 1/2 kg of Worms: £79.99.*
* 1 kg recommended - see below.

Extra trays for large families are available at £10.00 each.
(Next day delivery is standard - see order page for details)

The Worm Works wormery is a stacking tray system made of recycled plastic. 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 THE WORM WORKS WORMERY? - Each tray rests on the compost in the tray below, allowing the worms to move freely between trays.
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WHY BUY FROM US? -We despatch our composting worms in a bucket with plenty of bedding along with some worm cocoons meaning that you will have young stock coming on immediately.
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You can find more detailed information in THE WORM WORKS pamphlet. To open it you need Acrobat Reader, which you can download for free.

If you still have any queries, you may find the answers in our FAQs on our home page.

It is easy to get bamboozled by marketing hype from companies who claim that the type of composting worm that they supply is somehow a lot better than the next, it is just twaddle. There are pros and cons for both main types of worms for composting. The fact is, because we are worm farmers we are able to supply the correct weight of worms for your wormery, required both for digesting waste and breeding. We go the extra mile and supply our worms in a bucket with compost that they are used to containing cocoons ready to hatch into young worms.

The advantages of The Worm Works wormery as supplied by us:

Some suppliers of these wormeries have chosen to supply them with an ambiguous 'plenty' of worms, which can easily be perceived as better value. 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 with 1 kilogram of the more acid tolerant Dendrobaena worms better suited to wormery conditions (see our Worm Facts page).
However, many people like to have a mix of Tiger/Brandling worms included with their Dendrobaenas, therefore we supply a handful of them within your kilo of mature Dendrobaenas as standard. 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.
When considering where to buy your wormery, make sure that you check the weight of worms that you will receive. Remember that 150 grams of Tiger worms will eat up to 150 grams of food a day, whereas 1000 grams of dendrobaenas will eat up to 500 grams of food a day.
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 (approx 375 worms - still significantly more than some competitors supply as standard) for those of you on a budget for only £79.99. 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!!).

Customer feedback: "....,I really did my research before choosing the right wormery for us - and have continued to ensure that I am following the comprehensive instructions! It was a big gamble and quite an expense but I would not hesitate to not only recommend The Worm Works as a brilliant way of composting with worms, but also to express how impressed I have been by the friendly and attentive customer service that you have consistently provided. I would definately recommend Bucket Of Worms!..."
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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. In addition we have put together our own guidelines using our experience and taking into account the British Climate.

The redesigned lid aids ventilation and prevents water logging. Many other stacking tray systems do not have lids as standard, which means that water and fruit flies have easy access.

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.

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.

Unlike some wormeries, whose legs have been known to buckle under their own weight as they fill up ,The Worm Works is very stable.

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.