"Activeviii" wrote in message
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best place I have found for them is on well kept school playing field or
on the tarmac of old
alleyway.

I made my own wormery - by accident. The council were encouraging recycling
and had various compost bins on sale (very cheap). I bought one that is
basically a barrel suspended by a spindle through the middle. It soon got
filled with chopped up twigs and branches (by one of those small log
shredders). Every day you give the barrel one complete spin to mix
everything up and allow air into the mixture so bacteria can get to work.
It's the first time I've ever successfully produced compost (took about 6
weeks to rot down). But the big bonus was the worms that appeared in the
bin, literally hundreds of them. It's a mystery where they came from as
most of the compost was from wood cut from trees and, since the bin is 6
inches above the ground, I can't think how they could have crawled up the
legs of it and in through one of the small ventilation holes. Anyway, I'm
glad that they are there as I'll always have a supply in the warmer months,
though there aren't so many in the colder months.
Anyone else got a wormery story? I'd like ideas about keeping one going all
year round.