Are you a budding vermiculturist ?

Forres Community Garden now has 8 worm boxes all full of worms. The boxes are made of wood and are insulated to prevent the worms from freezing! Thank you to Thomas Kocinski and Peter Bolton for their skills in making the worm 'hotels'. We had a delivery of 10kg of 'liver' worms (litter dwelling) by our worm guru Rod Gilchrist (see www.greenwayconsulting.co.uk) in November.

A worm group has been set up to tend to the worms initially, Carin has been getting food scraps for them from Cluny Hill College. They seem to be eating a lot, but we are also noticing that they really do need a thick layer of leaves especially in frosty conditions to keep them worm and mobile, even with the insulated boxes. Eventually we will have a box on every pod to enable the use of the worm cast (worm poo) as organic fertiliser for the soil. We also feed the worms rock dust, Rod says that this is the secret to nutrient rich plant crops.

If you like reading about worms we can reccomend:

"Composting with Worms" by George Pilkington, and of course, the famous (for anyone interested in worms that is!!!) "Worms eat our garbage" by the late Mary Appelhof.

Click the Photo to go to the Worms Gallery