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I'm thinking of building a small wormery out of a few used bottles. It's going to be quite small so I don't really need 1kg of worms like you can buy online. Does anyone know where I could buy, say 50 worms, or would it be alright to use worms from the garden?

Thanks for any advice

Steven

You could pop along to the World Worm Charming competition, see f they'd let you have some...

The World Worm Charming Championships

I would imagine that your commonal garden worm would be fine though.

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If you have a compost bin you should have loads of the little (Branding I think they're called) worms that they use in wormeries. I know there are loads in the dalek one I have in my back garden tucked up around the edge whenever I open up the lid. They are much smaller and skinnier than your bog standard garden worm, though can't remember exactly why you use them instead of the fat ones.

Try your local fishing tackle shop... they sell worms for bait and will have redworms, lobworms or dendrabenas in small pots for about 3 quids.
Well they do down here in the midlands where coarse fishing is popular don't know about your neck of the woods.

Thanks for all the information. Sadly I've only had my compost bin for a month so not very many worms in it yet. Going to have a look see if I can find a fishing shopt o buy some from.

Cheers,

Steven

I think you use the brandling worms - which I believe are also sometimes called tiger worms, but I could be wrong - because they can better take the hot, steamy and fairly acidic conditions within a compost bin/wormery. Even so I think you occasionally have to artificially raise the pH.