Help with worms

I just got some worms for my compost bin what do there eat

 

Kitchen scraps (peeling, tea bags) and garden waste (lawn clippings, annual weeds that have not ran to seed). Do not put cooked veg on compost it attracts vermin.

Rusty

 

where did you get

Where did you get them from ?

 

Just of amazon

 

Just so you know in a hard winter , if not protected from very hard frosts etc which may penetrate the compost bin and kill them, a lady in work has a wormery which cost quite a lot to set up and the hard winter of 2012 killed every worm and she had start all over again

 

What's the best to stop this happening

 

A good volume of compost material will do a lot for keeping heat in. An old chap I know covers his compost heap with a couple of old carpets over winter. He refers to it as putting it to bed for winter.

My compost bin is a thriving ecosystem with every creepy crawly slimy slithery thing imaginable living in it. It got through those two harsh winters in a row with no problem. Probably at least in part because I kept it full, so there would always be somewhere cosy for all the creatures to retreat to.

 

I'm thinking a wormery and a compost bin are two different things.

You dont actually need to buy worms for a compost bin, they find their own way there naturally.

A wormery is a bit different, kind of like an upper class compost bin, that needs more attention, but at the end of the day does the same thing, but in a different way.

 

I just had a look , I must have a goldmine compost bin if they are charging that amount for worms £££

 

Can u show me a pic

 

Pete the lady in question is posh

 

what off my compost bin ?

 

If these worms are going into an outside 'open bay' or Dalek type composter, I'm wondering if they're going to be a bit cold to get going unless it's already going and generating some warmth.

The contents of my Dalek plastic compost bins can freeze solid over winter, stopping the contents from decomposing, but the worms are back when the weather warms up.

I'm wondering if they're destined for a new outdoors bin, rather than a wormery, would it be worth considering starting them off in something smaller/warmer before putting them outdoors?

 

I got a barrels for compost and worms if I was to put a cover around the barrel was should I use

 

I believe Andrew has a base on his bin/s Pete, so earthworms wouldn't find their way in.