Can-O-Worms composter

Composting is a messy business (but we hippyshoppers do it anyway, even without a garden, sometimes with cute pigs), and any new technology that helps out - like the Nature Mill - is welcome around my place.  But if you'd like to start out a bit more modestly with a wormery, check out the Can-O-Worms, available for £88.44 from the ultra-green Graig Farm Organics, which includes 1000 worms, "starter bedding, a Moisture Mat, some Worm Treat and Lime Mix plus full comprehensive instructions."  (Worm Treat?)

You fill each tray with organic garbage (food including meat, hair, paper and vacuum cleaner dust - though avoid acidic stuffs such as onions, citrus and vinegar) and the worms eat it.  By the time you've filled the top tray, the worms will have eaten everything in the bottom tray, leaving great fertilizer behind.  You can either dilute it 10:1 as plant food or strew it in your garden.  Take all the fertilizer out of the tray and stack it on top full of scraps again.  And so it goes.  The worms, what with reproducing and all, are self-perpetuating, and they eat their way up the trays through the little holes.

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