How to Build a DIY Budget Wormery Composter

For less than £20!

I've always tried to compost my food waste where I can but I've found it takes a long time to break down and it's fairly strenuous with the regular turning etc. And the waste you can put in is fairly limited.

So I started looking into other options. I'd heard about wormeries but when I started looking at buying one, I was immediately turned off by the price tag. Over £100 for a wormery? No thanks.

I left it a couple of years, still composting in my bin, hearing every now and then about how great wormeries were but turned off at the price tag, one day I decided to look into other options.

Surely they can't be that hard to make..?

I decided to go for it and started searching for a DIY budget wormery composter and came across these 'Really Useful' boxes that stack without sliding into each other. I only needed 3 but extra storage is always useful!

I also needed to buy a faucet but already had a drill with a 1/4 inch drill bit and a bigger bit to drill the hole for the faucet.

This took all of about 10 minutes to make too!

Here are the instructions:

Firstly, using the 1/4 inch drill bit, drill holes roughly an inch and a half apart across the bottom of two of the tubs.

After that, drill some air holes along the top edge of the same two tubs.

Next, change the drill bit for the faucet sized bit and measure where it should go on the tub. Try to put the hole as low down as it can go, making sure to check the nut still fits on the inside (I learned the hard way!).

When the hole has been drilled, screw the faucet in place.

After that, stack the boxes together and you're done!

Yes, its that simple!

Next you'll need to order your worms. I bought tiger worms (from eBay!) as they're quick to turn waste into wonderful castings!

When they arrived, I gave them a bed of compost and layered a couple of handfuls of food waste on top and then covered with an old piece of cotton before putting the lid on.

Done.

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