My Ikea 'hack-stack wormery'

For my birthday, I was given (as I am every year) a crisp £10 note from my Grandmother (known hereafter as 'Nan').

I didn't really know what do do with it- I am losing weight so don't want/need clothes, I lready had my incubator and most of the stuff for the brooder... then, on my birthday trip to IkeaI had a brainwave- I could buy stuff to make my own wormery.

I have always wanted a stacking tray wormery, but have always thought that they were big and/or expensive. Then, on a day out to Ryton Gardens (the home of Garden Organic) I saw one made from Ikea Samla boxes. So, I did what anyone living in 2012 would ahve done, and I took lots of pictures on my cheap iphone substitute. Fastforward a month or 2, and I was in Ikea, and I bought what I needed.

I decided to go for a very small wormery to live in my kitchen next to the sink. To make my wormery I used:

6 5L Samla boxes in Black
1 Samla box lid
1 water butt tap
Black electrical insulation tape
1 block of Coir

I also utilised an old screwdriver and a fondue fork for melting holes into the boxes, and a snap off stanley-a-like knife for deburring.

After building the wormery, I went online and bought 250g of composting worms from Bakefield Worms, which I added along with part of the coir block and a handful of bokashi bran. A couple of weeks later and the worms are thriving and I am getting a very tiny amount of very good looking, sweet smelling compost.
It actually looks quite smart too- and it is working, which is the main thing.

Husband is quite puzzled that this is how I would choose to spend my birthday money, but hey, it was my money and I enjoyed the project.

I am not sure of the total cost- I don't get change from my £10 note, but it wasn't much more than that before I bought the worms.