Worm composting recommendations (books/suppliers)

[simon]

Happy New Year england.rec.Gardening folk !

I am looking for some recommendations for books on worm composting and a good UK supplier. So feel free to post your tips here.

I searched Google recently for some UK suppliers and came up with a couple of useful hits. Here's a summary (in no particular order) :

• - £38.50 1 kilo Composting Worms with Bedding Block A Value Pack of 1000g composting worms (approx 1800-2000) and a coir bedding block to start a wormery or to give an ailing kit a boost. The worms are a mixture of species (mainly reds and dendras)

• £25.55 1000 compost worms, but they (HDRA) do not provide any detail on the type of worms supplied (unusual for an organisation which claims to be organic specialists)

• £22.99 Eisenia foetida - Rubellis terrestris 1000 worms

• £18.00 0.5kg (approx. 2000 worms) "Special Composting Mix Worms... Eisenia foetida ... Dendrodrilus rubidus ..." etc.

[Janet Baraclough ..]

The message from [e-mail] (simon) contains these words:

You'll get more relevant answers in uk.rec.gardening; this group is predominantly American.

It's not necessary to spend all that dosh to start a wormery btw...make your own from a 2nd hand large plastic barrel and find someone local to give you a scoop of starter worms.

Janet (Scotland)

[Ophelia]

Sorry for being tardy. I hadn't looked in here for a while. I hope your year is happy and blessed:)

Ophelia Scotland

[kiff]

Hi there here are a couple of books that may be of interest to you

Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System

The Worm Book: The Complete Guide to Worms in Your Garden for looking