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Commenced:	01/10/2006
Submitted:	20/08/2012
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	10 Highland Grove, Kensington Grove, Queensland, AU
Phone:	0428 534451
Website:	http://www.smallacreagehorsekeeping.com
Climate zone:	Sub-tropical

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Worms glorious worms

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Posted by Petra Doerfling over 11 years ago

What to do with oodles of horse poo... use it to feed worms. The worm farm project has begun :)

After a rather productive evening on the PRI forum, I made the decision to build a worm farm in a bathtub.

I was rather fortunate to be able to pick up a nice tub from a client of mine who is doing a bathroom renovation and I had planned to use it as a water trough for visiting horses, but alas... the plan has changed.

I was given some valuable information yesterday about how to build the bathtub wormfarm, how many worms I will need to digest all that horse poo I have, and discovered that I pretty much had all I needed to get started... except for worms and bricks to stand the tub on.

I ordered my worms today and am looking forward to getting them next week. I have to have that time to make sure I am home when the mail lady arrives with the wrigglers, otherwise they will stew in the letterbox... can't have that.

The bricks I needed are sitting at the neighbours house, but she wasn't there, so I couldn't ask if I could 'borrow' a barrow full, but that's okay, because I have old tyres lying around and they were put to good use.

I went through my stash of 'junk' and found the old shelves from the old gas oven, some bird mesh off-cuts, and the shade cloth blind the old owner made but we deemed too ugly to have on the verandah. I also remembered were the adapter for a hose was that we used to have under the laundry sink to let the washing machine pump out onto our suburban lawn when we lived in suburbia.

So here is what I created:

The adapter for the hose attachement, so I can drain the worm wee off

The tub resting on the tyres, with some adjustment to make sure it drains properly.

The old oven racks with the bird mesh over it. That silly mesh kept springing up, so I fixed that a bit later with rocks.

Shade cloth and the said rocks to entice the bird mesh to lay flat.

The hessian bags, ready to cover the worm farm once the poop and worms have been introduced.

And this is what it looks like against the shed wall :)

And here it is in relation to the future vegie garden, the water tap and one of the water tanks.

And has that's some of the oodles of horse poop I have... just some of it... about 8 barrow loads.

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Ute Bohnsack : Great job! Love the re-purposed "junk". Worm compost is fantastic for sowings in mulch beds. I also use it for container plants - flowers bloom like there's no tomorrow. Worm "juice" is a great for heavy feeders.

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