Wormery v Composter?

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Which is best? Are you less likely to attract rats with a wormery?

I have an ordinary compost bin with a big bag of compost worms in it. I don't have any experience of proper wormerys but I think composting is quite slow without any worms at all.

Thanks. Does anyone have a wormery?

We have both. Wormeries can take cooked food whereas composters take raw food and garden waste.

You can get them heavily disocunted through your local council websites.

You can add cooked food to a normal composter if you use Bokashi bins first. They deter vermin generally as they sort of pickle the contents.
My mum has a wormery (a birthday present from me a few years ago at her request), and she finds that they are quite fussy and need a bit of TLC. But works well to produce plant feed.

I have three compost bins and a wormery, as my neighbours all give me their compostable stuff as well and it's too much waste for the worms to cope with.
Much prefer the wormery. Much faster results and no smell,
although I have largely eliminated smells from the composters by making the neighbours cut up their waste really small and not use those compostable bin liners because they are too slow to disintergrate and the food goes slimy inside. I have never had interest from rats.

Great. Thanks for your advice. I will go for the wormery.

Does anyone know whether I can just buy worms to add to my normal compost bin to make it more effective? Would Tigerworms be right for this, or should we just go on a family earthworm hunt in the garden and stick those in?

I would imagine they would escape into the ground/garden. A wormery is self contained whereas a compost bin has an open bottom to the ground.

We always get thousands of worms in our compost heap. They are the little redish coloured ones not earthworms and it is always teeming with them. Ours just find the compost themselves, we've never added any, but since these worms thrive on compost I don't think they'd bother 'escaping' if you added some.

What I mean is that garden worms are different to wormery worms, which are a special sort. hence they charge a afir bit of money for them, and apparently you cannot use garden worms in a wormery

I think I'll just bung in earthworms as I find them. Can't do any harm I suppose.

Thanks.