When you are starting from scratch, you need to make sure your container will provide a suitable living environment for your worms. Many large containers such as dustbins and barrels can be adapted to become wormeries.
No matter what container you use, you must start off with a good layer of bedding. This could be leaf-mould, finished compost, well-rotted sawdust, newspaper/cardboard, any or all of these. Make sure your mix is thoroughly wetted as the worms will die if allowed to dry out.
Once you have the accomodation sorted, you need the worms! The worms in your garden are not suitable for the wormery - you need compost worms, lots of them. To really get going you need to buy at least 500 but preferably 1,000 worms, ideally Tiger worms or Dendras which live naturally in compost and manure heaps.
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