RE: It's not easy being green......

[Guest guest]

Sue said.............Yuck! Does this mean it wouldn't be a good idea for me

to rush out and get a

wormery?

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Weeeell. It might be a good idea to site it further away from your house,

although that might mean more of a walk in the winter months! They're not

house flies btw, they're those little fruit fly things, which are not quite

so loathsome. And a proper wormery I dare say is more effective, we have an

ordinary plastic compost bin [with worms].

Lesley

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your help and encouragement Barbara! Yes, they are fruit flies.

No, haven't been turning the compost....obviously, I should have! But how

do you turn it in a bin four feet tall? And yes, some of it is slimy,

though no grass in it....this weeks papers will be recycled at home, not

Sainsbury's.

Lesley

[You can find out *everything* from NCT!]

Fruit flies are a part of the composting process, so long as they stay near

the bin & its contents.If it was real flies, you may have a problem. Did you

turn the compost regularly? or did it go slimy? Grass cuttings are

notoriously bad. Our council has a number you can ring for advice (they gave

my my compost bin free!)

Wormery - should be ok as the worms effectively 'turn' the contents of the

bin. They live in the top layer of it. You just have to keep it un-slimy by

adding lots of shredded newspaper. I had less flies with the wormery than

with the composter.

HTH

Barbara