Customer Reviews
It Really Works! - By: C. Phillips, 02 Feb 2008 
It does! That is, compostingin a wormery especially if you read this book. I did when I first started my wormery & everything has gone very smoothly & even through this cold winter my wormery is outside & the worms are still alive. The book explains all about why to compostin a wormery, what sort of worms you should have, what you should expect the bin to look like inside if all is going well & what to look out for if it is not, what to do & when, what sort of worm bin to get & what to do with the worm compost.
An excellent book for those who want to know how worms compost & particularly for those who want to set up their own worm bin.
Goodbye Slimy Messes - By: P. Andrews, 24 May 2007 Worm Composting is a great thing to do but i had always ended up with a horrid slimy mess until i bought Mr Pilkingtons book. Easy instructions on how to get lovely usable worm compost, how to build a worm bin & other useful information - great stuff. I have read them all & this is by far the best.
Worms Are Our Friends - By: David Peddie, 30 Apr 2007 Ah - at last a book written for the UK Worm Virgin. George Pilkington asks the question, "Why Waste Your Waste?". It is a very good question. With UK local Councils sliding irrecoverably down the slippery slope which leads to us all being charged extra, by weight, for our 'non-recyclable' waste, using some method to deal with our veggie-waste (and quite a bit besides) starts to make, not only good financial sense, but is also good 'green' sense.
George sets out to introduce you to the way-of-the-worm by, firstly, introducing us to the worm-composting principles & the biology of composting, then he gets us to shake hands with our new friends, the worms (lots of worms!) & gently, step-by-step, he takes us through the whole process of buying, setting up, using & maintaining a wormery.
Trust me, it is fascinating stuff. Did you know that apart from the obvious veggy-waste, your worms love cardboard, biscuits, cereals, cakes, chocolate, eggshells, nail-clippings, newspapers, and, well....the list is almost endless. Busy little creatures these worms!
There is a whole section on commercially available wormeries, including George's own design, the 'Waste Buster' which, as far as wormeries go, is the Hilton Hotel of wormeries, only cheaper! After a chapter on using worm compost, there is a very useful Frequently Asked Question section & the book winds up with a chapter exploring the wider role of wormsin the whole global community. Sounds heavy, but it isn't.
'Composing with Worms' is a very readable, profoundly knowledgeable & thoroughly enjoyable book written by an expert, described on his web-site as, 'The Original Worm-Man' . All he needs is some sort of super-hero costume perhaps!
If you,in any way, want to do something really practicalin the way of recycling, rather than pontificating about carbon footprints & Polar Bears, then buy this book & get composting!
Excellent and must read for all environmentalists - By: G. J. Pilkington, 31 Mar 2007 This book has been a long time coming & is unusualin that nobody else has written about this topicin the UK. I recommend it to anyone who has concerns about the environment. This shows you, step by stepin a very easy & digestible way! how to compost your food waste, cardboard waste etc & save it causing landfill problems, such as saving space, leachate, which we pay our water boards to clean out of our water & the greenhouse gas, methane.
Worms really do eat my garbage - By: , 14 Mar 2006 Excellent resource for getting started at vermicomposting, very similar to Mary's "worms eat my garbage" but from a uk perspective.
Informs you of everything you need to start/maintain & even build a worm system, as well as telling you more about the little wigglers themselves
