Now, it's time to come up with some design ideas for your wormery!

PART A - Identify your 'must-haves'.

You need to think about the functionality of your wormery. How can you make it interesting, yet still fulfill its primary function as a hospitable environment for worms?  What are the 'must have' elements that a wormery needs to ensure the worms survive and thrive?  The Royal Horticultural Society provides this useful and brief guide to the conditions you need.  Remember, you can always revisit the wormery video from Step 1 if you want to refresh your memory about a successful wormery design.

Another important factor for the design is where you'll put your wormery. Do you live in an urban area? If so, perhaps you'll need to design a smaller unit that also perhaps aesthetically appealing to others. Do you live in a rural area and have a garden or even forested land for your wormery? If so, perhaps you'll want to build a larger scale wormery that includes natural materials. 

PART B: Activity

In this step, you'll generate ideas for your own wormery! Take 15 minutes to come up with 6-10 ideas for a unique design. The more ideas you generate the better. Try not to edit yourself at this stage - and don't get too involved in the detail of an individual idea.  The aim is to generate as many ideas as possible.  It can be good to set yourself some 'rules' - e.g. not more than 1 minute per idea, then move straight on to the next one.  The next post below will give you some techniques to generate lots of ideas quickly.