Love the pace of your channel, too many out there (US,) channels mainly where everything is high octane style. Keep up the great work and don't change anything.
For two years now my carrots have grown well, by planting spring onions and garlic in the same bed. I’ve thought about a Wormery for years but never got round to it. You’ve now convinced me to do one. Barry and Mrs W thanks for your help on my radish which were looking sad. You said leave them, I did and now I’ve got huge radishes. French breakfast and a white one which I ain’t got a clue. Best year ever. Diolch Herms 👍
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and for trusting our advice. We're thrilled to hear about your best radish year! Good to hear the onions and garlic are confusing that carrot fly. Do let us know how you get on with the womery!
Very impressive worm bin you've setup. You'll have to do follow up videos to see how it's working. Here in my climate I usually do three sowings of carrots. First in the first week of April which are growing nicely right now, second at the end of May, and third and final for my winter carrots at the end of July or start of August. I've had great success staying in carrots almost all year around with that schedule so hopefully it will work again this year. And the carrots I grow usually have maturity time of 60-80 days. I'm happy to say my parsnips are finally germinating so it appears I'm going to have better luck than last year when I tried sowing in rough soil and a lot of unfinished compost. This year I've been making some soil to sow in with part peat, part topsoil, and part finished compost and I've noticed my germination rates have been very good.
Thank you for your kind words Frank! I'll definitely keep you updated on the worm bin's progress. Your carrot sowing times are in line with ours give or take a week or so. I'm sure your sowing times will bring you success once again. It's just amazing how us gardeners when faced with a problem find a way and you have with the parsnips - keep us updated Frank!
I’ve left my plot and poly in the capable hands of a friend while I take a break with my Mrs W. Watched your video in Turkey and I’m planning to get a wormery started when I get back. Thanks for the guide Mrs W - I see Amazon has sold out of worms! I’ve got compost from my ‘beast’ to use. Brian Sorry for your loss v Leeds it is painful sometimes being a footie fan. As soon as I get back I shall be sowing pumpkins and squashes. Best wishes to you both Pete
Thank you for your kind words and for watching the video all the way from Turkey! Wishing you success with your wormery and planting when you return. Have a great brake!
Home from my holiday and I’ve bought the same boxes but only 50g worms available so I got them. I drilled for ventilation and used a damp j cloth instead of the hessian sacking and some corrugated cardboard instead of the egg box. ( all onion and citrus is going in my beast) I fed them with carrot tops and other kitchen waste. it’s in my garage which is under the town house I live in and when I opened it yesterday a few wrigglers had moved from the compost onto the cardboard so they seem to be happy enough Thanks Mrs W for the project
Gardening in Norwich, nice to see a local channel. Tried the 'plank' method of laying wood over the sown carrots for about 10 days. Seems to work (protects and keeps them moist).
The wormery was really interesting, thank you Mrs W. Barry watch out for carrot root fly still as although they reputedly only fligh 18 inches, the wind can catch them and take them higher. I hope they safe. Despite covering with mesh, I still have a few onions that have been attacked by allium leaf miner. The lady on the plot next to me, had hers uncovered and all her onion crop hve been attacked, so I guess the mesh helped mine out. There are so many pests to contend with on the plot, that it seems that everything has to be kept covered or protected in some way. I sowed Norfolk carrots , but the germination was rally poor. I had great germination of the sweet candle though- both new seed packets. They weer sown in the same bed- really odd! Happy gardening 🙂
It's amazing how many challenges gardening can throw at us, but it's all part of the fun, Be! Glad to to hear that covering the onions has helped, perhaps you should nudge the lady next door to join our channel for some tips 🤣🤣 Perhaps the Norfolk seed was old there is no telling, our Norwich have all come through so very happy with that!
@@nodignorfolkgardener4575 great that your carrots are doing well, Barry. I am sowing a 3rd lot of the Norfolk today. All my carrots were new seed this year so I am not a happy bunny. Hopefully 3rd time lucky. If still no germination I will phone the seed company to report the seed.
Keep trying, persistence pays off! But if they don't germinate this time do contact the company if only so they don't sell the same batch to someone else!
My Flyaway carrots seeds sowed in April didn't germinate (or got eaten?) so last week I sowed two more rows of a different type. Hoping they're successful as home grown carrots taste so nice 🙂
OMG Mr & Mrs W you've cracked it! I've looked at this idea but looked so complicated to make with taps and things and a bit expensive looking at buying one. But you have made it simple, affordable and understandable, absolutely nothing complicated at all. Lets face it we all love to try these things but as Mrs W said we might forget it and sadly not be suitable for us so don't want to waste money we don't have. But not imagine if it does work how fantastic and what a money saver.Thank you so much as questions ....... How long do the worms live and do we need to replace them or do they naturally reproduce( which I assume so but might not always be the case)? When they move up a layer do you move the hessian up and at what point? What do you do with the compost from the bottom layer when they leave it (as writing this I guess I use it lol🤦)
Your support means the world to us! We're grateful for your enthusiasm and interest in our worm composting setup. I'll address your questions to ensure you have all the information you need in the next video, but in short yes they reproduce and yes once harvested can be used and yes the hessian moves with them!
Another great entertaining video. You two look great together on screen. I'm still not sure what having a wormery is for. So I look forward to seeing what happens over the coming months. Carrots hmm. no germination whatsoever here in South Wales from three attempts. I'm going to source some Norwich, maybe that's the secret.
Thanks Ken, you are too kind! We hope to use it as part of our potting compost for the seeds next year. Norwich carrot I think will bring you success I'm sure - fingers crossed my Norwich can get one over Leeds tonight!
hi there Mr W ,I made a wormery using the same setup as yours just after I saw Mrs W making yours ,I have now had my first harvest of worm compost I must say its very good stuff, I was just wondering how yours is going? keep up the good gardening
Thank you for sharing your progress! It’s always exciting to hear about others using the setup. I'm so glad to hear your first harvest turned out well! Ours too is going very well and hope to squeeze an update in soon!
You really don’t want any liquid in the bottom as that means the worms are too wet. That’s letchade (can’t spell) and it’s anaerobic which is bad. I’ve been doing it over a year and a half and love it. But suggest watching and learning from a few guys on CZcams, happy to share if you like ? But don’t wanna step on your toes. But as new bees it can go wrong with over feeding. So do not over feed less is getter then more.
@@nodignorfolkgardener4575 and any new worm farmers need to know that you need to start small and then when you check if there’s food left don’t feed till it’s gone. As you said the amount they eat, that’s not fresh food you put in, that’s the total intake in a day- including bedding, ie compost, cardboard, coir, precomposted materials…. And food that has Brocken down enough too feed, as the don’t have teeth but a gizzard, they need grit ie, crushed egg she’s is the easiest for us in the uk, but needs to be fine. Basically the smaller the particles the quicker it will go, people find blending food helps but you need to add more carbon to off set the liquid. None of my worm farm trays have holes as I manage the moisture. But I do have a tower I brought and that now has no liquid either, it’s harder as the lid makes it higher humidity and so condensation starts and you get the cycle. If you want more ifno please ask as happy to help so you don’t make mistakes
Have a look on YT for talks with Troy Hinke, he's the vermicompost tea guy from Rodale, he composts everything before using it to feed the worms, 2/3 browns to 1/3 greens (for fungal dominant vermicompost to use in his commercial compost tea business) he feeds it to the worms in his basement after the thermophillic stage has cooled down, it takes all the guesswork out of managing the worm bins and you can compost anything without upsetting the worms, citrus peel/onions etc. I never had any luck with a commercial 'can-o-worms' system, it was either too hot or too cold wherever I put it, I think the system is just too small tbh, I use a darlek compost bin now which works much better, although there's no juice to collect. I don't use the vermicomost in my seed mix tho, I've tried it but it's just too rich, what did work was using cocoa coir as the seed medium with only 1/4" vermicompost on top. I tried different compost mixes this yr as I had some Johnson-Su compost finished, my best mix was 1/4 JS compost, 1/4 regular home made thermophillic, 1/2 cocoa coir, although all my mixes worked in that they grew fine seedlings, the mixes without coir (even some with sand mixed in) crusted over very easily to the point the crust kind shrunk while the bottom of the modules were still pretty wet. I woulda used leaf mold instead of coir if I had any, that's been marvelous in the past, but wet autumn/winter made leaf collection impossible last 2 yrs. Good luck with the wrigglers!
I appreciate the recommendation to check out Troy Hinke's talks on vermicompost tea. It's amazing how much you can learn from others in the gardening community!
thanks iv saved the video so i can come back to it all later
That's great to hear! I'm glad you found the video helpful!
Love the pace of your channel, too many out there (US,) channels mainly where everything is high octane style. Keep up the great work and don't change anything.
Thank you for the kind words! We appreciate your support!
For two years now my carrots have grown well, by planting spring onions and garlic in the same bed. I’ve thought about a Wormery for years but never got round to it. You’ve now convinced me to do one. Barry and Mrs W thanks for your help on my radish which were looking sad. You said leave them, I did and now I’ve got huge radishes. French breakfast and a white one which I ain’t got a clue. Best year ever. Diolch Herms 👍
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and for trusting our advice. We're thrilled to hear about your best radish year! Good to hear the onions and garlic are confusing that carrot fly. Do let us know how you get on with the womery!
Very impressive worm bin you've setup. You'll have to do follow up videos to see how it's working.
Here in my climate I usually do three sowings of carrots. First in the first week of April which are growing nicely right now, second at the end of May, and third and final for my winter carrots at the end of July or start of August. I've had great success staying in carrots almost all year around with that schedule so hopefully it will work again this year. And the carrots I grow usually have maturity time of 60-80 days.
I'm happy to say my parsnips are finally germinating so it appears I'm going to have better luck than last year when I tried sowing in rough soil and a lot of unfinished compost. This year I've been making some soil to sow in with part peat, part topsoil, and part finished compost and I've noticed my germination rates have been very good.
Thank you for your kind words Frank! I'll definitely keep you updated on the worm bin's progress. Your carrot sowing times are in line with ours give or take a week or so. I'm sure your sowing times will bring you success once again. It's just amazing how us gardeners when faced with a problem find a way and you have with the parsnips - keep us updated Frank!
I’ve left my plot and poly in the capable hands of a friend while I take a break with my Mrs W. Watched your video in Turkey and I’m planning to get a wormery started when I get back. Thanks for the guide Mrs W - I see Amazon has sold out of worms! I’ve got compost from my ‘beast’ to use. Brian Sorry for your loss v Leeds it is painful sometimes being a footie fan. As soon as I get back I shall be sowing pumpkins and squashes. Best wishes to you both Pete
Thank you for your kind words and for watching the video all the way from Turkey! Wishing you success with your wormery and planting when you return. Have a great brake!
Great video
Thank you so much for watching!
Home from my holiday and I’ve bought the same boxes but only 50g worms available so I got them. I drilled for ventilation and used a damp j cloth instead of the hessian sacking and some corrugated cardboard instead of the egg box. ( all onion and citrus is going in my beast) I fed them with carrot tops and other kitchen waste. it’s in my garage which is under the town house I live in and when I opened it yesterday a few wrigglers had moved from the compost onto the cardboard so they seem to be happy enough Thanks Mrs W for the project
That's great to hear! Sounds like your worm composting setup is coming along nicely. I hope you had a great holiday!
Gardening in Norwich, nice to see a local channel. Tried the 'plank' method of laying wood over the sown carrots for about 10 days. Seems to work (protects and keeps them moist).
I appreciate your support and sharing your success with the plank method, it's great to hear from a fellow local gardener!
Check every day.
Nice video and a handy way to make a wormery
I appreciate your kind words and support! It means a lot to hear that you found the video useful!
The wormery was really interesting, thank you Mrs W. Barry watch out for carrot root fly still as although they reputedly only fligh 18 inches, the wind can catch them and take them higher. I hope they safe. Despite covering with mesh, I still have a few onions that have been attacked by allium leaf miner. The lady on the plot next to me, had hers uncovered and all her onion crop hve been attacked, so I guess the mesh helped mine out. There are so many pests to contend with on the plot, that it seems that everything has to be kept covered or protected in some way. I sowed Norfolk carrots , but the germination was rally poor. I had great germination of the sweet candle though- both new seed packets. They weer sown in the same bed- really odd! Happy gardening 🙂
It's amazing how many challenges gardening can throw at us, but it's all part of the fun, Be! Glad to to hear that covering the onions has helped, perhaps you should nudge the lady next door to join our channel for some tips 🤣🤣 Perhaps the Norfolk seed was old there is no telling, our Norwich have all come through so very happy with that!
@@nodignorfolkgardener4575 great that your carrots are doing well, Barry. I am sowing a 3rd lot of the Norfolk today. All my carrots were new seed this year so I am not a happy bunny. Hopefully 3rd time lucky. If still no germination I will phone the seed company to report the seed.
Keep trying, persistence pays off! But if they don't germinate this time do contact the company if only so they don't sell the same batch to someone else!
@@nodignorfolkgardener4575 yes of course
Brilliant, just made one. I used worms from my own heap so lets see . XX
That's amazing! Do let us know how it turns out!
My Flyaway carrots seeds sowed in April didn't germinate (or got eaten?) so last week I sowed two more rows of a different type. Hoping they're successful as home grown carrots taste so nice 🙂
That's frustrating about the first batch, but fingers crossed for the new rows, and you are right there is no better taste than home grown carrots!
OMG Mr & Mrs W you've cracked it! I've looked at this idea but looked so complicated to make with taps and things and a bit expensive looking at buying one. But you have made it simple, affordable and understandable, absolutely nothing complicated at all. Lets face it we all love to try these things but as Mrs W said we might forget it and sadly not be suitable for us so don't want to waste money we don't have. But not imagine if it does work how fantastic and what a money saver.Thank you so much as
questions ....... How long do the worms live and do we need to replace them or do they naturally reproduce( which I assume so but might not always be the case)?
When they move up a layer do you move the hessian up and at what point?
What do you do with the compost from the bottom layer when they leave it (as writing this I guess I use it lol🤦)
Your support means the world to us! We're grateful for your enthusiasm and interest in our worm composting setup. I'll address your questions to ensure you have all the information you need in the next video, but in short yes they reproduce and yes once harvested can be used and yes the hessian moves with them!
@@nodignorfolkgardener4575 thank you both x
You are very welcome!
Another great entertaining video. You two look great together on screen.
I'm still not sure what having a wormery is for. So I look forward to seeing what happens over the coming months. Carrots hmm. no germination whatsoever here in South Wales from three attempts. I'm going to source some Norwich, maybe that's the secret.
Thanks Ken, you are too kind! We hope to use it as part of our potting compost for the seeds next year. Norwich carrot I think will bring you success I'm sure - fingers crossed my Norwich can get one over Leeds tonight!
hi there Mr W ,I made a wormery using the same setup as yours just after I saw Mrs W making yours ,I have now had my first harvest of worm compost I must say its very good stuff, I was just wondering how yours is going? keep up the good gardening
Thank you for sharing your progress! It’s always exciting to hear about others using the setup. I'm so glad to hear your first harvest turned out well! Ours too is going very well and hope to squeeze an update in soon!
You really don’t want any liquid in the bottom as that means the worms are too wet. That’s letchade (can’t spell) and it’s anaerobic which is bad.
I’ve been doing it over a year and a half and love it. But suggest watching and learning from a few guys on CZcams, happy to share if you like ? But don’t wanna step on your toes. But as new bees it can go wrong with over feeding. So do not over feed less is getter then more.
Thanks for the advice! I'll definitely keep an eye on the moisture level in my worm bin and the feeding!
I've always been tempted to do a worms compost but nothing been brave enough to do it. Lol might see how well it goes for u lol.
Thanks for the support! I'll keep you updated on my worm composting journey!
@@nodignorfolkgardener4575 thanks, look forward to more updates
I appreciate your support, more updates coming soon!
You can give onions and citrus once you have a good ecosystem…
Thanks for the tip! Building a good ecosystem is crucial for a successful garden too!
@@nodignorfolkgardener4575 and any new worm farmers need to know that you need to start small and then when you check if there’s food left don’t feed till it’s gone. As you said the amount they eat, that’s not fresh food you put in, that’s the total intake in a day- including bedding, ie compost, cardboard, coir, precomposted materials…. And food that has Brocken down enough too feed, as the don’t have teeth but a gizzard, they need grit ie, crushed egg she’s is the easiest for us in the uk, but needs to be fine. Basically the smaller the particles the quicker it will go, people find blending food helps but you need to add more carbon to off set the liquid.
None of my worm farm trays have holes as I manage the moisture. But I do have a tower I brought and that now has no liquid either, it’s harder as the lid makes it higher humidity and so condensation starts and you get the cycle. If you want more ifno please ask as happy to help so you don’t make mistakes
Hi Barry
Red Cherry tomatoes are they Determinate or Indeterminate.
Hi Martyn, ours are determinate cordon style, however depending on which variety you purchased they could be indeterminate bush style!
Thought Determinate were bush tomatoes.
Hi Martyn, you are right they are, forgot to put the in before it!
Have a look on YT for talks with Troy Hinke, he's the vermicompost tea guy from Rodale, he composts everything before using it to feed the worms, 2/3 browns to 1/3 greens (for fungal dominant vermicompost to use in his commercial compost tea business) he feeds it to the worms in his basement after the thermophillic stage has cooled down, it takes all the guesswork out of managing the worm bins and you can compost anything without upsetting the worms, citrus peel/onions etc. I never had any luck with a commercial 'can-o-worms' system, it was either too hot or too cold wherever I put it, I think the system is just too small tbh, I use a darlek compost bin now which works much better, although there's no juice to collect. I don't use the vermicomost in my seed mix tho, I've tried it but it's just too rich, what did work was using cocoa coir as the seed medium with only 1/4" vermicompost on top. I tried different compost mixes this yr as I had some Johnson-Su compost finished, my best mix was 1/4 JS compost, 1/4 regular home made thermophillic, 1/2 cocoa coir, although all my mixes worked in that they grew fine seedlings, the mixes without coir (even some with sand mixed in) crusted over very easily to the point the crust kind shrunk while the bottom of the modules were still pretty wet. I woulda used leaf mold instead of coir if I had any, that's been marvelous in the past, but wet autumn/winter made leaf collection impossible last 2 yrs. Good luck with the wrigglers!
I appreciate the recommendation to check out Troy Hinke's talks on vermicompost tea. It's amazing how much you can learn from others in the gardening community!