Create A Constant Supply of Worm Castings!! | Vermicompost Worm Farm
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Never run out of worm castings by running your worm bin like this!! You can do this method in any worm bin to create natural organic fertilizer & soil amendments in the form of worm castings for your garden!! I'll also show you how to make grit from a new source I'm trying & we do a red wriggler worm time lapse at the end with the compost worms we picked up from harvesting.
This video is chocked full of advice on how to manage your bin as we look through what remains of our last feeding & set up the bin to increase the volume and output for these amazing composting creatures!!
Epigeic worms or composting worms are fascinating natural composters & fertilizers that are in most homesteaders bag of tricks to make free organic fertilizer & soil amendments as well as fishing bait. If you've ever thought about vermicomposting or composting with worms to make organic fertilizer & natural soil amendments with your plant based kitchen scraps or food waste, this is the channel for you. I have 3 worm composing bins which you can watch from start to finished worm castings on the 3 playlists following each worm bin. If you haven't started yet, get started now and vermicompost with me!🪱🪱🪱 Visit my Channel at / vermicompostlearnbydoing
Happy Vermicomposting Everyone!!!🪱🪱🪱
Below are some of the items I use for vermicomposting & my channel's videos. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you if you use these links. Thank you for supporting this channel!
Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin amzn.to/3Xs1eGe
Urban Worm Bag V2 amzn.to/3XE9QsT
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots amzn.to/3EBYhdr
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote amzn.to/3eKDLhO
Other Worm Bins:
Worm Factory 360 3-Tray Version amzn.to/3AHnjqK
Worm Factory 360 5-Tray Version amzn.to/3tYfWY4
Bus bins amzn.to/3fd8AvP
Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) amzn.to/3xYZKYu
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) amzn.to/3gwEzb4
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin amzn.to/3wIdXbO
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz amzn.to/3WTFgua Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: amzn.to/3HnOQjg
Blue gloves amzn.to/3XsBg5n
Digital handheld Thermometer amzn.to/3EWfC2j
Compost Tea Bags amzn.to/3fCb5o1
Solar powered light amzn.to/3nOucAq
Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups amzn.to/3FNXvt6
Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: amzn.to/3S2k184
Cameras & camera equipment I use:
GoPro HERO11 amzn.to/3jkRpLa
Flexible Tripod amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera amzn.to/3nqV6hp
iPhone 13 Max Pro amzn.to/3nq52aU
Canon EOS Rebel T8i amzn.to/3HcBuX6
4 Ocean bracelets I wear
Multiple colors to chose from bracelets amzn.to/3HMbHEx
Books on worms & worm farming
Worms Eat My Garbage amzn.to/3L4FXN2
Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com
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00:00 | Intro & what to look for
00:17 | Harvest castings once a week!!
00:50 | Sifting with a VermiHut tray
01:34 | Harvest on the edges
02:03 | Beautiful worm castings!!
02:46 | What the bin looks like after harvest
03:14 | Check in & re-feed of worm bin
04:20 | Close ups
05:09 | Adding lots of bedding
06:07 | Feeding time!
07:53 | Did I make a huge mistake?
08:56 | New kind of grit!!
10:25 | Worm time lapse
Below are some of the items I use for vermicomposting & my channel's videos. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you if you use these links. Thank you for supporting this channel!
Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin amzn.to/3Xs1eGe
Urban Worm Bag V2 amzn.to/3XE9QsT
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots amzn.to/3EBYhdr
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote amzn.to/3eKDLhO
Other Worm Bins:
Worm Factory 360 3-Tray Version amzn.to/3AHnjqK
Worm Factory 360 5-Tray Version amzn.to/3tYfWY4
Bus bins amzn.to/3fd8AvP
Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) amzn.to/3xYZKYu
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) amzn.to/3gwEzb4
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin amzn.to/3wIdXbO
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz amzn.to/3WTFgua Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: amzn.to/3HnOQjg
Blue gloves amzn.to/3XsBg5n
Digital handheld Thermometer amzn.to/3EWfC2j
Compost Tea Bags amzn.to/3fCb5o1
Solar powered light amzn.to/3nOucAq
Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups amzn.to/3FNXvt6
Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: amzn.to/3S2k184
Cameras & camera equipment I use:
GoPro HERO11 amzn.to/3jkRpLa
Flexible Tripod amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera amzn.to/3nqV6hp
iPhone 13 Max Pro amzn.to/3nq52aU
Canon EOS Rebel T8i amzn.to/3HcBuX6
4 Ocean bracelets I wear
Multiple colors to chose from bracelets amzn.to/3HMbHEx
Books on worms & worm farming
Worms Eat My Garbage amzn.to/3L4FXN2
Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com
@@ken7264 That sifter is actually one of the trays of my VermiHut Worm Tower!! I was running that system for 6 months before I realized I could use one for the trays as a sifter! Here is a link to the VermiHut playlist if you haven't seen that worm bin in action: czcams.com/play/PLimznaPXKV0_jVcRI9rI5xnbAFqNP3WZ_.html There is an Amazon link to the VermiHut in this pinned comment and the description of all my videos. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Patrick........my favvvvvv bin. I need not tell u this. Ha ha.. that's a lot of feed. This time I had a lot of aloe Vera which had outgrown the vase. I made sure I dumped them in my outdoor bin and the next day I also gave them a feeding of green peas shells. I just luv to b in my bin. It's like dump in n don't bother to chk on them cos u know they will do their job. But inquisitive that I am can't resist my hands. Ha ha. All d best wormies....gd job.
😀 I always think of how much you like this bin when I'm getting ready to feed my outdoor bin!! I totally agree!! I can't help myself but to check on my bins and get my hands digging around in them!! That sounds like a great feeding for your bin!! Thanks so much for watching Sandy!!!🪱🪱🪱
Thanks, My Dear, for the shout out! I'm so glad your worms are getting the benefit of your "Dad Meal" 🪱🪱🪱
That's a great idea about harvesting the outside lip of the bag. You are tempting me to give bags a try. 👍💓👍
Thanks for showing us how it's done Peggy!! You should try a worm bag!! You could even go smaller if you need to!! Thanks so much for dropping by!!🪱🪱🪱
Nice one Peggy :))) 🦞🦀🦐🍤
@Clive's Conundrum Garden thanks you awesome folks. 👌
Thank you for sharing this great footage and wish you have a wonderful day!😃😃❤❤🍁🍁💯💯✅✅
Thank you my friend!! Keep warm!! I love going on your hikes with you on your videos!!🪱🪱🪱
That's cool, I need to do this. I was thinking about one of those 5 gallon bucket sifters, but I do have an extra vermi-hut tray like that one. Funny you have three arms. lol Steak and lobsta, good stuff. I shreded a bunch of boxes after Christmas and I have probably a year supply of cardboard shreddings. lol Thanks for another great video, have a nice week.
The extra VermiHut tray is an excellent 1/4 inch sifter...It took me 6 months to realize I could use them as a sifter🤣😂🤣 The Executive Producer kept inching back because she didn't want to be in the video (as usual) so it did make for a funny three handed extraction!! You just reminded me I need to shred all my Christmas boxes!! They are starting to look like a permanent fixture in my garage!! Thanks so much for the great comment and of course for watching my video!!🪱🪱🪱
I'm finally catching up on your videos!! You are right!! We do need to eat more of our food. I tend to overbuy and under eat which produces lots of delectable tidbits for my grandworms. New Year resolution - buy less, eat more 😂 Not only are you a wicked smaat Vermicomposter; but, an awesome cook as well🤩!! The steak and lobstah were superb!!! Thank you, my favorite.........second child!! 🥰😍😘
😂 You might be right!! Buy less, eat more (or less, but either way eat what you buy!!) My worms are very happy to eat your food scraps!! Thanks for eventually watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you SO MUCH for demonstrating your outdoor worm bag harvest method, Patrick. I appreciate your dedication to picking out the worms individually so we get to enjoy a time-lapse😊 I guess I never realized the size of this bag before. Having you kneeling beside it really gave me a good perspective. It's not as big as I thought for that many worms! My bet is it will take the worms longer than you think to get through all that dense avocado flesh. Mmmm....lobster 🦞
~ Sandra
😀 I should have put a blooper of both of us trying to get up after being on our knees leaning over the bins for so long🤣😂🤣 I keep the bin about 1/3rd full so it has a lot of potential for growth, but I find it much easier to move around with it's current size. I think you are right about the avocado flesh, plus they have lots of fast lettuce to snack on first!! My dad loved the lobster...his tenacity paid off!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch & comment Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
Ah your killing me with the Tshirt lol it's 20 here. Glad the time lapse is back. I think you have won me over and will be using one of my damaged grow bags as a worm bin. And the EP throws a flag on the field. Oh no flag ignored!!
😂🤣😂 You, your Executive Producer & Big Blue need to all move down here where it's warmer!!! Grow bags are great because if you need to bring them in, where it's warmer, you can just set them inside of another bin or a pot your not using...so versatile!! I may regret ignoring that flag the EP threw!!🤣😂🤣 Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!!🪱🪱🪱
Helloooooo wormie friend!! 🪱🪱🪱 that was so cool to see how you harvest! Oh gosh how cool is Peggy and her hints and tips!?! I loved the crustacean shell idea too! And she does the leaf 🍂 mulch too, those worms are so blessed to have her as a mamma ! And yours are just as blessed! And the reward of course, is black gold…. 😅 hope you guys are having the best weekend, much love 💐🌻🤣🪱🌿🦐🦞
Hellooooo Anita!! Loved your bouquets I saw on instagram for that lucky couple!! Such wonderful colors!! Peggy is an old hand at this vermicomposting but always willing to try new things!! I never would have thought of using crustacean shells for grit without her! I do feel very blessed by my worms and all the black gold and You Tube friends they've brought us!! I hope you have a great week ahead!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch & write your wonderful comments!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost thanks so much Patrick!!! Yep Peggy is a great encouragement and such a go getter!!! 💝
I like the ground shells, nice feeding Patrick! Definitely will draw all the worms in with this feeding. 😁🪱🪱
I'm looking forward to seeing how the ground lobster shells work out!! They shouldn't be hungry after this feeding!! Thanks for dropping by!!🪱🪱🪱
Neat!
Thanks!! This is a fun bin to run!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
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Thank you!! This bin is a workhorse for me!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch & comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Fun 🤩 ❤
Thank you so much my friend!! I learned a lot from your videos!!! Thanks for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost planning to binge watch your videos , vermicomposting has been my pet project and passion through my gardening journey, in fact I started my journey with these worms 🪱🤩. Gl as d to see your passion.
Thank you so much!!! I am a huge fan of yours!! I learned so much about making fertilizers and about all the different bin critters like Black Soldier Fly Larvae from your videos!! I'm honored you have watched my video!!
Great job Peggy. Great job to you to Patrick. 🙂
Peggy's got some great ideas with her years of experience!! Thanks so much for stopping by AJ!!🪱🪱🪱
The outdoor worm bin is a workhorse. I prefer broccoli stalks over the florets.
Great minds think alike!! Or great stomachs😂 There are five kids in my family and I was the only one in the house who liked the stalks!! Thanks for stopping by Joe!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you that was very interesting, nice feeding you gave them i gues it will be gone in 2 weeks
Thank you!! That was a big feeding that will help heat up the bin for the cold weather we have coming!! I think you are right about it taking two weeks!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Good night friend
Have a great night!! Thanks for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
Biggest avocado ever!! Wow!
😀 Can't believe my mom let it go to waste!! But at least the worms will make good use of it as will my garden!! Thanks for tuning in Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
Nice video and I was thinking about a worm bin layer would work as a sifter 🙂
Absolutely!! It took me 6 months to figure out I already had a built in sifter!! Thanks so much for watching and leaving a nice comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Will you be doing a setup video of your new Urban Worms Worm Bag setup? Will they be all red wigglers, or will there be some blues out of the Vermihut?
I will be doing a setup video, but probably fast forwarding a lot of the boring building parts. I am going to do a great big mix of all my worms for it!! I've started baiting out the various bins and I'm hoping to get about 500 from each for a total of a 1500 compost worm mix start!! I'm pretty excited!! Thanks so much for dropping by!!🪱🪱🪱
@05:59 Oh no.... typo! It was fun seeing that extra hand reach in to help when you were picking the wormies out fo the screened material. That was a seriously generous feeding alright :) When I grind up the egg shells I always run it all through a kitchen strainer to make sure it is all tiny particle size... and since eggs have that thin inner membrane that adheres to the shells, I do all the straining of the small particles with a fan blowing so that all that lightweight, dusty membrane material blows away. Kind of an OCD approach to grit prep, I know - hahaha! Presumably, the crustacean shell would not have any of that membrane stuff to contend with - but I would not know. I don't eat anything that lives underwater
Oh, I mnet to do that 😂🤣😂 She kept inching backwards so it looked like I had an extra arm/hand!!! I definitely got carried away on that feeding but we are having a "FL cold snap" so a little heat will help things out! That is some great dedication with your egg shell grit, I probably needed to grind the lobster shells down some more, there were some bigger pieces left. Soooooo...you're a sailor but you don't eat anything that lives underwater...🤔🤣 Thanks for watching @A-V 🪱🪱🪱
In grammar school my classmates knew I hated fish. I would never sit anywhere near someone eating a tuna sandwich. One time a classmate decided that they would taunt me with their stinky tuna sandwich - so in self defense I swatted their arm causing the sandwich to get launched about 8 or 10 feet away, landing on the ground. It resulted in both of us being sent to the principal's office - although I'm not sure why I had to go since I was just acting in self defense :)
@@A-V 😂🤣😂 Tuna fish sandwiches were so much more prevalent in the 70's & 80's...now that we are the parents I think we've done away with them because we hated being that kid with the stinky lunch box, or sitting next to someone with the stinky lunch box!!
That's exactly what I used to call it when I was a little kid - the stinky sandwich. Pew! :)
What a massive feeding! I wonder if the lobster shell will have any effect on the color of the worms, cocoons, or castings...
Now that would be cool if it made them even more red/purple or even a crazy pink color like flamingos!!! I guess I'm gonna have to eat more lobster to find out!!!😂🤣😂🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thanks for making that sacrifice so we can all learn 🤣
@@mascatrails661 😂
Excellent Patrick!! Love to hear what the temps are in the following days after that feeding. Lots of nitrogen and water!!
Have a great week you two !!
Cheers J&C 🪱🌱🪱
Just checked it today and surprisingly it wasn't warm...but I wish it was since we are have a cold snap!! After hearing some commenters mention that their worms are still alive and well in sub freezing temps, I think I'm gonna make my outdoor worms toughen it out!! Yours are doing great in the cold!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch the new ones as well as he oldies!!🪱🪱🪱
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing but did those commentors admit, if they'd want their worms to thrive, not just survive. I there's a key difference there. Eating, mating, cocoon production, hatching intervals, and growth are all affected by changing parameters. Cold, being a big one !!
You methods kick butt, I'd give yourself a ton of credit for that !!
Let's gooooo
@@clivesconundrumgarden Thanks brother!!!!!
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing hey, I came across an interesting study of coffeegroundds and Vermicompost. Thought you might wanna have a look. I know you're probably busy busy but lemme know, I could email it to you.
Cheers
@@clivesconundrumgarden Yes please!!
Nice informative video. Can you please specify the model of your "Amazon cardboard shredder"? It would be very helpful. Thanks.
I have a 4 year old model of the Amazon basics MICRO 12 sheet cross cut shredder (I've been shredding corrugated cardboard in it for over 2 years). If you use the links in the pinned comment or description, select the micro shredder link, then the 12 sheet cross cut model. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
What fabric pot do use and where can they be bought?
Great question! I have some links in my description and the pinned comment of this video for my 20 gallon pots. Here is the individual link: 20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots amzn.to/3EBYhdr
I use these fabric pots in my garden and two (one inside the other) for my Outdoor Worm Bin!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
What is the best way to store castings until they are needed?
That is a great question!! Here are some videos I have done that show you how I store my castings: czcams.com/video/WCevZRPuYug/video.html and czcams.com/video/WMVNEk57ORs/video.html Whatever container you decide to use make sure that it can breath and is not air tight. I prefer ones with holes in the sides and even the lid if possible. Vermicompost is teaming with beneficial aerobic microbes that need oxygen. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost thank you
You mention shredding Amazon boxes. Do you have any tips for removing the Amazon tape with plastic string inside before shredding?
Sometimes I pull the tape off or rip that portion of the cardboard off and discard it and other times I just shred it and let it go in my worm bins. I haven't seen any remnants in my bins but the shreds are pretty small. I'm actually saving up a bunch of the tape for an experiment. I'm going to put a bunch of the tape in one of my worm bins to see if they actually eat it. I wasn't sure what material it was made out of, but if it is plastic I will stop shredding it with my boxes. Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
According to what I've found online, the strings in the tape are made of fiberglass.
@@kpmoloney Well it sounds like I'll be pulling all of it off from now on!!! Thanks for letting me know!!
I was hoping you had a magic solution, but the glue they use makes the tape fuse with the cardboard. It looks like the best way is cut off the taped areas and recycle that, shred the rest.
No magic here!! I just rip it off which takes most of the cardboard right under it off of it...which now I know why that happens since it is fused!!
What do you start with?
If we are talking about how to start a worm bin, I've got a few videos that explain the process: czcams.com/video/lFXortM9iY8/video.html & czcams.com/video/g5Sag75OAXY/video.html
It is super easy and once you start about 3-4 months later you can start harvesting the worm castings/vermicompost. I run two other bins besides this one. One is a VermiHut worm tower which produces about 10 pounds of worm castings every 60 days. I have links in the description and the pinned comment if you want to check out prices or order one. The other one is a Tiny Worm Bin which is about 3 gallons (about the size of a shoe box) and produces about 10 pounds every 5 months but it can fit under a sink.
This bin from the video is just two 20 gallon fabric pots one inside the other. In order to start, you can just soak about 3-4 gallons of shredded cardboard & newspaper that have been soaked in water and wrung out until there are just a few drops of water coming out of them. Then you put in a handful of your native soil or even better some vermicompost or regular compost. Then you add your compost worms. I would start with 1000, but 500 is a good start as well. The videos I linked to show you how much (really how little) food to feed. I hope this answers your question but if not I'd be happy to answer any follow up questions. Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Very nice dear friend❤💕 mujhe b join kijiye new friends stay connected🤝🤝
Thank you! I appreciate you stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost stay connected🤝