How to make a small DIY worm farm for castings
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Watch how to make a small DIY worm farm for castings. This is the first worm farm bin I've made and I wanted it to be small.
Worm farm for castings update #1: • Video
I don't know what kind of worms these are, I just dug them up, and this worm farm will be kept outside.
00:00 Intro
00:34 Worm farm materials and food scraps
01:00 Why I'm making a small DIY worm farm for castings
01:31 Preparing the worm farm bedding and soil mix
03:04 Adding the soil and bedding layers
05:54 Adding the worms and food scraps
08:04 The lid substitute idea I thought I'd use
09:11 The lid idea I'm actually using
11:44 3-day update
14:14 Why is this worm here?
15:22 Where did the food scraps go?
#wormbin #vermicomposting #gardening
I used old food to find out what worms eat. See what they like:
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I appreciate your honesty that you didn't really want to touch the worms 😁!
I said a lot more, but I had to cut it out lol thank you for watching!
I just love your videos. I spent way too much money on things other people that do the same things , then I have returned all. Now, I found your channel and it’s refreshing to watch. Easy peesy! Great ideas. I’m going worm 🪱 hunting tomorrow!
Thank you so much! Hope you find a lot of worms!
To be honest, I personally haven't done a worm bed. My husband did one in an old crate a few years ago. It was doing great until the ants found them.
He used yard soil, some random saw dust, leaf litter & grass clippings. He lifted the bottom up to get air flow. He fed them to start out. It lasted a pretty long time. He had his for fishing. The ants are horrible here though.
Edit: He said that you can put small pieces of bone from food scraps. They love it & it last awhile feeding them.
Thank you. Was he able to get the ant problem under control or did he just stop after that? I have ants in all of my pots, I can't escape them. I just don't want them to get out of control in the worm bin.
How often did he have to feed the worms? Thanks for the bone tip!
@@vesgardens No. He didn't continue it. The ants got bad.
He did scraps at 1st and then leaf mulch. Two x's a week. His crate was really big. The worms got pretty big before the ants. When he 1st put it out he put the granules to kill the ants all around the crate. It worked good for awhile. We got a lot of rain and they took over.
Thank you so much!
Added: I think I'll start using leaves after using this last bag of lettuce scraps I have. I just found 2 small ant piles in the yard, hopefully I can get rid of them soon!
@@vesgardens If you want to try a natural way to get rid of the ants, pour boiling water over the pile. It may take a few tries. You can also try Epsom salt.
@@debofChrist I was actually planning on doing that soon. I put bait down yesterday and I saw a few new piles today 🤦🏾♀️
You don’t need to bury the worms. Also you don’t need to fill the worm bin with soil. The point of the worm bin is to allow the worms to eat tue contents and fill the bin with worm castings. Screen, newspaper clippings, thin layer of soil and start adding kitchen and garden scraps. Dump the worms directly on top. They will bury themselves as they dive to eat the food.
Thanks! I'll try it this way when I redo it.
@@vesgardens Great! If you set it up properly, it is a completely self contained system. You should not have to do anything to it at all except add more contents. Also you may want to get a larger container because that little thing will fill up fast. Try using a plastic tote from Home Depot or the dollar store. I uploaded a video onto my page explaining what I found to be the easiest way for me to set up and maintain one.
Yeah, I wanted to make a small one to see how it'd work. I guess it's going well, I've filled it about 4/5 times since this video. The reason why I filled it with soil is cause it's in an open area outside with no real lid and didn't want any animals getting into it.
Once I get a container with a lid, I'm gonna move it to a different spot and change the contents of it. Thanks again!
So you're saying that in the end we are all nothing more than food for worms? That makes sense.
We all have purpose.