I Made An Easy To Build Inexpensive DIY Worm Bin Vermicomposter For Beginners
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2021
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In this video I show you how to build an easy DIY worm compost bin. I also show you how to get it started, where to obtain worms, and provide some basic info for keeping your vermicompost bin healthy and your worms happy.
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How many worms should you put in this size bucket? Minimum and maximum amount of worms..
They can have parasites and not be healthy
I haven’t seen a video as cool as this in quite some time….
Super informative, super beginner friendly, I learned so much about worms in general, and just… fascinating. Thanks for the explanations and tidbits of knowledge!
I’m trying to decide if I want to use red wrigglers or European night crawlers. Uncle Jim’s website has a great comparison between the two. But I still can’t make up my mind. They are considerably larger. (Doing an indoor vermicompost setup).
You saved me $75-130+ bucks from those fancy-schmansey worm setups being sold online. Thank you!!!
Good vid.
I just turned my water hose on for a hour or so in a corner of the yard and came back to a supply of worms .
That's what I do 😂
So ordinary garden worms is all you need? Not the so called special ones you are told to buy...? 😮
@@Kathy-kr1svyeah
@@Kathy-kr1sv mother nature is waving her finger at you 🤭
Those are common earthworms, not red wrigglers, if anything you might’ve gotten a couple night crawlers which are good
For anyone that lives in colder climates, invest in a worm blanket and a couple thermal blankets, especially if you have long harsh winters
Great video! We love the diversity of the bedding you made for the worms. We'll be implementing what we learned here at our University garden!
While I'm capable of any thing I put my mind to, I'm way more likely to try new things when they are explained in simple terms- you did that beautifully! We are moving soon but I can't wait to start this when I get where I'm going! Ha.
Replying from reddit. Thanks for the link to your video.
Great videos Andrew. Got my 5 gallon buckets from our Jacksonville Zoo where I volunteer in the Animal Nutrition Center. We have stacks of buckets for animal diets. Then I stopped by a local Starbucks and they had 5 gallons of used coffee grounds. A great start at no cost. Next step is the carbon ingredients and finally the worms.
Wow Andrew. Thanks for the great video. Very practical and easy to get started!
Love this video. Straight to the point and very informative!!
You shared what I needed to know. I set up my DIY worm bin a couple months ago using a pot and a bucket. You helped answer my questions. Thanks.
Great video. I've been looking for a less expensive method using what I already have, this was it, thanks.
I'm sooooooo pumped to try this! I am a small business owner in a town that has a love for fishing. I have a lot of egg cartons we use though I don't use t gallon buckets but I'm sure someone does! This is a wonderful hobby! Thank you!! Uncle Jim is also pretty close to my town!
Thank you for this this is the best video for composting
Instead of coffee, I add some dark black cocoa powder to my worm chow. They go crazy for it and I think it encourages them to breed more. Also, I only put 250 worms in each bin, this also encourages them to breed.
Very well done 👍😎thanks for sharing your experience on this matter
Very well explained,thanks
Very helpful video. You really know your stuff. Thanks!
Great idea! Thank you. I followed your suggestion and I got few free buckets from restaurant near my house.
Very informative video. Thank you. I'll be setting one up shortly
Thank you, for your wisdom, your video was very helpful 😊
Excellent tutorial my good man, very concise and clear, I'm planning an earthworm endeavor and benefited from this presentation, so thanks!
Thank you. My air hole were too small, you were correct
As a painter I come by buckets all the time..i encourage others to do this BUT also write bigger paint companies and demand they Partner with Grocery Stores to optimize our growth and decay
Did I read 75$ for 1000 wormss?? Holy moly im upping my prices. Eventually i want to give/trade away worms and trade their castings
Fabulous video. I can do this tomorrow. I’m so excited. I’m a newbie. Following along now. I must find your worm tea!
Fantastic video. I really appreciate the time and effort that you put into this.
Thanks! Happy composting 👍
Thanks for the info, I'm going to set it up. Just a note, you can get red worms at most any bait shops.
This was great. Thanks!
I’m so going to try this! I have several tote type bins and really like them but I like the concept of this. Thanks so much for sharing!
Great Video Andrew! We are Worm People!
so simple
cheers
This is excellent! Thank you so much!
Very good video, clear, easy to understand .! I am a new in this , so, I'll start wit your instructions. Thank you, God bless.
Great video best I have seen.
Wow, I love this idea. 😅GREAT
The Best Video🎉
Great video started my own
This sounds sooo much easier than what I’m
Doing!!!
It's so simple! I've had several worm bins and this is by far the easiest design I've come across
Great video thanks for sharing
Awesome . Ty
Thank you
Thanks for the tip about juice pulp. Maybe I'll start juicing again since it produces such good worm food (and I need a healthy boost)
thought the same... lol maybe that will motivate me to juice!
That's where we got our red wigglers
You can usually find some worms at a pet store or a bait shop. Worth checking out if you'd rather not order online.
What about leaving a bucket with holes on the ground for the first little while and let the garden worms crawl in to the compost. Then set it up?
Sam's Cub wouldn't let me have any and they had lots of them for cakes and they were going to the landfill.
my grandma had my brothers and i go worm hunting in the backyard for hers
Certain types of worms eat more apparently and break the food down faster than others. I think that’s why it matters what kind of worms you use. I believe red wrigglers and night crawlers are the best for composting since they real things down faster
I would so do that if I didn't live in the middle of Sonora desert. I miss Colorado
Great stuff
Awesome; Thanks and regards from Saudi Arabia Kingdom
Thanks for watching!
thankyou very much
good video I'm buying buckets now to start a worm farm
Awesome!
Excellent video. I like that these are modular and easy to size to the amount of food scraps your household produces. If you're producing too much for 1 system, just get 3 more buckets. I like that it's cheap... and maybe free if you can get a restaurant to supply them. Upcycling is a good thing, endorsed by Mother Earth.
My one objection is your choice of bedding, though. As a long-time composter and eco-freak, I'm always trying to upcycle any waste my home produces. So instead of purchased products, I'd be using the junk mail, bills, and Amazon boxes I shred, along with some leaves and other garden debris. I
I can finally put some of my junk mail to good use. Thanks for the tip. I'm new to worm composting, and want to learn as much as possible. Also what's the best way to shred the cardboard? Thanks again.
@@theknockoutladysaint23 You can shred cardboard in a paper shredder, but it will kill many cheap ones. I usually just hand-tear it into small chunks.
Also, beware that shredded paper mats a lot, so be sure to mix it well.
Just make sure you take out the plastic windows from the envelopes.
great video buddy
I thought this was a great video!! Thank you! New sub here
Great video!!
#jadam
How do you prevent buckets from sticking together? Maybe they won't stick because of the holes not allowing there to be a vacuum. But it would be nice to solve before I put worms in :) Thank you !
Nice video good 👍👍💯💯👌
At 1:40 Andrew mentions he used a 3/16 inch drill bit to make his holes.
Nice fig tree 👌🏻
I know you say ‘as the worms migrate up into the new bucket’ but about how long does that generally take? I’m just starting out and I’m wondering if this is a couple weeks or a couple months.
It really depends on how many worms that you have and what you use for bedding. Cardboard takes longer, as do leaves. Honestly, it takes my worms months, to breakdown a tray in my 360.
Walmart has worms too, in the fishing area.
Yeah, about $4 for a measly 30 wigglers! Ridiculous! Here in central Florida my old tomato("mater" in my indigenous Arkansan)buckets virtually all end up with worms in them. Just emptying a few old buckets got me about 50 worms the other day, & I've got a slew of buckets left.😁 Great video by the way, a little long, but down to earth using common sense & materials, something that may well be lost in a couple of generations of "digital children"!😎
On some of the comments about using worms from the garden or from a pet store, red wigglers tend to be the common composting worm because of the amount of castings they create. If you don't want to order through the mail, a lot of the bigger garden centers will have them. Worth a quick Google to find them in your area.
You can go in the woods and find wiggler's free
awesome, comprehensive video. plusz your fun to listen to. thanks! and now my girls are REALLY intersted in knowing what worm tea is and if it tastes good or is just good for you. ;-p
I love your videos. I'm new to composting (just researching, haven't started) and live in humid hot Thailand. But I'm ready to implement your teachings. I have some ideas and questions about systems. I don't have the space to have an open pile but want to do the worm bin. Also, I stumbled upon a rotating compost bin and Bokashi kitchen waste recycle bin. Would it be wise to have all three systems going? Also, my friend blends his organics before putting them in compost. Is this advisable?
The smaller your food scraps the quicker they’ll dissolve. I also freeze my scraps to help the breakdown process.
When you control the worms, you control.... xD great video thank you. Also Chloramine takes forever to actually break down (unlike 24 hours for Chlorine). You can help with process with some vitamin C powder. Definitely recommend building a water distiller box or starting with filtered water of some kind if you've got chloramine in your city water.
Contracrostics: I responded to somebody who was trying to hydroponics experiment, but really frustrated. when we did a quick troubleshooting, her problem turned out to be chloramine.
That brilliant woman figured out that you can deal with the chloramine by using citric acid.
I don’t remember the exact details offhand, but I think the information will be on the Internet. That would keep you from having to lug buckets of spring water, or bottled water home. (filtration had been my suggestion, followed by collection of rainwater or springwater.)
I hope this helps.
@@daphneraven6745 You are right, citric acid was what I was trying to say with 'vitamin C powder' but I'm a dumb and used a misnomer. Thank you Daphne! Yours is an important post.
@@Contracrostics : I think you made a really good point there. Sometimes a person just gets a word stuck on the tip of the tongue. Hope you don’t mind that I filled it in, just because in that moment it happened to be available for me. After all, the other form of vitamin C is ascorbic acid. And that might not do the trick.
Your tutorial was very helpful - Thank you. Question: how often do I add bedding/compost to my bucket? Daily, since I have veg compost daily? I’ve been putting it directly into my compost bins until now. I now, also, want to begin worming. 😊
i love the cost saving advise in this video. Also does the mucket stink if i was to say move the bucket in during the winter months?
Hit like immediately after dune reference
😂
What about using grounded up oyster shells for the grit? That is what I gave my chickens for grit.
Could i use this same method but for nightcrawlers?
Hi. I have a few months of winter time. How do I manage this worms buckets? Put them inside ? Release worms in the garden? Thanks 😊
If you use the top bucket does the middle bucket contents need to touch the bottom of the top bucket or do the worms just climb up the side of the middle bucket and climb up into the holes of the bottom of the top bucket?
Good question.....
Any concern of them escaping thru the vent holes?
Great video, I am going to try this method as soon as I get those buckets! About how long does it take for the compost to be ready to use it in the garden?
It can vary based on conditions in the bin, but several months at least. I tend to let mine sit a bit longer than that even, but you can generally tell based on the appearance and consistency of the castings. When castings are a somewhat homogenous dark material that crumbles easily in your hand they should be good to go
You can use the "juice" (liquid that accumulatesin the bottom bucket) in the garden in the mean time.
Great video, very informative.
Anyone ever tell you that you look like "Q" from Impractical Jokers?
Have you considered downward migration? It allows the top to dry out for casting gathering and the bottom layer can pretty much be just paper and catch then liquid and be pre inoculated with microbes
How often do you feed the worms and what amount of worms in count should you have used for these bins shown? Also, when using cardboard, can you use the entire cardboard even if it has printed item on the cardboard, or do you have to cut that out?
Great video, would you recommend this for a class project or would the smell stink the classroom
it should not smell bad at all if you don't overload them with too much food at once.
Uncle Jim's worm farm is great!
So are you pushing the top bucket down compressing the second bucket during bucket rotation or are you gently placing the top bucket on the second?
can one use diatomaceous earth as one would use rock powders or ground up egg shells for worms?
Check with your local school cafeterias for food grade buckets!
Do worms live happily in sandy soil, real coarse sand and small sharp pebble mix?
just started with indian running ducks, can i use the straw with manure as worm food?
How many worms should you put in that size bin? Max amount of worms..minimum amount?
Oh, happy cicada day.
they're so loud 😅
Question: at 8:05 you said maybe don't use chlorinated water to wet cardboard for this. I have a large fish tank with lots of water that I've treated to remove the chlorine. Would there be any reason at all not to use that the next time I do a water change?
I think that would work well!
Awesome, thanks!
Chick-fil-A will often have 5 gallon buckets leftover from their pickle chips.
perfect!
Any tips for preventing the buckets from sticking together?
Hi
I live in a apt. My vegetable containers are on my balcony. Totes that I got from Walmart. How would I make a compose, since I don't have a ground to put the trash can on? Also, besides, bananas peels, egg shells what are some other kitchen scraps I can use?
How big should the air flow holes be , to Not get other animals like flys get in?
When do you add the second bucket with bedding? I know you said once they’ve eaten the food but they don’t generate much waste after one feeding so do you do around 3 months then add the top bin with new bedding?
Also are the worms able to travel through the holes with all that bedding on the top new bin?
Worms are burrowers/tunnelers. They will make their way up through the bucket holes just fine.
Ah, bedding is also considered food and can takes months to break down. So, that first bucket can take months.
You’re in Florida, I’m in Canada, what happens in the winter for storage?
You can put the whole setup in a garage it doesn’t make a mess if you’re careful, if not you can order thermal blankets online and put one on the ground beneath the bin then one covering the whole thing and it should be alright
Aloha dudes, just got into gardening
I cackled when you said "they even make Uncle Jim look somewhat wormlike, himself" ... you were clearly amused to say it because you're fighting hard to keep the smirk low key but you ultimately lost that battle
How long usually until the worms need to migrate up?
Do the worms still multiply and breed during this process?
Thanks for this! one question What is the difference between this and a worm farm or are they the same thing?
Same thing
Can we also use paper scraps
What kinda juice pulp are you talking about , Apple, oranges , plums please describe what you mean
It looks like there are holes at the top of the bucket (on the side). Is that ok to leave out in the rain?
Hi, thanks so much, but how do know when the worms are done with one bucket?
When all the material is broken down and turned into castings. I use a lot of shredded cardboard for bedding and it has several purposes. It’s a carbon source and mostly, it absorbs the excess liquid.
Does it matter what kind of worms you have? Also where is a "typical" local area to get worms?
Fishing shops are great places to pick up worms.