Do you want to build a worm bin?
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- I have three worm bins and each bin produces hundreds of dollars worth of vermicast each year. But, I use a lot of worm castings (or vermicompost) and that takes a lot of worms. Today, I'm expanding into a fourth bin so that they'll have more space to grow, multiply, and make more super fertilizer for me to use in the garden while growing more food on my very small, urban homestead.
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Uncle Jim's Worm Farm: unclejimswormf...
Reminds me of the Dumb and Dumber movie---When Lloyd says I am going to start a pet store and call it " I Got Worms" THANKS!!! If I ever have a question about WORMS, I guess I'll keep you in mind....LOL.
9:21 I Like your bottomless coffee can :P Nice video! I love my worms.
Thank you! :-)
Growing with Bobby, amazing video you deserve more views
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the encouragement!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for posting. I like your set up.
Thank you! I appreciate your encouragement.
Thank you for adding metric measurements to the video. Really appreciated.
Happy to help!
I have very Sandy soil. I plan to use worm castings to improve our garden
I can relate. It's tough to grow things in sand because it lacks nutrients and because of its hydrophobic tendencies.
Great video 🇳🇿🪱🪱
Thank you!
Nice video. I am also in central FL,.Close to the East coast in Mims. Just north of Titusville. Your backyard looks like mine!!
Thank you. I appreciate your support.
Thank you. New subscriber here from Australia 🦘🦘
Awesome! Thank you!
PLEASE NOTE: When drilling the holes it would be best to have a drop cloth underneath so you can collect all the debris for proper disposal.
Very good point. Another option is to keep the lid on the bin while drilling holes. That way, all the plastic shavings will be contained in the bin for easy disposal.
Can you generalise by giving the zones that worms can survive in? Im in 8b. I might have to bring them indoors and provide heating to get them through the winter. I guess that would be easier than sending them to overwinter in FL.
Their preferred temperature range is around 60 to 80 degrees. Outside of that range, they won't reproduce as quickly and, the closer it gets to freezing, the more they will die off. So, you'll need to take steps to keep them from getting too cold. In nature, as the air temp cools, they dig deeper into the ground to try and stay below the frost line. You can mimic that in a bin by insulating it to keep it warmer or you can bring it inside. However, if you bring it inside, you'll need to keep a closer eye on pests (like bugs and rodents) that you don't want inside your home. You'll also probably want to put something under the bin to collect the leachate percolating through the drainage holes at the bottom (which makes a great liquid fertilizer).
SW Michigan here, with sand down to 65 feet ;) Our winters are still enough to freeze red wrigglers, while our summers can get up into the 90's. I haven't tried to get a worm bin going - yet ;)
When you do, please come back and let us know how it works out.
I started with 20-30 worms. Let see how long until I reach a thousand haha
how does the worm population grow?
When daddy worm meets mommy worm......
Over exaggerating the pay back in worm farming has always been a big lie. Sort of like raising Alpaca's. LOL. Uncle Jims Worm Farm is not the best source of worms. I had horrible luck from his farm.
Is there another source you'd suggest for anyone wanting to buy composting worms? If so, please share the name of the company (links aren't allowed in the comments, though).
Your video said turn 10.00 into thousands, come to learn that you are talking about friggin worms...what a complete waste of time.
Good video! But you made it in a way that mostly teenagers appreciate. This subject is rather for boomers and we (old people) prefer the story not interrupted by the "funny" cartoon injections.
Thank you for your feedback!
@@growingwithbobby Er, i'm only a Gen Xer, so not quite as ancient, but any injection of humour is great, otherwise one may as well watch a documentary. Also, seeing some of those cartoons (A Bug's Life) reminds me of happier times and i might just pull the DVD down and give it a watch again for castings and giggles. Thanks for the video.
I actually thought the added humorous interjections made these videos more unique and interesting and fun. And that’s why I subscribed. You are talented…please don’t let comments like this deter you from continuing to make these creative and helpful videos. May God bless you!