Worm Towers from 5 gallon buckets
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2015
- A real handy and functional item to have in your garden is a worm tower. Not only are the worms fertilizing your soil, but you have a handy "compost garbage" bin at your fingertips. It very easy and inexpensive to make. A bucket, drill with bit and a shovel, that's it.
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You can use just about any container, put them in your garden, garden box or use a small diameter worm tower in a large garden pot.
For an added kick for the worms and your garden add rabbit manure, if you can find it. The worms love it like you won't believe. Also rabbit manure is one of the best manures, if not the best. I used the rabbit manure in a compost pile and the manure basket/bucket had the largest earthworms I'd ever seen. Rabbit manure doesn't have to be aged. If I had added coffee grounds, eggshells and other extra goodies to the manure, it may have been out of sight, Jack !!
I built a worm tower a couple of months ago to see if they really worked {May 27}. Today {July 11} I dumped it onto a large piece of cardboard to see the results. Oh my goodness! I've never seen so many worms in their worm castings. I'm sold! I'm building more towers, and I thank you for sharing your knowledge. And my garden thanks you.
Thanks for sharing your positive experience! I wondered just HOW well this worked given the time put into it. Though not difficult, I have to keep all movement minimized as much as possible. ANYTHING I do heats up my core and gives me hot flashes from hell. (Lifelong cancer & treatments, plus other issues - it gets old fast!)
@@SewLambitious Sorry I took so long to reply to you. computer has been in the shop. Drilling the holes in the container and digging the hole to put it in is the only work. I used the instructions from The Abled Gardner. At first I was checking occasionally to see if I had worms in the bins, then once they appeared it is just a matter of making sure they have food. No work at all to maintain. Perhaps you can get a friend to do the drilling and digging So sorry for your physical limitations. I wish you well.
What I've been doing for over fifteen years is dig a hole in the garden and throw your scraps in. It works the same but without the plastic. I really don't like plastic! It is absolutely polluting our beautiful world.
@@rhondalambert7318 the positive of this for people with rats / mice is that it might limit that....as i get rats/mice digging into mine
@@rhondalambert7318 if we did that, we'd have rats galore.
HI KIM!!!! Yes, I too am Disabled; A Disabled War Veteran, Retired U.S.Marine., Silver Star Recipient. After I retired from the Corps, i was recruited by Home Depot to be one of their Store Managers, and that is one of the many reasons why i wanted to chat with you. That price that you quoted on the PVC, is extremely high. PVC & ABS Pipe is quite cheap, anyways your bucket idea is far better, obviously because you can hold a lot more compost material than you can with pipe, unless you are using 4 or 6 foot lengths, but than your neighbors are going to think that you have a bomb shelter buried under your yard, and the PVC that is sticking out of the ground is one of your ventilation shafts.
Anyways, your tower idea is quite unique, makes a lot of sense, and just after watching your interesting and informative video, I just know that it will work real fine!! I will be installing two of these to begin with in my garden just as soon as i am up to it.
Aside form my Disabilities, since March of last year, I have been fighting a different kind of war. I have been battling with Cancer. Adenocarcinoma of the stomach, stage IIIB.
So i have subscribed to your site and i hope that we can stay in touch. Take care and GOD Bless!!!!
Thanx Again for this Awesome Video!!!!
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Dear Kim, my name is Daniel from Newwestminster, BC Canada!
I’m just starting my new worm, business, called Going Green with worms.
I purchased I’ve purchased a worm called 360 worm bins and thanks to you. I will also do the bucket worm bins as well Outside in my garden bins.
Thank you and have a great season. Kind regards Danial.
This is one of the very few videos on vermiculture that show the success of a working process and also how to repeat it or create it. It seems most videos are made by Internet experts making their first rubbermaid tub bins. Thank you for sharing your real story of how you grow your worms.
Really handy idea! 5-gallon buckets are my staple, and some of them have developed leaks. This is a perfect way to give them a new role in life. Love feeding the compost mix directly to the worm who already live in the beds.
I find dealing with the plastic burrs is easier drilling with a regular bit instead of a paddle bit. But, I fully agree. Get the rough edges smoother. :o)
Typical vermiculture means feeding the worms, keeping them moist, and then going through a process to separate out the worms from the castings, and bringing them to the garden. Why not have a, "herd," of worms eating and pooping right in the garden? LOL I love it!
This is a great idea! 18 yrs ago, I drilled holes in buckets, added 1" gravel from my driveway, then added a nice compost/soil mix to grow tomatoes in the 5G buckets and peppers in the 1G buckets. I was a cake decorater in a grocery store, so the buckets were free!
The tomato cages fit very nice in the buckets & that setup was easier for me to weed being higher off the ground. I was able to set those plants on the edge of my large garden, but move them to dappled shade late afternoon when I thought they needed it. I used those buckets for a number of years before they became brittle & started breaking apart. I hope this tip helps quite a few people out there!
Thanks for the great tips
Put your egg shells in a baggie crashing with the rolling pin
I am the Coordinator for our local Food Bank. We grow fruit, berries, and vegetables. I have 20 apple trees and I have placed a bucket in the middle of each apple tree. I have had a worm cafe, that I will be using to add to a few of these buckets but keep some worms to keep growing more worms for the rest of my buckets. Nature is so perfect.
Great idea. My friend makes a smoothie of her scrapes and her worms are in heaven.
I meet information about the worm tower for the first time! I am from Russia. I've never heard of anyone using this! I will definitely try to use it in my garden. And it is very easy for me to understand your English! Thank you!
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I used the coffee grounds as a base for all my blended scraps. I have the largest worms I have ever seen. I actually thought I had baby snakes. Enjoyed the video.
Thanks Larry, coffee grounds are great in worm beds and compost piles for sure. I actually found a worm this week that I thought was a snake at first glance, but just an extremely large worm. Thanks for watching and commenting, take care, Kim
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You sound like the "hard-headed woman" in Cat Stephen's song; which means that you are a great person and active in your life. I liked your video and appreciate your teaching on worm towers. LORD bless you.
Wonderful way to make the bin inside a veg bed itself 👌🏿👌🏿
Now I now what I'm going to do with all of the buckets I'll have left when I finish grouting my shower.
I did this in my garden several years ago after watching your video and WOW, it worked great! I couldn't believe how quickly the worms broke down my food scraps and it was sooo easy. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for giving me another idea on worm tower below the ground.
I am a Kenyan farmer who has watched many 🪱 video DIY but have never come across a single one that is patient, well explained with simple step by step tips that even a two year old can understand yet very very effective 👍 I appreciate and affirm you 100%. Be 🙌
Beautiful gardener
I use small laundry baskets with the holes already built in. Works perfectly :)
Brilliant & affordable!
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Just shows that you’re lazy. Love that! 😁
I don't see how there can be a moment that @kalioss is lazy..she is making a comment and composting..where does lazy come into play?
Working smarter does not equal lazy.
It's very cool. You fed the worms with all kind of junk foods but they returned something good for your garden. Thanks wormies.
So wonderful to use veggies trimmings to turn it into a potent worm fertilizer!
Seeing plenty of worms in the bins, boxes and garden ground......make me sooo happy!
Thank You God!
The worm buckets in the garden have been such a time and space saver for me. thank you for this wonderful idea! i live in town and cannot do a compost pile. I have a 4 ft garden along my fence which equals approximately 900 sq ft of garden. I spaced 8 worm buckets in my garden, 1 about every 20 feet. They have been such a blessing in putting kitchen scraps and veggie scraps when canning my harvest. Yes, a wonderful idea!
So is this used mostly as worm bait to get worms to move through your garden bed, or more a compost/vermicompost idea to get a concentration of black gold for the next planting season?
DeadeyeJoe37 I was wondering the same thing!! Great question!
@@sherriefoster3145 I would say both are very beneficial
You convinced me. Going to do it! Subscribed and sharing!
Very nice adaptation to this concept!
Great video. I'm in!
another good video. Thumbs up
Thanks so much and sorry for the late reply, Kim
saw this last summer. just now getting around to making them for my raised beds. thank you very much for the detailed explanation!
A very good video for beginner who wish to start a worm bin.
That's true, and the worms multiply like crazy.
thank you. I love how you explain everything in detail. We understand fully. :)
What a great idea . It literally has never crossed my mind . Thanks
I've been looking for something like this!
It's a much easier system than using the huge plastic barrels, plus the worms go straight into the garden.
Thanks for sharing your expertise.
+Texan In The UK Your welcome Texan, I have to admit, I didn't think of worm towers, just the 5 gallon bucket. The ones I saw to begin with were long, 5-6 inch tubes buried in the ground and never removed. I didn't like that system, so the bucket with holes and worms eating kitchen compost came up. (even that may have already been thought of) I hope it works well for you, I've just found the smaller you can cut stuff up the better, of course, and they really like waste smoothies, LOL. I don't turn it much, but do keep it moist like worms would like. Thanks for posting! Take care, Kim
great job, learned a lot from your video to make a worm bed. thanks
Thanks for sharing this I’m definitely going to try it out
Effing wow, I never thought of this but now i need to do it
I have been gardening forever and this is such a great, new idea for me. Thanks. Love your videos.
A great hi from the south of France !! Congratulations for your worm towers. I had never heard about such an idea and i am gonna build a few tomorrow for my beds !! Thanks so much and I let you know👏
I think this is a great way to do it. Hi from New Zealand. Take care all happy gardening
Thanks for sharing a wonderful idea. I hope to implement it. I think I'll experiment with burying it deeper so that the top is ground level, then for my lid, I think I'll use some kind of decorative stepping stones.
Hey what a great idea!
I’m new to this and yours sounds like a great idea. I do have a question if there needs to be exposed air holes?
@@ouachitafarmacy yes you have to have air holes in there
This is genius! The step by step tutorial is super helpful. Will definitely be trying this year with my worms! 🪱
Just beginning to garden again after renting an apartment for many years. Great ideas that I will use right away!
Great video Kim, this is Robin. Every year I get a lot of worms going and then they succumb to the Bakersfield heat because they are in totes above ground level. I'm doing this tomorrow, thanks sis.
+Cleopatra542 LOL, I can't believe how many people have seen this video and it's so terribly made. It was back in the day when editing wasn't my strong suit. This may still be the time when I was doing vidoes with my phone taped to my ladder. I didn't have a tripod for a long time. I laughed through this whole thing tonight. Could you tell I was in a lot of pain? squirreling around all over. Oh, well, we're our own worst critic, huh. I'm glad you're going to do this, if you want to use the worm castings for your garden, just don't feed the for a while, they'll leave and you can take the bucket out and dump the castings in a container where it's cool, replace the tower, fill with food scraps and the worms come back. Do you have earthworms, red wrigglers or both? My worms in the totes did the same thing every year, way too hot for them to survive. Thanks for watching and God bless!
cheaper materials than any type of worm contraption I’ve seen and the least complicated. thank you!
Thanks Climbercar
Love this idea!!! I’ve been watching all sorts of videos on worm farms and this is definitely the most practical, economical and efficient!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I agree
I took a large pot from a nursery and cut the bottom out and stuck in the ground a few inches and I stuck some compost in it and I've had great success and to the cover I use wet cardboard.
That's a great way to do it, good luck.
You have just solved my problem! I have run out of room in my current warm hotel.
I need to open franchise s . Hahaha
Such a Wonderful Idea...So simple yet Very Effective...Much Love and Peace.
For anyone else trying this: I believe she means a "paddle bit", not a waffle bit. My husband works construction and came home very confused when I asked him if we had one. (^_^)' I ended up showing him the video so he could figure it out since we were going to drill the buckets tomorrow. So excited to see how this little experiment goes. I know we won't be able to really start until spring, but I ours works as well as yours!
Nice video.Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Or sometimes a spade bit....all depends on where you live !
I would use this method for sure if I had the space! Very very nice Kim and you look super.
Thanks sweetie!
Thanks Kim for the wonderful ideal. I garden about a acre of mixed raised beds and on the ground. I have a compost bin but I believe this will be a great additionto my raised beds. I like your channel.
I think yours was the first video I saw on inground garden worm buckets. I now have four systems running beautifully here on Vancouver Island! I harvest it a bit differently by having my husband pull the bucket out of the raised bed and emptying it into a wheelbarrow. We then refilled the bucket with new bedding and add back the worms. We're managing to do this twice a year, which is great!
nice video, well explained, easy to follow, keep up !!!
That is one of the best tutorials that i have seen tonight... I have lots of buckets and about 4000 sq. feet- thank you!
What a great Idea. I will get to it right away. It's a lot cheaper than buying a compost bin.
What a great idea for a small space. I will be giving it a try
I am so impressed with how clever you have been in setting this up. Great video. So simple, so affordable, practical, genius.
Wow you could have stopped at great video, lol. Thanks Thomas.
Great idea! So much better than narrow PVC pipe!
Nic3 to see a lot of happy gRdeners in UA-cam sharing their knowledg3 and 3xperiences 🌿😃
Just good ol advice from a real gardener! Wisdom=priceless. 🙏🙏
What a great ideal Kim. Fantastic way to enrich your bedding soil. Thanks for the tip. Take care . ;)
Anytime Larry, I always love hearing from you! This was not my idea, actually not sure when they started, but if it works, copy it! Take care, and let me know what you're gardening this year, Kim
Good idea I might do this too, Got thinking of using a 1/2"drill and a long metal spiral Paint mixer to chew up the pail ingredients better before the worms get into it.
this is such a great idea, and informative video, and it doesn't cost a lot of money
thanks for sharing
Excellent idea with the buckets...thank you 😊
I loved this idea! I have made three worm towers. I look forward to seeing the results. Thank you for your videos.
I love this idea and as a newbie gardener i think it makes complete sense. I hijacked my kids protein mix containers smaller but great for the size garden they are in. with an easy to screw on lid. love it thanks a bunch.
I love this idea, I can't wait to add this to my garden,,, this will help the worms hide from my chickens.
Thank you Kim, That was a big help with my worm tower. I'll wake up early tomorrow morning and work on it.❤😊😅.THANKS.
Good down to earth video and beautifully presented if I might say so.
Thanks for the video. Hugs and prayers from Brasil and our garden work in progress. Lord bless you.
Thanks for sharing this more beneficial thanks a worm bin, keeps them cooler
Such a brilliant idea for a worm tower in a planter box! Thank you for sharing your idea, tips and video too!
I first found out about worm towers only recently, watching a video with the four inch pipe. Your solution is much more practical, efficient and most of all economical. My wife and I Juice a lot and now have an outlet to use this left over material. Thanks.
Juicing leftovers is a great food for the worms in the worm towers, they would love you for it, LOL.
You juice worms?
Tasty? Healthy? Are fish attracted to you?
@@wagnerpd5921 No. But 2 legged worms do get attracted and come over and ask silly comments like u !
Worms hate citrus peels. They will go else where.
Wow, I have seen so many videos for composting but your method seems to be simplest & very economical. Will surely try this tomorrow itself and will also encourage all my friends too. Thank you very much. Happy Easter..💐💐💐
I'm adding a worm tower to my brand new raised bed, you have the best instructions on UA-cam!!💕💕❤️❤️🌿🌿🌿
Thank you 💕
Not hitting on you, but I think that you are a fit, well muscled lady. THANK-YOU for sharing this information! The info is what made me subscribe!
Wow! That seems so easy. I'm definitely going to implement this when I build some raised beds.
That's great, I'm glad you like them, good luck, Kim
I use blocks of wood 2 raise bed.
Wow ! June 2019. Southwest garden zone 7 here. Neat, neat well done visual instruction and very cool creative idea. You made this in 2015. May you have many return blessings to you and UR garden. Adios and hope you kept that 'hat'. Great look on you. Thanks.
Great video. Love the dogs
What a neat easy way to make those worms work for ya, cool idea.
Thanks Rob, I have to admit, It's an idea that I copied from other YT videos I watched last year, but, hey, whatever works. LOL. Take care, Kim
ty so much for this helpful video. Being a woman myself it's refreshing to have a female point of view! I will be using your method this summer and will let you know how it turns out. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching many more of your tutorials.
I'm glad to see the worm towers are working well. I think I'll put in at least one worm tower this year.
Patrick, I have seen the first one already working really well. I think any garden would benefit from at least one worm tower. Thanks for watching and commenting! I know you're very busy, take care, Kim
Hi, What a great idea worm towers are, I am certainly going to do that. Thanks for Sharing.
I noticed at the end of the video you said that you were making sure the stakes were in the garden to keep the cats out, I have a cat problem in my area and would like some information on the stakes.. have you a video about them or can you direct me to a site about using stakes in the garden to keep cats out. I don't want to hurt the cats just deter them.
I am a relatively new gardener and am surfing for ideas.
thanks again
Adele Wright I got the idea off a You tube video I believe. It was the idea that if you put different length sticks, like bamboo, and stick them in the ground where the cat visits, they don't like walking around where the sticks are coming out of the ground, it makes them go somewhere else. I guess cats are very particular where they walk and it would make it hard for them to scratch around if there are sticks in their area. Hope it helps, it did for me. I put a litter box in the garden and she wouldn't use it, LOL
Thank you, great idea, going to use that one also
Happy Gardening
Adele Wright ;-)
One of the most useful tips ever.
Great idea! Less hassle than the 3 tier bucket worm vermicompost farm.
I dry my egg shells in the oven then I run it thru a food processor, comes out perfect, much easier to them to eat, process. Great video thanks for sharing.
Gabbi, put a couple tablespoons in a jar , pour in some vinegar. A chemical reaction follows which liberates the calcium, add some water and then pour it around the tomatoe plants.
Really well done 100% perfect, thanks much
First thing I did after watching this video was go out and put in a worm tower into my raised garden bed. I already had all the fixings including worms in my stand alone worm farm. Thanks!
I just came across the idea of worm towers..... first I had heard of it. I saw another video that was very nice, but made with the PVC pipe, but I like yours better. Mostly because I have a lot of 5 gallon buckets. :) Thanks for the video and I'll check out your others.
I'm so excited to do this. I was starting my compost yesterday and this is way better. I have tons of food grade buckets from my work and this is gonna be so fun upcycling them in my garden. Thank you so much.
Thanks for this super idea of vermicomposting right into the garden bed. I think my urban gardening buddies will find this concept really helpful.
Also, worms like cardboard, go figure!! Anything that works!
Yes I fell in love with your knowledge!!!! Pretty you are.
think im going to build some worm towers for mine,,i have never seen that before,,your beds are looking good
jeanne miller Thanks Jeanne. I think that's a great idea. I wasn't sure how well they would work, but I'm happily surprised. I'll be doing a video soon on cleaning one out and what 'll use the compost for. I'd love to see pictures of yours when you have it done. Take care, Kim
Interesting and informative. I'm going to use my smallish plastic pots and put a small board on top. I will drill holes just like you did and insert it 6-8 inches down in the bed. I think it will work.
Fantastic idea, l do have worm tower made of PVC pipe in my garden.
How is your tower working? How long has it been in? Thank you.
Gonna try this on a smaller scale for apartment living- building a worm tower out of a water bottle/pop bottle and putting it in a big pot :) thanks for this vid!
Great idea thanks! I'm trying to convince my husband to start a compost in our backyard but I think I may just do it myself
Usually best to do it yourself. At least you know it WILL get done ! At least that's what I've found
Composting is so easy and makes such great food for all your plants. And it doesn't have to smell or take up a lot of space, also having help from our little wormy friends is great.
Yes this idea is great I like the gardening but never realized that could be a great way to do my compost all my kitchen waste. I thank you ver5y much. Abdur Pathan Wayne NJ
I really love the simplicity of throwing your garden and kitchen waste straight to the bucket sitting in the middle of the garden beds 👍👍👍 just made my first worm tower and working on others 🤗 one question I have: what are the stakes for around the bucket? I guess I missed it somehow. Thank you for sharing an awesome garden tip with us! As a new gardener I appreciate any benefiting tips and advices from pro like you 😉👍🙏
did u find out what the stakes are for?
To keep the cat 🐈🐈out😁
Cool worm towers !! Thank you
Good idea. If’s always a good idea to encourage worms to come to your garden and process the scraps of food. Instead of the plastic buckets, I would create some rings out of welded wire fencing, 1”x2”x2’ (or cut to 1-1/2’ tall) and bury that partly in the ground. Then the worms can easily get into it. Cover it with something solid and weighted down. No need for the plastic buckets, or the plastics getting into your garden bed. It would be much cheaper, as well.
Try this, too:
Personally, I have what I call a tomato ring, which is made of 2x4“x5‘ welded wire, and the ring is about 3-1/2’ to 4’ in diameter. Dig down down just inside the the ring, about 1’ to 1-1/2’, fill up the bottom with compost, and then food scraps on top of that. The ring sits at ground level, just inches outside the compost hole. Keep adding material to the compost pile, throughout the summer. Worms will make their way into that, but sometimes any worms I come across, I just toss into the compost pile and let them go to work. The more the merrier! I plant four to five tomato plants around the ring, and I’ll tell you what, the tomatoes go absolutely bonkers, you will get two to four times as many tomatoes off your tomato plants if you do this. The tomato plants grow 8’+ tall. It’s unbelievable the results you’ll get.
If you love tomatoes, try this. I’ve been doing this since I was a teenager, after reading an article about it in a magazine. I’m going to do it this year also, but will not be planting as many tomato plants, since they now say tomatoes can negatively affect arthritis. I will be putting in some worm towers, too.
Cheers!
Great idea dear
I think - west Washing machines inner plastic tub is good for this proses
Another brilliant repurposed idea, I hope others read this suggestion.