When Is A Worm Tower Ready For Another Tray On Top? | Vermicompost Worm Farm
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- How to know when to add another worm tower tray to the top to actively feed it as your compost worms turn food scraps & shredded cardboard into natural fertilizer & soil amendments! In my VermiHut worm tower my compost worms give me about 60 pounds of worm castings a year but how do you know when to rotate your trays? Watch this video to see what I look for!
We also checkin on the last three side feedings to include the kombucha SCOBY piece & add the last feeding before this worm tray, full of red wigglers & blue composting worms, gets put down a level as it finishes consuming the last bits of food scraps & shredded cardboard. Finally stay tuned to the end where I add a new inoculating tray to the bottom and get my VermiHut back up to 4 trays!
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!!!🪱🪱🪱
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00:00 | Intro What to look for
00:41 | What should a tray look like?
02:03 | Kombucha SCOBY check
03:01 | All bedding is food
03:18 | 85% castings? What does it look like?
04:30 | Tomato & forbidden foods!
04:56 | Banana peel checkin
05:27 | Another reason to rotate trays
06:13 | Last side feeding
08:38 | Oats on top
08:55 | New inoculating tray
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
Spray bottles to mist bedding amzn.to/3Fq23rN
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
They really munched down on that newspaper! That's a great amount of castings in that tray! Great video my friend!
That was a little surprising when I lifted off the lid!! I think it is about 10 pounds of castings so that will be a nice addition for my potting soil mixes! Thanks for the kind words and for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
I love your idea of putting a tray of shredded cardboard on the bottom.
My Can-O-Worms has 3 trays and I'm using all three. The 4th tray would be great.
The week sure has warmed up and feels great to Garden in the morning.
Throwing an extra tray on the bottom has worked out great!! By the time they make it on top to actively get fed, the worms really zoom through the material! I am so glad 3rd winter didn’t kill any plants this time around! Fingers crossed for some bananas this summer!! This is my favorite time of year to garden!!🪱🪱🪱Thanks for all your support Peggy!!
@@Vermicompost it's my favorite time of year for gardening, too 🍀💚🍀
Very cool seeing how they eat all the different foods. Also neat seeing all the different sized worms. They are super active!
Thank you! This bin does have so many different sizes of worms! I've been pleasantly surprised at how well they eat all the different food scraps we produce in my household! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and leave a comment!!🪱🪱🪱
I like the fact that would put the prepared bedding underneath to get ready for use. It is a smart use of time to help let the bedding age and start getting some life in it before it becomes the feeding tray.
Exactly! I had trays and shredded cardboard laying around driving my wife nuts so I thought what if?🤔 Turns out it really speeds things up once I get them on top as the active feeding tray! Thanks for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Come to learn and show my support! 22! Thank you for sharing this wonderful video! wish you have a great day! greeting from CANADA🍁🍁
Hello!! It is so nice to see you again!! I hope it has been getting warmer on your trails!! Thank you for taking the time to stop by to watch my video!!🪱🪱🪱
I just started a red wiggler worm bin today. A indoor one though
Awesome!! I love how versatile the red wiggler is with regard to temperatures and how quickly they consume food!! Both my VermiHut and my Tiny Worm bins are indoor worm bins and work fantastic inside!! Thanks so much for watching and congrats on starting a new worm bin!!🪱🪱🪱
Hello my wormie friend!!! 🤩🙌🏼🪱 they are abit like us, they know Kombucha is good for them, it’s just not their fav!! 😂😂 great info on swapping the tray and getting it ready for castings!! Imagine how beautiful and fertile that’s gonna be!!
Hope you’re feeling better Patrick! Isn’t it always the way you get sick when you go on vacation!!!! It’s like your body stops and you get sick 🤒 take care my friend…..
Ok so now you’ve got 4 trays going in that bin, but the bottom is resting!! Cool 😎
Hope you have an amazing week my friend!! 🌷🌻🪱
😂 So true about kombucha!! Thank you so much for all your lovely kind words! I held off on some videos while I feeling sick and now I sound worse but feel better😀 I love building my soils with these castings and making worm castings tea; there is just something about creating rich compost and worm castings which feeds your garden that makes it so rewarding in the end!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for watching my videos and leaving wonderful fun comments!!!🪱🪱🪱 Take care!!!
@@Vermicompost I couldn’t agree more Patrick, worms are such a gift for the garden in more ways than one. So glad you’re feeling better, and thanks for the great content, it’s always useful and educational, I really enjoy it!! 🌷🌷🌷
@@flowerfolkfarm3553 Thank you so much!!🙏🙏🙏
I am really pumped to get my casting started. Great update.
Thanks AJ!!! I think you have about 150 pounds of casting waiting to be harvested from what I can see!!! We need to all come over for a castings sifting party to help knock it all out!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Lol. Sounds good. 😎
Wow I can see they are enjoying ...
😊 They are a hungry group of worms!!🪱🪱🪱
Looking good, Patrick! I tried blackberry leaves and interestingly enough, there were more worms around them than the fruit on the other side. Worms are going to love that broccoli!!
Awesome video brother!! Glad you're feeling better!!
Cheers Jason and Colleen 🌱🪱🌱
Thank you!! That's interesting, I wonder what about the blackberry leaves got their interest over fruit? I've been surprised at how much my worms like broccoli!! Thanks for stopping by to watch!! I'm feeling better but sounding worse if that makes any sense!!🪱🪱🪱
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing omg I was such a nube 🤣🤣🤣
Blackberry leaves, what the heck was I thinking lol
I cut all the broccoli in the early winter (I always leave the roots of my plants in the soil to deteriorate over winter) and freeze for winter feedings. I was initially surprised how quickly the thickest stems would disappear.
Enjoy your videos!
Stay Well!!!
Yes!! Broccoli was a huge surprise for me as well!! I do the same thing with the roots (maybe learned it from you) and I also let some go to flower...the bees love them, then I harvest the seeds and sprout them in jars all year for our salads! Thanks so much for stopping by Brian!!🪱🪱🪱
Great idea
Informative too for new ones
Thank you!! I hope it is helpful!! Thank you for watching my friend!!🪱🪱🪱
My granddaughter picks and eats broccoli flowers in the garden. I love them too. Interesting as always Patrick.
That is so sweet! They are so pretty like fireworks going off as they stretch & bloom, that must be a great feeling watching her pick & eat from the garden which you grew! I hope to be blessed with grandkids someday too! Thanks so much for stopping by!! 🪱🪱🪱
So Beautiful ❤️
Thank you so much!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Inspiring!!
Thank you!! It is pretty amazing what they can do to a tray of cardboard and a bunch of food scraps over time!! Thank you for watching!! I appreciate your support!!🪱🪱🪱
I think all the brassicas have yellow flowers, Patrick. Certainly the ones we grow! I just posted a video about watching the bees on our kale flowers left in the garden from the year before.
I hope you feel better soon!
I did not know that!! So that's why my kale and baby bok choy have yellow flowers as well??!? I'll check out the video!! Thanks so much for watching & teaching me about the yellow brassica flowers!!🪱🪱🪱
YUP just pulled out 2 brocolli plants... they flowered before really getting big.
I always seem to get a good crop of almost broccoli😂🤣😂 But all is not lost, I let a few go to seed and harvest the seeds to grow sprouts in jars for our salads!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Do put your eggshell grit and oats at every feeding
Yes, I do. Mostly because I have so much to get rid of, not necessarily because they need it. I found that the worms absolutely love egg shell grit. Check out this video to see how fast they eat it: ua-cam.com/video/Dc1VK3rXSxM/v-deo.html Thanks again for taking the time to watch and comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Thanks for the informative video, why did you put the tray at the bottom?
I like to put a completely dry tray of bedding on the bottom to help absorb the liquid that is pulled down by gravity. It also helps to inoculate the bedding with microbes so when I'm ready to put it on top the worms absolutely devour it! Here is another video that may explain it better: ua-cam.com/video/SfUzjr107Hw/v-deo.html Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
do you know that broccoli flowers are sweet and delicious to eat
I knew you eat them before the flowers emerge, but I didn't know the flowers were delicious as well!! Thanks for the tip!! And thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Do you sell worms?
And if you do, how can I buy from you?
I'm in Florida
Unfortunately I do not sell worms but both @the garden & worm lady ua-cam.com/users/TheGardenLadyandWorms
as well as @northeast worms ua-cam.com/channels/i0auEQBBuac_EU-qNA_wQw.html
are sellers I have heard great things about!! Both have UA-cam channels where you can see their processes and they have a very good variety. If I purchase more worms it will be from either of them! I hope this helps! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch my video!!!🪱🪱🪱
Nice one 😊 Interesting the oats helped break it down. When is a bin ready? Would have thought at 85% it was just about done?
Yes! It looks as if they like to eat their oats while they consume the news in the morning😂 At 85% castings a lot of worm farmers would go for a quick harvest but with a worm tower it is kind of like a never ending conveyor belt where a fresh batch of castings is ready every 2 months so you can afford to let the worms make every last bite into castings! I’ll put another tray on top and let this finish underneath for another 60 days. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch & comment!!🪱🪱🪱
So you feed each bin about 60 days, and then add another new tray on top and feed that while the first bin finishes up underneath for another 60 days? So... it takes about 120 days from start to finish for one bin? Is thst about right? I'm not sure then how to add more bins to the tower...
@@emilylui2852 I agree, my system came with 5 trays and I can't imagine ever getting all 5 on it. I typically have 3 trays on my VermiHut. The top tray is being actively fed, the one under that is getting the last bit of scraps eaten and will be harvested next, the one under that is an inoculating tray that has only bedding on it and will be put on top next. Each one spends about 60 days in each position so a tray is typically on the system from 150-180 days depending on how long it is in the inoculating position. Sometimes I have 4 trays on momentarily (2 weeks tops) as I add another bedding only inoculating tray on the bottom to store it. This video might explain it better ua-cam.com/video/I_ilo_M8gv0/v-deo.html
I had not thought it through like you did so when I started I had dreams of all 5 trays going on eventually, but I could never get there. Thanks so much for the great questions!! And of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I think it's more just them running around on the newspaper and pooping on it that degrades it like that. They do eat it eventually but I don't think they're making a concerted effort to tear it apart either, it's just a happy accident that they get to poop enzymes all over their future food. Pre-digestion, if you will xD
😂🤣😂 Pretty gross if you think about it in human terms!! There's lots of happy accidents helping out with my worm bins!!Thanks so much for watching & passing on your knowledge!!🪱🪱🪱
It`s normal to put your new trays on top so that the worms migrate upwards. You`ve given your worms a feed so they will be inclined to stay where they are and not migrate downwards. Also, dry cardboard? Don`t you inoculate it first?
When my worms go a-wandering, I use dry cardboard to discourage them because they don`t like the dryness of it.
That tray of completely dry cardboard went on the very bottom where it will sit and inoculate for 60-80 days receiving any excess moisture or drippings; I may have confused things with my fancy editing trick...it just gets a little boring watching me take all the bins off and add them back on so I spliced the videos together to make it look like I pressed the tray through all the other trays and added them back on top. In the next VermiHut worm bin video I will be adding a 60 day old inoculated tray on top and taking out the pre-harvest tray to harvest the castings, while this current top tray will go down one to the pre-harvest position.
Great tip on the dry cardboard as a barrier!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch & comment!!🪱🪱🪱
I just have to tell you that, every time you are in a Wiggler bin....and you say how "fat" They are....I usually do a double-take, and then I just have to laugh! I have mostly European Night Crawlers, so I am used worms being to so much bigger. Sorry, I just have to laugh! However, I am thinking of ordering some Red Wigglers for my new Hut....then your worms will look more "normal" to me, I think. Lol! Keep on keeping on!
It's all relative!!😂 They are chubby compared to how they were before I started feeding them the pulverized oats!! Red wigglers are so easy for me here in Florida dealing with the heat and occasional over night freezes in my outdoor bin. They have also tolerated the differences in humidity in the house throughout the seasons in my other 2 bins. ENC's are a fantastic worm that I might start a bin with...if I can get my wife to allow just one more bin in my collection🤣Thanks so much fro all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost the garden and worm ladie's got some good fat ones! And she's got a sale going on now. I have to keep mine in the apartment because I don't own any outside land here. I could put them on the deck, but I think the heat would cook them since I face West. I see the reason why you have the red wigglers. She said that they are much more tolerant to heat and cold.
@@cookie761 The Garden & worm Lady is great!! She gives great tips and saved me early on when I put a whole bunch of rice in my outdoor worm bin. She had me check the temperature and sure enough it was hot hot hot!! Yes, a west facing deck would be roasting!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi I haven’t had any worm juice come out of my trays. They seem to be wet enough and the blanket is always kept quite wet. Why would I not be getting any excess moisture dripping out of the bottom tray please? I live in a subtropical area of Australia.
Hello!! That is a good thing!! I think you are not getting any moisture dripping out of your trays because you are doing everything CORRECT!!! I rarely get any moisture to pool up in the basin because I let the moisture of the food scrap absorb into, and equalize with, the amount of bedding I continually add each feeding. The basin is there incase you overfeed for the amount of worms you have or if you add excess water to the trays...both can lead to too much moisture and leaky trays. So if your trays feel nice and damp and your worms are healthy than you have a perfect bin!!
Some people purposefully add cupfuls of water to get some "worm juice" or leachate out of their bins but I do not recommend this. If you want a great liquid fertilizer, what you can do to make "worm casting tea" is add some finished worm castings to a nylon pantie hose or fine mesh strainer bag (I think I have some in my affiliate links in the description & pinned comment if you want to see what they look like) Then add this to a 3-5 gallon bucket with water for 36-48 hours with a bubbler from a fish aquarium. After this "tea" is brewed, you can use it both on the leaves and directly water it into your plants! I hope this helps!! It sounds like you are doing s great job with your bins!!🪱🪱🪱 Thanks so much for watching!!
@@Vermicompost phew! I’m so glad I’m looking after my worms correctly. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my question and sharing your experience and knowledge. I harvested my first lot of worm castings today and they looked really good 👍 I’ll have to get an aquarium bubbler and make my own tea. I’ve just purchased some from my local Landcare nursery so until I get organised to make my own I can support them 🙏
@@bellaone963brisbane7 Congrats on the first lot of worm castings! Worm tea is fabulous!! You can add other amendments to it as well like ground up dried banana peal for potassium or blended aloe from an aloe plant leaf etc. The natural fertilizer possibilities are endless and free once you get a bubbler!!🪱🪱🪱
Totally confused about the direction that the worms migrate. They are supposed to climb up? Into the next bin? Not down? How does that work?
Compost worms will generally go to where the food is, but they are very curious creatures so you will find some in every tray. Each of these trays has 1,600 holes in the bottom so they can travel freely between trays. Most folks feed the top tray and each time a new top tray is put on it and fed, the worms will travel up to it. In nature compost worms (Epigeic earthworms) are on the top layer of soil clustering around dead organic matter, garden worms (Endogeic earthworms) live in the soil and are more solitary, and finally the deep burrowing worms (Anecic earthworms) have deep holes and drag food down with them. So compost worms, which we use for vermicomposting, tend to like the top layers where it is easier for their weaker muscles to move...but they will go where it is moist and has food to sustain life. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Great info. Thank you. I've used 14 gallon containers for my worms until I accidentally killed off two bins filled with red wigglers. Saw the video and am planning on buying one. Is there notches on the sides/corners of each tray? The holes are great when it comes to removing worms from the compost. Plus the elevated stand keeps centipedes and other critters out.
I subscribed and liked once I watched your video.
Thanks so much for subscribing and liking our video!! There aren't really notches on the corners but the sides are very slightly tapered with a lip that goes all the way around so they fit within each other. The bottom white plastic board that goes on top of the bottom basin has raised notches that help direct the tray to stay in place. I like to use one of the trays to sift compost from my other worm bins! Oh man...die offs are so heartbreaking, but I'm so glad to hear your going to get back into it!!
How many worms did I start with?
Great question!! I started this bin with a 2000 worm mix of red wigglers and blue worms. My Outdoor Worm Bin was started with 90 red wigglers and my Tiny Worm Bin was started with 50-100 red wigglers. Given the choice, with money not being a barrier, I would start a new bin with 1000-2000 compost worms. It is so much easier to see if they are eating, I can see the castings build up, and it gives me the confidence to know I am doing things right...which was a big deal for me when I first got started🤣 I started my first bin with a hand full of bait worms and I think I checked on them 10 times a day...they didn't stand a chance🤣😂🤣 Thanks for asking a great question and thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Such obedient worms like children who hate broccoli ut eat it none the less because they don't have a choice. Harvest time is close at hand.
😂 Poor worms are gonna be getting a lot of broccoli while it is in season in my garden!! I love seeing these trays come due for harvest every 2 months in a conveyor belt of castings!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch & comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Very nice material. The height of the center mound did not show... but I believe it. I could tell how you were careful not to knock it over Haha!
@09:21 I've seen other worm farming videos featuring the VermiHut - but that _1-2-3 send-to-bottom feature_ that you demonstrated must be new to the late-model units. It seems like it saved you a bunch of time 👍🏻
😂🤣😂 Much like how your query about why my videos were square early on got me editing, your unique video transitions have me thinking about spicing things up especially where the boring back and forth of switching out trays is concerned! I really wish it was that easy!🪱🪱🪱
A little spice never hurt 👍🏻
I'm just curious how much you make is an Amazon associate. I'm very interested in becoming associate I've tried it with other things but have not succeeded thus far if you don't mind the answer I would appreciate it godbless.
Sure send me an e-mail vermicompostlearnbydoing@gmail.com and I'd be glad to share my experience with it. Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I thought you were supposed to give citrus to worms? Or am I mistaken?
I hear a lot of "do not feed citrus" to your worm bins, but I can say through experience a mature worm bin will devour citrus! I think folks are just trying to protect new worm bin owners from over feeding food scraps that tend to last long or they think citrus is too acidic, but just like humans, the pH going in is not the same pH coming out (boy would that hurt😂) So go ahead and give citrus a try in very small amounts until you know how much your worms like it! But thankfully they eat it or the Earth would be full of rotting citrus!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
What is Scooby
A SCOBY is a Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria & Yeast that forms over sweet black tea which is being fermented into kombucha. It is full of probiotics and the SCOBY ferments the sugars. It is a tasty bubbly drink which is thought to be good for digestion & your health!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost thanks for sharing the information about scoby
Wtf is scobie?
😂🤣😂 Great question! A SCOBY is a Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast that is used to turn black tea and sugar into kombucha. It looks like a translucent blob that sits on the top of the black tea. It takes about two weeks to convert black tea and sugar to kombucha using a SCOBY. I hope this helps! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
please invest in a microphone.
Good point!! It is on the list of things to buy to improve my videos...In the mean time I did purchase better software recently so my later videos have a bit of fine tuning to the sound. Thanks for the feedback, it helps me keep my priorities straight!! And of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I am really enjoying your videos and finding it very educational. It is very difficult to hear in some of the videos though. I hope that came off as constructive criticism or a suggestion and not some kind of an insult or anything. I'm really finding what you're doing educational as I said. I have tried and failed numerous times in the past to get a worm farm going for composting and now I am finally getting an actual worm farm setup. It's not supposed to be delivered till the end of the week but I'm brushing up now with your videos. :-)
@@mspringett I totally took it as constructive feedback!! My first videos are really rough and I've learned a lot from folks who took the time to let me know how I could improve!! So I appreciate the feedback. I've been thinking about getting a lavalier microphone so this helps me know it's time!!
That's so great to hear you're gonna re-start a worm farm with a new setup!! I crashed and burned on my first try (over feeding, matted down printer paper) before getting the hang of it! Thanks again for checking out my videos!!
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing I see that you have a lot of videos. Being that I am going to be starting up a VirmaHut this next weekend, is there a video that you have, or is there a resource that you have, or do you have a recommendation as to how to do the initial setup of a vermicomposting worm farm? I totally get the rotating of the bins for inoculating and harvesting and whatnot.. but the initial setup is what I think would be advantageous to learn about.
@@mspringett I do have an early set up of a tray, but not the first tray. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/4dxDQNbRDzQ/v-deo.html
It is really rough, one of my first videos, and you are not going to like the sound at all😂
But let me also tell you in writing what I learned and how to start the first tray.
1. The VermiHut comes with a brick of coco coir, so you have bedding ready to go, all you do is add water in a bucket and let it absorb for 20 mins or whatever the directions say.
2. There maybe an extra cloth like material in there...you don't need it, it is a left over from before they had the white plastic barrier with holes.
3. Leave the lid OFF for the first couple of days with the Vermihut in a room with a light on 24 hours a day. This will keep the worms in the bin getting used to their new home.
4. You can feed them a couple of strawberry tops or other fast food on the first day...barely any food...just enough to let them know there is food there. After 4 days dig in where you put the 2 strawberry tops and see if they are eating it...if so, you can add a few more and check them in a week...this is for about 500-1000 worms if you have more give a couple more strawberry tops.
5. After a week and you see they are eating food, then you can add a little more food each week, making sure there is little to no food left. Overfeeding is the number one problem in new worm bins.
6. Do not be alarmed if the worms go up into the lid or down into the basin. You can rescue them form the basin every couple of weeks but don't bother with the lid. after you get 2-3 trays on you can add dry shredded cardboard inoculating trays to the bottom and you won't find liquid or worms in the basin anymore.
7. After 30-45 days, add another tray, 30-45 days after that add another tray....after you are up to 3 trays they do 60 day intervals from that point on.
Those are kind of the points I wish I knew before I started, the rest is in the directions. If you have any questions feel free to leave a new comment on one of my latest videos and I will be happy to answer or help out in any way I can!
I hope this helps, the VermiHut really helped me have the confidence to run a worm bin!!