What to Feed Worms: Vermicompost Made EASY
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2019
- What to feed composting worms. I'll give you a breakdown of all the nitty gritty of what your vermicompost worms will need from bedding to food to what they are actually eating. How to set up your entire worm bin and tons of info all around on how to keep worms to make the best fertilizer around!
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Newspaper
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Best Food Sources:
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Cucumbers
Squash
Melons
Root vegetables (chopped)
Coffee Grounds
Greens
Grains
Bad Food Sources:
Fibrous material such as corn stalks
Meats, bones, fat and anything oily or greasy.
Dairy products including butter, sour cream, milk, whole eggs (egg shells are ok) and cheese.
Canned sauces, peanut butter and other processed food.
Citrus foods like lemons, limes and oranges.
Onions and garlic (acidic).
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Plastic, metals, glass or other non-biodegradable items.
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That is an interesting system. Would it be best to grind everything down to tiny bits so that they will break down faster?
Great video
I started a worm farm 7 months ago and it has been so much fun. This is the educational stuff I really like to watch. Constantly gathering information about worms, implementing new ideas I have learned and doing my own experiments has been the best experience. Learning from videos like this and books I can find is how I get the knowledge to have the confidence to do this on my own. Hope everyone has a nice day.
Freeze your food scraps before putting in worm bin, it breaks it down and the worms process it 10 times faster.
Good idea!
Love that ☺
It kills most fruit fly larvae and eggs as well
Awesome information. Thanks
Thanks, I didn’t know that
I just started my own worm farm today, and this is by far the best video I've seen, thank you for sharing your process! I'm definitely a hands on learner, so all the hours of reading hasn't helped nearly as much as this short video. It's straight to the point, very informative, and the chooks in the background just make it all the more pleasant to watch :)
Thank you for sharing, I'll be sure to watch more of your videos! :)
Hi
I live in Australia and just started becoming more interested in gardening recently.
Just watched your video which is the first time. I really liked it . Very clear and straight to the point. Definitely, I'll keep watching 😀
If you search #shedwars21 you'll find some fellow Australian gardeners from our southern hemisphere teams. They're pretty informative. Happy gardening!
This is a great channel, also check out 'The weedy garden' channel, Australian, his content is fantastic
I really enjoy your program. I've been composting for nearly 60 years and still learn sometimes from you young fellas. Keep the Faith and keep composting. Really enjoy your chickens as they remind me of youth on the farm. I always wanted to farm but could never win the lottery.....so, this is my answer to that. Tom
Tom Nekuda You're a farmer Tom. A worm farmer!
@@andrewrussell3796 Haha! That's pretty good......I'm gonna remember that.
This is so informative and and full of insight.
I really appreciate you taking the time to share all this info with us. May God bless you, you have blessed us all.
Thanks for making these. Hope all is well with you and your family. Our family is getting setup to grow a small vegetable garden and your videos have made it a reasonable task. It is much appreciated especially in this time. Thanks again! Take care 🤘😁🌞🌱
Thank you for doing this video. It really helps.
I'm new to worm keeping. It makes me feel better knowing I'm doing it right. Thank you!
i really love the editing for this! visuals and sounds are awesome!!
Great video wow! I’ll definitely be checking out more of your videos. Definitely make your own compost one 🤙🏼
In order for the worms to use the calcium in the egg shells they must be ground up really fine. Other wise the egg shells do not break down for a long, long, long time.
I use a high-speed blender for that. First I blend egg shells full speed with water. Then I insert some veggie scraps and blend on low so that the tiny shell pieces stick to the veggie scraps. Then use a colander to drain. The tiny shell pieces disappear in the bin after a couple months, so they must be breaking down.... I've heard that the calcium from shells help worms to multiply more quickly, but I can't verify that.
Fantastic video. Best I have seen on this topic. Thank you!
Love your chickens getting in on the audio input….chirpy chirp chirp..🥰😎
Have a wonderful day yourself. Ty for the video
You make that look so easy. Janice
Awesome and useful information! THANK YOU.
This is interesting because I am doing a warm farm just starting out
I love that your chickens are agreeing with you.
Interesting publication & you did great describing it Thinking about getting me a couple worm beds started
Love the sound of the chickens in the background. I miss keeping chooks 😊🐔
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowlege in worms bedding so as produce rich organic soil to be use for home gardening! Keep it up! God bless!
Great tips, looking forward to implementing this myself
Worms love pumpkin. If you haven't ever fed you worms left over pumpkin after Holloween. You need to try it. You will be amazed🥳
True, I always try to pick up any I can for the compost program I run for a community garden. All my compost bins have red wigglers in them.
Yes. I didn't know this since I'm fairly new to it but holy cow...sliced it in half and burried the domes half way and they went to town. Same thing with a bad watermellon we got from the store.
Very useful info. Thanks for sharing!
Great video. I plan on using the alternate side feeding method in 'one' bin. Great information, thanks.
Love your continuing education for us. As a worm farmer just a FYI, none of my bins have any type of drainage NO LEACHATE due to toxic phosphates whatever. My worms in bins are feed a certain amount of food and there is no "drainage". This is everyone's choice. I choose to make tea for my garden using their castings. I do not want to worry about problems from anaerobic problems. Again, thanks for another great video! A+++
just a question. When I was researching worm bins before purchasing one, all of them have a little tap at the bottom for drainage - in case the bin is outside and it rains and some water seeps in, whatever. And all the worm factory makers strictly recommend to keep this tap open, or the worms can suffocate. That is also an outlet for leachate. Do you think this is wrong? How do you deal with excess liquid from green feed, if any? Or you just increase the amounts of carbon material to absorb it?
Dame for me 😉👌
@@growpuravida I would say that it is unnecessary in a well-managed worm bin. However, the fact is that most people feed them too "much" fresh stuff, and as a result you get too much moisture at the bottom.
@@stestrupholm-dyrkjorden but how about the bins that are outdoors? Mine is not rain-proof though it's a commercially made one...
@@stestrupholm-dyrkjorden I can say authoritatively it's more for the convenience of creating worm tea. I also manage worm bins both with and without a tap and as long as you're sensitive to what your worms need and can provide them choice where to go, your worms will be happy. So, If worms want to go to a darker, cooler environment they can always burrow down a ways. But I also position my bins so they get the warmth of the sun and can got in that direction, too. Or, put your food in a corner so that worms can go there or away if they don't prefer an environment with a lot of oxygen robbing decomposition. Amount of water is just one choice. Give your worms plenty of choices and they'll do what makes themselves most happy.
Thanks for a great video with so much information that helped me a lot.
Realy appreciate your time to explained in such a way I/WE can understand it. Will watch more video's from you. Greetings Alta from South Africa
interesting video I purchased a used blender in a junk store and run all my kitchen scraps through the blender to make a thick soup, the worms love this blended soup. I freeze extra soup in baggies and use it all winter when garden and kitchen scraps are more scarce.
very informative . Thank you for your thoroughness ! What do you think about Compost Sacks?
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Thank you. Very informative!
Wow, very educational.
Very useful information, thanks! 👍
Great work Steven!
Thank you, good information.
First of all this channel is awesome. Lots of great info and a very inspiring person.
Now the questions:
How often would you feed them kitchen scraps?
After how many times feeding kitchen scraps do you put the second bin on top of the first?
How long after can you use the worm casting?
How regularly do you harvest the leechate?
Thank you for everything. You're great!
You harvest Leecate won time each week! Yw
Thank you, great info👍🏻🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
Excellent information. Thank you.
Fantastic set up. I love worms. Have 2 worm factories and one 27-gallon tote. Happy plants!!
Thanks for sharing that. It was helpful.
Thanks for sharing fellow vermi-tuber! Very interesting to watch :) Glad to support
One of the most complete descriptions I have ever seen. Video excellent as well.
Very informative, thanks
Thanks so much for all your research and making our lives easier and our worm’s lives better!
Great Video Thanks!
Very helpful
Coolbeans! Thanks for the info. I have a bin in the shed. I'll try this out with some red wigglers.
Good info sir
thanks for the help
thank you for defining lechate vs tea
This is amazing thank you! I just bought a tiered worm system with a tap on the bottom. I’m trying to translate your bin system into how I would need to use mine but have an annoying amount of questions. When you say you have the one big bin to harvest them all into, Is that just the castings you out in there? Do you take some of the worms too so you reduce the population each time, to prevent overcrowding? The bottom layer in your table collects the liquid? See, I need to watch all your vids and come back so I know what to ask. I’m so green!
Just the finished castings go into that "Big" bin. Some worms are still in those finished castings but that's ok. The worms will manage their own population.
Nature's Always Right Thank you!
Excellent content.
Great stuff, I have a worm bin in a 30 gal pvc sink. W the drain the leche' just drains ourt w gravity. TY, very informative 👏 👏 👏
i add straw that hasn't been broken down outside and it does break down in my bin :)
Nice to know :)
You have a different setup than I have but I did start out using tubs/totes but now using a factory 360 since mine is done inside and I love it been using it for yrs. Some I might add especially for new wormers that can speed things up is I use a hamilton beach big mouth juicer which is 800 watts of power which you will need for doing things like banana peels. If the material is too dry then will add juice back into the pulp to make it more of slush. I also use a mini composter and coffee grinder for use on the eggs, but first I will run the shells thru a microwave 3-4 min. to kill any pathogens that might be there. The coffee grinder makes egg shells into a grit which the morms can use to help help move material thru their gut. Also some other critters wont like moving thru the egg shell grit so a multipurpose. Also I will save my potential worm food in zip lock bags and freeze till Im ready to make another batch of food. I will keep my processed worm feed in large coffee cans till needed. For new wormers go easy till you see how fast the food disappears. Most new wormers make the mistake of having more food in the bins than the worms can handle and the bins can become anaerobic and smell and thats when most new wormers will quit .
Yup. But keep in mind that blending everything means that the microbes will disappear all the food faster than your worms can consume either the goopy nutrients or the microbes that feast on the goop. You want to provide the food in a way that's consistent with the herd's needs which usually means over a few days if not weeks.
@@tonysu8860 Wrong ,, it is the microbes that gets the food ready for the worms
When you move over here I've got to learn this soil health stuff and supplements from you
Love the chicken backround soundtrack. Thanks for the advice mate.
I go to the local mangroves and dig down into the broken down seaweed piles and grab a few bins of partly decomposed seaweed . I then take it home rinse it by running fresh water through it and then add it at about 20% mix to my compost volume . The worms love it and yep it’s basically for free .
Roger Ramjet Great idea! That's gotta be good
That's great. I live a few miles from the beach and every few months before dawn wake up and go collect kelp off the beach before the flies lay eggs. I used to wash off the kelp being afraid of the alkalinity of sea water, but later have omitted that step. I often feed an enormous amount of kelp at a time so I always place the food in a corner where the worms can come get the decomposing kelp as they want it or move away if they find the decomposition too toxic or not their choice. As always I avoid simply throwing food on top of the surface because the decomposing food can rob all the oxygen and suffocate the worms that need that oxygen to breathe. Although I've never done a study to confirm I feel confident that over time the worms will reconsume the kelp and their casting spreading the benefits of kelp derived nutrients throughout the bin's worm castings.
Thanks for the description list👍
Thank you for sharing, how do your worms do in the heat?
Thanks 👍
Thank you 🙏
great video. i was wondering i live in Florida and i felt it too hot to leave them outside. during the summer. will they survive if i leave it outside. thank you.
Blending them up a bit before feeding also helps out alot 👍
But the worms would die if they got blended
I didn't get all high tech like you did so I am not an expert but I learned that if food isn't molding then it goes to the chickens, if its moldy and a human shouldn't eat it then its perfect for the worms. I had worm feeding stations so my worms were free to come and go as they pleased so I never concerned myself with making castings as worms were everywhere on my property and in every pot in my nursery. I even got worm loving chickens from a neighbor and I never ran out of worms.
Great video TENKS
Thankyou for you video on what to feed red wig let’s. I have Kentucky bluegrass. Clippings I compost for about 3 months. Would the grass clippings be good to feed my worms?
I am just starting to fish. Bought some “Canadian nightcrawlers”. They’re big worms they’re in a small container in my fridge and I felt bad just letting them die so I stuck a bunch of lettuce in there and when you said “they love bacteria and fungi” it made so much sense because today when I checked on them they were just kinda laying over all of the lettuce
Do you need to add bedding if the worms (Tigar worms) are put into a pot with a plant using organic living soil?
I put the straw on top as a mulch but it's the dry type when first put on.
So it's not a worm bin I'm after but an organic living soil in a pot for plants.
Thanks.
We have local hey here and I have a high-powered blender just for my garden is it okay if I pulverize the hay in my blender and then use that in the bedding
Hi thx for the video. Learnt a lot.
What do you use the worms for? Are you selling them?
Thx again
Thank you for Sharing :)
I would think corn husks would make awesome bedding.
I was thinking about adding some kombucha to my mixture but that might be too acidic what do you think for microbial
Good morning I am very newI am just starting my worm bin my question can I use mushrooms as food. I bought some to use but for got them in the fridge.
hello , i have lots of coffeegrains can i better use them directly in my soil {worms are verry attracting to it and love it) or better make wormcastings with the coffee grains ?
I enjoy orgabic gardening because the microbes and earthworms help recycle all wastes back into food . thanks for showing us ow to do this.
You should look into jadam then :D
Great channel! Ive heard that the worm juice is pretty good stuff did I hear you right that its no good? I'm new to worm composting. Thanks! 🤠
The reason why I'm watching this is so cuz I'm building a worm farm
Same
I recently built some in a way none of my neighbors will know what they are. I want to make sure I'm taking care of them properly. If you want to see how I hid mine in plain sight, you can find it on my page. I'd attach a pic here if it'd let me.
Yayyy I just started mine today
@@britneyb8876 nice good luck with it
I think that's what we are all doing
Suggestion. Unless you use well water which is pumped straight on your property i recommend rain water or allow your tap water to sit for a day or so. The chlorine in the water will kill the microbes and fungi your trying to produce. It will set the process back every time.
Chlorine is no longer used to treat municipal water in large US cities. Instead they're using chloramine, that's much longer lasting and does not dissipate when exposed to air. High capacity KDF85 filters from Camco and Boogie Blue are about 70% effective in removing chloramine - when new. The remaining chloramine can be removed with powdered sodium ascorbate or vitamin C. 1/8 teaspoon is more than enough to treat 5 gallons. It only takes a minute when the water is agitated vigorously. Filters with KDF85 technology cost around $65 and are typically rated to treat 8k gallons. Less expensive filters without this technology do not remove chloramine, regardless of what the manufacturer claims.
Best castings are made with finished thermo compost. Check out Ground up soil or Texas worm ranch. Both places are affiliated with Dr Ingham and produce vermicompost with adequate levels of fungi.
I know this videos have been told but spring is coming in a couple months so I was thinking about getting started. I've one question are there any woods that are toxic to worms
Great sir but keise krna or clay pot m baba skte or plastic drum or news paper ni use krna
Can you use this indoors? In a cool spot.
And where do you get the red worms from!
I live in Maine and don’t think that I have seen any of them.
Thank you very much
The worm lechate (?) where did that faucet come from, where or what are you draining?
Awesomeness 💯💯💯!!!
I've seen where people feed there worms grains. I have some flour that we are not going to use. can I add a cup at a time to my bin? ty and enjoyed the video. 🙂
We live in Miami, FL where it gets very hot and humid in the summer. We do have lots of shade in our backyard due to two HOA trees in the backyard. I have no room in my small house for worm bins but I’m wondering if I can keep them outside under the shade? Any information on this would be most helpful because I don’t want to kill worms. But I really, really want to do this!!
Yow bro how can I get those containers that u make ur compost in and the name of it
The caption is Worm Farm in Melbourne. Please check guys.
Poor chickens getting teased!! Great video
😂
Great system! I tried adding compost to my (back porch-enclosed) worm bin and introduced ants to my bin.
How do the ants and worms interact?
Would Jobes organic tomato/vegetable granular fertilizer be beneficial or harmful to add to a bin in small amounts?
Can I use decomposed manure?
Is it okay to mix different types of worms in the same bins
Could you add bone meal or sea bird guano to get more phosphorus in castings?
How do you use the casting?
What you do is knowledge gained in time personally using your own resources, experience, observation and time.
I learn worms in russia, and i kind of figure out how england started this. Began the vermicompost popularized composting technique as in germany. And now going global usa, turkey.
I see warms get inside the cardboard for shelter. My russian parents chop an old tree and how i found larvas, beetles, and worms living harmoniously underground and inside a wood. Basicly eating through a large wood.
Worms are magnificant and makes me addicted.
One significant condition that i figured is worms love rain and black soil. And they can not survive on Muds but they can breath on water. And they can not live in super salty water. I see many people find plastic bins for use vermicompost. But i use different scales and tactics. For example : a plastic pvc vertically stabbed on soil , worms can travel vertically. Worms like metal containers. Red Warms like animal source for example i see giant red warms live under the chicken barn under the wood work over the concreate ground. They travel a meter to get there at night.
There is no demand for vermicompost in russia. However as in england or germany or usa, the meat supply is abundance. There are enough livestock. Such as england knows how many sheeps they have. But i dont think there are enough compost or culture of composting. For example composting house hold trash. Or sheep cow manure. I have seen plants , flowers , and observe if housewives put any compost. No. On farming i have seen. One critical thing i learned in russia, small farmers raise crops to feed not only themselves but the livestocks. Such as sugar beets, carrot, potato, and pumkin.
They have all the land in the world, 5000 hectars. Helicopters mechanical engineer minds. But agriculturally using old techniques despite using Modern machines. I still could not figure out what to do with all this land , maximizing utility and productivity, and man power.
I think agriculture should be fully automated so that man kind can focus more on RD, painting art,music, and automotive. So many talents are wasted in front of computer screens. If we have spent same amount of time on automotive sciebce than on coding computers we would all be driving on a $750 cars with a milage of 500 kms charging solar power.
God bless you brother
Would powdered eggshell work better?