EASIEST Worm Casting System for Vermicompost 3 Bin
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2018
- EVERY gardener and small farmer should be raising red worms. It is the easiest, cheapest, and best fertilizer and inoculant to make and use at home. This is my 3 bin modular worm system. You can build it using 3 totes or expand to as many as you want. It is super easy to take care of and maintain, requiring only 30 minutes of work every month. The worms harvest themselves and you never have to sort the worms from the castings! I'll show you how to build it from start to finish!
I recommend using either the same totes I use or another tote similar in size. It needs to be LDPE or HDPE plastic. I bought mine cheaper at home depot than amazon fyi. If the tote is too big they are too heavy to move, too small not enough castings. This 10 gallon size is a perfect medium. See below for products used in the building of the system.
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Use a soldering iron to make your holes. The hole it makes pushes the melted material to the perimeter. When it hardens, the hole is much stronger and less prone to cracking. I think it takes less time than drilling because theres no need for cleanup ( no extra shredded plastic bits everywhere).
You are an amazing organic gardener. I wish I had met someone like you when I was a young gardener. And, there was no UA-cam back then! The information you are sharing is invaluable for organic gardeners. I had to do it the old fashion way, I collected my table scraps, newspaper, grass and hay cuttings and layered it on my garden in the winter. Covered it up with weed barrier to allow rain and snow to permeate and the next spring when I pulled back the weed barrier the worms made me jump in the air because they were the size of garter snakes! My plants that year were so prolific that the size of my tomatoes actually broke down the trellis!
ok boomer
Spent the day looking in to wormeries and you're the first person i've seen put together the structure in my head. Thanks for reassuring me i'm not crazy and for a great breakdown in how to build. Subscribed.
For the first 12 years i had holes for drsinage in my worm beds...no longer. No holes ,control moisture bby adding carbon. Worm castings are much better now. Have been doing this now for about 18 years with no problems. And i only use cardboard sheets cut to fit for covers. Less fuss, less mess and better castings....even under microscope.
Same for my raised gardens! No drainage\lined with poly. I'm in hot central Texas. Where are you?
I put my beds on my channel. They conserve water and work so much better!
@@TheRainHarvester my worm farm was on stainless shelving units in my cellar. Sold all but 1 tub 2 years ago due to being disabled and bedridden. I am in the binghamton area of NYS.
BEFORE GOING TO RESTRAUNT bins I did them the way I was told ..back in late 70's.?with holes in bottom of covered large tubs..I had a drain line to handle all of the leachate...was a lot of work. With my last system I spent less than 30 minutes once a week to turn ,feed and replace tubs to shelving unit.....all 20 of them...never leachate mess...only made worm tea when I wanted it.....
This is EXACTLY how I learned to make my own vermicomposting bins .i first learned about this in Hawaii in my master gardeners course .i use this same thing here in New York now..
This is absolute genius. Good job man.
Hot solder tip will melt clean holes. Or heat a nail with a torch on some vice grips will work the same but more work reheating.
Thanks! Another great idea. A solder needle is just about the right size too. Sweet lots of new things to try out next time I drill plastic :)
Sir can u help me how to produce earthworm fast. Thnks
@@NaturesAlwaysRight once you use the soldering needle for melting plastic, it's not good for soldering anymore. If you borrow a soldering iron, buy a new tip before you return it, or that person might not loan tools to you anymore. You could remove the tip and replace it with a brad before you start melting holes. When you're done, then put the original tip back in.
You could use some sand paper to level off the holes.
Maybe a hollow punch/ round hole iron?
Only a matter of time before you put this one out! 😍
Yes finally! Hope it helps some people get started with their own worm bins :)
One of my favs so far! Next project for sure. Thanks for sharing
This is a similar approach that I used to create my million-dollar Garden!
@@NaturesAlwaysRight I'm trying to figure out how to do my bins now, and I like your idea the best. I'm just afraid the worms will cook down here outside no matter how much shade they have.
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You can use a debur tool. Here is decent one.
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Thanks for video.
I am a worm farmer myself and I am very impressed with this table of yours. Low maintenance and easy to work with. Liked and subbed... thx for sharing.
Wow thanks a lot! Welcome to the channel.
It's a tidy little piece of equipment, I like it.
I have been wanting a worm farm for 2 year. I live part of the year in an Airstream ,so I needed something the RV resort wouldnt complain about . I found a very cute teal blue worm hut for only $45 on amazon, most were close to $100 .Maybe its from being sheltered in place during the quarantine for over a week with only my pet bird.. But I cannot wait for my worm children to arrive.
Love the Chickens in the background
Absolutely great video man! I’m definitely making one of these!
On my hydroponic setup in plastic 5 gallon containers, I used a deburring tool to clean up the holes after I drilled them.
Thanks for all you do man. Keep up the good work!
You are so resourceful and kind to take your time to show us how to make this amazing worm bin system. Love what your doing for the world. Thank you my BFAM (brother from another mother). Much love you all.
Thanks so much for the compliment. Thanks for the support!
I would like to suggest to add a landscaping fabric to keep mosquitoes from breeding in your pond area aka worm liquid under your tubs. Great video!
Can you say more about how you should do this?
@@ZZ-qw6el I can say more about this idea. Not necessary. Mosquitoes won't breed in this liquid.
Love the fact you have used it before posted all this you used it. Tied and true
Thank you for noticing. I try really hard to only give out gardening/farming information I know is true or know works from experience.
Thanks for the instructions!
Great system! God Bless.
Thanks for sharing your build! Just as you mentioned, no man made system is ever perfect! In my opinion, your final product outweighs "the use of plastic". I do wish this video included footage of what the unit looks like with the second levels installed. Although, I can probably watch your other videos for a good shot of this. Enjoy your channel! Looking forward to your next video!
Thanks Toby! Thanks for the suggestion it would have been a good idea to do a close up of everything fully set up. I'll start including that in future build videos. When the first tote is most of the way broken down just add the 2nd tote on top and wait until the bottom tote has only a few worms in it. Thanks for your watching and your support.
I used to thermoform thick sheet plastic and we used a deburring tool I'm certain works for this. So happy I kept some!
With your glasses and hat you look like Spy in Mad magazine!
Interesting build. Thanks.
oh wow!! great video!!Beautiful!!😍
I absolutely loved this video and your design!!! Awesome! Thanks for sharing
No problem glad it was helpful!
I'm loving this!
Well done Steven! Looks great!
Thanks for watching!
This was a very good video
That looks like a great system! TFS 😊
Thanks glad you liked it!
Love your design . This is far from "easiest" :) probably the hardest I have seen but still this is by far the best system I have seen though. I hope your are producing a lot of worms and worm casting/tea.
Very cool project. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching James!
Love it! Thank you!!
My worm bin is in a large cattle watering bin. I sure made some newby mistakes. But I'm so glad to have castings to use when planting my tomatoes and peppers. I'd love more videos on worm bins and how to use the castings and tea!
Oh nice that would generate a ton of castings. That's so great you have a large system. I will definitely be putting videos out of how to make tea and use the castings. I'm trying to get better and better at my teas. I recently got a microscope so I could see the organisms in the tea. I'll eventually be sharing that with everyone too :)
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Very clever
Great job! Can you build on for me 😅 I really enjoy your videos, even moreso I've learned so much!! Thank you, Thank you. THANK YOU‼️
God bless you!!
one of the best worm systems for home gardeners that I've seen on youtube. Thanks for sharing this!!!
To clean the burrs from a drilled hole you can use an oversized bit to clean the holes both top and bottom.
If you hold a few types of drill bits side by side, when you compare the cutting end, called the chisel, they have various angles/shapes and degree of cutting edge. Take note as you figure which angle works best for different materials.
Also try different diameters for different base materials.
Finally. If going the proper direction, clock-wise cuts to much material. Try going anti clock-wise to sort of ‘scrape’ the burrs away, as opposed to trying to drill them away.
Hope this helps
Excellent video. I just subscribed.
Love it thanks for sharing. (Handy tip, store your glue upside down it won't dry out)
Thanks Melissa, and thanks for the tip too! I'll try that out.
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Uniseals are fantastic. I use them all over in my aquaponics.
I LOVE them too. I used to use bulkheads, but completely switched after I found the UNIs
Worms love the burlap went
In there worm bin to on the top layer. Cool design
Ooh that's a great idea instead of cardboard on top. I bet that would be fantastic for hot summer days! Thanks for the tip.
Great video, thanks
You have inspired me to start my own worm farm..my video is just up
Brilliant 😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Very nice video .
Best design I seen yet!!! Very nice. I think I'm going to try this. One question, when and how do you put the second bin on? Thank you for sharing!!!
sic design dude.
You may want to put a bracket or hang iron to hold the pvc in place. Over time the weight of the pvc pipe and valve could pull it down out of the uni-seal. Probably not a huge issue, but it could save a min. in the future.
Use a countersink drill bit and a small rechargeable cordless drill. Works great on Kydex so it should be great for bins as well. Thanks for the video!
Nice
This is one of your best videos. Thanks for sharing!
I'm from India I saw your videos impressive 👌👌
Thanks friend glad you like!
I also wants to build a farm in India . Help me
A bit late to recommend but a spade bit normally drills cleanly into plastic with little to no clean up at all.
Enjoying the video tutorials, and as always, stay safe.
The easiest way I have found to drill holes that you don't have to clean up is run the drill backwards. The drill still spins at a very high RPM so you basically melt your way through the plastic. It takes a bit longer but you make up that time by a ending with a clean hole.
This works even better with hole saws. And when working with IBCs you avoid cracking that slightly harder plastic.
And if you are looking for a flexible ruler to mark out curved plastic bins I haven't found something better than an old window blind.
Counter-Intuitive but also a green (high in nitrogen): Coffe Grounds. Against popular belief, normal (i.e. hot brewed) coffe grounds won't have much acidity and worms gonna love it!
I use coolers they work well for me
Awesome & ingenious build! Love it! Are you happy with the results thus far? Any modifications/improvements you would make if you built another one?
Brilliant :-) Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you my fellow worm lover!
Consider a hex bit or unibit hex drill bit. usually better for a smoother finish than standard bit. Also good for creating variation of size holes if needed or should you consider going larger on the spot.
Thanks for the tips. Those bits work well but I tried those bits and every kind of bit out there (I think) and nothing is able to drill LDPE as smoothly as I like without leaving residue. I haven't tried yet, but poking something hot like a soldering iron through the bin seems like a good option.
There are bits used for plexiglas to minimize burrs, forstner bits are also used for larger holes, but you may be able to find a 1/4" forstner bit. An alternative is to buy a good 1/4" hole punch and punch the hole with a plastic or wood backing, leaves a very clean hole. A countersink bit with a handle is better than a knife to deburr. Great video, thanks.
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome!
Run your drill in reverse. Easy to drill out, shavings come out, not in.
Love the video! Do you use the same 1/4" drainage holes for both red wigglers and larger night crawlers?
Use a Forstner bit to drill your holes to keep from burring holes and make for easier clean up.
Nice work! Is there an update video on how much casting were yielded ?
My suggestion was to place a piece of wood under where you drill. It will keep the plastic from fraying. But, lukeo85 has the better idea with the hot solder tip. Great idea
Oh that's another interesting technique I'll try! Ya totally agree the solder tip makes the most sense.
Hey I just found a way to put holes in the plastic worm tubs with zero clean up.
Materials Needed
- pliers
- (2) nails
- torch
- propane
Easy just heat a nail up holding it with the pliers and puncture the plastic tub.
Use a larger nail on some of the holes in only one side of the tub for the worm migration.
This technique has a "hot glue gun" affect on the plastic. Hope this helps and thanks for all the knowledge you share. Peace and God bless.
Thanks for teaching those of us just starting out. Any Ideas on getting rid of poison Ivy? My sister lives in town, has it on her fence line and is all bfroke out with it.
This is such a great video! Used some of your concepts to make a smaller version. Question. I'm new to the worm game and have read both good and bad things regarding leachate. How do you use your worm leachate?
How do you deal with rain, wont it flood the tubs, will they drain quick enough? Great video.
Nice setup. Thanks for the vid.
Thanks, glad you liked it!
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Just watched this again! Wondering if you are still using this system now that you're on the homestead?
If you put a piece of stock, really anything dampening, on the back of what you're drilling and clamp it. You dont get those 'exit wound' kinda holes. I find burning holes still leaves a less severe version or the same issue. Use stock behind your drilling surface for the cleanest result.
I place my binds right inside each other. The bottom one has no holes but contains some peat moss.
I keep red wrigglers in five gallon buckets. The buckets have no holes and the worms do great. Super easy and I got the bucket for free. Keep leaves on the top so they have a place to go if it gets too much liquid on the bottom.
I'll definitely be trying this, have you changed your methods in 2019?
After you drill the holes in the plastic, use a larger drill bit (like 1/2") on each hole by hand to "de-bur", or get rid of the flashing.
or just run the drill in reverse, it will melt instead of cut
Do you have a video showing the process of you Stacking the second container that the worms move into?
What do you do with them in the winter?
A smart and resourceful young fella, good job, are you producing worms?
Hey cool design, Try cutting holes from the bottom up instead from inside down. The plastic flashing tends to point in the direction the drill bit is pulling. I see several comments about reversing the drill. Sure wont cut through as easy. Simply flip the bins over and drill from the outside in.
Soldering iron can be used to make holes you don't have to clean...little slower though.
I find the easiest way is to feed the worms that already live in may garden, with buried compost buckets with wholes drilled in them. I just add my food waste directly into the garden and the worms go in, eat it all up and then leave their castings throughout the garden for me.
How do you keep the worms from escaping through the bottom drain holes? Are the holes smaller?
Looks like a great design! My only concern would be the heat mid summer, I keep my worms in a very shaded area, I’m in qld Australia so we don’t get super cold winters.
I keep them in full shade with burlap over the top, no problems :) We only go to 100F here in San Diego though. Keeping the bedding moist is the most important then it stays cool inside the totes.
Are those the planes at Lindbergh Field I hear?
"I got worms...that's what we're going to call it...'I Got Worms.'"
Haha :)
When you drill your holes. ITs called reeming, you go back and forth/side to side with the drill bit, it can open the hole a tad bit bigger than you wanted to drill, but by doing so you drilll a smoother hole.
Looks like an amazing set up I'm going to do it on a smaller scale how do you keep the worms from crawling out the bottom 1/4" holes just keep the food on top ?
Ya they will just keep going up. They won't really fall through
Good design.
Have you thought about weed barrier instead of cardboard for the bottom of totes
@Natures always right use a couter sink bit and hit each hole just touching the plastic .it will clean it up in a split second
Hello. How would you keep the worm bins warm all winter if you live in a cold climate like in Idaho?
I'm new to your channel and it's good to see San Diego starting to enter the UA-cam gardening map. Very cool project. I'm in Mira Mesa and would like to know where you got the worms from. Thank you.
Thanks ya me too, urban gardening is starting to grow here. I got the worms from a local guy who raises them. Best deal in town for really healthy worms. If you DM me on IG or FB I'll give you his number.
You put a good deal of thought into this. Perhaps you could share an update with how things are going? Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. Still running incredibly well, wouldn't change anything really :)
Thanks, I always enjoy your videos. It's funny you posted this right as I am starting to really research worm bins. I have been experimenting with composts and my chicken compost system is my favorite but find nothing has that instant boost like castings. Are you about to get enough worms to supplement protein during winter for your chickens? That's another issue I am working on myself.
Nice ya I totally agree castings are the best thing around. I have fed a few worms from time to time but I'm raising these strictly for processing fertilizer for me. I have a soldier fly larvae bin going right now and I just saw the first flies so hopefully feeding those soon to my chickens. Will be detailing it all on here, I'm posting some pics and stories on my IG about the BSF now though.
Enjoyed the video! Speak up though! Have some confidence, what your doing is great! Really looking forward to more videos
Thanks for kind words and encouragement! I'll do that!
how long did it take for each bin to be full of worms
How do I keep the worms warm in the winter
how many worms do you have and how long does it take until harvest time for the castings?