the worms are producing liquid gold if I had land I would setup several of these buckets before I spent another dollar on Medi One by green planet they sell 1L of "liquid worm casting" which is 40 Canadian dollans which is just crazy I respect this video great information .
The system uses three buckets. The bottom bucket is completely solid in order to capture any liquid drainage that comes from the worm composting process. The other two buckets have holes in the bottom that are large enough for the worms to travel through and for liquid to drain out. The two buckets also have very tiny holes up top that allow for natural circulation but they’re small enough to prevent the worms from getting out and to keep small bugs from getting in. I hope this helps to clarify any confusion and allows you to have a better understanding of how my indoor worm bin works.
Man I’m so grateful I found your channel! I’m originally from Chicago and moved to Frankfort Kentucky. City man and now a country man 😂. Now turned garden man lol. I’ve binged your short videos and learned so much! New sub! Sent this channel to all my farmer friends! This channel deserves wayyyyy more followers, likes, views, and comments! Wish you the best bro! 👏🏾
Eisenia fetida is the best composting worms. Best to get them named as such, rather the generic term of red wigglers, as they may not be Eisenia f. but combination of worms.
Love this design! Indoor worms is a requirement in Phoenix area! Curious about cutting a large circle hole in lid and gluing a piece of window screen? My thinking is more air, and no fruit flies/etc if the mesh is sufficiently small. Also, less work than 100 small holes.
We have had the bin for about 9 months and haven’t had any issues with bugs. As long as you bury the scraps you should be good 👍🏼 the lid helps to keep it dark which the worms want.
@earthnailsandtails my indoor worm farm was much like A V wormery. I little more organized but I used the same tubs..but I didn't start doing it this way till I tried every other way..went to racke and tubs about 15 years ago. The bucket idea ( with a few changes ) is what I put in my raised beds outside. No bottom to catch drippings and a decorative top to remove and add worm foods. Later I just removed entire bottom and pulled bucket yearly and moved to another spot in raised beds..I didn't see worry about saving worms as I had millions inside. I should have sold more worms but was to. Busy to set up business farther than just selling castings on a small scale.
As long as you don't have a lid that snaps on tight without holes, the worms will be fine. I actually run all my worm bins without lids. The worms want to stay in their bedding where all the yummy food is!
They will fall in the liquid bucket. To keep them from falling in the liquid bucket you either cheese cloth or tulle from the fabric store. It allows air to still circulate and the liquid to come through but the worms will stay in the second bin.
I feel strongly that worms aren’t this complicated. Find an old bucket and mix in two worms, two bananas (one for each worm), newspaper, and spray it with a days a water..
@@earthnailsandtails I'll make sure to watch it! At my parents' house I was doing bokashi composting, but it's not great for balconies because you need to do the soil factory stage
It's a good recommendation, but the whole purpose of the holes is to allow the worms to move in and out and the buckets to be interchangeable, the top second and third bucket.
this is perfect for me because I wanted to do vermicomposting with a no space available to do a huge bin/bed (also I'm afraid of worms because when I was a kid I touch one and feel grossed)
@@earthnailsandtails welp and I'm getting myself ready when it comes Also I wish my fear of worms would come out once I'm about to do a larger container or even a bed
When I was a kid walking to school with my sister, she found a worm in the gutter (because it had rained a lot during the night), and threw it at me. It got stuck in my hair, and nobody noticed until I got home and we found a dry dead worm stuck there. Fun times.
I would like to make worm buckets for my garden. How many bins do yoy recommend for a backyard garden? It's of decent size and we have a deck with other things.
Followed this step sir but what do you think is cause why my worms keeps going up to the lid? They still have enough compost to digest in the first bucket. I also made some holes to the lid and also to the top part of the bucket. Thank you.
third bucket is just the same as the second i just didnt cut it yet because we didnt need it. we have a whole tutorial on the channel of how to build it!
They can move in and out, some will make it into the bottom. If you seem works in the bottom it probably means there is not enough food and they are searching for it OR it’s way to wet which there will be a lot of liquid in the bottom
@@earthnailsandtails I see A lot of my worms have died sadly, but a good bit of them are still alive so I hope they'll repopulate. Shouldn't have treated it as a outdoor one, but I'll learn from my mistakes, and from your advice.
thanks for the explainer! have a question though, can regular buckets be used instead of food grade? do non food grade degrade faster or do chemicals leak into the compost or something?
We have a whole longform video out on our channel that you could check out for even more details, but non-food grade buckets will deteriorate faster, overtime and leach plastic into the worm castings which I would not want to add to my garden
@@earthnailsandtails thanks for answering! I'm new to the channel (and to vermiculture) and just saw this short, I'll be checking that video out! thanks!
Yea they do, usually it’s because there looking for food. I use the water as fertilizer for my fruit trees and gently out the worms back into the bucket
You can feed them more as the population grows. Start with a handful and see how long it takes them to eat it. Immediately feed them more. Eventually you will learn how much to feed each bin
@@earthnailsandtails Oooooh, that might've solved my issue! I might be feeding them too much. The scraps look 'eaten' but there are always so many chunks left over before I was feeding again. 6 yrs ago, I started amending the soil and it's never been richer or more beautiful, and I have seen more worms w each season. Thank you!
@@murieltillman9554 Worms self regulate their population depending on the size of container. They won't over populate! I have four inground garden worm towers allowing these composting worms to go back-and-forth into my garden. I don't see any reason to restrict composting worms to contained bins. They are in every manure and compost pile anyway! Good luck! ~ Sandra
i used the smallest drill bit i had for the top holes and holes in the bottom are large enough for the worms to go through. we have a whole tutorial on the channel!
I feel strongly that the chicken deserved a worm for the cameo
😂😂 I didn’t even notice her until I was done editing, nice time chicken, next time
Lol. I didn’t notice the chicken until I read your comment and rewatched it just to see. So cute.
the worms are producing liquid gold if I had land I would setup several of these buckets before I spent another dollar on Medi One by green planet they sell 1L of "liquid worm casting" which is 40 Canadian dollans which is just crazy I respect this video great information .
The system uses three buckets. The bottom bucket is completely solid in order to capture any liquid drainage that comes from the worm composting process. The other two buckets have holes in the bottom that are large enough for the worms to travel through and for liquid to drain out. The two buckets also have very tiny holes up top that allow for natural circulation but they’re small enough to prevent the worms from getting out and to keep small bugs from getting in. I hope this helps to clarify any confusion and allows you to have a better understanding of how my indoor worm bin works.
But don't u want liquid in the bottom for worm tea. When u add moisture to your worm bin
Holes small enough to prevent fruit flies.... extremely tiny.
Tentatively how many worms are ideal for keeping in one such setup
Let’s hope minimal worms fall thru the holes too end up evolving into poisonous water snakes🤟
Cool But what about the eggs? Do you sift the castings at all? How often do you switch out the bucket?
I miss having chickens. Your friend was so curious. She’s like “dad what’s this?”
Haha they are so curious
They know what’s in there 🤣 they want to eat them 😋
Oh they know what’s in there😂
Man I’m so grateful I found your channel! I’m originally from Chicago and moved to Frankfort Kentucky. City man and now a country man 😂. Now turned garden man lol. I’ve binged your short videos and learned so much! New sub! Sent this channel to all my farmer friends! This channel deserves wayyyyy more followers, likes, views, and comments! Wish you the best bro! 👏🏾
Thank you! This was much clearer
Glad it was helpful!
How often can you harvest castings
You're helping push forward the future, okay? Humans are our connectivity to the dirt around us, our knowledge of the ways of the world.. ty
actually pretty damn good
It’s just that simple-Good job explaining.
Thanks!
When I was 5 I kept worms as pets in my room
This is pretty cool!
Lol that chicken wanted a meal
Ingenious! Awesome dude! Thank you!
So do you sift out Ћ old dirt that Ћ worms migrate from (bucket two) or how do you know Ћ worms have migrated entirely?
Eisenia fetida is the best composting worms. Best to get them named as such, rather the generic term of red wigglers, as they may not be Eisenia f. but combination of worms.
Wow!!! Thank you so much for sharing
Love this design! Indoor worms is a requirement in Phoenix area!
Curious about cutting a large circle hole in lid and gluing a piece of window screen?
My thinking is more air, and no fruit flies/etc if the mesh is sufficiently small.
Also, less work than 100 small holes.
We have had the bin for about 9 months and haven’t had any issues with bugs. As long as you bury the scraps you should be good 👍🏼 the lid helps to keep it dark which the worms want.
Thanks, love the vids.
Such a simple design! Brilliant 👍
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Thank you for the detailed explanation!
Glad it was helpful!
my worms end up in the bottom bucket
I think this is them trying to run away from something. When my compost I put them in that was still too hot, they escaped to the bottom bin.
This is a great idea
Wow, brilliant!
Thank you for sharing, I found your explantion clear and easy to undersrand.
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing!
AMAZING 👍🏻🙏🏻💗
Redwigglers do not migrate up as much as you might think. Raised them for over 40 years....
Good insight, thanks!
@earthnailsandtails my indoor worm farm was much like A V wormery. I little more organized but I used the same tubs..but I didn't start doing it this way till I tried every other way..went to racke and tubs about 15 years ago. The bucket idea ( with a few changes ) is what I put in my raised beds outside. No bottom to catch drippings and a decorative top to remove and add worm foods. Later I just removed entire bottom and pulled bucket yearly and moved to another spot in raised beds..I didn't see worry about saving worms as I had millions inside. I should have sold more worms but was to. Busy to set up business farther than just selling castings on a small scale.
6 months in and I notice that my worms hang out at the bottom of my compost regardless of how much food I have up top.
@@eightmana it has to do with water/ wetness going down in any tiered
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@@marjoriejohnson6535so if bottom is too wet they go up?
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Makes me miss my indoor worms....😢
Great.
The poor worm who got stuck on the outside of the bucket😭😭😭😭😭
Awesome
How long does that take?
Thank you very much, I'm looking forward to making one.
Awesome, Have fun!
Great. this is what I am looking for. thanks a lot!!
No problem!
Thanks
Excellent
can I keep them under my kitchentop? or do they require more wind for circulation?
As long as you don't have a lid that snaps on tight without holes, the worms will be fine. I actually run all my worm bins without lids. The worms want to stay in their bedding where all the yummy food is!
Thank You
The only thing that confuses me is how do the worms not fall in the bottom bucket with the water, since it is a few inch drop they cant climb from.
Some do, you should check it and out then back in if needed but if you give them the environment they like they won’t want to leave
They will fall in the liquid bucket. To keep them from falling in the liquid bucket you either cheese cloth or tulle from the fabric store. It allows air to still circulate and the liquid to come through but the worms will stay in the second bin.
I feel strongly that worms aren’t this complicated. Find an old bucket and mix in two worms, two bananas (one for each worm), newspaper, and spray it with a days a water..
The whole purpose is to make worm castings to use for the garden
Thank you. Shared
Thanks for sharing!!
I moved to an apartment and have no food waste collection. Definitely going to start one of these on my balcony.
It’s an awesome way to compost! We have a whole how to video that you can watch and we are doing an update video this year 🪱
@@earthnailsandtails I'll make sure to watch it! At my parents' house I was doing bokashi composting, but it's not great for balconies because you need to do the soil factory stage
Also add some mesh on the bottom of the second bucket so no worms fall into the liquid below
It's a good recommendation, but the whole purpose of the holes is to allow the worms to move in and out and the buckets to be interchangeable, the top second and third bucket.
@earthnailsandtails what about a hair net stretched over that can be interchangeable with buckets? 😅
How do you keep other 'pests' out? Ants, potato bugs, soldier flies, slugs etc?
The way it’s designed keeps out pests. Have yet to have a problem
Cool
Would you say you prefer worm composting over outside "natural" no-worm composting?
Smart guy
this is perfect for me
because I wanted to do vermicomposting with a no space available to do a huge bin/bed
(also I'm afraid of worms because when I was a kid I touch one and feel grossed)
I’m glad this could work for you! But you will still probably be handling the worms to come degree haha
@@earthnailsandtails welp and I'm getting myself ready when it comes
Also I wish my fear of worms would come out once I'm about to do a larger container or even a bed
Wear gloves. It’s what I do. I’m not a fan of touching worms either but the gloves make it easy to care for my worm bin.
@@lillyg88 thanks for the suggestion
When I was a kid walking to school with my sister, she found a worm in the gutter (because it had rained a lot during the night), and threw it at me. It got stuck in my hair, and nobody noticed until I got home and we found a dry dead worm stuck there. Fun times.
I would like to make worm buckets for my garden. How many bins do yoy recommend for a backyard garden? It's of decent size and we have a deck with other things.
Thanks but what do you give the worms to live in when you first make the bin? Do you just put some top soil in their bucket?
I started my worm bin with coconut coir and a handful of compost from my outdoor bin!
Thanks for your video! Do I need to add any dirt or other material in with the food scraps?
You can but you don’t have to. I’d recommend blending your scrapes into a “smoothie” for the first little bit to really get it going.
For a better quality compost try adding decomposed cow or horse manure, you ll thank me.
What kind of dirt are you putting in and where do you get your worms
This might be a stupid question, but where do you get the worms from?
grab a shovel @ go to forest @ dig @ get worms
Just water your front yard at night , or purchase from the internet.
My question is how long do you have to wait for the worms to migrate and how do you know when they do?
I’d wait a couple weeks. You will be using the worm castings they made im and if you find any in there just put them in the new top bin
What do you do with the worm castings in the winter months when you don’t have an active garden?
You can store them in another bucket
thats new to me
Yeah but wheres the worms come from? My minds blown lol i know maggots come from fly's are worms similar i take it?
What stops the castings from falling through the holes?
They just clump well
I would add chicken manure or cow manure in compost bin. ❤
For normal composting, that would be great, but that can be very bad in a worm composting bin
Followed this step sir but what do you think is cause why my worms keeps going up to the lid? They still have enough compost to digest in the first bucket. I also made some holes to the lid and also to the top part of the bucket. Thank you.
It might be too wet or too dry. In both cases they will try to escape
They don't need a ladder?
cutie Phil 😍😘
I think the chickens crap has more PPM's then worm crap please correct me if I'm wrong
You are not wrong. I use both.
But how the worms gets in?
How many worms did you start with and what are you using for dirt/medium ? Thank you
Search our page, we have a whole how to video
Can I skip the bottom bucket if I'm keeping it outdoors and don't mind it dripping on the floor? Or would it somehow be detrimental to the worms??
if you dont keep up with it all the worms could leave and you would have to start over
How big are the holes on the bottom? How big are the holes at the top? Why didn’t your 3rd bucket at the end of the video not have holes at the top?
third bucket is just the same as the second i just didnt cut it yet because we didnt need it. we have a whole tutorial on the channel of how to build it!
Thiscis titled indoir worm bin .. basement? Closet? Under sink? Garage? What temp range?
We have a whole full length guide on our channel. 70-75F is best
Does it matter what kind of dirt you have the worms in?
Yes, it is not dirt actually it is coconut Coir. If you want to know more about the details we made a full length version
I want to see that full version. Will look for it now. I’m really enjoying your channel. Thank You
so the holes on the middle bucket are very small so that worms donot fall though into the liquid below? right?
They can move in and out, some will make it into the bottom. If you seem works in the bottom it probably means there is not enough food and they are searching for it OR it’s way to wet which there will be a lot of liquid in the bottom
How often do you water a indoor worm bin. Outside bins they say once a week, but that's to much so is it once every 2 weeks?
I have never watered it ever. Adding the food scraps adds plenty of moisture. 👍🏼 starting off you want the material to be damp but not wet
@@earthnailsandtails I see
A lot of my worms have died sadly, but a good bit of them are still alive so I hope they'll repopulate. Shouldn't have treated it as a outdoor one, but I'll learn from my mistakes, and from your advice.
Oh, yeah!
I want my house to smell like rotting food...
The liquid drainage you want, it's a liquid fertilizer
I’d be very careful how you use it.
How long does it take to make a bucket of worm castings to then change the bucket?
I’d say 6 months minimum
thanks for the explainer! have a question though, can regular buckets be used instead of food grade? do non food grade degrade faster or do chemicals leak into the compost or something?
We have a whole longform video out on our channel that you could check out for even more details, but non-food grade buckets will deteriorate faster, overtime and leach plastic into the worm castings which I would not want to add to my garden
@@earthnailsandtails thanks for answering! I'm new to the channel (and to vermiculture) and just saw this short, I'll be checking that video out! thanks!
@@earthnailsandtailscan you use a non food grade bucket for the bottom only ??
@@acesanchez818no because where the liquid falls into the last bucket you can use as natryal fertilizer for your garden
Do you have any issues with pests like roaches crawling into compost bin? Thanks for video
Nope!
Do the worms ever fall into the water
Yea they do, usually it’s because there looking for food. I use the water as fertilizer for my fruit trees and gently out the worms back into the bucket
How much do you feed the worms over what time period? I know this will be subjective for each person, just trying to estimate how many to make...
You can feed them more as the population grows. Start with a handful and see how long it takes them to eat it. Immediately feed them more. Eventually you will learn how much to feed each bin
Is it better to add food crap or leaf’s and grass clipping. ?
Food scraps 👍🏼
How long does it take to compost? Multiple worms?
Hundreds of worms probably 6-9 months
So you only add scraps? You don't add anything else?
Seems simple.
It really is!
Hole size?
Those chickens want those worms lol
They do haha
the real question is how do you pull the buckets apart..
They just come apart 🤷♂️
Any odor ?
I did all that but they keep Escaping so what do I do
Does it stink? 😅I want to do this but I live in NYS and it’s freezing most of the year. If it doesn’t stink I don’t mind keeping it inside
Not at all if you do it right, we have. Whole long form UA-cam video on how to properly set it up and use it
Does it smell?
What kind and how many worms will we need to start with?
Red wiggles!
How long do you wait from putting the third bucket until removing the middle one?
I would wait 2-3 weeks and as you are using the worm castings you can look for any stragglers and just add them to the new bucket
@@earthnailsandtails Nice. Thanks for the answer
👍 My worm bucket is in the ground. Can I use this principle w a 2nd and 3rd bin on top? How much volume of scraps can be put into the bin per week?
You wouldn’t need to add more buckets since the worms have access to the soil. Don’t add more than the worms can eat in a week
@@earthnailsandtails Oooooh, that might've solved my issue! I might be feeding them too much. The scraps look 'eaten' but there are always so many chunks left over before I was feeding again. 6 yrs ago, I started amending the soil and it's never been richer or more beautiful, and I have seen more worms w each season. Thank you!
@@pattis8945 i have 4 buckets in my garden and always alternate the one I feed to😊
Worms will travel to food source. You could put buckets in other locations if desired.
How do they not just fall into the wayer
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After the worms multiply in the next 90 days and beyond, what do you do with them all? I have no chickens and can't possibly do that much fishing!
If you have garden you can add them at pot but don't much put, if have store nearby you can selling them for profit
@Hardcore Gamer Good ideas! I'd read before that you arentsupposed to let them out of containment...I can't understand why not though. They're worms!
@@murieltillman9554 Worms self regulate their population depending on the size of container. They won't over populate! I have four inground garden worm towers allowing these composting worms to go back-and-forth into my garden. I don't see any reason to restrict composting worms to contained bins. They are in every manure and compost pile anyway! Good luck!
~ Sandra
I have smaller versions using 32 oz yogurt containers half buried in raised beds and oversized pots. If you blend your scraps, it works faster.
Won't the top buckets weigh on the worms
No, because there is a lip the other bucket sits on. One bucket doesent fit all the way in to the ither
@@earthnailsandtails thanks ❤️
What size holes for did you drill?
i used the smallest drill bit i had for the top holes and holes in the bottom are large enough for the worms to go through. we have a whole tutorial on the channel!