Love this video, the practicality and the knowledge you have surmised. I have had worms in my life for 50 years and have 'transplanted' them across the NT. What you say is right. You are correct about 'breeds' of worms, you are correct about drainage and comfort. I started as a small boy with no 'rules', this mumbo jumbo about bedding, I still struggle with. I started my worms all the time in well rotted manure, cow, horse, chicken, rabbit , even buffalo. All worked but if I had drainage, somehow I didnt ever find the desire to put in bedding. Actually, I have still never worked this one out. I do not mind the issue of worms eating newspaper etc. To what purpose, I have never worked out why it is a 'necessity'. .. Cheers and thankyou a wonderful video...
Technically they could just live in their own castings as bedding but if you want to use them on the garden they need replacing with something like newspaper. The bedding simulates their natural environment which is living in the leaf litter layer of a forest. Manure works too as would leaves. It also is food for the worms so you don’t actually have to feed them often if you don’t want to.
Root I’m with you, I dunno why folks insist on using so much paper, especially white paper... and peat or coir as well... better to run a rake over the yard and use that pile of stuff... I use fresh horse manure with straw in all my bins, don’t really ever give them too much else, maybe some coffee grounds and lawn mower clippings and rotten leaves. And I live in the middle of a big city in California... The only paper I give is once a month I’ll tear up the junk mail I saved up, but just to get rid of it not as a source of “bedding”...I’m not even sure why it’s called bedding, it’s all worm food...
Great video, it would've been perfect if your weed mat was a bit larger and went completely up the sides as you would be losing lots of worms in between the weed mat and bath.
Just pull out the inner bin and the tray will be sitting there nicely packed with castings. Worm castings are quite wet and stick together so won’t all fall out of the inner bin when you pull it out.
i didn't put any dirt in. it would have been a bucket of worm castings with the worms that i got from a local who sold me the worms. I think in this video i used shredded paper as the main bedding but these days i prefer to use animal manure as i think it gives richer worm juice as well since that is basically just water filtered through whatever is going on in the worm farm (and not actually all 'worm wee' like some people refer to it as). Hope that helps! i'm actually currently working on a new wormfarm video as i now use a different system which is also a diy but in my opinion much better. So stay tuned!
Fantastic. I have two baths here, my plan was to start one then split the same as you described but I didn't know enough about the initial setup. Sadly most died as I didn't take good enough care of them. I'm keen to start next year and these instructions will be great. How often do you check if yours need food or watering with the metal on top now? What sort of manure? We were feeding our cow and some kitchen scraps but cow manure is not as available to us atm. Tia
I feed them horse manure just because I can get it for free here. Honestly I only check mine very few weeks. I’m sure o could get more out of them though if I did it more frequently. One bath dries out sooner than the other so I tend to need to water that one weekly in summer. But generally they stay so moist I have frogs living in there.
I'm currently editing a video on why i no longer use these bathtub worm farms - one reason is i discovered mine had lead enamel so a good tip is to always do a test kit on any bathtub you are considering using too. Its wonderful though to be able to reuse materials like bathtubs where they are safe though. Thanks for watching!
@@beebob1279 Sure thing and i'm sure they are safe. That being said this new design i've made is a flow through worm farm which i think beats bath tub bins any day for functionality and are just as productive now that i've experienced both designs.
Never had a problem with white paper. Probably only trace amounts of bleach left. My worms are still happy years on. Paper is bleached with chlorine which is also in tap water which many people including us also use. So a low level of it must be ok for worms.
great video. I live in the northeast US. do you think it will be to cold in the winter to use this setup outside? it get's below zero here. I have access to a tub, trampoline and blocks so if it's ok I'm ready to go. thank you.
We get a few snow days a year and it's been fine. But if you mean below zero Fahrenheit i would think you'd need to move them into a garage or something in the winter time. You might be interested in my other worm farm design which is what i use now as this woudl be alot easier to move seasonally and its also easier to harvest castings from: ua-cam.com/video/AF3C2IP-GyQ/v-deo.html Make sure you watch the update video on it too as i have made a slight modification.
Thank you. I'm making a bathtub worm farm and was refreshing my memory by viewing videos. I like your video alot. Ty
Learning, following to you, thanks lot
Nice reuse of the cemetery benches as supports for the bathtubs!
Love this video, the practicality and the knowledge you have surmised. I have had worms in my life for 50 years and have 'transplanted' them across the NT. What you say is right. You are correct about 'breeds' of worms, you are correct about drainage and comfort. I started as a small boy with no 'rules', this mumbo jumbo about bedding, I still struggle with. I started my worms all the time in well rotted manure, cow, horse, chicken, rabbit , even buffalo. All worked but if I had drainage, somehow I didnt ever find the desire to put in bedding. Actually, I have still never worked this one out. I do not mind the issue of worms eating newspaper etc. To what purpose, I have never worked out why it is a 'necessity'. .. Cheers and thankyou a wonderful video...
Technically they could just live in their own castings as bedding but if you want to use them on the garden they need replacing with something like newspaper. The bedding simulates their natural environment which is living in the leaf litter layer of a forest. Manure works too as would leaves. It also is food for the worms so you don’t actually have to feed them often if you don’t want to.
Root I’m with you, I dunno why folks insist on using so much paper, especially white paper... and peat or coir as well... better to run a rake over the yard and use that pile of stuff... I use fresh horse manure with straw in all my bins, don’t really ever give them too much else, maybe some coffee grounds and lawn mower clippings and rotten leaves. And I live in the middle of a big city in California...
The only paper I give is once a month I’ll tear up the junk mail I saved up, but just to get rid of it not as a source of “bedding”...I’m not even sure why it’s called bedding, it’s all worm food...
Awesome video. Have two bath tubs and your video really helped!
Great video, it would've been perfect if your weed mat was a bit larger and went completely up the sides as you would be losing lots of worms in between the weed mat and bath.
Wow this was simple and awesome help thank you!
Great video,thank you.
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Lol at the baby comment
WORMS COMPLAINT THAT THEY HAVE TO READ LITTLE PIECES HERE AND THERE AND NOT THE ENTIRE LETTER...///////////
Hahha
Amazing tutorial, thanks for sharing it.
But with this method how do you collect the worm casting?
Ps: Lovely to see the baby on the shoulders :)
Just pull out the inner bin and the tray will be sitting there nicely packed with castings. Worm castings are quite wet and stick together so won’t all fall out of the inner bin when you pull it out.
Great idea. You didn't say what kind of dirt you put into the tub. Thanks for sharing:)
i didn't put any dirt in. it would have been a bucket of worm castings with the worms that i got from a local who sold me the worms. I think in this video i used shredded paper as the main bedding but these days i prefer to use animal manure as i think it gives richer worm juice as well since that is basically just water filtered through whatever is going on in the worm farm (and not actually all 'worm wee' like some people refer to it as). Hope that helps! i'm actually currently working on a new wormfarm video as i now use a different system which is also a diy but in my opinion much better. So stay tuned!
@@LoganberryForest watching out for this
Hello,
could we use boxes made of "expanded polystyrene" or "styrofoam box" for the worm farm?
Fantastic. I have two baths here, my plan was to start one then split the same as you described but I didn't know enough about the initial setup. Sadly most died as I didn't take good enough care of them. I'm keen to start next year and these instructions will be great. How often do you check if yours need food or watering with the metal on top now? What sort of manure? We were feeding our cow and some kitchen scraps but cow manure is not as available to us atm. Tia
I feed them horse manure just because I can get it for free here. Honestly I only check mine very few weeks. I’m sure o could get more out of them though if I did it more frequently. One bath dries out sooner than the other so I tend to need to water that one weekly in summer. But generally they stay so moist I have frogs living in there.
Plumbers are always pulling tubs out of houses. Ask your local plumber if you have a good relationship with them
I'm currently editing a video on why i no longer use these bathtub worm farms - one reason is i discovered mine had lead enamel so a good tip is to always do a test kit on any bathtub you are considering using too. Its wonderful though to be able to reuse materials like bathtubs where they are safe though. Thanks for watching!
@@LoganberryForest there are a lot of fiberglass tubs these days
@@beebob1279 Sure thing and i'm sure they are safe. That being said this new design i've made is a flow through worm farm which i think beats bath tub bins any day for functionality and are just as productive now that i've experienced both designs.
Not supposed to use white paper due to its bleached, newspaper cardboard best aged or cold manure ie. Rabbit or goat or aged horse
Never had a problem with white paper. Probably only trace amounts of bleach left. My worms are still happy years on. Paper is bleached with chlorine which is also in tap water which many people including us also use. So a low level of it must be ok for worms.
The definitely need good shade yeah? I’m in Melbourne and the first time I started a worm from they all died :(
Definitely a shady spot. I’m only 1hr from Melbourne :)
great video. I live in the northeast US. do you think it will be to cold in the winter to use this setup outside? it get's below zero here. I have access to a tub, trampoline and blocks so if it's ok I'm ready to go. thank you.
We get a few snow days a year and it's been fine. But if you mean below zero Fahrenheit i would think you'd need to move them into a garage or something in the winter time. You might be interested in my other worm farm design which is what i use now as this woudl be alot easier to move seasonally and its also easier to harvest castings from: ua-cam.com/video/AF3C2IP-GyQ/v-deo.html Make sure you watch the update video on it too as i have made a slight modification.
WHATS THAT THING HINGING FROM YOUR BACK ?
A possum lol