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
I agree, I think they like being cozy & snug!! Another commenter pointed out that moisture collects on the bottom corners and they are attracted to the moisture, so that may be a factor as well! But the avocado shell worm ball fits the cozy thesis better!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Ohh wow, so that is how you let them go deep. Just by agitating them. I learned something again hehe. Your lovely executive producer is so kind. Hehe 😊
She is the best, she is so patient with me!! Yes, this agitation method is so easy with a worm tower!! I let them do all the work! Thanks so much for all your support & for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Another outstanding video thumps up please keep posting more video ı enjoy watching your video many thanks for your efoorts much appreciated go ahead ..much support wish good luck 🤩🙃 See you soon New friend
Yes, I have fed both cooked cous-cous and some that I have blended up into my worm chow. Just like any new food, I would feed just a little to see how they react to it and then slowly add more when you see them consume it all. Great question!! Thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Thanks to you, I now always have an innoculating bin below my active/completed tray on my vermi tower. Now I have learned something new as concerns removing the worms in the completed tray, very timely because I have a tray ready for that, thanks!
That is great timing!! The agitation method sure beats individually pulling 200-400 worms out of that tray!! That's great the inoculating tray technique is part of your system now!! I love it!! I really appreciate you leaving a comment letting us know about your vermi tower!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
They really wiggled up to the top to get some delicious food scraps!! It took me a little longer to edit this video as you can probably tell from all the cuts & life got busy in the middle of it 😂 Thanks so much for stopping by!!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you!! I'm always trying to tinker with things to try to make them better and the comments have made a world of difference as people pass on good ideas from their systems!! I appreciate the kind words!! Thanks so much for watching & commenting!!🪱🪱🪱
This is definitely a simple way of harvesting. I had to smile when you said you hope agitating the bin will make the worms not happy with you. We all want our worms to be happy with us but when it comes to harvesting we don't. That way they will shy away from us and make the harvesting so much easier.
Helloooooo Patrick my wormie friend!!! Ohhhh yay they are just going so strong 💪 look at em all, they’ve come straight up to the good food!! 😅 Yeah that’s true, they need the brown and green just like compost! Ohhh the pre harvest tray! Ohhhhh yeah we all need a good exec producer!!! Well done Autumn!! 😄🙌🏼💪 That was cool to see how you agitate them down to the bottom tray!!! Ok so that process seems pretty straightforward. And that’s pretty much the full cycle?? Amazing!! And next time we get to see the cocoon nursery with all the babies 🪱🪱🪱 that’ll be awesome, can’t wait to see all that…… hope you guys are having a brilliant weekend!! 😃🌻🪱🌸💐
Hellloooo Anita!!! Yes, Autumn is the best and she is sooooo patient with me!! She can see me going down the wrong path but has to wait until there is a good pause point to let me know😂 For me, with this tower system, the agitation method is the simplest way to go with very little effort from me!! Fingers crossed for some cute little babies next check in!! Aren't all baby animals cute!!!! Have a fun weekend!!! I just have to tell you again how fabulous that flower display turned out with the white interior and rustic exterior!! The flowers absolutely pop out!!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch and of course thank you, THANK YOU, ThAnK YoU for your amazing comments!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost hahaha you are so welcome my friend, you know I love your content, it’s fantastic and you guys do an amazing job….. and I’m so glad you like the flower stall too! I am so pleased with how it all turned out, take care and see tou in the nxt video yay! 😁💐🙏
No worries!! I appreciate anytime you stop by to watch!! I really enjoy your videos and seeing you harvest all your veggies & fruits 6 months before us!!! Keep those baby dinos happy!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost thanks mate I really appreciate it I definitely need to catch up watching your videos 👍 The dinos are malting at the moment and look very scruffy 😂😂
Epic !! So, including the incolanting and baiting periods, you're looking at 240 days all in ? Love the "this is from my garden" flex 🥕🥕🥕💪. The man practices what he preaches !! I can tell you, an executive producer is worth "their" weight in gold ;) Awesome video and crispy edits brother Hope you two are having a great weekend!! Cheers, Jason, and the EXEC!! 🌱🪱🌱
😂 I love your comments as much as I love your videos!!! It's interesting when you get a worm tower and start the first tray, it is about 150-180 days before you harvest it without a cocoon nursery. Harvesting that first tray is the only tray that takes "forever" because after that the pump is primed and every 2 months you are harvesting castings (because more trays constantly go on every 2 months) It's like a hose...the only time you ever wonder how long water takes to go through a hose is when it is brand new and you first turn the faucet on. After that you don't care how long it takes to get from the beginning to the end of the hose as long as water is flowing😂 So my first tray took 162 days (no cocoon nursery) 2nd tray 189 days (no cocoon nursery) 3rd tray 172 + a 65 day cocoon nursery. 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th very similar. So you are correct!! Start to finish about 240 days but without my spread sheet I'd never know that because it gives me about 10 pounds of castings every 2 months!!! Garden flex!!! I love it!! Now I'm gonna make sure I flex even more for you💪🥕🍓 What would we do with out our wives to keep us in check??!? It's like they are married to toddlers playing in dirt!! About that editing...I just got new software and switched from iMovie to FinalCutPro so I got a little crazy playing with the splices🤣😂✂️I'll get better!! I hope you both have a great weekend!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing mind =blown 🤯🥳🤯!! Yes, more flexing, give the people what the need/want!! We love the hose analogy as well, which makes sense. Just like when I was in sales, keep "putting people in the pipe," eventually the sales drip out lol It sounds like cool software, and I think that's key (if you weight as important) to make the evolution of your channel. You have everything in the right proportions, enthusiasm, knowledge, and relateability (not sure if that's a word). Crispy edits will just add that "Je ne sais quoi" (not the literal meaning) to your brand 💪💪💪 And as I've said before, if creators put time and effort into making great content, whatever that is, I feel it's incumbent on me to try to leave an equally awesome comments Get your hands (well, at least 1 🧤 lol) dirty, stay awesome, brother 💪💪💪
My worms like the corners too. Wondering about the coconut coir they gave with the Vermihut. I used it and it and when I feed I do not notice a mega amount of worms in the feeding zone. Seems like they are all dispersed throughout the try. Somehow the food is gone though. thanks for any insight about the coconut coir.
I used the coco coir that came with it, but then I switched to shredded cardboard with a little bit of shredded paper. I found I was able to distinguish the castings better and all the bedding was now free!! The coco coir can also make it harder to see the food as the food decays and turns dark. If the food is gone you can give them a little more than last feeding. There will always be worms all throughout the trays with a bunch concentrated in the feeding zone only if there are food scraps or food scrap juices left in that area, so it is not uncommon to see the food gone and no worms congregated there. If you feed a piece of melon you will most likely see a worm ball right underneath it by day 2 and nothing left by day4!! Unless you really want to keep using coco coir as bedding I think the better way is to use what you have and use shredded cardboard with a little bit of shredded paper! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and let us know about your bin and experience with the coco coir!!🪱🪱🪱
🤣😂🤣 Favorite comment on this video!!! Luckily the once every 7-10 day agitation they get is much less than the constant predation and pounding they get in the wild!! Thanks so much for watching and thanks for the good laugh!! btw, I'm an O'B as well!!☘️🪱🪱🪱
@04:33 Holy video editing zealousness :) This system is kickin' - woohoooo! The agitation method worked well - and the time that passed was fun because you got to play with the worms & castings 👍🏻
😂🤣😂 I just switched my editing software from iMovie to FinalCutPro and I got a little carried away playing around in a few places! I was hoping the 10-15 minute time lapses in between agitations would show more action, but because I had light over head to help drive them down they disappeared pretty quickly...This was a live and learn camera/editing adventure!! But, like you said at least I got to play with the worms and castings!!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you - very helpful, as I have the same equipment. I notice you have something brown growing on the sides of your bins. What is that, and is it in the helpful or unhelpful category? I think I have the same thing going on. THANKS!
I'm so glad you found it helpful. The brown stuff is casting the worms leave as they climb up the walls. I'v found in this worm tower with such a tight lid the humidity level is high in the air between the lid and the top tray so some moisture condenses on the sides...and where that happens the worms feel free to roam! My tiny worm bin rarely has any castings on the sides because the humidity is not as high within it due to the huge air holes and loose lid. Hope this helps!! It is nothing to worry about and perfectly normal...the worms are curious creatures and use the moisture as a road to go exploring!! Thanks so much for watching and asking a great question!!🪱🪱🪱
My issue has always been getting the dense sticky bit along the bottom edges and corners where the worms like to congregate. I’m able to pull off the top layer of castings but I don’t like digging and possibly harming my worms. We had one of those baby bottle racks that look like plastic grass. I put the bottom tray on its side and use the bottle rack to loosen the sticky layer by pushing the plastic prongs through the holes from the bottom, allowing the sticky worm filled castings to fall into a collection tray.
That is a great idea!! My pre-harvest tray is sitting out back to dry out so I can get the last bit of casting stuck in the little holes...I could really use a baby bottle rack right about now!! I know what you mean about trying to get the baby worms out of the corners...luckily when I use this agitation method almost all of them flee down! Thanks so much for the great tip and for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Yes corners are a favorite place for mine too. I had a worm tower and they just got released into a raised bed worn tower made out of pvc pipe. I’m in South Texas and our temps r in the 80’s already so they got relocated to my garden. Got about 8 bin inside still and my ANC in a Urban Worm Bag that will remain in there and I’ll use those castings for my potted plants and flower beds.
Very good!! Another worm farmer with corner worms, so it's definitely a normal behavior! That is quite the set up you have there in South Texas!! I really want am Urban Worm Bag!! Thanks so much for watching and letting us know about the corners & all your bins!!🪱🪱🪱
I have a similar sized composting set up as yours... lately a racoon has realized it's outside and comes everynight and digs around... anything I can do to stop this?
Raccoons are a particularly feisty persistent creature! The only way I have found to keep them away from my house is to trap them and relocate them miles away. I trapped 3 before they all got the picture and stayed away. Check you local rules & regulations because some area have regulations about relocating wild animals. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
So it's not just my bins!! I wonder if they like to be able to push off something hard or if they feel safer in a corner??!? Thanks so much for watching and for letting us know your worms exhibit the same corner behavior I see!!🪱🪱🪱
Great question! I just use a glove on my right hand because that’s the hand that typically digs into the bin & my dirty finger nails don’t look very good on camera to me. I usually only hold things or pick up things with my left hand so no need for a glove & the finger nails stay clean. I just figured I'd save more gloves that way! I have no issues getting my bare hands into the worm bin when I'm not filming, it is just for aesthetics on videos!! Great question, I know it looks odd to wear just one when I get my left hand gets dirty anyway😂 Thanks so much for stopping by to watch and ask a question!!🪱🪱🪱
I definitely think they like to test the boundaries & explore!! Another commenter mentioned that they may be attracted to the moisture that accumulates in the corners as well!. Thank you for the great feedback!! It helps us all learn from each other!! And of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
If you can find some place local that sells red wigglers (the most common and easiest compost worm) that is probably your cheapest option. Although I have not used them yet there are two sources that I would use to ship worms to me. They both have UA-cam channels so you can see how their business works and the quality of their worms. One is The Garden & Worm Lady ua-cam.com/users/TheGardenLadyandWorms And the other is Northeast Worms ua-cam.com/channels/i0auEQBBuac_EU-qNA_wQw.html I hope this helps!! Once you get that first batch going they’ll reproduce like crazy over time. I always suggest starting with at least 1000. Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
All though the whole process takes about an hour It’s really only 4 minutes of agitation time. I go off and do other things for the 15 mins in between each agitation. I have a couple of videos of me counting my tiny worm bin with lots of time lapses…over 1 hour to pick out 600 worms!! It is exhausting counting & it takes forever but at least I get to see each one and know how many I have!! Here are the videos of the counting, I keep it entertaining: ua-cam.com/video/lxFjjGWRn8M/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/8N2NGFw3s54/v-deo.html Thanks so much for taking the time to ask a great question and for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
From the time a cocoon is laid until the baby worm inside is able to grow up and reproduce a cocoon is usually about 60 days in normal conditions for most compost worms folks use...so theoretically your worm bin could double in population every 2 months until it reaches it's carrying capacity in ideal conditions of food, bedding, moisture & temperature. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching our videos!!🪱🪱🪱
That is a great question...and I have been tempted to give it a try...but my wife has an aversion to hair detached from a human😂 I think if I put human hair in there I might come home to 3 empty worm bins!!! Unfortunately, or I guess fortunately, our little Weiner hound does not shed, but I have some neighbors who I could ask for a tuft of dog fur to give it a try! I'm pretty sure from what I've read, that both hair and dog fur are compostable with worms, I've just never tried it to see how long it takes, or how it affects the rest of the bin as it's breaking down. I think it would take a long time, relative to other bedding & food, to break down, but lets give it a try!! Look for a future video from me with dog fur!! Thanks for the idea!! And thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I once put some of mine in. Long, blonde hair. It takes the worms what feels ages to process them. Sometimes I still find some of those hairs when I'm fluffing up the castings (does not feel great when I do and they tangle around my fingers :D).
I had a really bad experience with hair all tangled up around their bodies... really horrible, as their bodies were really locked in. Would definitely advice against adding hair to the bin. Thanks for the amazing videos!!
@@TheDumplingMan So sorry, I just saw this comment! I think I will be avoiding hair in my bin after seeing this and another comment about the hair getting wrapped around the worms!! So glad you all let us know!!🪱🪱🪱
Worms in the corners and all over the sides of the bin? Oh yeah, I know that. In fact it just happened right before watching the video. Wasn't able to feed them for about ten to eleven days since I got Covid (I know that there's still enough for them to eat though). When I opened the bin they were all over the corners and the sides. Really hope it is just because of the moisture cumulating in the corners and their adventurous personalities and that there's nothing else wrong in the bin (moisture seems to be okay). Put them all in the center of the bin (biiig worm ball), but some of them are going back up and don't even shy the light. Gotta have a close look for the next days to see what's going on with my bin.
Is this in your wurmkiste bin? (That is such a cool design!!) I wonder if it is because it is a very enclosed system like my VermiHut? If you wanted, you could dry out the sides and lid a little by keeping the lid off for a few hours each day for a few days. I sometimes did that with my VermiHut last summer. The worms definitely kind of use the moisture as a highway to go up the sides and all over the ceiling of my lid. Eventually I got used to it and now I just know they will be on the sides and lid when I lift the lid : ) There probably is nothing wrong with your bin...just the humidity got a little higher than normal in those 10-11 days. It sounds like you are feeling better!! Hope you have a quick recovery!! And thanks so much for watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Yep, it is the wurmkiste bin (really gotta get a second bin soon!) Maybe another factor is that it is just too full. I've got to harvest again soon. I'm definitely going to try to agitate the worms this time, looks to be so much easier then. And thanks for the recovery wishes, quarantine is over tomorrow. :)
@@TheDumplingMan Great news!! That wurmkiste really looks like a great design and would look great in any home! 1 minute of agitation then let them go down for 10-15 minutes, then 1 minute agitation 10-15 minutes to let them go down...repeat each cycle 3-4 times and most if not all will be out of the castings!!
So many worms for a 166 days and so low vermicompost. When people make videos about worms bins they said "you will get tons of vermicompost in some months"
You're right! It does take patience when you first start out but once the bin gets going it can produce more castings on a regular interval. My VermiHut produces 10 pounds of castings every 60 days (each tray takes about 180-240 days to go from start to finish, but with 4 trays on, one is done every 60 days). My shoe box size Tiny Worm bin is about 5-8 pounds of castings every 5 months, but my Outdoor Worm Bin is 5 pounds every 10-14 days ua-cam.com/video/tI--M5E-oKg/v-deo.html and my Urban Worm Bag is 15 pounds every 30 days ua-cam.com/video/xBLZGu_gZGo/v-deo.html Compared to my regular compost, I can produce more compost faster, taking up a smaller volume of area in my various bins and I am constantly producing. When using Vermicompost it should only be 20-10% of the volume of soil mixes and only about 10% of seed starting mixes. Worm casting tea can be made with only a couple handfuls of vermicompost so a little goes a long way! The worms will produce huge amounts of vermicompost given infinite space but most of us don't have the size bins it takes to produce literally tons of vermicompost. They can double in number every 45-60 days but they slow down reproduction when they get to the carrying capacity of their bin...so it is all about the size of their container, not the capabilities of the worms! I produce about 350-400 pounds of vermicompost a year! Thanks so much for watching & raising a great point about vermicomposting yields!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank you for information, yes, space is always bottleneck, but we have what we have. I was think about makes worms "tower" about two years, but have no time or enough motivation, this year only did outdor compost bin. About 20 years I dig holes in earth and put organic in it, most of it vaporize in 30 days, stay only hard parts or eggshels, becouse there are many wild worms in earth. Can I ask you about word "bedding", you say it often when adding cardboard. Does it mean worms sleep at cardboard or they reproduce there? In wild, I seen how they come from earth but only at night and only if earth is wet, they find partners and do things for reproducing.
Thank you! Yes I used to bury my food scraps in my garden as well. I was very surprised how quickly the worms and other soil creatures ate it! I also run a regular hot compost bin and spread it over my garden before planting each year. The bedding is the brown dead carbon rich stuff like cardboard, paper, straw or other dried dead plants where the nitrogen has escaped from it. The worms require both carbon and nitrogen rich foods so they actually eat the cardboard, just at a slower pace. It also acts as a substrate for the worms to move around in so most folks call it bedding. I hope this helps!
Luckily they are treated with much better care in my worm bins than in the wild, where they are hunted constantly, trampled, eaten, starved of food, and flooded by rains to the point they can't exchange oxygen, then dry out on the sidewalks...so it's a little give and take but I agree I could always be gentler!! (But I do like to be tossed around a little!! I was an instructor pilot in the Air Force and we flew all kinds of aerobatics and stalled and spun our planes daily!! It's really fun) Thanks so much for watching and thanks for the reminder to be more careful!!🪱🪱🪱
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Corners and avocado shells…they like being cozy I guess.
I agree, I think they like being cozy & snug!! Another commenter pointed out that moisture collects on the bottom corners and they are attracted to the moisture, so that may be a factor as well! But the avocado shell worm ball fits the cozy thesis better!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Ohh wow, so that is how you let them go deep. Just by agitating them. I learned something again hehe. Your lovely executive producer is so kind. Hehe 😊
She is the best, she is so patient with me!! Yes, this agitation method is so easy with a worm tower!! I let them do all the work! Thanks so much for all your support & for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
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Another outstanding video thumps up please keep posting more video ı enjoy watching your video many thanks for your efoorts much appreciated go ahead ..much support wish good luck 🤩🙃
See you soon
New friend
Thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video!! Thank you for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Great video! Very informative. 🪱
Thank you!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch and leave a nice comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Nice sharing my friend
Thank you!! I’m so glad you liked it! I appreciate you taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi guys just a question about feeding- can I give my wormies cous cous? Thank you ❤🇦🇺
Yes, I have fed both cooked cous-cous and some that I have blended up into my worm chow. Just like any new food, I would feed just a little to see how they react to it and then slowly add more when you see them consume it all. Great question!! Thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you I’ll try it
Thanks to you, I now always have an innoculating bin below my active/completed tray on my vermi tower. Now I have learned something new as concerns removing the worms in the completed tray, very timely because I have a tray ready for that, thanks!
That is great timing!! The agitation method sure beats individually pulling 200-400 worms out of that tray!! That's great the inoculating tray technique is part of your system now!! I love it!! I really appreciate you leaving a comment letting us know about your vermi tower!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I was just thinking of you. I'm glad to see that the worms are going strong. 💪
They really wiggled up to the top to get some delicious food scraps!! It took me a little longer to edit this video as you can probably tell from all the cuts & life got busy in the middle of it 😂 Thanks so much for stopping by!!!🪱🪱🪱
Looking forward to see how that cocoon nursery does.
Thank you!! It is super full compared to my last two!🪱🪱🪱
You are doing some pretty amazing stuff that setup. Very cool.
Thank you!! I'm always trying to tinker with things to try to make them better and the comments have made a world of difference as people pass on good ideas from their systems!! I appreciate the kind words!! Thanks so much for watching & commenting!!🪱🪱🪱
This is definitely a simple way of harvesting. I had to smile when you said you hope agitating the bin will make the worms not happy with you.
We all want our worms to be happy with us but when it comes to harvesting we don't. That way they will shy away from us and make the harvesting so much easier.
😂 Exactly!! Anything to make the harvesting easier...even if they aren't happy with us!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Helloooooo Patrick my wormie friend!!! Ohhhh yay they are just going so strong 💪 look at em all, they’ve come straight up to the good food!! 😅
Yeah that’s true, they need the brown and green just like compost!
Ohhh the pre harvest tray! Ohhhhh yeah we all need a good exec producer!!! Well done Autumn!! 😄🙌🏼💪
That was cool to see how you agitate them down to the bottom tray!!!
Ok so that process seems pretty straightforward. And that’s pretty much the full cycle?? Amazing!! And next time we get to see the cocoon nursery with all the babies 🪱🪱🪱 that’ll be awesome, can’t wait to see all that…… hope you guys are having a brilliant weekend!! 😃🌻🪱🌸💐
Hellloooo Anita!!! Yes, Autumn is the best and she is sooooo patient with me!! She can see me going down the wrong path but has to wait until there is a good pause point to let me know😂 For me, with this tower system, the agitation method is the simplest way to go with very little effort from me!! Fingers crossed for some cute little babies next check in!! Aren't all baby animals cute!!!! Have a fun weekend!!! I just have to tell you again how fabulous that flower display turned out with the white interior and rustic exterior!! The flowers absolutely pop out!!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch and of course thank you, THANK YOU, ThAnK YoU for your amazing comments!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost hahaha you are so welcome my friend, you know I love your content, it’s fantastic and you guys do an amazing job….. and I’m so glad you like the flower stall too! I am so pleased with how it all turned out, take care and see tou in the nxt video yay! 😁💐🙏
Nice sharing
I'll call you on the second phone to make sure you're safe 🔔🎁🤝
See you again
Thank you for watching!!
Love all of your videos mate
I've fallen behind in watching videos and supporting all my friends 😭
Keep up the good work mate 👍
No worries!! I appreciate anytime you stop by to watch!! I really enjoy your videos and seeing you harvest all your veggies & fruits 6 months before us!!! Keep those baby dinos happy!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost thanks mate I really appreciate it
I definitely need to catch up watching your videos 👍
The dinos are malting at the moment and look very scruffy 😂😂
@@paulsgreenspace 😂🦖
Epic !! So, including the incolanting and baiting periods, you're looking at 240 days all in ?
Love the "this is from my garden" flex 🥕🥕🥕💪. The man practices what he preaches !!
I can tell you, an executive producer is worth "their" weight in gold ;)
Awesome video and crispy edits brother
Hope you two are having a great weekend!!
Cheers, Jason, and the EXEC!! 🌱🪱🌱
😂 I love your comments as much as I love your videos!!! It's interesting when you get a worm tower and start the first tray, it is about 150-180 days before you harvest it without a cocoon nursery. Harvesting that first tray is the only tray that takes "forever" because after that the pump is primed and every 2 months you are harvesting castings (because more trays constantly go on every 2 months) It's like a hose...the only time you ever wonder how long water takes to go through a hose is when it is brand new and you first turn the faucet on. After that you don't care how long it takes to get from the beginning to the end of the hose as long as water is flowing😂 So my first tray took 162 days (no cocoon nursery) 2nd tray 189 days (no cocoon nursery) 3rd tray 172 + a 65 day cocoon nursery. 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th very similar. So you are correct!! Start to finish about 240 days but without my spread sheet I'd never know that because it gives me about 10 pounds of castings every 2 months!!!
Garden flex!!! I love it!! Now I'm gonna make sure I flex even more for you💪🥕🍓
What would we do with out our wives to keep us in check??!? It's like they are married to toddlers playing in dirt!! About that editing...I just got new software and switched from iMovie to FinalCutPro so I got a little crazy playing with the splices🤣😂✂️I'll get better!! I hope you both have a great weekend!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing mind =blown 🤯🥳🤯!! Yes, more flexing, give the people what the need/want!! We love the hose analogy as well, which makes sense.
Just like when I was in sales, keep "putting people in the pipe," eventually the sales drip out lol
It sounds like cool software, and I think that's key (if you weight as important) to make the evolution of your channel. You have everything in the right proportions, enthusiasm, knowledge, and relateability (not sure if that's a word). Crispy edits will just add that "Je ne sais quoi" (not the literal meaning) to your brand 💪💪💪
And as I've said before, if creators put time and effort into making great content, whatever that is, I feel it's incumbent on me to try to leave an equally awesome comments
Get your hands (well, at least 1 🧤 lol) dirty, stay awesome, brother 💪💪💪
@@clivesconundrumgarden Thanks brother!! I appreciate the kind words!! I'm always ready to get one hand dirty😂🤣😂
My worms like the corners too. Wondering about the coconut coir they gave with the Vermihut. I used it and it and when I feed I do not notice a mega amount of worms in the feeding zone. Seems like they are all dispersed throughout the try. Somehow the food is gone though. thanks for any insight about the coconut coir.
I used the coco coir that came with it, but then I switched to shredded cardboard with a little bit of shredded paper. I found I was able to distinguish the castings better and all the bedding was now free!! The coco coir can also make it harder to see the food as the food decays and turns dark. If the food is gone you can give them a little more than last feeding. There will always be worms all throughout the trays with a bunch concentrated in the feeding zone only if there are food scraps or food scrap juices left in that area, so it is not uncommon to see the food gone and no worms congregated there. If you feed a piece of melon you will most likely see a worm ball right underneath it by day 2 and nothing left by day4!! Unless you really want to keep using coco coir as bedding I think the better way is to use what you have and use shredded cardboard with a little bit of shredded paper! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and let us know about your bin and experience with the coco coir!!🪱🪱🪱
Yep, I was getting pretty agitated by all your agitation 🤣🤣
🤣😂🤣 Favorite comment on this video!!! Luckily the once every 7-10 day agitation they get is much less than the constant predation and pounding they get in the wild!! Thanks so much for watching and thanks for the good laugh!! btw, I'm an O'B as well!!☘️🪱🪱🪱
@04:33 Holy video editing zealousness :) This system is kickin' - woohoooo! The agitation method worked well - and the time that passed was fun because you got to play with the worms & castings 👍🏻
😂🤣😂 I just switched my editing software from iMovie to FinalCutPro and I got a little carried away playing around in a few places! I was hoping the 10-15 minute time lapses in between agitations would show more action, but because I had light over head to help drive them down they disappeared pretty quickly...This was a live and learn camera/editing adventure!! But, like you said at least I got to play with the worms and castings!!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
The nice thing about using a pro-level video editing package is that you never run out of new things to learn about what it can do :)
Worms are having a "ball" LOL
😂 They sure are!! Thanks so much for watching!! I love learning about your worm business on your channel!!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you - very helpful, as I have the same equipment. I notice you have something brown growing on the sides of your bins. What is that, and is it in the helpful or unhelpful category? I think I have the same thing going on. THANKS!
I'm so glad you found it helpful. The brown stuff is casting the worms leave as they climb up the walls. I'v found in this worm tower with such a tight lid the humidity level is high in the air between the lid and the top tray so some moisture condenses on the sides...and where that happens the worms feel free to roam! My tiny worm bin rarely has any castings on the sides because the humidity is not as high within it due to the huge air holes and loose lid. Hope this helps!! It is nothing to worry about and perfectly normal...the worms are curious creatures and use the moisture as a road to go exploring!! Thanks so much for watching and asking a great question!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank You!
My issue has always been getting the dense sticky bit along the bottom edges and corners where the worms like to congregate. I’m able to pull off the top layer of castings but I don’t like digging and possibly harming my worms. We had one of those baby bottle racks that look like plastic grass. I put the bottom tray on its side and use the bottle rack to loosen the sticky layer by pushing the plastic prongs through the holes from the bottom, allowing the sticky worm filled castings to fall into a collection tray.
That is a great idea!! My pre-harvest tray is sitting out back to dry out so I can get the last bit of casting stuck in the little holes...I could really use a baby bottle rack right about now!! I know what you mean about trying to get the baby worms out of the corners...luckily when I use this agitation method almost all of them flee down! Thanks so much for the great tip and for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Yes corners are a favorite place for mine too. I had a worm tower and they just got released into a raised bed worn tower made out of pvc pipe. I’m in South Texas and our temps r in the 80’s already so they got relocated to my garden. Got about 8 bin inside still and my ANC in a Urban Worm Bag that will remain in there and I’ll use those castings for my potted plants and flower beds.
Very good!! Another worm farmer with corner worms, so it's definitely a normal behavior! That is quite the set up you have there in South Texas!! I really want am Urban Worm Bag!! Thanks so much for watching and letting us know about the corners & all your bins!!🪱🪱🪱
I have a similar sized composting set up as yours... lately a racoon has realized it's outside and comes everynight and digs around... anything I can do to stop this?
Raccoons are a particularly feisty persistent creature! The only way I have found to keep them away from my house is to trap them and relocate them miles away. I trapped 3 before they all got the picture and stayed away. Check you local rules & regulations because some area have regulations about relocating wild animals. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I have my worms in a big tote. I always find lots of babies right in the corners.
So it's not just my bins!! I wonder if they like to be able to push off something hard or if they feel safer in a corner??!? Thanks so much for watching and for letting us know your worms exhibit the same corner behavior I see!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I think it may have something to do with the moisture content in the corners
@@theimperfectimpact I think you are right!! I never thought about the moisture collecting there and attracting them!! Thanks!!
@@Vermicompost glad I could help. You've helped teach me so much, I'm glad I can start returning the favour
@@theimperfectimpact Thank you!! Yes you have!!😀
I’m curious - why only one glove? I see you handle
The worms with both an ungloved hand and a bare hand. Is the glove for your protection our theirs?
Great question! I just use a glove on my right hand because that’s the hand that typically digs into the bin & my dirty finger nails don’t look very good on camera to me. I usually only hold things or pick up things with my left hand so no need for a glove & the finger nails stay clean. I just figured I'd save more gloves that way! I have no issues getting my bare hands into the worm bin when I'm not filming, it is just for aesthetics on videos!! Great question, I know it looks odd to wear just one when I get my left hand gets dirty anyway😂 Thanks so much for stopping by to watch and ask a question!!🪱🪱🪱
I also find worms congregating sound the edges and in the corners, maybe they just test the boundaries
I definitely think they like to test the boundaries & explore!! Another commenter mentioned that they may be attracted to the moisture that accumulates in the corners as well!. Thank you for the great feedback!! It helps us all learn from each other!! And of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hey, can you please tell me the size of the holes in these trays?
The holes are 1/4 inch! Perfect size for even chubby worms to make it through!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Where should I buy worms to start a simple worm bin?
If you can find some place local that sells red wigglers (the most common and easiest compost worm) that is probably your cheapest option. Although I have not used them yet there are two sources that I would use to ship worms to me. They both have UA-cam channels so you can see how their business works and the quality of their worms. One is The Garden & Worm Lady ua-cam.com/users/TheGardenLadyandWorms
And the other is Northeast Worms ua-cam.com/channels/i0auEQBBuac_EU-qNA_wQw.html
I hope this helps!! Once you get that first batch going they’ll reproduce like crazy over time. I always suggest starting with at least 1000. Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Seems to me having spent an hour of agitation time, why not just spend 15 mins picking them out and putting them where you want them?
All though the whole process takes about an hour It’s really only 4 minutes of agitation time. I go off and do other things for the 15 mins in between each agitation. I have a couple of videos of me counting my tiny worm bin with lots of time lapses…over 1 hour to pick out 600 worms!! It is exhausting counting & it takes forever but at least I get to see each one and know how many I have!! Here are the videos of the counting, I keep it entertaining: ua-cam.com/video/lxFjjGWRn8M/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/8N2NGFw3s54/v-deo.html
Thanks so much for taking the time to ask a great question and for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
A worm cocoon takes about 60 days to hatch you said?
From the time a cocoon is laid until the baby worm inside is able to grow up and reproduce a cocoon is usually about 60 days in normal conditions for most compost worms folks use...so theoretically your worm bin could double in population every 2 months until it reaches it's carrying capacity in ideal conditions of food, bedding, moisture & temperature. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching our videos!!🪱🪱🪱
I was wondering if you have ever tested composting hair with your worms, clean human hair and/or pet hair.
That is a great question...and I have been tempted to give it a try...but my wife has an aversion to hair detached from a human😂 I think if I put human hair in there I might come home to 3 empty worm bins!!! Unfortunately, or I guess fortunately, our little Weiner hound does not shed, but I have some neighbors who I could ask for a tuft of dog fur to give it a try! I'm pretty sure from what I've read, that both hair and dog fur are compostable with worms, I've just never tried it to see how long it takes, or how it affects the rest of the bin as it's breaking down. I think it would take a long time, relative to other bedding & food, to break down, but lets give it a try!! Look for a future video from me with dog fur!! Thanks for the idea!! And thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I once put some of mine in. Long, blonde hair. It takes the worms what feels ages to process them. Sometimes I still find some of those hairs when I'm fluffing up the castings (does not feel great when I do and they tangle around my fingers :D).
I had a really bad experience with hair all tangled up around their bodies... really horrible, as their bodies were really locked in. Would definitely advice against adding hair to the bin.
Thanks for the amazing videos!!
@@sindyfransen8299 Oh no!! Thanks for letting me know!! I really appreciate you watching and thanks for the kind words!!🪱🪱🪱
@@TheDumplingMan So sorry, I just saw this comment! I think I will be avoiding hair in my bin after seeing this and another comment about the hair getting wrapped around the worms!! So glad you all let us know!!🪱🪱🪱
Worms in the corners and all over the sides of the bin? Oh yeah, I know that. In fact it just happened right before watching the video. Wasn't able to feed them for about ten to eleven days since I got Covid (I know that there's still enough for them to eat though). When I opened the bin they were all over the corners and the sides. Really hope it is just because of the moisture cumulating in the corners and their adventurous personalities and that there's nothing else wrong in the bin (moisture seems to be okay). Put them all in the center of the bin (biiig worm ball), but some of them are going back up and don't even shy the light. Gotta have a close look for the next days to see what's going on with my bin.
Is this in your wurmkiste bin? (That is such a cool design!!) I wonder if it is because it is a very enclosed system like my VermiHut? If you wanted, you could dry out the sides and lid a little by keeping the lid off for a few hours each day for a few days. I sometimes did that with my VermiHut last summer. The worms definitely kind of use the moisture as a highway to go up the sides and all over the ceiling of my lid. Eventually I got used to it and now I just know they will be on the sides and lid when I lift the lid : ) There probably is nothing wrong with your bin...just the humidity got a little higher than normal in those 10-11 days. It sounds like you are feeling better!! Hope you have a quick recovery!! And thanks so much for watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Yep, it is the wurmkiste bin (really gotta get a second bin soon!) Maybe another factor is that it is just too full. I've got to harvest again soon. I'm definitely going to try to agitate the worms this time, looks to be so much easier then. And thanks for the recovery wishes, quarantine is over tomorrow. :)
@@TheDumplingMan Great news!! That wurmkiste really looks like a great design and would look great in any home! 1 minute of agitation then let them go down for 10-15 minutes, then 1 minute agitation 10-15 minutes to let them go down...repeat each cycle 3-4 times and most if not all will be out of the castings!!
So many worms for a 166 days and so low vermicompost. When people make videos about worms bins they said "you will get tons of vermicompost in some months"
You're right! It does take patience when you first start out but once the bin gets going it can produce more castings on a regular interval. My VermiHut produces 10 pounds of castings every 60 days (each tray takes about 180-240 days to go from start to finish, but with 4 trays on, one is done every 60 days). My shoe box size Tiny Worm bin is about 5-8 pounds of castings every 5 months, but my Outdoor Worm Bin is 5 pounds every 10-14 days ua-cam.com/video/tI--M5E-oKg/v-deo.html and my Urban Worm Bag is 15 pounds every 30 days ua-cam.com/video/xBLZGu_gZGo/v-deo.html Compared to my regular compost, I can produce more compost faster, taking up a smaller volume of area in my various bins and I am constantly producing. When using Vermicompost it should only be 20-10% of the volume of soil mixes and only about 10% of seed starting mixes. Worm casting tea can be made with only a couple handfuls of vermicompost so a little goes a long way! The worms will produce huge amounts of vermicompost given infinite space but most of us don't have the size bins it takes to produce literally tons of vermicompost. They can double in number every 45-60 days but they slow down reproduction when they get to the carrying capacity of their bin...so it is all about the size of their container, not the capabilities of the worms! I produce about 350-400 pounds of vermicompost a year! Thanks so much for watching & raising a great point about vermicomposting yields!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank you for information, yes, space is always bottleneck, but we have what we have. I was think about makes worms "tower" about two years, but have no time or enough motivation, this year only did outdor compost bin. About 20 years I dig holes in earth and put organic in it, most of it vaporize in 30 days, stay only hard parts or eggshels, becouse there are many wild worms in earth. Can I ask you about word "bedding", you say it often when adding cardboard. Does it mean worms sleep at cardboard or they reproduce there? In wild, I seen how they come from earth but only at night and only if earth is wet, they find partners and do things for reproducing.
Thank you! Yes I used to bury my food scraps in my garden as well. I was very surprised how quickly the worms and other soil creatures ate it! I also run a regular hot compost bin and spread it over my garden before planting each year. The bedding is the brown dead carbon rich stuff like cardboard, paper, straw or other dried dead plants where the nitrogen has escaped from it. The worms require both carbon and nitrogen rich foods so they actually eat the cardboard, just at a slower pace. It also acts as a substrate for the worms to move around in so most folks call it bedding. I hope this helps!
@@VermicompostThank you!
Your mean to your worms. How would you like to get thrown around like that over and over again?
Luckily they are treated with much better care in my worm bins than in the wild, where they are hunted constantly, trampled, eaten, starved of food, and flooded by rains to the point they can't exchange oxygen, then dry out on the sidewalks...so it's a little give and take but I agree I could always be gentler!! (But I do like to be tossed around a little!! I was an instructor pilot in the Air Force and we flew all kinds of aerobatics and stalled and spun our planes daily!! It's really fun) Thanks so much for watching and thanks for the reminder to be more careful!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost point taken thanks for the reply. I was mostly teasing thanks for the informative video.
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