Worm Bin Basics
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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A few of you have asked to see my worm bin, so here it is! Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done. :)
OH I SHOULD ADD! In addition to "animal products", I also don't feed my worms citrus or avocado. Just seems to create too many issues.
Built a worm bin from a Walmart storage bin that was on sale for $4 last fall after watching your video. I drilled holes in it and half buried it in a cooler section of one my garden beds. I sit a flower pot on top to make it look pretty and it has been working great. Thanks for the gentle nudge to try this out.
Great to hear! I really need to get a new one up and going at the new place soon. 🙂
Gardening is fun and it's not really overwhelming, it's just there are so many things that you can do to achieve the same thing. At the end of the day, we just want the plant grow well and healthy, but you can use a lot of different tools, techniques, concepts to get that. That's what makes gardening never boring. Just like programming :D
Always good to encourage gardeners to have a worm bin. We've been using geobins for the last four years using our paper and cardboard shreddings and kitchen scraps. Works well enough if you only plan to harvest once a year.
I KEEP A WORM BIN TO HELP OUY MY COMPOST AND I ALSO TAKE A HANDFULL EVERY NOW AND THEN FOR FISHING! A MUST HAVE ON THE HOMESTEAD. I GET MY WORMS FROM ANY FISHING AND TACKLE SHOP, THERE;S DIFFERENT VARIETIES AND THEY MULTIPLY QUICKLY AND CHEAP TOO!
I would build a leaf compost pile and add a few inched on the bottom and on the top. I shred cardboard for the top layer. The worms will lay eggs into the cardboard. Get some coco core or peat moss for the main fill in the center.
The book Worms Eat My Garbage is very simplified and a great guide to get started with worms. I through cardboard in my bis with a little peat between layers and top feed food scraps in some soft bedding. Also lay bubble wrap on top of bedding and have better results than a thick layer of paper. Agree that some of the info is overwhelming and marketing products is insane.
Thanks for producing another educational video Veronica. I plan on starting a worm bin soon myself and hope it's as successful as your bath tub.
Years ago I had a neighbor in an apartment complex who raised his worms in the same pots as his many tropical plants. He had a couple of pet bunnies which supplied plenty of pellets that he would add periodically to the pots and he would lightly cover them with the soil. You would not believe how luscious and beautiful his plants were!
I was overwhelmed with info also, so I just bought fishing worms and placed them in a half barrel with soil and potting mix. I feed them my vegetable scraps before I cook and they are doing really well. I just use the soil when I'm ready for it and replace it later so my worms have plenty of space to live
Fantastic Veronica and so glad you finally had time to do a YT video,Missed you.On the worm container ,I leave 1 drain hole for the excessive water that may happen from time to time and I use a catch container and capture the Tea.Great video.TY73s
Hi Veronica. Great video. I’d like to add that worms will process egg shells. Try washing the shells, dry them and then grind them up. The worms love grinder up egg shells and process them this way extremely quickly. Thanks again for the uploads.
I heard that the extra calcium from the egg shells processed this way is great for tomatoes!
Sadra Claypool they help prevent blossom end rot.
I love my worms. I built mine with 3 Rubbermaid storage bins. It was so easy to get started. My tomatoes love that black gold.
Your very smart I like to watch your videos about gardening and gardening related stuff 😊 I am starting a worm bin this year too
Hey Veronica. nice job. Already got my worms. I have had them for about 3 weeks now. I got egg cases looking like course salt on top of the bedding. You should see all the little ones. BIG TIP: do NOT use GARLIC or ONIONS as well as the meat and dairy and leftover cooked stuff. Probably should not put any kind of hot peppers in there either. Coffee is fine but I found that after a few days, half of them wanted cream and sugar, and half of the rest of them wanted decaff. *picky picky picky*
SOME POINTS: 1.Approximately 1000 worms per pound. they can eat half a pound of food a day. I bought a blender at H2O (Help and Hope 2 Others Its like Good Will but more local) and use it to make slurry. they will get to it much faster. I can mix water with it. I am using up a lot of wood hyacinth stuff before it all dries up. Planning on trying out English Ivy as I got a lot of it. If it works out, there will be plenty of food for winter and a good way to get it under control. Another thing... the coffee filters( I use unbleached) kind of disappear in the blender.
2. The first few days I had worms trying to get out. But they were still new to the box. They quit after a few days. I have a second box ready because they are exploding in population.
3. My box is an old Styrofoam thing that some medIcations came in. I put 1/2 in holes in the top and covered inside and out with some old screen from a sliding door. Hot glued it in place. I put 1/16 inch holes in the bottom for drainage but the bottom layer of bedding is dry. The worms stay out of the dry layer so I really don't have anything draining.
4. I do not like newspapers because of all the colored ink. I tried using newspapers for weed barrier when I started my no-till garden beds and noticed a huge difference in the corn planted on or off the newspaper. Not sure about regular office stuff. The paper is fine, its the ink that isn't what it used to be.
Needless to say, I'm having fun with my worms.
Worms love oak leaves! They grow really big in composted oak leaves.
My vegetable garden got poisoned once when some drunken bum sh*t in mine. It killed my tomatoes, Jalapenos, and my basil. It doesn't help that I live across the street from a bar. One morning at 3 AM I found a young lady from the bar puking in my raised bed garden. Never ends.
@@smug8567 I can see how that relates to worms loving oak leaves. It's just so apparent.
I always get my worms from bait shops. They usually don't sell them in bulk, but if you want to get started, it's usually the fastest way to go, and if you feed them a lot, they will multiply and fill your bin.
Worms love leaves or leaf litter leaf mold. I pick up thousands every year. Go right into worm box or garden. I fish alot too 😂🤪
Thank you
I was having issues with my new worms and unsure of what my issue was. I think you helped me realize, to not overthink it and just keep an eye on it and work on it to know how to take care of the wormies
It's always a good day when you make a new post :) My peppers just started taking off, it's been so hot here in AR they are exploding! The ghosts and habaneros aren't as leggy as the cayennes but it'll be time to top em off soon. Have an awesome weekend beautiful Veronica and family!
Yeah same- my superhots are pretty stocky as well this year, but my cayennes are so wispy! Can't wait until they're big enough to trim back!
Thanks Veronica, yes it is a bit overwhelming watching do's and don't videos. I'm reading some of your comments here of various experiences. I'm going to go with ur method to see if my trial works. I have ton of newspapers and expect a fair bit of green waste as the new greenhouse ramps. The bath is a neat idea so too is the old refrigerator carcass in comments. So many things to learn just to get some worm compost tea lol! BTW I'm enjoying these videos muchly :)
Ahhh I know right?!? I've learned like a dozen plus things from comments, AND even more beyond that since shooting this!!! ALWAYS room to do better and learn more. Thanks for joining! :)
They absolutely love watermelon and bananas, I guess because of all the natural sugars in them. And overripe avocados! Invert one half of an overripe avocado in the top layer of soil and that will become a nursery for the worms!
You are so cool!! Glad I stumbled onto your channel..😁I had thought about raising worms but with over 6000sf of garden, 18layer chickens and up to 100meat chickens a year,an ongoing community of rabbits,4bee hives, a family of turkeys with two hens brooding at least a dozen eggs at the moment, the never ending wood pile for heat and a greenhouse( well kind of a hoop house made from several old trampolines lol) that the plastic NEVER seems to survive our brutal Upstate NY winter... I am running crazy most every day... then I realized that every time I pull bunny poop from under hutch compost for garden, I have MILLIONS of worms!!!! 😉.. and afraid to freeze them in a bin overwinter, soooo I like to think of the hutches as a worm farm!! So anyway, you are so cool,our daughter would LOVE you and say you are "so cute"(lol 17yr olds) THANKS for your vids and endless supply of information!!! Keep up the good work!!
HAPPY GARDENING
Sounds like you're already raising worms! Happy gardening!
Very interesting..im a worm addict currently having 1000 worms.more videos please
Just an FYI regarding uncle Jim’s ‘worm farm’- the business is merely a broker selling worms, they do not actually raise any worms. The worms you get come from growers who subcontract. Thus your worms may come from Minnesota one time, Alabama the next. This isn’t good or bad, but may be inconsistent.
Good to know thank you!
My first year on this land someone placed a above ground bed in a place the sun wasn't gonna really hit during the summer. It never got moved & its now the worm bin.
If I don't have worms already I will be getting them soon from a friend or maybe from that old food I ate. It's nice to have Veronica to tell us how to take care of them.
You can catch 100's of nightcrawlers in 1 night. Just go out in a field or even your yard after a soaking rain in the spring or summer. Use a flashlight and just search the ground methodically. You'll see them half-hanging out of their holes stretched out on the ground. You have to sneak up on them quietly and then smack down on them with your hand. Then you grab them next to the hole with the other hand and gradually and gently pull them out. You really have to just get out and do it. My grandma taught me when I was a small child.
Great tips! I'd rather keep them working for me in the field though. 🙂
Awesome. I literally put my worm bin together from a plastic bin I got at Home Depot less than a week ago! I think I have a little too much water, and having the paper scraps on the surface to retain water once I get the right moisture content is something I will definitely implement due to this video.
Thanks!
Get a cheap cross cutting shredder. Cardboard lasts longer than paper and is in plentiful supply.
Yeah I've had the "mud" problem before as well- definitely helps to not water the soil/castings medium directly!
I was thinking about doing cardboard as it begins to heat up around here (we get so many Amazon boxes lol) because of water retention. Glad to know it works!
You could also put a Tupperware bin inside another Tupperware bin and drill holes in the first one so that it collects any excess water in the second one… Oh yeah put a piece of fabric across the holes so the worms not fall through into the water bin and then once the water been fills up if you have a Spicket on the bottom attached to it you can get out the worm tea or you could just lift up the second bin and get to it that way
Great video. Thanks! I bought 1000 worms last year. I started with two 10 gallon totes and now have 4. I think I'm going to have to release some into my garden. I don't have room for 8 totes. lol
Worms will stop multiplying once they sense theres not any more room.. On the other hand the more space you have the bigger they will get individually
Thank you for yet another great video! I have been reading about vermicomposting for a while and found out that there is a big worm farm like 45 minutes from my house! Planning on getting started this weekend.
I just found a new one not that far from me in Texas too! Yay for local worm power!!!
@@VeronicaFlores yay!! That is exciting!
Have you tried doing all-natural hydroponics with the worm tea? Dilute it and put plenty of oxygen in the water. I haven't done it, but I know it would work!
I haven't, but it sounds like it could work!
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Please don’t bring politics into gardening! Just enjoy the info and move on.
WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO DO MOVE TO CHINA BITCH!!!!!!@@116falconer
Jeb Gardener oxygen is good
worms have a gizzard similar to birds and need grit to help break up food particles, egg shells crushed to near a powder and or bone meal ) I save both and with my chicken bones i dry them to be brittle ( oven ) and crush them the same way as egg shells
Thanks for sharing. We use recycled geobins for our worms. So many different ways to do it.
Oh man, I've never even seen geobins before! Totally off my radar. Thanks for that!
Good timing to come up on my feed. I'm looking into a starting a worm bin.
Uncle Jim is wrong when he says vermicompost shall have the moisture content of a wrung out sponge. This saying is true for a hot compost pile and it means 50 - 55% moisture. The ideal moisture percentage for vermicomposting though is close to 80. Studies have come to this conclusion (can be googled).
Obviously worms have a broad spectrum in which they can survive. Still we should try to optimize conditions to their liking. The reason why worms like more moisture is due to the fact that they can slide easier through the material.
But because overdoing moisture accidentally can lead to air holes closing (close to 90% anaerobic conditions occur), try to aim a little lower than optimum. Go for 75%.
I have learned a bit about worms and doing is best. I live in the Phoenix area so I kill with heat if I don't protect. I found that burying about 1 foot deep makes it cool (and warm) using a 5 gallon bucket or Rubbermaid bucket of similar dimensions moderates temperatures. I have kept worms year round with few problems for about 3 years running now. You seem to have the recipes right for food, paper, soil and water etc.
Great idea, burying the bin in a desert climate! I've heard of people insulating with foam etc on the outside, but burying makes a TON of sense.
Love the vibe.....great video
thanks. I've been thinking i need to grow worms but now I will. so simple yet perfect way of saying things u have. love it.
Your channel has completely transformed my jalapeno balcony garden :) I love all your videos. Helps that you're a super babe on top of it all. Keep up the great work! Big fan here all the way from Key West
Glad to hear your garden looks good! Thanks for watching. :)
I started composting in an old refrigerator and somehow ended up with a massive amount of worms. I dump all of my plant based kitchen scraps and grass clippings in there and they are massive!
The Sonoma worm farm in cali is like half the price of the uncle Jim’s worms. And Sonoma has a lot of great videos and shows how’s it’s used for organic farms and vineyards. I ordered from em and recommend em.
Good to know! I need to replace the bin here soon
Thank you, Veronica! This video was very helpful.
Smart and lovely to watch! Thank you Veronica.
Great video :) have been looking into this recently and this video answered some of the questions I have had. Love you're videos in general
BathTub for the Worms😂 Awesome Idea!🐛 Thanks for the good information, you make it seem like not so much of a hassle, Im definitely giving it a go!
Worms are easy, but they need mass(foodwise to multiply). I stack tires for their home. Get rabbits! Worms and rabbits, woot!
You don't worry about chemical leaching with tires?
Can use clean cared board!
Great video. Very informative.! Going to start mine this year. I’m in cal too.. Have a great day..!!
We had great worm dealer) it's the mother Earth) and it works fine for us. I am not sure about newspapers since the paint could potentialy be the problem, we use coco or tree shavings. Looking great Veronica)
I'm all for using whatever resources you have!
Can we check out what you have been planting out in the yard and also how your mushrooms are doing, please.
I recently converted 4 plastic tubs into a worm compost bin. Haven't tested it yet. But how is it you are able to make worm bins seem so elegant 😙
Hahaha I would never describe this bathtub setup as "elegant", but thank you. :)
lol "they seem to chill in the mud, like they have no reason to move" ....sound like the good life hehe
Hi Veronica
I came across one of your videos the other day, where you show how you prune peppers. I have seen quiet a few of you videos now, and I find them really inspiring.
I never really had a garden until 2 years ago when I bought a house with a garden. Most of my garden is covered with grass but I'm planing to turn some of it into a vegetable and fruit garden, and watching your videos really inspires me and remind me not to overthink things :O)
If you ever come to Denmark I'd love to show you around. I live in Odense, the birthtown of Hans Christian Andersen (the writer).
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Keeps warm in the greenhouse and provides a flat work surface. Win win. I have a multi-tray system and the full trays are HEAVY, at least 20+ kg, and you have to remove them as you want to harvest from the lower trays first. Castings also accumulate in the base. I would definitely not buy again if I knew but shell out for a more expensive flow through type system or just go with a cheap / open system like this if I had the space.
Yeah weight is SUCH a big factor in these circumstances! I feel like everything is too heavy for me lol. Guess I need to lift more. :P
Awesome! You always have the best videos. You are my kind of woman Veronica! lol We are running a fairly large worm operation at my compost job! Seems like I'm gonna are the worm man there as well, and we have a 40'x40 garden plot so we are literally turning food scraps into worm poo and more food as well as selling compost. Before I got the job I bought myself some worms(from uncle jims lol)eat worms! and put it in a plastic contain uncover with peat moss and I just put blender-fulls of my veggie scraps in there and they tear it up. i need to get a sifter like i have a work and can get the casting but I kind of just plan on releasing my worms in my raised beds but keys for good worm bini found in my brief experience.moisture(but not too much) and lots of food When i was researching worms someone said that if you don't feed them enough they might stop reproducing. not sure how true that is but
Yeah mine slowed down on reproduction over the winter- not sure if it was food, temperature, or both- but they're seeming to ramp back up now! The sifters are great- there's a commercial vermicompost operation down the road here that has these huge tumblers I'm super jealous of... still doing so much by hand over here.
Everyone knows east coast worms work harder than those slackity west coast worms xD We started using worm castings w/ our transplants this year, seems to have made a real difference - Another great video, thanks!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Egg shells in there. Just crush them up first. Its perfect source of calcium for both the worms and the composte.
Yes, but rinse the shells well to prevent the spread of salmonella.
I keep egg shells in a bucket. When the bucket is about full I hand crush them into a small blender I got for the purpose. Then I take the finely ground egg shells along with coffee grounds and sprinkle them around various plants. So far, so good.
Worms need grit for their guts.
@@IAmNoeyes what do u mean by "grit"?
@@feralfan786 small rocks, dimetacious earth, crushed egg shells, grit helps the worm digest the food it is eating. Some time you can crush rocks to dust and use that, the worms swallow the particles and it helps them produce fast and stronger.
Sorry for all the comments but I like your video and I have some ideas that you might like. I was thinking about using a regular cooler also ....a big oneThen you can leave the lid open a little bit and they can have air plus you have a Spicket all ready installed at the bottom it’s on wheels and it sometimes has like a little handle you can pull it by too!
Dead leaves or grass works really well on top just make sure it’s not sprayed with pesticides or that it’s too much that it suffocates them you want dry fluffy stuff on top
Smart!!! I like this idea a lot!
Nice work 👌
They say egg shells are good for grit or just use sand, but it’s a good way to recycle egg shells if you raise chickens.
Actually eggshells are very beneficial to worms as long as they are rinsed out well and finely crushed or pulverized. They add calcium which drastically improves and increases reproduction. Actually kind of shocked you aren't aware off this as it's a well known and recommended addition to the bedding.
I finally realized the reason we don't do eggshells here (other than them potentially attracting animals to the bin) is because we usually crush them and feed them back to the chickens. :P
This girl is awsome, looks like the makings of some bad ass organics
Awee, you're a worm mommy now. Hehehe :)
I think it's important to mention to future vermicomposters that you need to have a specific type of worms in your worm bin. U cannot just put worm from your garden in there..
confetti for worms... I like it 3:15
Another great video. Keep em coming....
I have 3 bins
bin 1- ANC bin had 20 worms
bin 2- red wiggler + tiger worm had 200 worms
bin 3- local earth worm Allolobophora caliginosa (used as fishing bait)
Sounds like a great setup!
Worms love watermelon. Me too!
Not sure what trees you have (or if you do) in your area but worms absolutely love rotted leaves. You can skip newspaper entirely.
At this location it was really small oak and conifer. Now I have more broadleaf varieties to work with, so I'll totally be doing that instead. 🙂
so funny, I was looking this up just yesterday and you posted a video about it.
I enjoyed, thanks!
I've always thought newspaper must add pollutants to the soil when used for worm food. The inks and dyes alone must transfer something to the soil?
I agree. I use shredded leaves, which break down faster and which worms love.
@@brucea550 if you read all the responses here you 'll find her point of view. Seems oak leaves are fine, but it's almost like you want to give them a year outside in a pile before gringing up and feeding...leaching tannins out maybe, not sure. I grind leaves with aged bark with a mulch mower for mine......bark is white pine and hardwoods (except birch and cherry), leaves are pretty much all Northeastern leaves.
I don't use glossy. I'm sure they do to some extent, but as a mulch layer I find it to be negligible, esp when you don't have access to leaves
@@VeronicaFlores
I never thought about life without leaves! That is really disturbing to me. I use them so much, I can’t even imagine not having an abundance. Is there any fast growing tree you can plant (for me it’s willow or aspen) to get them?
i use peat moss for my worms. I feed them fruit scraps blended up they love it. I also have bought a cricket food that they also love they have it at the pet store. they also like the used coffee grounds occasually . they also like cardboard wet i keep my egg crates that i get my eggs in and i tear them up in small pieces and wet it with scrap paper shredded. i have had mine about 2 years now and i keep them in totes from walmart and in my house. i love watching them and i have to change the tote dirt occassually and give them frest peat moss. hope yours do well for you. i live in alabama and the weather here is hot so i have them in a room with air conditioning. they are spoiled. lmao
They ARE spoiled! I tend to avoid using peat simply because it's a resource that isn't easily renewed, but I have no doubt that your worms really do love it. :)
Very cool, thank you!
The worms do eat the bedding material I would think And can you mix the red widdlers So they cohabiti with African night crawer? As red widdlers feed high up in the container and the African night crawer feed lower down?
Ground eggshells are very good for worms. It gives them grit to help them grind up there food. I blitz mine in the vita mix. :)
Good point- I tend to use eggshells in the garden (or we feed them back to the chickens) and don't really have time to wash, dry, and pulverize them in addition to everything else, but if you have acidic soil and are trying to buffer that a bit for the worms, they can definitely be helpful, and supply a little calcium to boot. :)
Veronica, your description entails way too much work. I have a five gallon bucket I throw my shells into. Then when it is full I bake them on a cookie sheet at 350 for 1 hour...kills all pathogens. Then I cool them and blitz them and use the fine shells in my worm bin and when planting tomatoes or peppers. Easy peasy :)
Dolly Perry oh that's super smart. Maybe I'll collect the ones we use to make lemon curd this week and do that! Most of mine have been ending up in the bottom of tomato planting holes lately.
The smaller the bits of shell the easier it is for plants to get the calcium. I'm glad I could help. I appreciate your channel too :)
Egg shells are ok!
Great simple system. Can I use worms from my garden or are special types needed. I am blessed with a large natural worm population
I'm honestly not sure, but I don't see why you can't give it a try! Many worms you buy are some variety of red wiggler- they eat a ton and reproduce rather quickly. I'd just keep an eye on how much food your worms are going through, as it might be slower for other species than what worm sites say for whatever ones they are selling.
I believe normal earthworms don't work because the don't live in colonies like red wigglers do.
Actually, down South where I live in Jacksonville, Fl ..HUGE EXTREMELY lively and almost snake-like (in their movement) worms called "Alabama Jumpers" are very common. They are a non-native species and there is much debate over the amount (up North perhaps..but not here in the Southeast where they THRIVE and are a welcome addition to most Gardner's as they aerated the soul AND produce nutrient rich castings. They do well in larger bins and can be raised just like Red Wigglers with the (optional but encouraged) exception being a 5 -6 inch layer of soil..either straight or Mixed with Peat Moss or aged and composted manure. All the normal bedding materials can go on top. These Worms are diggers capable of burrowing up to 14 feet underground but frequently stay within 6 inches to come topside to eat decaying leaves, mulch, grains, fruit or whatever vegetation they grab from the top...which is why they are considered good ( not quite as fast breeders as Wigglers) but not the "BEST" for composting but certainly not the worst..not by any stretch and they have the added benefit of being a favorite baitwirm amongbfishermenm
I think EARTHWORMS, although they will eat decaying matter, are not very effective composters, as they live in the earth/soil which they aerate by creating numerous channels.
For effective composting, I believe you need the 'red wigglers' as they are referred to, which are probably the most effective form of COMPOSTING worm.
The majority of worms you find in your garden beds are EARTHWORMS.
So you see, different species of worm behave differently, and therefore have a different purpose in the circle of life ☺
Good info, very correct.
I’ve also learned you do not want to mix the two types, because they will all die.
After how many days can we vitness warms take them out to use for another bucket? Sorry, i didn't notice the number of days.
As a kid I used to collect buckets of worms from a field for free, a bit time consuming and gotta wait for a good rain fall but free.
likely different worms than the red crawlers used for bins like shown here.
When I was a kid in the 70s a buddy and I had an old refrigerator with the door removed that we grew worms in. We sold them as fishing bait at a roadside stand Obviously Bill Gates had a better idea for a business at the time... LOL That was NW Ohio, we would collect night crawlers at night while they were mating and store them in the fridge. We fed them spent coffee grounds. True story...
Mark Wood we did the same thing Mark and those Ohio night crawlers put 2 brothers and a sister thru college at Ohio Northern university over in Ada.
We sold them by the thousands in styrofoam fish boxes. I’ve got a small 21 acre farm now that I’m trying to grow organic produce on so I’m getting setup to raise them again except on a much larger scale so they can provide nutrient rich compost to the crops and greenhouse. I hope to have it all up and running this month.
It will be much different than going thru the fields at night with flashlights scooping them up before they could scurry back down their holes but I’m so looking forward to it all.
Take care brother
Did they put holes on side of the old tube?
Yes on the sides and bottom for drainage and air flow!
Thanks
Veronica, would you please do something to improve the quality of audio recording? Otherwise everything else is great, especially the info you are providing......thanks!
I'd love to! What do you suggest? I barely have time to shoot, upload, and field comments in addition to my actual work, let alone parse A/V equipment, and am on a shoot and run iPhone budget, so any suggestions that fit that picture are appreciated. (If you're talking about background noise, I can't exactly do "quiet on the set", as I'm literally on a working farm full of animals and other people.)
Try a Bluetooth ear piece for your microphone. I'm going to do the same for mine. You can use it for calls when you aren't making videos 😊
Interesting, I don't add citrus or alliums - onion etc. but my worms love avocado
It's mostly that the pits take forever to break down.
@@VeronicaFlores Ahh yes, they go in my compost, again and again and ...... :)
I hear yah , about feeling overwhelmed.. I am totally lost in this gardening rabbit hole..LOL ⁉️🐰⁉️
What are the benefits of these Materials , that are recommended in Gardens , container potting gardens, ??
1) *Peat Moss & Coconut Coir* and its benefits ?
2) *Top Soil vs Native soil* and its differences and benefits ?
3) *Gypsum* and its benefits ?
4) *Humates* and its benefits ?
5) *Bio Char_Pot Ash* and its benefits ?
6) *Crushed egg shells_powdered milk* and its benefits ?
7) *Rock Dust* and its benefits ?
8) *Dolomite lime* and its benefits ?
9) *Epsom Salts* and its benefits ?
10) *Kelp and liquid Seaweed* and its benefits ?
11) *Commercial Compost* vs *DIY Compost* and its benefits ?
12) *Worm compost_Castings* and its benefits ?
13) *Vermiculite_Perlite* and its benefits ?
14) *Manure* (Cattle,Hog,Bat Quano, chicken, fish etc) and its benefits ?
15) *Fungi ammendments* and its benefits ?
16) *Coffee Grounds* and its benefits ?
17) *Sand* vs *Clay* vs *Green Sand* and its benefits ?
18) *Mulch* and its benefits ? (Straw vs wood chips vs Chopped leaves vs Grass clippings vs weeds vs Pine straw vs Bark mulch... etc
19) *Fertilizers _ Plant Foods* =Compost Tea / Worm Tea / Leachates / Comfrey Tea / Manure Tea / Weed Tea / Granule Fertilizer / Stick Fertilizers fertilizers / plant foods and their benefits ?
20)
cheers
PHEW that's a LONG list!
I will say that most things have their benefits, in moderation, according to what your local environment needs/provides. My exceptions would be epsom salts (seriously- why are we salting the earth???) and peat moss (it's non-renewable and there are better equal choices like coco coir.) I personally like to figure out how to use the materials that are around me in a given location, rather than trucking stuff in, whenever possible.
If you still want itemized answers, please DM me about consulting rates.
Veronica Flores "consulting rates".... great answer. Some people. 🤔
I forwarded this to the Earthworm Society of Britain - cool!
Oh gosh, part of me wants to thank you and part of me hopes they come over to the comments and school me on how much better I could be doing things. 😂
But seriously, thank you. I'm honored.
I got eisensia hortensis plus random found worms across USA
I was interested in European worm farming techniques. small tray grows on a very rigid time frame (28 days, for sifted eggs, 28 for hatchlings in another place, etc etc) do you know any videos for that?
Good video, great ideas.
Great advice thanks for the videos! ✌️❤️
Hi there! And hi to other gardeners also.
Question...what about overwintering the worm bins? How does that work out? I live in the mountain western states. I'm not sure how our winters would affect the worms. Would they be killed in the winter freezing/snow/cold, etc? How would this work since the worms are above ground even though they are in the bins?
Any other tips...welcome.
Anyone test out comparing their garden results on the garden section with the rehabilitated compost soil and normal uncomposted soil?
I move my bin inside the greenhouse when it gets close to freezing outside. Some people move theirs into the garage.
Idk about the comparative analysis bit. The closest I have is a few volunteer plants near ones that were planted- they tend to be smaller and less productive (produce very late if at all), but I doubt it's a great comparison since there are so many other variables. Am planning on doing such experiments at a location in the near future tho. :)
Thanks for messaging me back!
Also I saw a few other videos where people were claiming that you should only use red wigglers...do you think it matters? Can you pretty much use any type that isn't diseased? Have you tried more than one type of worms?
Idk if it matters, but the red wigglers seem to do well with temp fluctuations, break down material quickly, and continuously breed. YMMV with other types... I think every gardening experiment is worth a shot tho. :)
Hey Veronica. Is there any concern the worms all do a massive jail break and escape?
Only if they're unhappy (too wet or too dry)
Love all your vid's!! thanks :)
18 dogs disliked this. How do you keep multiple composts in your kitchen, and for how long at a time?? Tupperware?
Haha the dogs are spoiled too!
Usually a series of containers, emptied and rinsed daily. I don't have one every day for the worms, just start one when I need to feed them. Chickens get most of the rest, and big scraps go in the usual pile.
Can we get some more looks at the worms please. Would like to see how big they are and such. Thanks
For sure! Maybe I can figure out how to get a shot of them on the community tab here or whatever it's called.
Thanks. in Australia and Ireland there seem to be different types of worms.
Good info.
Exactly how I do it.
Would you be able to recommend some tips and maybe a good fertilizer for hot peppers?
I have 8 plants growing in buckets, cayennes, thai hots, habaneros, and ghosts. All of the plants have new leaves growing on them, but the ghosts are the only ones that seem to really be taking off. Granted it is earlier in the season still, I'm just worried that I might not get a very great yield out of them.
I know it's a little difficult without actually seeing the plants, but any help is greatly appreciated!
Patience and compost. :)
Great Life advice at the end. Thanks for inspiration
Would you give a suggestion as to how to combat against the effects of summer heat Texas; place in shade, maybe a fan; anything else would help and Thanks! Last year they died in summer, had plenty food and wet. Black soldier flies came in too.
Shade is SUPER key to survive the heat, as well as having pretty deep bedding and not staying too wet. Depending on how large of a bin you're running, you may want to consider digging a hole to set the container in so that the soil will help keep it cooler. Alternatively, look into a container that's more permeable (like a grow bag, though they make setups specifically for worms) to keep them in over the summer.
How do you deal with black soldier flies, mites and fungus flies?
I haven't noticed all that many of any of those, but I try to not keep the medium too wet (and I think having a "mulch" layer on top helps discourage it.)
Well done sister!
Chuck