I Wish I Knew This Vermicomposting Method When I Started.
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Vermicomposting or harvesting castings from worm bins is a great way to generate homemade worm castings in garden. But composting worms for hot climates can be tricky. This cheap worm composting system helps you beat the heat so your worms survive the summers. This is hands down the best system for worm composting in Florida and other hot climates. A worm composting bathtub may be something you've never considered but after watching this you'll be looking to start your own too!
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Chapters:
- 00:00 diy worm farm for castings
- 1:13 composting worms for hot climates
- 2:18 difference between earthworms and composting worms
- 3:08 bathtub worm bin
- 3:40 pests in worm bins
- 4:21 low maintenance worm bin
- 5:34 feeding composting worms
- 6:27 bedding for worms
- 8:17 harvesting worm castings
I love this idea! Can’t wait to see the look on my husbands face when I tell him I’m adding a tub in the back next to my stinky buckets table 😂
I love this. Why? My daddy raised red wigglers all my life, and I just naturally do it too. He had worm beds in a bath tub, an old refrigerator laid on it's back (door taken off) and an old chest freezer (He used a carpet scrap to cover that one). The last one he made was out a barrel that was cut in half lengthwise that laid on a stand made from rebar. It was easier on him as he aged. Not only did we use them in the gardens, but he sold them for fishing to the locals. My oldest granddaughter used to love digging for worms with me. Memories! Hope these ideas help others.
Nice, all geat ideas.
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@@EdwinDizonTV wow, you really got issues huh kid?
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We are seeing a revolution happen before our very eyes… the rise and empowerment of brilliant, helpful media content creators. Gratitude for all these enthusiastic activist-helpers in the world. And for this video, my red wigglers thank you.😁❤️🙏🏼
My red wigglers LOVE oranges. I slice them in half, place the cut side down, the next day there will be a mass of worms under the oranges. Bananas also. I also soak alfalfa pellets. They go nuts for it.
I liked integrating mine with the ground in other states. When I sold my house you could dig down anywhere and get 50% rich soil 50% worms. 13 years before that when I bought it I had red clay. Integrating dozens of worm beds with the ground and letting chickens fill the yard with nitrogen pellets gave me rich soil. Here in Florida I imagine it would just wash through the sand. I will find out what Florida worming will do for me.
Without people like you who make it simple and clear, beginners like me wouldn't be able to do it. Thanks for the information and i will be looking out for your vids👌🏿🥒🥦🍅🍅🍓🍉
Thank Elsie and Albert for sharing this important information with us. Im in South Africa been breeding worms as hobby for more than ten (10) years now. I am going small commercial but your bath 🛁 method just enhanced what i already had for years.
Teaching children at a local school will go a long way. Thats where i have vowed to start.
Hi my brother I'm also from South Africa i see you more experienced with worm farming i want to start it maybe you can share some ideas really appreciate it we can contact each other kind regards take care
thats a wonderful mission, i love working with the children! they are our future!
I am from DRCongo and I want to start in village to help specially pygmies to have chickens.
THANK YOU for SHARING , it's good to know why red California worms are better , once a saw a vídeo of a brother in México and he got 2 Big blue plastic containers that stand up vertical, he screwed their 2 lids to a thick square plywood and then cut a window in the upper part, besides he drilled a couple of 2 " holes in middle bellow part and got 2 plastic tubes glued with silicon to connect both containers, he also drilled a hole in the middle end of each container to obtain the liquid fertilizer, finally the both containers are one aside the other horizontally and with some wooden support in the middle bottom of the 2 containers, what he did was incredible, he started by putting a layer of woodchips in the bottom, then a layer of manure, then a layer of kitchen wastes, repeatedly to the top of the first container, when the worms had estén all the food in this container You start to repeat the same on the next container and the worms Will leave threw the tubes yo Star eating the food in the second container, i found it incredible, and hope it can be of another good way to raise earthworms, si Best luck & WISHES
Old freezers work really well for keeping your worms cool and contained. Turn them on their back and fill the worm bed. You can leave the door(s) on the freezer, but it you have to make sure they can get air.
Leaving the doors on old refrigerators or freezers is illegal in most states, though, because of the risk to children (whether they are supposed to be on your property or not).
How do you put a drain on it ?
This was GREAT!! So much quality information! Thank-you!!
I love watching your videos, it's great for planting, caring for and fertilizing 👍👍👍
Thank you for sharing this with us Elise!
And thank you to Albert for sharing this important knowledge!
Of course! Happy to.
Thank you I watched so many videos but I learned many good advices and tips from this.
We have already tried so many systems here in the Philippines. This is one is the most beginner-friendly and the most practical. Period.
Hello po, did you also use Red wrigglers or Africa Night Crawlers? Maraming salamat 🙏
@@romobighouse6897 We raise both from the start. But African Night Crawlers works well in our area.
Such a good, simple and sustainable approach. Thank you
You're very welcome!
This is a game changer. Starting this as soon as I find a bathtub. Great idea!
awesome!
Thanks for taking the time to share. 😎
You bet!
Thank you for the tips 😊
Thanks Elise... I watched this video a couple of years ago and was overwhelmed with how in the heck to get an old bathtub to my little homestead so I did buy a gigantic plastic tub and placed it under the only tree that I have and insulated around the outside. But after a month when I came back I couldn't find any worms in the dirt. So I'm thinking about an old freezer or refrigerator and lay it on its side, it would already have a door/lid. I'd have to drill the hole for drainage and maybe some air holes? That would be covered with screen? And then I also thought about having somebody put a cute little decoration on the outside. Whether it's wood slats or painting because it would be basically in the front of my house.🤷
Very clear explanation with many details for worm bin care in Florida. I can confirm since I’ve seen others try to do worm bins here and it gets too hot in those small bins, For. Sure.
Thank you for sharing!! Albert is amazing!!♥️
He is isn’t he! Such a wealth of knowledge!
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Thank you,, this is one of the easiest systems I have seen and very well explained
Great to hear! It truly is as simple as possible while still getting that black gold we gardeners seek. Happy gardening!
Your awesome. 3rd year trying and you are a big help thanks.
You got this!
Thanks for what you do. You provide a lot of good information.
I appreciate that! Thank you!
Love, love, the quick new intro! Looking for a tub!
Oh good lol always trying to improve
I'm SO glad I found your channel. I'll be on the hunt for a bathtub now :)
wonderful!
I'm so glad you did this video, perfect timing, I just got worms about a month ago, they are doing well, it seems, but this info is a great help, they are in buckets and totes right now, I have two big coolers from my old fishing boat that are doing nothing, will start setting up a bigger home for them tomorrow and plan for shade, thank you both for a new start for my worms!!!!
They will thank you for the upgrade come summer!
Elise Pickett's dedication to teaching sustainable and organic vegetable gardening in Florida is commendable. Her focus on topics like food forest, permaculture, and homesteading adds depth to her valuable content. Keep up the fantastic work in empowering others to cultivate sustainable practices and foster healthier ecosystems! 🌱🍅 #SustainableGardening #OrganicGardening #Permaculture #Homesteading
such a great video. Just the tip about all cities having free mulch. I looked it up, I live in a small town, they offer free mulch as well. wild.
Wonderful!
Thanks for sharing this, although I’m in zone 6b northeast, I am definitely building a vermicompostingsystem.
I'm in FL too! THATS why the worms are best under the trees! Thank you sooooo much❤♾❤
sure thing!
Wow it was amazing. Thanks for sharing this video. I am always enjoy looking videos. Onece again thank you 🙏❤️😊
So glad you enjoyed it! Welcome to the channel
Great tips, thanks 😀🌱🪱
You bet
One suggestion: Find a used appliance/appliance repair place in your area. They will often have freezers which are beyond repair. These can be bought cheap. I bought two for $10 each. I like the upright freezers because they are not so deep when laid down. Great insulation for worms. Built in lid. On really hot days I may even put a gallon milk bottle with frozen water water in the freezer. That will take several degrees off the inside temp and thanks to the insulation in the walls and lid, will keep it cool for quite some time. Used these in southern New Mexico where temps often exceed 100°. Would probably be good in the cold areas also. Prevent freezing. Maybe use a low wat incandescent bulb to keep the inside warm.
How do you put a drain in it ?
I've also seen people use refrigerators here in Louisiana; the tub is a great idea!
Yes they are!
Great video. Thank you 💙
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video and instruction, I’m switching my giant bins to this style now and will be looking on Facebook for a bathtub!!
Hey Dave....I also am looking for bathtub's for a little fish pond to harvest the urine and crap for the garden.....old bathtub's have a new spin in my eyes,but.....any ideas of where to go to get em?
Glad it was helpful! Probably never thought youd be on the hunt for one of them did you?! 😋
fb marketplace or craigslist from my experience.
Nice! This guy knows his stuff
He does. Wealth of knowledge!
Very nice and educational video
Thank you 🤗
Just ran into your channel, thanks so much for the lessons.
You're very welcome!
I love it❤
Ypur system is easy and very doable. Thank you. Greetings from Bulgaria ulgaria
Glad it was helpful!
Very interesting and detail.
Glad you think so!
Thank you!! I know this sounds dumb but I never realized the soilder fly was my problem in bins past!! I kinda thought "well, let nature work together" 🤦♀️ I'm excited to try again, better with this advice, this year! Thank you!
Oh thats great, im glad it helped you!
Shoulder fly larva- great for chickens and fish if you have any
I still don't understand why black soldier flies are a 'problem' in worm bins ... can't they co-exist nicely if there is enough food for all? Can someone please help me understand what problems black soldier flies present for the worms?
Great advice
Thank you! Good luck growing!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I got my 1st pound of worms today to help me make compost out of my farm manure pile. Thanks so much for this video I learned a few things… One of which is it’s a whole lot easier to have worms in Washington state than it is in Florida 😁
lol thats for sure!
Tubs are a great idea. I use one for a horse water trough. Had to weld the drain close though.
One tip or thing I do is use an IBC tote. You can cut in two and it’s still quite big. Green gregs on UA-cam has a video on it. I like that cause it’s big so you can fill up and add lawn clippings on top to reduce evaporation in the summer. And it’s got a spicet to drain the water. I’ll have to try using a tub like you guys.
Thats a great one with the IBC plenty of room.
Great timing! My plastic worm bin is falling apart and just today I was thinking I needed to make a new one. Now to find an old tub!
nice!!!
Call your city dump
Some let you take things free to keep them out of the land fills.Unfortunatly ours does not but the next county south does
❤ Wow!! Most Excellent video I’ve seen👍👍
Thank you 🙏,
Your new subscriber.
well thanks for posting- just a newbie with worms maybe a year now but not much different from what i am doing here in the Philippines except we use anc. my bins are cement block 4x8 2 of those and building a 3rd one now- bins in an old building nice and shady. yes slope the floor for drainage. and the last one i even put an air pipe just in case i ever get too wet i can force air in ( see --Aerated static pile composting ) i will try the solid cover like you do, just have wire mesh now to keep chickens from feasting .
so far i have harvested very little vermicast as i use old castings to move to new bins. i move about one half of the old bin to new bin making sure a comfort zone in the new home as well as moving eggs. but we have taken a small bit of castings for use , maybe 40 pounds in last couple of days. cheers thanks for the vid. i am always looking at what others do, well done
perfect way
works well!
Wow thank you
You’re welcome 😊 Happy it helps
Following to your nice method , thanks lot ..
You are most welcome
One professor that did a lecture on UA-cam about worms said some studies showed microbial life expanded a few months after wards after being harvested and stored. One tip another video showed was harvest your castings and then just put a tray inside with a few holes and food in the tray. If the eggs hatch or your left over worms are still there they’ll go and eat then you just pull out the tray. I thought was pretty good
Oh that is fun. Have to keep the soldier fly out somehow. Maybe a mesh screen lid.
Wow! What a great idea! I have been wondering how I was going to afford all the organic things to get my dirt back in shape for the start of the new season I can start my own yay!
Yes. It’s a fantastic way to bulls good soil for minimal if any cost.
You could also use composted dried fallen leaves as their bedding. I use it and it works great!
That's very cool.
Wonderful approach!
Thank you for your sharing, I like the part where him explain what the regular garden worms eat soil and red wiggler worms eat food scraps
It’s an easy point to miss but important distinction.
To improve that worm bin , you could rise the whole tub up a foot or two and put a pan under the drain hole thereby harvesting the worm juice. Mix it with warm water and feed your seedlings for vigorous growth. Also , put a layer of 1 inch drain rock on the bottom and cover with landscape fabric and tape it to the sides. Then put your, what I call the home layer. I use fresh horse dung or coconut core. Never goes past this layer when removing casting
mine are propped up to catch leachate but usually only recommended to put on perennial trees.
@Melissa Marks its not recommended for annual quick growing crops or leafy greens.
@Melissa Marks My trees are over 100 and some over 150 feet tall , so they get enough worm tea naturally, I give my all my veggies a weekly dose of diluted worm juice tea. You never saw such vigorous growth. It does not burn the plants ever, the soil is not salted with synthetic nutrients and you save money not buying chemical fertilizer. Plus your taking kitchen waste which you bought and brought home from the store and make something useful. There is no smell and if you happen to get some on the lettuce leaf , it gets washed off before you eat it. I recommend to use it everywhere. Whoever first recommended this for trees only wants you to keep buying chemical fertilizer or is squeamish of worms. Vermiculture is the essence of organic vegetable growing full stop.
I dilate the worm tea and put it on everything. You don’t want to use straight worm tea on young seedlings.
@Melissa Marks I think the issue is that if there is enough "juice" coming out of the drain there are probably anaerobic conditions inside the bin that produce biological waste products that most plants don't like.
i use plastic kids shell pools, fabric liner on top to keep them warm during winter and in the shed during summer with water every few days.
Thank you
You're welcome
I have a claw foot tub sitting in my backyard that has been a planter, koi pond, water garden nursery and a dog mini pool. Now I know it is going to replace all my plastic tubs and make “the worm room” into a guest room! All I need to do now is gather enough neighbors to move a cast iron tub!
They are heavy but if you already have it that's perfect!
Good vid. I am about to set up a new worm farm here in Scotland. I might get a couple of bathtubs.
Go for it!
I'd like to add, that if you want superior castings (nutrient dense) Remember, nature likes diversity. Use some barley that has been, what they call malted. It just means sprouted. Then dried. I grind mine in a blender to break it down for the worms to use. You can do your own research on why this is next level vermicomposting. Just add a little to your regular feeding. We all know organic gardening takes time. I think you'll be impressed by the results down the line.
We created a box for them to live in with a screen and a lower portion with a liner so that way when we wet down the piles the water drips through and we use that as liquid fertilizer for our garden beds. After awhile we will shift all the worms out of the box (yes we disturb them) and take all the compost that has the casting in them and use for amending the garden or even doing a small ring around the plant base to help them out. With fertilizer running low, I’m looking for any advantage I can get. Great video
Goooo Florida. I’m trying this for all my plants. Hoa is the pest I’m worried about 😆👍🏻
lol they will love it!
I been raising red worms for some time now there great for the garden as well
Definitely great for the garden! Thanks for watching.
There also good for indoor plants 🪴
I noticed the man was using a makeshift sifter. There’s a sifting lid called the NorCal Trim Trap that’s intended for use by cannabis farmers, but I hear of worm farmers using it to help sift. Could be useful for people who want a sifting tool but don’t want to build one themselves.
thanks for the suggestion. yes albert is all about diy but not everyone is!
I got 4 sifting pan/gold panning screens of graduated size. They fit on a 5 gallon bucket and can be stacked. I found them on Amazon and 3 of the 4 were used so I saved some $. They are much lighter than my homemade screen sifters and they stay on the bucket so I’m not cleaning up spilled castings and worms.
I’ve got some bath systems, they work but they aren’t as quick to produce vermicompost or as easy to harvest as the large flow through systems. My breeding rates are higher in the flow through bins compared to the baths. I don’t mean purchased flow through systems, they are too small or control temperature and other factors (and stupidly expensive) Not saying they are bad, but both have their place.
But I can’t say as I agree with some of what he was saying most of his ‘you can’t adds’ you can, and I do add most of this, meat is one I don’t do just because of the smell, but they still break it down. Oil I add but only sparing if it’s on the cooked dinner or left over salad.
I also personally wouldn’t use the compost he does as you don’t know what chemicals have been sprayed onto the collections and it can cause massive issues with crops.
cool! thanks!
Welcome!
Have you tried African Night Crawlers? Mine are doing very well they can stand a little heat and they are very fast composters... You can see lots of castings in 3 weeks. I live in a tropical climate and mine are in a big planter and I just cover it with the catchplate.
Amazing. Vedio
glad you liked it
Only problem with city mulch is they’re composting grass. Grass is great but people hire companies to maintain lawns which spray massive amounts of chemicals. Maybe I’m overreacting but I want organic castings from my bins.
I'd move if the city is contaminating by spraying pesticides. That stuff is affecting the human environment, too.
I wish I "had known" about this too.
Nice
glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for this video. From my experience I recommend using bokashi method to store your food scraps for a month. This way you make every kind of food become more accessiable for worms (nevertheless you should still avoid raw meat and bones), while it sits in a closed sealed bin for few weeks. This way I was able to sustain my outdoor vermicompost through the winter in Poland (- 10 C or 32 F, sometimes lower). Keep up the good work!
Great tip!
What is the bokashi method ?
Combining composting methods can be a nice technique for many. Regular composting or even bokashi might not break down food scraps completely by many but the most skilled composters, and letting worms finish the process is an easy solution. But if you really know what you're doing with worms, you probably don't need to use other composting methods to kick off the process of decomposition.
If you can find a heat source of any type during the winter, it will enable your worms to remain productive. Can your worm bin be placed in direct sunlight? Do you have a water heater or other source of warmth? Is sinking your worm bin into the ground but still allow fresh air possible?
@@tonysu8860 Apparently a seed mat works great if you've got electricity near the bin.
Blue worms are similar to red wigglers but more heat tolerant. I just use a small plastic trash can with a few holes in the lid for air flow. Coffee grounds and cardboard and a few odd greens here and there is what they get, no problems with BSF on that menu.
What’s BSF?
@@HisAvatar Black soldier flies
Wow, I had a small claw foot bathtub for the last year plus I needed to get rid of. Now that it is gone. I see this video. Oh man.
oh bummer! well hopefully you can come across another soon.
Nice black eyed Susan!
I feed mine weekly, adding to the mix a few table tablespoons of sand that I had purchased a few years ago at the local hardware store.
nice
Why sand?
Great video, thank you! I live in east GA where we also have crazy heat to deal with as well as fire ants that get into everything... he talked about having that cover over the top to keep pests out, do you think an old chest freezer would work the same if I could set up drainage? Or would that seal too tight?
Do you think I could use one of the really large pool deck storage bins if I drilled and covered the hole with mesh for drainage?
I live in new York it gets cold here I use 30 gallon totes that works good for me here
Hi, can we add some rose petals to the worm bin, actually we use a lot of flower petals for performing puja at home and have a lot of flower petals left over the next day. We keep them for a week or two before dumping them. I’m from New Delhi , India
Black soldier flies are actually efficient composters. And the larvae make great feed for chickens or other animals that might feed on them. On the other hand, what they produce doesn't have as much of ze good stuff as worms do. So they're not totally a pest!
I live in a very hot climate and one of the best things I've found is refrigerator ice boxes deep freezes they're insulated and they seem to work very well in the heat and even in extreme colds that we have here in Southeast New Mexico just an a thought probably easier to come by to than bathtub I don't know maybe
Do you keep the freezer cover/door closed? If yes, how does the bin get enough oxygen?
I don't have the doors on them I normally use a cardboard cover cut to the size to block the sun the rays but if you leave the doors on yeah you have to punch a hole put a like a PVC pipe vent
I am working with 4 different composting species currently and I am discovering that my favorite are the Indian blues. They reproduce faster and compost faster. I live in Ca and it gets hot here but I do compost inside with minimal air conditioning...it gets to about 90 indoors. I use micro screen lids. And yes you do have to use lids with blues. It IS a good idea not to feed super often or sprinkle the carbon with worm chow instead.
I honestly do not know you can function in 90 degree indoor Temps. I am a 74 yr old Floridian that was raised all over the world with my father being military. I can not sleep when it's hot. It was 96 outside last Wenesday. And the humidity is awful.
US people talks alot about worms and their benefits. Here it’s very foreign subject , i try to worm farm starting from worms from under compost pile I collect,bcoz never saw people selling worms here,almost year ago
Now finally have similar setup/system that can collect juice but using a plastic tub.
Hopefully have my own bathtub worm farm, and get super big company haha
Salam from Malaysia 🇲🇾👍🏿👍🏼👍🏾👍🏻
Wow thats great that you are bringing this concept to your country! Keep it up!
This is great info! Is the bath tub preferred due to size or the ability for the porcelain to keep worms and temps stable?
Question? City mulch, can I use leaf dust. Leaf mulch from my leaf mulcher?
Thank you for Florida garden info..
When you start the worm beds where do you get the initial worms?
You can find them from online suppliers or if your local to St. Pete there is @laicaworms.
Walmart also has red wigglers in the fishing dept.
This video is amazing, I am in Florida and ran into a bunch of these issues.
oh glad it was helpful!
I use a plywood 18 mm, 2 m length, 1 m depth, 1.2 m width, works like a dream.
The video is great for a beginner living in the southern USA. I just wish he explained why flies are bad in compost? Maybe you can do a follow up video explaining in detail why it might be bad. I always thought that the community of critters will self regulate to an extent. But any insight in the symbiotic, or otherwise, nature of the community of critters would be a hardy welcome.
Bazı sinek türleri, solucanlara hastalık bulaştırabilecek parazitler taşıyabilir. Ayrıca, sinekler solucan yatağına yumurta bırakabilir ve bu yumurtalardan çıkan larvalar solucanlara zarar verebilir.
Sinek larvaları, solucanların besin kaynağı olan organik maddeyi de tüketebilir. kaliteyi düşürebiilir.
love black soldier fly larva. they eat anything g
You can use trichoderma to speed up decomposition
I live in Missouri and have my worms in the kitchen. I don’t have a problem with bugs or anything.
Great video! Thanks! I’m just starting out and I’m in Florida but I’ll be keeping the worm bin inside for now because I don’t have a shaded area in the garden. A bathtub wow! Where can I find one?! 😂 the worms come in 2-3 days and the bin was setup today just waiting for arrival. I already compost now I just have to be more mindful and perhaps put away kitchen scraps for the wormies 💚
You can find them free or very cheap on facebook marketplace or craigslist. Thats what I do too, have a whole list of what scraps go to feed which critters : )
If you have a habitat restore, you might also have luck there
Thank you so much .. Question: How do I know they need feeding again? Do I remove everything down to bottom of bath tub to feed again? BTW LOVE this idea .. I;m in Sarasota County. I was getting ready to do CFT, you saved me. I have 2 bathtub worm bins and 2 bathtubs getting ready to start them.
That's great. At one month when you go to feed if there are significant amounts of food scraps feed them a little less. If there isn't a scrap in sight feed them more. Most times I open it there is just a small amount of scraps here and there so I know I'm close to spot on.
I have harvested castings from 1/2 of bin #1 after 3 months. It looks like i have about 36 oz was recovered not bad for that amount of time and amount of red wigglers witch was about 500 worms.
nice!!
I just stumbled upon your video, and it's super interesting. I also live in Florida. Where are you located? I'd love to try vermicomposting, but I just found out that my propety has Asian worms 😭💔. Any suggestions? Thanks so much in advance🙏🦋🌺