this takes patience and is fasanating watching how fast those small creatures can really devour everything in such a short time, Thanks for taking time to share with us.
Came over from Emily's channel. She did a shout out for you. This is a great video. It was wonderful to see what the work is that the worms do in a day and in a months time to the food that we feed them. Thanks for sharing! Have a great today. Catherine
I just turn my compost with my worms in it and laid food on top for they feeding I just can't wait so the sun to shine so I can get my babies out doors, my kids call me crazy y'all grown and gone let me be
Interesting Vid! Why do the experts tell us to not use clear containers again? As long as it's covered for the most part and dark it's nice to be able to see what's going on in there.
I agree - having the ability to occasionally check on the worms is nice; or to see how the compost is coming along. If you enjoyed this video, then I recommend the more recent version of it. Here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/0Z6FdcIuEfg/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!
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One thing I see that I would do is put some holes in it so that water at the bottom can start to drip out a bit and put a bin under to catch it. Dilute that with some water and water plants .
I know many people collect drippings from their worm bins but I don't. As for the bin having drainage - it does. Any excess moisture can easily drip out if necessary. Thanks for watching!
You can choose to ignore them & they might go away on their own. If you want to actively work on reducing their numbers then a reduction of food, water or both might make the bin less attractive to the mites. Good luck - and thank you for watching!
Nice video I'm watching teaching me bout worm bin casting thanks keep up the good work,I haven touch a worm sense I was a kid I'm knocking 50 this year but this want I want to grow my own garden,so I got to get my hands messy Lol.pray I don't scare myself
When things are happening correctly there's no smell at all.. however, if food begins to rot in the bins it can stink up a storm - or if you manage to kill you worm population by accident then the dead worms stink too. I speak from experience on both accounts but luckily, for the most part, things work well and there's no odor to speak of. Best of luck with your new bin - and thanks for watching!
It's tough to say.. I didn't really take note. If I had to guess, then I would say initially it was about 40 or 50 - then a few weeks later I added another couple dozen
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Thank you for the answer, they are pretty fast eaters then :)
This is great...got a couple of questions for yah..I am new to worm farming...just got my first Bin farm set up and Raised bed Worm tower (5 g bucket) set up completed.... 1) how often are you adding the Ice? Is the ice for temp regulation, or just for the moisture? Ice added time stamp = Day 6= 5:32 / Day 7=5:50 / Day 13=10:20 / Day 24 =19:09/ Day 37 = 29:10 / Day 41= 32:28 / Day 44 = 34:35 / Day 48= 37:54/ 2) Are your food scraps , frozen when you add them ? 3) Are there a mixture of Red Wigglers with African fat nightcrawlers (i heard that african nightcrawlers, produce 3x more castings) 4) Can I use your video , in my class, to show the kids, the process of a worm bin ? 5) Are you using Oats and cooked rice, to increase their population (sex activitiy) ? Thank you for sharing your video. cheers
Thanks for your note. I'm glad you enjoyed the time-lapse. Regarding the ice. My reason for adding it was over concerns about things being too dry. In my regular bins I probe around to gauge moisture levels - in this tiny layered bin I had no way to know, so I was doing it 'just in case' it was needed. The food they got was not frozen. Nowadays I freeze almost everything they get.. but back then I was just starting to get into freezing the food that I feed my worms. My worms are all Red Wigglers. I think you are right about the Nightcrawlers - they are, after all, a larger worm. It makes sense that they'd eat & poop more than smaller kinds of worm. If you think your students would enjoy the time-lapse, then YES - by all means - please feel free to use it in your lessons. I would, however, suggest using the abbreviated "Fast Playback" version of the time-lapse; I would also set the playback to 2x speed since we all know how short peoples' attention spans are. It can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/kh-XtMapkDc/v-deo.html And for fun, there's also the version of the video that highlights all the escaping worms during the first week: ua-cam.com/video/VZf9crVEDeo/v-deo.html Finally, this is the first I've heard of using oats & rice. Sounds interesting - I will look further into the topic. Cheers !
thank you for all your patience and responses to my comments ...looking forward to viewing new ideas like: worms in soil...with plants growing around your food scraps and leaf mulch. This was One inquiry , from a class of mine. cheers
@@A-V I noticed near the beginning 0:47, right above the arch, a little worm cleared out an area and then curled up as though sleeping or napping while others were still moving about.
Worms can be shipped anytime really, I got my 2000 red wigglers and 100 night crawlers about 2 months ago, from UncleJims worm farm. Very happy with worms and service. I also just got 500 more reds about 2-3 weeks ago. All my worms arrived fine. weather is not much issue, but you know shipping, hopefully they won't run over the package with a truck. LOL
I don't know where to get it - I make it myself. Inside I use a Brita; besides the filter helping a bit, the water also gets to sit in the pitcher and allows the chlorine to gas off. I let tap water sit in my watering cans too for a day or 2 before using for the same reason
I added food 8 or 9 times - the specifics or what was added on which day are in the description. I just piled new stuff on top once the existing stuff had settled enough to make room. I wasn't really attempting to cover anything
After the time-lapse was finished I kept this container running for about another couple weeks then I emptied it into another active worm bin. There was no effort made to harvest the castings or separate the worms. The contents were relocated as-is. Here's the link to a short video showing the contents being emptied: ua-cam.com/video/cM_JQB1_CI4/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!
I shot a video showing the setup of the bin. I invite you to go check it out - here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/21jAWZjyAGo/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!
Yes - for any worm that leaves the safety of the bin it's almost certain death. I made a dedicated video capturing the ESCAPEES from the bin during the first few days.. check it out: ua-cam.com/video/VZf9crVEDeo/v-deo.html
That's what I did for the first few weeks. After that I've learned a very hard lesson about worm composting: You can't save them all. (On the plus side: I had pet rats then, and oh boy, they were crazy for that delicious worm jerky.)
I think that if the worms want out that bad then there's something really wrong in the bin. In my case there were actually a whole bunch of 'escapees' - mainly during the first week. I condensed all shots I could find of the 'fugitives' and put them all into a separate video. Check it out here! --> ua-cam.com/video/VZf9crVEDeo/v-deo.html :)
I watched this video after a tense financial conversation with my young daughter and it calmed me down and made me so happy. What a great video.
Hope everything's alright again.
this takes patience and is fasanating watching how fast those small creatures can really devour everything in such a short time, Thanks for taking time to share with us.
This is the most relaxing video I have ever watched. 👍
Came over from Emily's channel. She did a shout out for you. This is a great video. It was wonderful to see what the work is that the worms do in a day and in a months time to the food that we feed them. Thanks for sharing! Have a great today. Catherine
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I just turn my compost with my worms in it and laid food on top for they feeding I just can't wait so the sun to shine so I can get my babies out doors, my kids call me crazy y'all grown and gone let me be
Interesting Vid! Why do the experts tell us to not use clear containers again? As long as it's covered for the most part and dark it's nice to be able to see what's going on in there.
I agree - having the ability to occasionally check on the worms is nice; or to see how the compost is coming along. If you enjoyed this video, then I recommend the more recent version of it. Here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/0Z6FdcIuEfg/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!
This is VERY cool. Thanks for sharing!
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One thing I see that I would do is put some holes in it so that water at the bottom can start to drip out a bit and put a bin under to catch it. Dilute that with some water and water plants .
I know many people collect drippings from their worm bins but I don't. As for the bin having drainage - it does. Any excess moisture can easily drip out if necessary. Thanks for watching!
Instead of throwing ice in the bin, have you tried freezing your vegetable wastes and dumping those in? Great videos !
The ice is for moisture. It melts slowly so it doesnt flood the bin.
@@LordZoth6292 Correct. Frozen veg would do the same.
What was the room temp? and time of the year because my worms are slower than yours depending on the time of year.
This was filmed in late autumn / early winter in my basement - where things get a bit chilly but not too bad. Perhaps around 55-60° on average :)
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Brazil! My worm bin is Full of tiny little critters, maybe mites. Shall I do anything about that? What would you do?
You can choose to ignore them & they might go away on their own. If you want to actively work on reducing their numbers then a reduction of food, water or both might make the bin less attractive to the mites. Good luck - and thank you for watching!
A V thank you very much for the instruction. I really appreciate. Regards
Nice video I'm watching teaching me bout worm bin casting thanks keep up the good work,I haven touch a worm sense I was a kid I'm knocking 50 this year but this want I want to grow my own garden,so I got to get my hands messy Lol.pray I don't scare myself
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Bin planning on making a worm bin do they smell
When things are happening correctly there's no smell at all.. however, if food begins to rot in the bins it can stink up a storm - or if you manage to kill you worm population by accident then the dead worms stink too. I speak from experience on both accounts but luckily, for the most part, things work well and there's no odor to speak of. Best of luck with your new bin - and thanks for watching!
How many worms are there?
It's tough to say.. I didn't really take note. If I had to guess, then I would say initially it was about 40 or 50 - then a few weeks later I added another couple dozen
Thank you for the answer, they are pretty fast eaters then :)
How many was it?
Not sure - maybe about 500-600.. maybe more. Thanks for watching!
This is great...got a couple of questions for yah..I am new to worm farming...just got my first Bin farm set up and Raised bed Worm tower (5 g bucket) set up completed....
1) how often are you adding the Ice? Is the ice for temp regulation, or just for the moisture?
Ice added time stamp = Day 6= 5:32 / Day 7=5:50 / Day 13=10:20 / Day 24 =19:09/ Day 37 = 29:10 / Day 41= 32:28 / Day 44 = 34:35 / Day 48= 37:54/
2) Are your food scraps , frozen when you add them ?
3) Are there a mixture of Red Wigglers with African fat nightcrawlers (i heard that african nightcrawlers, produce 3x more castings)
4) Can I use your video , in my class, to show the kids, the process of a worm bin ?
5) Are you using Oats and cooked rice, to increase their population (sex activitiy) ?
Thank you for sharing your video. cheers
Thanks for your note. I'm glad you enjoyed the time-lapse.
Regarding the ice. My reason for adding it was over concerns about things being too dry. In my regular bins I probe around to gauge moisture levels - in this tiny layered bin I had no way to know, so I was doing it 'just in case' it was needed.
The food they got was not frozen. Nowadays I freeze almost everything they get.. but back then I was just starting to get into freezing the food that I feed my worms.
My worms are all Red Wigglers. I think you are right about the Nightcrawlers - they are, after all, a larger worm. It makes sense that they'd eat & poop more than smaller kinds of worm.
If you think your students would enjoy the time-lapse, then YES - by all means - please feel free to use it in your lessons. I would, however, suggest using the abbreviated "Fast Playback" version of the time-lapse; I would also set the playback to 2x speed since we all know how short peoples' attention spans are. It can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/kh-XtMapkDc/v-deo.html And for fun, there's also the version of the video that highlights all the escaping worms during the first week: ua-cam.com/video/VZf9crVEDeo/v-deo.html
Finally, this is the first I've heard of using oats & rice. Sounds interesting - I will look further into the topic.
Cheers !
thank you for all your patience and responses to my comments ...looking forward to viewing new ideas like:
worms in soil...with plants growing around your food scraps and leaf mulch. This was One inquiry , from a class of mine. cheers
Thanks !! Enjoyed it a lot, im not as high as before !! but still its pretty amazing hahaahah
P.S Thats ice what u add on top sometimes?
Yes - I find the gradual melting of the ice to be the ideal way to slowly moisten the bins 👍🏻
Do u premoist the crushed leaves.
Nope - I didn't
Interesting 👍
Did I see worms sleeping? Not sure why, but I've never thought of them sleeping before.
Sleeping? I'm not sure. Maybe... I guess it makes sense. You would think they have to rest once in a while. Thanks for watching!
@@A-V I noticed near the beginning 0:47, right above the arch, a little worm cleared out an area and then curled up as though sleeping or napping while others were still moving about.
Are the worms red wigglers?
Yes, I know you don't get to see much of them in this video. You are correct - they are red wigglers
I am looking at starting a worm bin when its warm enough to ship worms again.
Worms can be shipped anytime really, I got my 2000 red wigglers and 100 night crawlers about 2 months ago, from UncleJims worm farm. Very happy with worms and service. I also just got 500 more reds about 2-3 weeks ago. All my worms arrived fine. weather is not much issue, but you know shipping, hopefully they won't run over the package with a truck. LOL
What were the dimensions of the bin? Thanks
Also, when you added food, compost etc., Did you cover the full surface or only some areas?
My 'making of' video better shows it - check it out ua-cam.com/video/21jAWZjyAGo/v-deo.html
Albeit small, the full surface was fed
Where the idea adding ice ?
How does it help ?
I wanted to add moisture in a slow and even way - using ice seemed like the easiest way to accomplish that
Brilliant idea. But where do you get dechlorinated ice?
I don't know where to get it - I make it myself. Inside I use a Brita; besides the filter helping a bit, the water also gets to sit in the pitcher and allows the chlorine to gas off. I let tap water sit in my watering cans too for a day or 2 before using for the same reason
Verry good.
How many times did you feed them?
Are you putting food on top of the soil and then covering?
I added food 8 or 9 times - the specifics or what was added on which day are in the description. I just piled new stuff on top once the existing stuff had settled enough to make room. I wasn't really attempting to cover anything
A V Thank you 👍
When do you remove castings or how often do you remove castings
After the time-lapse was finished I kept this container running for about another couple weeks then I emptied it into another active worm bin. There was no effort made to harvest the castings or separate the worms. The contents were relocated as-is. Here's the link to a short video showing the contents being emptied: ua-cam.com/video/cM_JQB1_CI4/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!
What are the layers?
I shot a video showing the setup of the bin. I invite you to go check it out - here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/21jAWZjyAGo/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!
Look like worm only want to live on close to the surface to get breath air. So should use the bucket have holes around on the wall too
is that cardboard at the very bottom?
Yes it is. If you are interested in seeing the build of the bin then here is the link to that video: ua-cam.com/video/21jAWZjyAGo/v-deo.html
U could see worms fall out n dry out
Yes - for any worm that leaves the safety of the bin it's almost certain death. I made a dedicated video capturing the ESCAPEES from the bin during the first few days.. check it out: ua-cam.com/video/VZf9crVEDeo/v-deo.html
That's what I did for the first few weeks. After that I've learned a very hard lesson about worm composting: You can't save them all. (On the plus side: I had pet rats then, and oh boy, they were crazy for that delicious worm jerky.)
Darwin's two ideas at work.
Guess the grass isn't greener on the other side! 😁
Why the ice? Worms like to be hot at avge 25 degrees C
The scraps are all small so I add them while still frozen sometimes. The bin is large enough that they have space to avoid it till it thaws
I believe you're worms are escaping, why no lid?
I think that if the worms want out that bad then there's something really wrong in the bin. In my case there were actually a whole bunch of 'escapees' - mainly during the first week. I condensed all shots I could find of the 'fugitives' and put them all into a separate video. Check it out here! --> ua-cam.com/video/VZf9crVEDeo/v-deo.html :)
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