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 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
Believe it or not, I used to think a cluster of worms was pretty gross too!! One worm I could handle but a slithering ball of them...not so much!!! Until I realized how awesome vermicomposting is and it's amazing benefits for my garden and soil!!! Thanks so much for your kind words!! I'm so glad you took the time to watch my video!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Brandi, I am scared to death of snakes, so I don't want to raise African Night Crawlers....sooooo big and snake-y! But, the little ones are so cute..... European Night Crawlers, Red Wigglers, and Louisiana Swamp Worms, to name a few. If you're really interested in doing vermicomposting, maybe you need to "get to know" one worm at a time. I would begin with a very young 'wisp' (baby) and go from there. My favorite thing to do, now that I have worm towers, is to watch worm videos on RUclips as I eat! Keep watching!!! : )
Thank you! It's hard not to do a time lapse when the worms present themselves in such a fascinating manner!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch & comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
I'm so glad you found it helpful!! Cocoon bins are super fun and so easy because you just leave them alone!! I love the baby worms I find in it!!! Thanks so much for checking out the video!!🪱🪱🪱
Awesome!! Thanks so much for subscribing!! My Outdoor Worm Bin made of two 20 gallon fabric pots does great outdoors, but I'm in a constant battle trying to keep my Urban Worm Bag cool with frozen water bottles! Shade is our friend for sure!! Thanks so much for watching and letting us know about your worms!!🪱🪱🪱
Nursery looks good, something I struggle with. Need to get something decent going for spring and definitely summer!! Hut looks great !! Cheers J&C 🪱🌱🪱🤜🤛
Good Morning Bow! I really enjoyed watching the Elephant museum tour!! This bin really does have a lot of composting worms, they really eat fast and produce a lot of castings. Thank you so much for stopping by to watch & comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
Good morning Patrick 💕🪱💕 Thanks for the Shout-out. My Nursery was started on December 1st. I'm so Antsy to check it out, but I'm trying to exercise patience. You are having a great time and furthering Vermicomposting 🪱
That is the toughest part of vermicomposting and cocoon nurseries in particular...exercising patience!!! I'm excited to see your cocoon nursery updates! Thanks so much for watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
Welcome!! Thanks for stopping by!! I love turning my kitchen waste and cardboard boxes & junk mail into free fertilizer for my garden!! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video, there is lots more!! I appreciate your kind words!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you!! It should be fun to watch Peggy and my cocoon nurseries produce a bunch of baby worms! I really appreciate your time watching & commenting!!!🪱🪱🪱
9:24 I thought that little guy was going to squirm out without being noticed.. you saved him right before he made it over the wall 👍🏻 Oh yeah - Thanks for the shout-out! :)
I almost edited that out, then I thought folks with a sharp eye might have watched it squirm up then see it disappear and think it escaped…so I left it in : D Thanks for the cocoon nursery inspiration!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you!! I'm pretty excited to see just how many this cocoon nursery produces over the next month! Thank so much for taking the time to watch and comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
If you started out with 2,000 worms in your bin, you could have in excess of 8,000 now given that under ideal conditions, they can double in population every 3 to 6 months. However, they will grow to suit the available space they have. I read somewhere that just 8 worms can become 1,500 in only 6 months! Your bin looks really healthy to me. All I see is happy, hungry worms.
Thank you! Yes, after looking back at the video and each handful having tons of worms, I probably have between 4000-6000 worms in there. Maybe more! It has 3 tiers on it so space is probably the only thing holding them back from being at 8000…but they could be there too, I just don’t know!!??! Thanks so much for watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
Thanks! Babies are always a hit 😀Any vids from when your chickens were baby's other than of course being current ferocious baby dinosaurs now!!?!! Thanks for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost nah mate I don't think I have any videos of them as babies But I will check and post it if I do There like a pack of dinosaurs at the moment 😂🤣😂🤣🦖🦖
😂 No problem, I’m just happy you stopped by to watch! 🪱🪱🪱She’ll never find out! I’m pretty sure this open comment, public RUclips channel is the most secure thing on the internet😂
😂🤣😂 The worms had me at free natural fertilizer, then I was fascinated by how they transform the food scraps and cardboard so quickly. Now I’m addicted. Tamson will never know, unless I catch another live and tell the whole chat😀 Thanks again for stopping by!
😃 The early worm get the food scraps : D I definitely caught them attacking that banana mid feast. I think they saved the best for last!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch & comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
That is fantastic!! It really is remarkable that we can vermicompost in large or small containers and the worms just do their job creating fertilizer for us! Thanks so much for watching and commenting!!!🪱🪱🪱
Hello, hello! Well, I'm starting a cocoon nursery from my VermiHut and I'm just wondering how long that should take to get all of the the worm babies out of it?? I did one before, but I didn't count the days at all.... Actually I didn't really even know what I was doing because I hadn't seen any videos yet on "nurseries," but I knew that it needed to be done. I didn't want to lose all the babies. I just had fun pulling worms out every few days........it really is addicting, HELP!! I still find that it's funny I can't ever see any cocoons in my own worm bins, but I can see them on a lot of videos! I don't know what that's all about. Keep up the good work. Thank you for the videos. God-bless you!
🤣It is addicting!!! I think about 60-75 days is enough for a cocoon nursery to hatch most, if not all the cocoons. Sometimes I see lots of cocoons, sometimes I don't see any😀 Thanks so much for stopping by another video to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
This is an all around great book for worm farming: Worms Eat My Garbage amzn.to/3L4FXN2 I also recommend watching Jayne over at @RockinWorms She has some great videos on the care for worms to get them to breed quickly. You can go to her channel page on a computer and type in "cocoon" or "breeder bin" in the magnifying glass icon next to her community tab to find her videos that talk about this. I hope this helps!!Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Great question! You don't necessarily need to run a cocoon nursery if you don't mind missing out on the worms that will hatch out or if you store your castings and bait the babies out in storage. Or if you don't mind letting the cocoons go out into the garden to hatch. But if you want all the babies that hatch, you can run a cocoon nursery. For most bins, you want to reuse the bin right after harvesting the casting which have tons of cocoons in them. So you separate the worms from the castings and use the worms to get started on new bedding and food scraps in that bin right away while you put the harvested castings in another container to let the cocoon hatch. if you left the worms in with the castings you would keep getting more and more cocoons. For my VermiHut I have to empty the tray because if I were to separate out the worms and put this same tray back on the tower, the worms would immediately reinvade it. So I have to put it in another container to hatch the cocoons. These trays can not be used as stand alone bins since they are so porous on the bottom. Hopefully that explained my rational for starting a separate container for a cocoon nursery! Thanks you so much for taking the time to watch & ask a great question!!🪱🪱🪱
That is a good idea!! My new favorite way of separating them is in a bait cup either right from the cocoon nursery or from my storage container!! You are such a good baby worm parent!! Thanks for dropping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I currently have a feeding cup I'm using an daisy sour cream container lg size to put the food in instead of just putting in the bedding as a experiment to see if I like that better & I tend to over feed maybe it will fix that.... and maybe to entice them to mate more...lol Thanks for all your videos !
Great question!! Most likely it is because the sides are moist and they like to explorer using the moisture almost like a highway to move around. If you have a lid you can take it off to let the inside humidity lower, which will dry off the sides and keep them down in the bedding. While you have the lid off keep a light on and that will further reenforce that beneath the bedding is where they belong. If it is not moisture, then it could be an overfed/too wet condition that is leading to ammonia formation of fermentation. The remedy there is to stop feeding & add dry bedding with the lid off until things get back into normal parameters. If you haven't overfed and the bin has no foul odors then this is probably not the issue. Finally something even more less likely but has happened to me...if the bin is too dry, I mean you pick up some bedding and it doesn't feel damp, then the worms could be fleeing a too dry condition...again less likely scenario. These are the three things that I have experienced that could be the issue you are also having. I hope this helps to trouble shoot it for you!! Thanks so much for watching and for asking a great question!!🪱🪱🪱
When the worms finish eating all the plant based food waste and shredded cardboard I will use the castings they produce in my vegetable & fruit garden. I will put another tray on top of this and the worms will climb up and keep eating more food scraps and cardboard. It’s a really amazing process!!🪱🪱🪱
Would you know why my baby red wigglers are climbing the sides and dying? They don't get out of the bin they die on the sides. None of the adult worms are trying to escape, just the new Borns.
That's a great question! Sometimes if the conditions are going bad in the bin the worms might try to flee but don't get very far because they dry up. The adults may be able to tolerate conditions better than the babies. How old is your bin? Do you smell any fermented or ammonia like odors? This can sometimes be caused by over feeding and lack of oxygen in the bin. Although this is less likely, the babies may also be following some moisture on the sides and then getting stuck/lost. This is kind of a general remedy, but if you still see some food left in the bin 7 days after feeding, skip a feeding and add some more bedding. Make sure the bedding in your bin is damp not wet and not dry. More bedding, damp conditions (not wet) and less food are often the solutions to many problems. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Yes, they dry up. When I look each time all the food is gone. What do the babies eat? Are they starving and trying to find food, could that be? I put new shredded paper in, in case it was to wet. The bin is about 4-5 months old. I used the coconut coir for bedding. There's a lot of compost in it but I can't remove some because the worms are not on one side. Plus there are a lot of babies still.
@@cathy4735 If you don’t think it’s an overfeeding situation & there are no odors or too much moisture, try more bedding and a little more food (bedding is also food). The babies eat the same thing as the adults. It sounds like you have a really populated mature bin that could use a little harvesting of castings. Is it a lot of babies, like a die off or just a few?
@@Vermicompost I see a few babies on the sides dried. I'm worried about harvesting the compost lots of babies in there and eggs. When I put the tops of fresh strawberries in the next day they are gone. I use in one corner the ready feed, the worm guy said they can live on that alone but I alternate with other foods and coffee grounds.
@@cathy4735 Ok, It sounds like your bin is healthy if there are only a few babies drying out on the sides. There will always be babies and cocoons in your castings so If you have another bin or container you could set up a cocoon nursery where you can bait they out in that bin while you add more bedding into your main bin in the space you just created. The good news is your bin seems to be healthy and producing a lot of castings, babies & cocoons!!
Believe it or not there is a method to my madness! 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 as the finger nails stay clean on that hand. I also 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 my left hand gets dirty anyway😂 Thanks so much for watching and asking a great question I'm sure many others have as well!!🪱🪱🪱
Lol i have sat down and tried saving every baby worm! Cant stop but fell bad when i take casting out. I place a wet piece of card bord and they hatch and run to it
😂 You can drive yourself crazy trying to get every last baby!! I always check my gloves when I finish videos and I'll occasionally find the tiniest little pink baby worm on my fingers!! Do you bury the wet card board or just leave it on top? That seems like a great way to get them out, then I can just throw the little piece of cardboard back into the regular bin!! Thanks for watching and thanks for the great idea!!🪱🪱🪱
Tell me about it🙃 i still try. Yes i dig the cardboard in afew inches in. Since its a decent piece i can easily pick it up and place it back with my other worms. Thank you for your videos.
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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:
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I have a super worm phobia, but I’ve always thought vermicomposting is so cool. Looks like fun. Btw- I like your videos! Your voice is soothing.
Believe it or not, I used to think a cluster of worms was pretty gross too!! One worm I could handle but a slithering ball of them...not so much!!! Until I realized how awesome vermicomposting is and it's amazing benefits for my garden and soil!!! Thanks so much for your kind words!! I'm so glad you took the time to watch my video!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Brandi, I am scared to death of snakes, so I don't want to raise African Night Crawlers....sooooo big and snake-y! But, the little ones are so cute..... European Night Crawlers, Red Wigglers, and Louisiana Swamp Worms, to name a few. If you're really interested in doing vermicomposting, maybe you need to "get to know" one worm at a time. I would begin with a very young 'wisp' (baby) and go from there. My favorite thing to do, now that I have worm towers, is to watch worm videos on RUclips as I eat! Keep watching!!! : )
Your updates are always interesting. I still enjoy the time lapses.
Thank you! It's hard not to do a time lapse when the worms present themselves in such a fascinating manner!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch & comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
Yeah I agree mate
Time lapse are always great 👍
Thank you for your great video and information- I actually did this today so looking forward to seeing what happens
Awesome!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
I love this concept. I’ve been wondering how best to harvest the castings and increase my worm bin’s population.
Thank you!! The cocoon nursery is fun as I get to see the babies just after they hatch!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Subhanallah excellent beautiful wonderful watching video my friend for sharing sharing 👍👍
Thank you! I appreciate you watching and commenting!!!🪱🪱🪱
Thanks, that is a very helpful video. I have a worm bin but now will be starting a cocoon bin.
I'm so glad you found it helpful!! Cocoon bins are super fun and so easy because you just leave them alone!! I love the baby worms I find in it!!! Thanks so much for checking out the video!!🪱🪱🪱
Doing my weekend worm video binge. Adorable baby worms 🪱 🪱
Thanks! That’s a great way to do it. I appreciate you stopping by to watch them all!! 🪱🪱🪱
I’m a new subscriber and appreciate all your content very informative. I’m learning how to keep my worms cool and happy this summer.
Awesome!! Thanks so much for subscribing!! My Outdoor Worm Bin made of two 20 gallon fabric pots does great outdoors, but I'm in a constant battle trying to keep my Urban Worm Bag cool with frozen water bottles! Shade is our friend for sure!! Thanks so much for watching and letting us know about your worms!!🪱🪱🪱
Nursery looks good, something I struggle with. Need to get something decent going for spring and definitely summer!!
Hut looks great !!
Cheers J&C 🪱🌱🪱🤜🤛
Thanks!! You'll have a ton of castings for your seed starts and garden!!🪱🪱🪱
God morning...Wow, this bin the worm is much produce a lot.. A ton of worm is going on here
Good Morning Bow! I really enjoyed watching the Elephant museum tour!! This bin really does have a lot of composting worms, they really eat fast and produce a lot of castings. Thank you so much for stopping by to watch & comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
That is a nice batch of worms. Take care. 😎
Thanks AJ!! They’re doing a great job of eating my food scraps and junk mail/boxes🪱🪱🪱Thanks for taking the time to stop by & watch!!!
Good morning Patrick 💕🪱💕
Thanks for the Shout-out.
My Nursery was started on December 1st. I'm so Antsy to check it out, but I'm trying to exercise patience.
You are having a great time and furthering Vermicomposting 🪱
That is the toughest part of vermicomposting and cocoon nurseries in particular...exercising patience!!! I'm excited to see your cocoon nursery updates! Thanks so much for watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
Just found this channel and dang :D, I am super interested in this content! haha
Welcome!! Thanks for stopping by!! I love turning my kitchen waste and cardboard boxes & junk mail into free fertilizer for my garden!! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video, there is lots more!! I appreciate your kind words!!🪱🪱🪱
Great update. 👍
Thank you! I appreciate your support and taking time to watch & comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
L#50 for this interesting contents.. thanks for sharing.. This is Mithz watching from Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Thank you!!! Welcome from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia! It is so nice of you to stop by & watch my video! I’m happy you enjoyed it🪱🪱🪱
Nice one and interesting too.... Peggy has also started this one ..great you both are doing well
Thank you!! It should be fun to watch Peggy and my cocoon nurseries produce a bunch of baby worms! I really appreciate your time watching & commenting!!!🪱🪱🪱
9:24 I thought that little guy was going to squirm out without being noticed.. you saved him right before he made it over the wall 👍🏻
Oh yeah - Thanks for the shout-out! :)
I almost edited that out, then I thought folks with a sharp eye might have watched it squirm up then see it disappear and think it escaped…so I left it in : D Thanks for the cocoon nursery inspiration!!🪱🪱🪱
I was wondering if you would notice it. I'm glad you did 👍🏻
Worms and nursery look great.
Thank you!! I'm pretty excited to see just how many this cocoon nursery produces over the next month! Thank so much for taking the time to watch and comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
Yay!! You've got tiny baby worms!
They're so cute! I should have started cocoon nurseries a while ago! Thanks so much for your support!!!🪱🪱🪱
That was so cool nursery cocoon
Thank you! There are hundreds of cocoons in there and they should produce a lot of compost worms!!!🪱🪱🪱
If you started out with 2,000 worms in your bin, you could have in excess of 8,000 now given that under ideal conditions, they can double in population every 3 to 6 months. However, they will grow to suit the available space they have.
I read somewhere that just 8 worms can become 1,500 in only 6 months!
Your bin looks really healthy to me. All I see is happy, hungry worms.
Thank you! Yes, after looking back at the video and each handful having tons of worms, I probably have between 4000-6000 worms in there. Maybe more! It has 3 tiers on it so space is probably the only thing holding them back from being at 8000…but they could be there too, I just don’t know!!??! Thanks so much for watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Whatever you do, don`t try to count them, lol!
Love the video mate 👍
Thanks! Babies are always a hit 😀Any vids from when your chickens were baby's other than of course being current ferocious baby dinosaurs now!!?!! Thanks for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost nah mate I don't think I have any videos of them as babies
But I will check and post it if I do
There like a pack of dinosaurs at the moment 😂🤣😂🤣🦖🦖
Big like 52❤️❤️ great sharing dear friend 💞💞💞 keep in touch ya 💕💕💕
Thank you for stopping by to watch and comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Good job my friend
Thanks you! I appreciate you watching & commenting!!!🪱🪱🪱
Sorry that I wasn't linked up yet, all set now. Don't tell Bow! 🤫 🏹🎯
I have to be honest. I hesitated since I get grossed out by this stuff. I can power through it. Don't tell Tamson. 🤫🎭😁
😂 No problem, I’m just happy you stopped by to watch! 🪱🪱🪱She’ll never find out! I’m pretty sure this open comment, public RUclips channel is the most secure thing on the internet😂
😂🤣😂 The worms had me at free natural fertilizer, then I was fascinated by how they transform the food scraps and cardboard so quickly. Now I’m addicted. Tamson will never know, unless I catch another live and tell the whole chat😀 Thanks again for stopping by!
@@Vermicompost
Definitely do that sometime, we love curve ball surprises in Chat! 😁📺
Loved the video..new friend here!! Great video..watched it and I will for sure stay connected!!
Thank you!!! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate you taking the time to stop by to watch and comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Aww 🥰 I don’t hate the baby ones so much, lol.
😂🤣😂 It's hard to hate a baby worm!!! They are so cute! Thanks so much for watching!!!🪱🪱🪱
tyvm
Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Those hatchlings are just anxious to hit the ground. That's a lot of worms in that banana.
😃 The early worm get the food scraps : D I definitely caught them attacking that banana mid feast. I think they saved the best for last!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch & comment!!!🪱🪱🪱
That's a lot of worms
I’m amazed how many worms are in there, probably 4000-6000 started from 2000. They can eat a lot of food scraps!!🪱🪱🪱
Day by day it's became a good fertilizer I also do it but in small container
That is fantastic!! It really is remarkable that we can vermicompost in large or small containers and the worms just do their job creating fertilizer for us! Thanks so much for watching and commenting!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost 👍
Hello, hello! Well, I'm starting a cocoon nursery from my VermiHut and I'm just wondering how long that should take to get all of the the worm babies out of it?? I did one before, but I didn't count the days at all.... Actually I didn't really even know what I was doing because I hadn't seen any videos yet on "nurseries," but I knew that it needed to be done. I didn't want to lose all the babies. I just had fun pulling worms out every few days........it really is addicting, HELP!! I still find that it's funny I can't ever see any cocoons in my own worm bins, but I can see them on a lot of videos! I don't know what that's all about. Keep up the good work. Thank you for the videos. God-bless you!
🤣It is addicting!!! I think about 60-75 days is enough for a cocoon nursery to hatch most, if not all the cocoons. Sometimes I see lots of cocoons, sometimes I don't see any😀 Thanks so much for stopping by another video to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Could you recommend books on the proper environment for worms to breed and care for the cocoons?
This is an all around great book for worm farming: Worms Eat My Garbage amzn.to/3L4FXN2 I also recommend watching Jayne over at @RockinWorms She has some great videos on the care for worms to get them to breed quickly. You can go to her channel page on a computer and type in "cocoon" or "breeder bin" in the magnifying glass icon next to her community tab to find her videos that talk about this. I hope this helps!!Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Interesting
Thank you! I find them fascinating! Thanks for watching and commenting!!!🪱🪱🪱
So what is the purpose of a cocoon nursery vs letting the cocoons hatch in the regular bin?
Great question! You don't necessarily need to run a cocoon nursery if you don't mind missing out on the worms that will hatch out or if you store your castings and bait the babies out in storage. Or if you don't mind letting the cocoons go out into the garden to hatch. But if you want all the babies that hatch, you can run a cocoon nursery. For most bins, you want to reuse the bin right after harvesting the casting which have tons of cocoons in them. So you separate the worms from the castings and use the worms to get started on new bedding and food scraps in that bin right away while you put the harvested castings in another container to let the cocoon hatch. if you left the worms in with the castings you would keep getting more and more cocoons. For my VermiHut I have to empty the tray because if I were to separate out the worms and put this same tray back on the tower, the worms would immediately reinvade it. So I have to put it in another container to hatch the cocoons. These trays can not be used as stand alone bins since they are so porous on the bottom. Hopefully that explained my rational for starting a separate container for a cocoon nursery! Thanks you so much for taking the time to watch & ask a great question!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me 😃 It actually makes perfect sense.
@@brisnider1943 I hate baiting babies out. It takes too long. They keep coming and coming.
I keep the babies together until they are a little older because I'm afraid of moving them, I might squish them.
That is a good idea!! My new favorite way of separating them is in a bait cup either right from the cocoon nursery or from my storage container!! You are such a good baby worm parent!! Thanks for dropping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I currently have a feeding cup I'm using an daisy sour cream container lg size to put the food in instead of just putting in the bedding as a experiment to see if I like that better & I tend to over feed maybe it will fix that.... and maybe to entice them to mate more...lol Thanks for all your videos !
@@helenaragon6539 That should be a fun little experiment!!
Why are all the baby worms on the walls of my vermocompost? try to escape? ... Thansk :)
Great question!! Most likely it is because the sides are moist and they like to explorer using the moisture almost like a highway to move around. If you have a lid you can take it off to let the inside humidity lower, which will dry off the sides and keep them down in the bedding. While you have the lid off keep a light on and that will further reenforce that beneath the bedding is where they belong. If it is not moisture, then it could be an overfed/too wet condition that is leading to ammonia formation of fermentation. The remedy there is to stop feeding & add dry bedding with the lid off until things get back into normal parameters. If you haven't overfed and the bin has no foul odors then this is probably not the issue. Finally something even more less likely but has happened to me...if the bin is too dry, I mean you pick up some bedding and it doesn't feel damp, then the worms could be fleeing a too dry condition...again less likely scenario. These are the three things that I have experienced that could be the issue you are also having. I hope this helps to trouble shoot it for you!! Thanks so much for watching and for asking a great question!!🪱🪱🪱
What you will do those worm's?
When the worms finish eating all the plant based food waste and shredded cardboard I will use the castings they produce in my vegetable & fruit garden. I will put another tray on top of this and the worms will climb up and keep eating more food scraps and cardboard. It’s a really amazing process!!🪱🪱🪱
Would you know why my baby red wigglers are climbing the sides and dying? They don't get out of the bin they die on the sides. None of the adult worms are trying to escape, just the new Borns.
That's a great question! Sometimes if the conditions are going bad in the bin the worms might try to flee but don't get very far because they dry up. The adults may be able to tolerate conditions better than the babies. How old is your bin? Do you smell any fermented or ammonia like odors? This can sometimes be caused by over feeding and lack of oxygen in the bin. Although this is less likely, the babies may also be following some moisture on the sides and then getting stuck/lost. This is kind of a general remedy, but if you still see some food left in the bin 7 days after feeding, skip a feeding and add some more bedding. Make sure the bedding in your bin is damp not wet and not dry. More bedding, damp conditions (not wet) and less food are often the solutions to many problems. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Yes, they dry up. When I look each time all the food is gone.
What do the babies eat? Are they starving and trying to find food, could that be? I put new shredded paper in, in case it was to wet. The bin is about 4-5 months old. I used the coconut coir for bedding. There's a lot of compost in it but I can't remove some because the worms are not on one side. Plus there are a lot of babies still.
@@cathy4735 If you don’t think it’s an overfeeding situation & there are no odors or too much moisture, try more bedding and a little more food (bedding is also food). The babies eat the same thing as the adults. It sounds like you have a really populated mature bin that could use a little harvesting of castings. Is it a lot of babies, like a die off or just a few?
@@Vermicompost I see a few babies on the sides dried. I'm worried about harvesting the compost lots of babies in there and eggs. When I put the tops of fresh strawberries in the next day they are gone. I use in one corner the ready feed, the worm guy said they can live on that alone but I alternate with other foods and coffee grounds.
@@cathy4735 Ok, It sounds like your bin is healthy if there are only a few babies drying out on the sides. There will always be babies and cocoons in your castings so If you have another bin or container you could set up a cocoon nursery where you can bait they out in that bin while you add more bedding into your main bin in the space you just created. The good news is your bin seems to be healthy and producing a lot of castings, babies & cocoons!!
Wondering why do you only wear glove on one hand in most of your videos?
Believe it or not there is a method to my madness! 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 as the finger nails stay clean on that hand. I also 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 my left hand gets dirty anyway😂 Thanks so much for watching and asking a great question I'm sure many others have as well!!🪱🪱🪱
Thanks for your reply@@Vermicompost ! I've learned a lot from all your videos. Please continue doing what you're doing.
Thank you for the kind words!!
Lol i have sat down and tried saving every baby worm! Cant stop but fell bad when i take casting out. I place a wet piece of card bord and they hatch and run to it
😂 You can drive yourself crazy trying to get every last baby!! I always check my gloves when I finish videos and I'll occasionally find the tiniest little pink baby worm on my fingers!! Do you bury the wet card board or just leave it on top? That seems like a great way to get them out, then I can just throw the little piece of cardboard back into the regular bin!! Thanks for watching and thanks for the great idea!!🪱🪱🪱
Tell me about it🙃 i still try. Yes i dig the cardboard in afew inches in. Since its a decent piece i can easily pick it up and place it back with my other worms. Thank you for your videos.
@@chulasexychica11 😀Thank you!! And thanks for getting back with me, I'm gonna try the cardboard trick in my cocoon nursery!!