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 or amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade) 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 Mosquito Dunks 6 pack amzn.to/3Oe4Sl0 granular amzn.to/42KDtM0 or 20 pack amzn.to/42Br4Kf Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: amzn.to/3HnOQjg Blue gloves amzn.to/3XsBg5n Spray bottles to mist bedding amzn.to/3Fq23rN Digital handheld Thermometer amzn.to/3EWfC2j Compost Tea Bags amzn.to/3fCb5o1 Solar powered light amzn.to/3nOucAq Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups amzn.to/3FNXvt6 Other useful equipment for worm farming: 5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: amzn.to/3S2k184 Cameras & camera equipment I use: GoPro HERO11 amzn.to/3jkRpLa Flexible Tripod amzn.to/3CGTjcF Insta360 GO 2 camera amzn.to/3oxCc80 Insta360 One X2 camera amzn.to/3nqV6hp iPhone 13 Max Pro amzn.to/3nq52aU Canon EOS Rebel T8i amzn.to/3HcBuX6 4 Ocean bracelets I wear Multiple colors to chose from bracelets amzn.to/3HMbHEx Books on worms & worm farming Worms Eat My Garbage amzn.to/3L4FXN2 Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com
😂🤣😂 They are probably running circles around the bin!! I wonder if all those artificial colors will turn the worm castings green😂🤣😂 Thanks for the good laugh & of course thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I love seeing their little orange worm butts!!😂 Thanks for the feedback on the diagrams, I'll keep putting them in there. Mango-condo!! I love it!! Thanks for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
😀 It's pretty amazing how they eat down the food and bedding in the feeding zone and it goes to bulging the lid up, to having a crater in the middle by the time I check it next! I was so tempted to eat a bowl of that cereal, but it's going to a better place for sure!! Thanks so much for dropping in Rick!!🪱🪱🪱
K, in the fall, you have to put a grocery store bought lettuce head vs a similar one from you garden!! Awsomeness brother !! Btw we saw Steve from the Garden today in Chicago, EPIC !! Cheers J&C 🌱🤜🤛🪱💪
That would an interesting experiment...maybe another top feeding one! Dang man, you are meeting all the cool RUclipsrs!! When Is my visit??!?...I want to be in the cool kids club!!😂🤣😂Thanks so much for watching J&C!!🪱🪱🪱 🤜🤛
I wonder if the worms are as addicted to sugar as most of us are? If so, they will go into withrdawl if you run out of the chow. Your bang on, the inuculating tray is available immidiatly and it comes along quite quickly.
Had I known that cereal was in the pantry all this time, I probably would have eaten it...addicted to sugar for sure so I have to avoid having it in the house!! I imagine they will want more after this round! I've been very impressed with these inoculating trays for sure. Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱
That feeding tray looks like its close to harvesting, nice feeding you gave them, ive noticed that outer side of the banana peel when they fished eating the inside, becomes like paper, much like with potatoe and tomato peels
It is amazing how being down below inoculating prepares the trays for being the top feeding tray!! That is a great way to describe what the do to the banana, potato & tomato peels! It's like thin paper!! Thanks so much for watching Theuns!!🪱🪱🪱
Hey Patrick, I know what you mean about rotten strawberries ! A little critter got into some of our crop this year and the worms benefited. Did your banana tree bounce back after the cold snap last winter? ~ Sandra
Lucky worms getting veggie plant scraps!! I cut the banana plants halfway up the stalks and about half survived but the shoots around them took over and grew taller...so I have a mini banana plant forrest. Hopefully one will shoot a flower out by August so I can get ripe bananas before a Dec or January freeze!! We always get some good plants that shoot up each year...but we need them to make it through one winter usually to be able to produce bananas...Thanks for asking, and thanks for watching Sandra!!
Froot loops are my favorite! I bet the worms will like them too. Out of curiosity, how on earth do you remember what you put in the bins two weeks later? 😂
😂I love Froot Loops!! It's so fun to have kids cause then you can eat their food without feeling guilty for buying it!! But now even they are on to healthier things...which is why these got hidden back on the top shelf in our pantry. Before each feeding I review the last video and take notes so I "remember" what I fed them. I have my notes just out of camera view. My earlier videos (which are really rough as I look back on them) were a whole lot of me playing guess the mush I fed the worms!!😂🤣😂 Thanks so much for watching & taking the time to leave a fun comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Thanks so much Peggy!! Fruit loops should definitely not be in my house since our boys are in their 20's and late teens😂🤣😂Better for the worms to make it into fertilizer for me than me to make it into love handles!! Thank you for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
I'm interested in starting a Vermihut to breed worms for supplemental chickenfeed. I know that's not really how you use yours, but do you have any insights on about how often one could take a handful of worms out, from an established population?
I think the VermiHut would be a great bin to get you started in easily growing a sizable population of worms to be able to feed to your chickens. It is so easy to start and will give you confidence to start more worm bins in the future. Worms are pretty amazing and they self regulate their populations to the size of the bin, so if you keep taking out worms a couple/three times a week they will continue to reproduce to fill the gap. I started my VermiHut with 2000 worms and it hit the ground running...by 5 months later I had 4 trays on and was getting into a rhythm of rotating trays every 60 days. I estimate I had 5000 worm before this latest rotation and I actually transferred 1000 worms into my Urban Worm Bag from the harvested tray...during this feeding in the video you can't even tell the population was culled by 20% So long story short, depending on how many worms you start with, if you let your worm bin build up for a few months, you can take a handful of worms out to feed your chickens several times a week no problem. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching & for the great question!!🪱🪱🪱
Nice way to think of it when you compost stuff just like kitchen scraps you can not eat it but you can compost it and grow food in it and eat the food!!!🪱🪱🪱
I checked on my UWB and adding the one layer of brown bag with the Vermihut white plastic cover on top to keep moisture in worked so well that all the food I placed 4 days ago are gone so I fed them again today. And I finally found those worms! They're alive hahaha They burrowed down under where the moisture was higher so now that I keep the top layer moist as well they have come up to greet me 😂😂😂
That's fantastic that you found them!! That is a great technique to keep the upper layers moist! The worms definitely like moisture!! Thanks so much for watching & updating us on your "lost" worms!!🪱🪱🪱
Yeah, I was hoping you would add some unpulverised fruit loops too! My time is starting to open up, so thinking of restarting a Vermihut after harvesting bottom of a Worm Cafe this week. We are in the 40s this morning, so betting composting activity has slowed down. Will put these back in my greenhouse to warm up. Crazy weather. 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱
I'll give you half my heat if you give me have your cold!! Then we'd both be enjoying the high 60's to low 70's...Wouldn't that be nice in mid June!! I'd love to hear you've started the VermiHut back up in an upcoming comment😀Thank goodness you have a green house to keep things warmer in the summer...who would of thought you'd need it??!!? Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Yes, even in normal summer weather here we can hardly grow tomatoes in a greenhouse, so is a must. Its mostly cold resistant plants here. Now to go start up some new bedding! 👍
If the mold on the strawberries has been frozen, does it still have the ability to spring back to life?, or is it all dead now? Either way, I have a feeling the worms will do away with it all pretty quickly. As for the cereal, I think they worms are gonna really like that stuff 👍🏻
That is a great question! Maybe if some of the spores are able to make it through the freeze??!? Like you said, either way the worms should love it!! Wouldn't it be cool if the color from the cereal stayed in the worm castings? Thanks for stopping by to watch AV!!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick! I am thinking of getting another worm tower, maybe the Vermi Hut. Could you tell me why you chose it, and what you like about it? I notice that the spigot is kind of high in the base. Does it drain well when needed? Thank you.
Hi Patty!! The original reason I got the VermiHut is because I failed on my first DIY worm bin when I restarted vermicomposting...I wanted something that was a proven worm bin that came with everything I needed to get started (minus the worms) My Neighbor Jeff (who is in this video: ruclips.net/video/g5Sag75OAXY/видео.html ) bought a VermiHut & 500 worms in the heat of summer here in Florida and he was off to the races...so after 6 months (to make sure his VermiHut was still running) I took the plunge and started it up with 2000 worms!! I never looked back, it has been at a full sprint ever since I got it and I've done some careless things with it, like I showed in this video: ruclips.net/video/_fJNg0-1X6M/видео.html and it keeps going strong! My goal is to never have leachate in the base, so I use the inoculting tray method of putting dry shredded card board in the bottom two trays: ruclips.net/video/SfUzjr107Hw/видео.html If you want to pour water into your VermiHut to capture the liquid to use right away, then the spigot is adequate, but you are right there will still be a little puddle in there. But Like I said, I don't usually have liquid down there. What do I love about the VermiHut, let me count the ways...It is easy, intuitive, and you know when the castings are ready...literally every 60 days...because once you get 4 trays on there it becomes like an assembly line that never stops! Each tray is also a 1/4 inch sifter (there are about 1600 holes in the bottom of each tray). I use the agitation method in the harvest tray to separate the worms from the castings and it is the easiest way I have found to harvest of any of the methods I have tried!! The VermiHut is also a really big worm bin in a very small space because it is vertical. My wife even lets me keep it in the house because it looks cool and has no odors what so ever. I could go on and on!! I hope this has helped...I think you will love it!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch and get me talking about my love of the VermiHut!!🪱🪱🪱
Great question!! Typically it will take somewhere between 4-6 months for the worms to turn all the bedding and food scraps to worm castings, however if your bin is not too wet and the bedding and castings flow well, then you can sift the castings out like I did in this video: ruclips.net/video/tI--M5E-oKg/видео.html Even though the whole bin is not complete, I am able to sift the castings that are ready, and put the big unfinished material and bedding back into the bin for the worms. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost It helped me a lot, I will hold them a little longer to slightly dry the substrate in which the worms reside, so that it would be better to sift it through a sieve. Another question, what holes should this sieve have? ... greetings and thanks for the quick answer to the previous question.
Great question!! If you watch these videos on how I rotate it makes more sense: ruclips.net/video/XNG4i8iXc_g/видео.html & ruclips.net/video/_uRRpwZcMXM/видео.html All trays enter full of dry bedding on the very bottom so that any microbe filled liquid that is pulled by gravity is absorbed by the dry trays slowly making them moist and filled with great microbes! When I rotate up to the top feeding tray they are super charged with microbes that have inoculated the bedding and the worms make quick work of the trays turning them into rich worm castings! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching John!!🪱🪱🪱
With this bin you can clamp down the lid on the four sides to keep out any critters that might be able to open a lid and it came with four tiny plastic basins that you put the feet inside of, then fill with water. Ants will not cross water so it keeps the ants away. If you don't have this VermiHut worm bin then I have found ants typically like to hide their eggs in worm bins instead of eating the worms, so I just make sure I go into my OutDopr Worm Bin every 3 days or so to disturb any ants that might be trying to nest inside there. I did a video on how I keep out pests: ruclips.net/video/Cmeq-iN_Ih8/видео.html You may want to get a tight lid for your worm bin, but you must have holes in the sides or lid to let them exchange air, otherwise your worms will die off without oxygen. You can put some mesh over the holes to keep flies out. Finally be sure to bury your food scraps real well and put a lot of shredded bedding over the top to mask smells. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
The best answer I can give you is the term red wiggler most commonly refers to the compost worm with orangish stripped tails, Eisenia fetida (the body is also striped or segmented, like all earth worms, but you can definitely see the segments in red wigglers) . Eisenia andrei (very close cousins) are also sometimes referred to as red wigglers and they are hard to tell apart. Red worm is a name a lot of people use, and sellers as well, to refer to compost worms in general. If someone is selling you compost worms and calls them red worms, then that is most likely (almost 100% guaranteed) a mix of red wigglers, blue worms and/or ENCs. So all red wigglers are red worms but not all red worms are red wigglers. Both terms are essentially slang terms, not scientific names, so people will argue until they are blue in the face about it, but I think I captured the gist of it! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for the great question!! And thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
😂 That would be magical!! I'd even go for different color worm castings!! It just shows how well their bodies & the microbes within them can process artificial coloring better than the human body!! Thanks for stopping by Joe!!🪱🪱🪱
My worm bin is a few weeks old and the last 2 feedings I have found that the worms are trying to escape the day after the feedings. Any reason this could be? I leave the lid off with a piece of cardboard just sitting on top like you have your newspaper, for a day or two to get them to dig down and then they do not try to escape after that until the next feeding.
That is very interesting that they try to escape right after a feeding. What have the last 2 feedings been? Were the feedings put in frozen? How big is the bin? I think skipping a feeding along with adding even more bedding with the next feeding, and feeding less food will help them calm down. You could also leave the lid & the cardboard off in a room with a light on after you feed for a couple days to make sure they stay down. Believe it or not, they will eventually stay down for good, but that is a bit odd that it occurs right after feeding. Let me know what you think & what you experience the next time you feed (after you skip a feeding). This will be a great learning experience for us all!! Thanks so much for watching & good luck!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost feedings have been apple core, banana peels, broccoli, cucumber skins and such. All frozen and thawed just a little bit. Coffee grounds dried out, egg shells grinded, worm feed that is rice and such that is grinded down. The bin is the large black ones with the yellow lids, it sits on my back porch not in the house. Never gets too hot, still moist as it should be. When the lid is off I leave the porch light on as well. I did find a large ball of worms under the banana peel before this last feeding. So I assume they are happy most of the time.
Ok, this is what it sounds like to me...when you feed, the moisture level rises just a bit, and with the lid on, the sides get moist...allowing for the super curious worms to climb up the sides...So I would just leave the lid off if you can (is your porch screened in so no animals can get in the bin?). The second thing it could be (but less likely based on what you mentioned) is a combination of the first thing and maybe the feeding zone is heating up just a little at first when you feed. So maybe feed less (always a good thing to do) and feed faster foods like lettuce and melons or strawberries for a couple of feedings and be sure to add more bedding. Hold off on any coffee grounds as well...after things get back to normal resume the same feedings you've been giving...but to be honest it sounds like the lid is creating moisture on the sides and the worms are taking advantage of it. Hopefully this makes sense...it is something we have all experienced, but eventually stops.
@@Vermicompost all of that makes sense. I have done slower foods such as water melon and strawberries. No screen on the porch but animals are not an issue. Maybe I'll make a mess screen lid for it. Thank you for all of the help.
@@baboondeity7731 Excellent!! I bet a mesh screen lid would work well and you could keep trying the regular lid as the worms get more used to the bin and when the seasons get cooler and less humid & don't cause the bin to produce condensation on the sides. Thanks again for stopping by to watch, Good Luck!!
Great question!! In the past I have fed in the corners or on the edges and moved to a new corner or edge each time. But I found that since I like to aerate every time I feed, where I put the feeding zone does not really matter...So now I do it where it is easiest to film and edit!! So ultimately you are right...I do it for the Tube😂🤣😂 Thanks for the great question & for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Now that is a fantastic question I have never been asked before...and now you've got me curious for actual real data...So I'm gonna start next time I shred and find out how many I use a month. But l think it is somewhere between 5-6 smallish to medium sized amazon boxes a month. I could be way off and it is much more, but I find I have more boxes than my worms can consume, and here is why...My mom brings me all her boxes, and we have 3 boys (men really) so between Christmas & birthdays and random gift giving we are able to never run out...In fact some times we just can't take it any more and I go on a box shredding rampage and feed a lot of the shreds to our regular compost pile! I hope this helps...but more to follow when I count the boxes over a 30 day period. Thanks for the great question & for watching Ron!!🪱🪱🪱
❤👍always love your videos. But when you mess with mango seeds, the French acquisition comes to mine. Or it blast off and hits the executive producer in the head. But some how you manage it. 👍( them worms get the good cereal!! ) ❤✌
😂🤣😂 The Executive Producer is always in danger when we film!! It's funny to see my son's tastes change as they get older...I have no idea how long that cereal was in the back of the pantry!! Thanks for all your support Tory!!🪱🪱🪱
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Has vision of naughty worms hopped up on that colour cereal like kids after too much sugar 🤣
😂🤣😂 They are probably running circles around the bin!! I wonder if all those artificial colors will turn the worm castings green😂🤣😂 Thanks for the good laugh & of course thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Lots of orange butt!! Good worms🎉🎉 I do like the diagrams that tell me what layer we are on. Way to go worms in the mangocondo😎
I love seeing their little orange worm butts!!😂 Thanks for the feedback on the diagrams, I'll keep putting them in there. Mango-condo!! I love it!! Thanks for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
Your exceptional footage was a pleasure to watch, and I hope you have an enjoyable weekend!😃😃😃😃
Thank you my friend!! I really appreciate your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Big crater in the middle of the tray. It will be neat to see if anything is left on top. Maybe a couple fruit loops and the broccoli stem😁🪱🪱
😀 It's pretty amazing how they eat down the food and bedding in the feeding zone and it goes to bulging the lid up, to having a crater in the middle by the time I check it next! I was so tempted to eat a bowl of that cereal, but it's going to a better place for sure!! Thanks so much for dropping in Rick!!🪱🪱🪱
K, in the fall, you have to put a grocery store bought lettuce head vs a similar one from you garden!!
Awsomeness brother !!
Btw we saw Steve from the Garden today in Chicago, EPIC !!
Cheers J&C 🌱🤜🤛🪱💪
That would an interesting experiment...maybe another top feeding one! Dang man, you are meeting all the cool RUclipsrs!! When Is my visit??!?...I want to be in the cool kids club!!😂🤣😂Thanks so much for watching J&C!!🪱🪱🪱 🤜🤛
@Vermicompost ummmm, little hint- it's gets cold up here in the winter 😉🤜🤛 book it !!
Ah, yes the annual migration to Florida😂🤣😂
@@Vermicompost ❄️🕊️
You would make Gordon Ramsey proud with your chef skills. 👨🍳
😂🤣😂 My worms never complain about the food!!! They leave that to the Executive Producer!! Thanks for the good laugh AJ!!🪱🪱🪱
I wonder if the worms are as addicted to sugar as most of us are? If so, they will go into withrdawl if you run out of the chow. Your bang on, the inuculating tray is available immidiatly and it comes along quite quickly.
Had I known that cereal was in the pantry all this time, I probably would have eaten it...addicted to sugar for sure so I have to avoid having it in the house!! I imagine they will want more after this round! I've been very impressed with these inoculating trays for sure. Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱
That feeding tray looks like its close to harvesting, nice feeding you gave them, ive noticed that outer side of the banana peel when they fished eating the inside, becomes like paper, much like with potatoe and tomato peels
It is amazing how being down below inoculating prepares the trays for being the top feeding tray!! That is a great way to describe what the do to the banana, potato & tomato peels! It's like thin paper!! Thanks so much for watching Theuns!!🪱🪱🪱
Hey Patrick, I know what you mean about rotten strawberries ! A little critter got into some of our crop this year and the worms benefited. Did your banana tree bounce back after the cold snap last winter?
~ Sandra
Lucky worms getting veggie plant scraps!! I cut the banana plants halfway up the stalks and about half survived but the shoots around them took over and grew taller...so I have a mini banana plant forrest. Hopefully one will shoot a flower out by August so I can get ripe bananas before a Dec or January freeze!! We always get some good plants that shoot up each year...but we need them to make it through one winter usually to be able to produce bananas...Thanks for asking, and thanks for watching Sandra!!
Froot loops are my favorite! I bet the worms will like them too. Out of curiosity, how on earth do you remember what you put in the bins two weeks later? 😂
😂I love Froot Loops!! It's so fun to have kids cause then you can eat their food without feeling guilty for buying it!! But now even they are on to healthier things...which is why these got hidden back on the top shelf in our pantry. Before each feeding I review the last video and take notes so I "remember" what I fed them. I have my notes just out of camera view. My earlier videos (which are really rough as I look back on them) were a whole lot of me playing guess the mush I fed the worms!!😂🤣😂 Thanks so much for watching & taking the time to leave a fun comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Wow! Fruit Loops for the worms 🪱 Who knew!
Congratulations on hitting 7,000🎉
Thanks so much Peggy!! Fruit loops should definitely not be in my house since our boys are in their 20's and late teens😂🤣😂Better for the worms to make it into fertilizer for me than me to make it into love handles!! Thank you for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Where is an update in the FL cereal you used here. I looked and can't find one.
Here is the next feeding after this video: ruclips.net/video/G65dZZUDgcE/видео.html Thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I'm interested in starting a Vermihut to breed worms for supplemental chickenfeed.
I know that's not really how you use yours, but do you have any insights on about how often one could take a handful of worms out, from an established population?
I think the VermiHut would be a great bin to get you started in easily growing a sizable population of worms to be able to feed to your chickens. It is so easy to start and will give you confidence to start more worm bins in the future. Worms are pretty amazing and they self regulate their populations to the size of the bin, so if you keep taking out worms a couple/three times a week they will continue to reproduce to fill the gap. I started my VermiHut with 2000 worms and it hit the ground running...by 5 months later I had 4 trays on and was getting into a rhythm of rotating trays every 60 days. I estimate I had 5000 worm before this latest rotation and I actually transferred 1000 worms into my Urban Worm Bag from the harvested tray...during this feeding in the video you can't even tell the population was culled by 20% So long story short, depending on how many worms you start with, if you let your worm bin build up for a few months, you can take a handful of worms out to feed your chickens several times a week no problem. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching & for the great question!!🪱🪱🪱
If I get more worms i might do this to
@@Vermicompost Thank you very much, that was a very helpful reply
My pleasure!!
Nice way to think of it when you compost stuff just like kitchen scraps you can not eat it but you can compost it and grow food in it and eat the food!!!🪱🪱🪱
Exactly!! It makes me feel less bad about the food waste I produce!! Thanks for watching and explaining the cycle so well!!🪱🪱🪱
I checked on my UWB and adding the one layer of brown bag with the Vermihut white plastic cover on top to keep moisture in worked so well that all the food I placed 4 days ago are gone so I fed them again today. And I finally found those worms! They're alive hahaha They burrowed down under where the moisture was higher so now that I keep the top layer moist as well they have come up to greet me 😂😂😂
That's fantastic that you found them!! That is a great technique to keep the upper layers moist! The worms definitely like moisture!! Thanks so much for watching & updating us on your "lost" worms!!🪱🪱🪱
Yeah, I was hoping you would add some unpulverised fruit loops too! My time is starting to open up, so thinking of restarting a Vermihut after harvesting bottom of a Worm Cafe this week. We are in the 40s this morning, so betting composting activity has slowed down. Will put these back in my greenhouse to warm up. Crazy weather. 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱
I'll give you half my heat if you give me have your cold!! Then we'd both be enjoying the high 60's to low 70's...Wouldn't that be nice in mid June!! I'd love to hear you've started the VermiHut back up in an upcoming comment😀Thank goodness you have a green house to keep things warmer in the summer...who would of thought you'd need it??!!? Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Yes, even in normal summer weather here we can hardly grow tomatoes in a greenhouse, so is a must. Its mostly cold resistant plants here. Now to go start up some new bedding! 👍
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If the mold on the strawberries has been frozen, does it still have the ability to spring back to life?, or is it all dead now? Either way, I have a feeling the worms will do away with it all pretty quickly. As for the cereal, I think they worms are gonna really like that stuff 👍🏻
That is a great question! Maybe if some of the spores are able to make it through the freeze??!? Like you said, either way the worms should love it!! Wouldn't it be cool if the color from the cereal stayed in the worm castings? Thanks for stopping by to watch AV!!!🪱🪱🪱
Now *that* would be something to see... a bin full of rainbow-colored wormies... :)
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Hi Patrick! I am thinking of getting another worm tower, maybe the Vermi Hut. Could you tell me why you chose it, and what you like about it? I notice that the spigot is kind of high in the base. Does it drain well when needed? Thank you.
Hi Patty!! The original reason I got the VermiHut is because I failed on my first DIY worm bin when I restarted vermicomposting...I wanted something that was a proven worm bin that came with everything I needed to get started (minus the worms) My Neighbor Jeff (who is in this video: ruclips.net/video/g5Sag75OAXY/видео.html ) bought a VermiHut & 500 worms in the heat of summer here in Florida and he was off to the races...so after 6 months (to make sure his VermiHut was still running) I took the plunge and started it up with 2000 worms!! I never looked back, it has been at a full sprint ever since I got it and I've done some careless things with it, like I showed in this video: ruclips.net/video/_fJNg0-1X6M/видео.html and it keeps going strong! My goal is to never have leachate in the base, so I use the inoculting tray method of putting dry shredded card board in the bottom two trays: ruclips.net/video/SfUzjr107Hw/видео.html If you want to pour water into your VermiHut to capture the liquid to use right away, then the spigot is adequate, but you are right there will still be a little puddle in there. But Like I said, I don't usually have liquid down there. What do I love about the VermiHut, let me count the ways...It is easy, intuitive, and you know when the castings are ready...literally every 60 days...because once you get 4 trays on there it becomes like an assembly line that never stops! Each tray is also a 1/4 inch sifter (there are about 1600 holes in the bottom of each tray). I use the agitation method in the harvest tray to separate the worms from the castings and it is the easiest way I have found to harvest of any of the methods I have tried!! The VermiHut is also a really big worm bin in a very small space because it is vertical. My wife even lets me keep it in the house because it looks cool and has no odors what so ever. I could go on and on!! I hope this has helped...I think you will love it!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch and get me talking about my love of the VermiHut!!🪱🪱🪱
I have such a question, namely at what point to separate the worms from the droppings of the worms?
Great question!! Typically it will take somewhere between 4-6 months for the worms to turn all the bedding and food scraps to worm castings, however if your bin is not too wet and the bedding and castings flow well, then you can sift the castings out like I did in this video: ruclips.net/video/tI--M5E-oKg/видео.html Even though the whole bin is not complete, I am able to sift the castings that are ready, and put the big unfinished material and bedding back into the bin for the worms. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost It helped me a lot, I will hold them a little longer to slightly dry the substrate in which the worms reside, so that it would be better to sift it through a sieve.
Another question, what holes should this sieve have? ... greetings and thanks for the quick answer to the previous question.
Sorry I just saw this comment. The holes in my sifter are .25 inch or 0.64 cm.
I am new at this what do you mean by inoculated tray?
Great question!! If you watch these videos on how I rotate it makes more sense: ruclips.net/video/XNG4i8iXc_g/видео.html & ruclips.net/video/_uRRpwZcMXM/видео.html All trays enter full of dry bedding on the very bottom so that any microbe filled liquid that is pulled by gravity is absorbed by the dry trays slowly making them moist and filled with great microbes! When I rotate up to the top feeding tray they are super charged with microbes that have inoculated the bedding and the worms make quick work of the trays turning them into rich worm castings! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching John!!🪱🪱🪱
I’ve fed my worms fruit but haven’t tried giving them froot.
😂🤣😂 Froot is the tastiest fruit of all!! I just wish it was better for me!! Thanks for the hilarious comment & thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Method to protect worm bin from ants and rats.pls share
With this bin you can clamp down the lid on the four sides to keep out any critters that might be able to open a lid and it came with four tiny plastic basins that you put the feet inside of, then fill with water. Ants will not cross water so it keeps the ants away. If you don't have this VermiHut worm bin then I have found ants typically like to hide their eggs in worm bins instead of eating the worms, so I just make sure I go into my OutDopr Worm Bin every 3 days or so to disturb any ants that might be trying to nest inside there. I did a video on how I keep out pests: ruclips.net/video/Cmeq-iN_Ih8/видео.html You may want to get a tight lid for your worm bin, but you must have holes in the sides or lid to let them exchange air, otherwise your worms will die off without oxygen. You can put some mesh over the holes to keep flies out. Finally be sure to bury your food scraps real well and put a lot of shredded bedding over the top to mask smells. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost water idea is super.
Are the red worm the same as the red wigglers
The best answer I can give you is the term red wiggler most commonly refers to the compost worm with orangish stripped tails, Eisenia fetida (the body is also striped or segmented, like all earth worms, but you can definitely see the segments in red wigglers) .
Eisenia andrei (very close cousins) are also sometimes referred to as red wigglers and they are hard to tell apart. Red worm is a name a lot of people use, and sellers as well, to refer to compost worms in general. If someone is selling you compost worms and calls them red worms, then that is most likely (almost 100% guaranteed) a mix of red wigglers, blue worms and/or ENCs. So all red wigglers are red worms but not all red worms are red wigglers. Both terms are essentially slang terms, not scientific names, so people will argue until they are blue in the face about it, but I think I captured the gist of it! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for the great question!! And thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank you sir keep the great content coming
My pleasure! Thanks for the positive feedback!!
It would be funny if we saw different color worms next update. Ha
😂 That would be magical!! I'd even go for different color worm castings!! It just shows how well their bodies & the microbes within them can process artificial coloring better than the human body!! Thanks for stopping by Joe!!🪱🪱🪱
My worm bin is a few weeks old and the last 2 feedings I have found that the worms are trying to escape the day after the feedings. Any reason this could be? I leave the lid off with a piece of cardboard just sitting on top like you have your newspaper, for a day or two to get them to dig down and then they do not try to escape after that until the next feeding.
That is very interesting that they try to escape right after a feeding. What have the last 2 feedings been? Were the feedings put in frozen? How big is the bin? I think skipping a feeding along with adding even more bedding with the next feeding, and feeding less food will help them calm down. You could also leave the lid & the cardboard off in a room with a light on after you feed for a couple days to make sure they stay down. Believe it or not, they will eventually stay down for good, but that is a bit odd that it occurs right after feeding. Let me know what you think & what you experience the next time you feed (after you skip a feeding). This will be a great learning experience for us all!! Thanks so much for watching & good luck!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost feedings have been apple core, banana peels, broccoli, cucumber skins and such. All frozen and thawed just a little bit. Coffee grounds dried out, egg shells grinded, worm feed that is rice and such that is grinded down. The bin is the large black ones with the yellow lids, it sits on my back porch not in the house. Never gets too hot, still moist as it should be. When the lid is off I leave the porch light on as well. I did find a large ball of worms under the banana peel before this last feeding. So I assume they are happy most of the time.
Ok, this is what it sounds like to me...when you feed, the moisture level rises just a bit, and with the lid on, the sides get moist...allowing for the super curious worms to climb up the sides...So I would just leave the lid off if you can (is your porch screened in so no animals can get in the bin?). The second thing it could be (but less likely based on what you mentioned) is a combination of the first thing and maybe the feeding zone is heating up just a little at first when you feed. So maybe feed less (always a good thing to do) and feed faster foods like lettuce and melons or strawberries for a couple of feedings and be sure to add more bedding. Hold off on any coffee grounds as well...after things get back to normal resume the same feedings you've been giving...but to be honest it sounds like the lid is creating moisture on the sides and the worms are taking advantage of it. Hopefully this makes sense...it is something we have all experienced, but eventually stops.
@@Vermicompost all of that makes sense. I have done slower foods such as water melon and strawberries. No screen on the porch but animals are not an issue. Maybe I'll make a mess screen lid for it. Thank you for all of the help.
@@baboondeity7731 Excellent!! I bet a mesh screen lid would work well and you could keep trying the regular lid as the worms get more used to the bin and when the seasons get cooler and less humid & don't cause the bin to produce condensation on the sides. Thanks again for stopping by to watch, Good Luck!!
Do you always feed in the middle or is easier for making a youtube video?
Great question!! In the past I have fed in the corners or on the edges and moved to a new corner or edge each time. But I found that since I like to aerate every time I feed, where I put the feeding zone does not really matter...So now I do it where it is easiest to film and edit!! So ultimately you are right...I do it for the Tube😂🤣😂 Thanks for the great question & for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
How many cardboard boxes do you think you consume in a month or a year
Now that is a fantastic question I have never been asked before...and now you've got me curious for actual real data...So I'm gonna start next time I shred and find out how many I use a month. But l think it is somewhere between 5-6 smallish to medium sized amazon boxes a month. I could be way off and it is much more, but I find I have more boxes than my worms can consume, and here is why...My mom brings me all her boxes, and we have 3 boys (men really) so between Christmas & birthdays and random gift giving we are able to never run out...In fact some times we just can't take it any more and I go on a box shredding rampage and feed a lot of the shreds to our regular compost pile! I hope this helps...but more to follow when I count the boxes over a 30 day period. Thanks for the great question & for watching Ron!!🪱🪱🪱
❤👍always love your videos. But when you mess with mango seeds, the French acquisition comes to mine. Or it blast off and hits the executive producer in the head. But some how you manage it. 👍( them worms get the good cereal!! ) ❤✌
😂🤣😂 The Executive Producer is always in danger when we film!! It's funny to see my son's tastes change as they get older...I have no idea how long that cereal was in the back of the pantry!! Thanks for all your support Tory!!🪱🪱🪱