Worm Bin Fast Food Experiment Update!! | Vermicompost Worm Farm
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Check out which food scraps red wiggler compost worms turn to castings first! 2 day, 5 day & 15 day updates reveal how fast worms devour scraps!!
We also put a top feeding of pumpkin with surprising results! This VermiHut worm tower has more than 6,000 red wiggler & blue worms turning my food scraps & cardboard waste into natural organic fertilizer & soil amendments for my garden & bonsai trees! Stay tuned for the feeding as we put some unusual bedding materials for the worms to explore and eventually consume!
Here is the link to the start of the experiment: • New Worm Bin Experimen...
Epigeic worms or composting worms are fascinating natural composters & fertilizers that are in most homesteaders bag of tricks to make free organic fertilizer & soil amendments as well as fishing bait. If you've ever thought about vermicomposting or composting with worms to make organic fertilizer & natural soil amendments with your plant based kitchen scraps or food waste, this is the channel for you. I have 3 worm composing bins which you can watch from start to finished worm castings on the 3 playlists following each worm bin. If you haven't started yet, get started now and vermicompost with me!🪱🪱🪱 Visit my Channel at / vermicompostlearnbydoing
Happy Vermicomposting Everyone!!!🪱🪱🪱
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
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
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00:00 | Intro & experiment recap
00:16 | 3 days later pumpkin top feeding
00:44 | 5 days later checkin
01:14 | Fast food update
01:52 | Worm ball city!!!
02:41 | Worms in corn cob
03:08 | Worm spaghetti
03:38 | Back to the future
04:53 | Digging in to the last feeding zone
05:46 | Pepper remanence
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
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
Keep posting. Its my little project now
The Vermihut is running great. Keep the videos coming. 👍
Thanks AJ!! This VermiHut is getting heavy with castings!!🪱🪱🪱
You are a myth buster when it comes to feeding worms peppers, Patrick. I sometimes see people anthropomorphize their worms. If we smeared peppers all over us, I’m sure it would sting, but worms don’t seem to have such sensitive skin.
~ Sandra
😀 So true!! They couldn't be more different from us in the Animal Kingdom!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
You should do a Q and A live stream to talk about worm farming it would be cool. thanks for making your videos I love watching them
My pleasure & thank you for your videos!! That would be fun to do a Q & A sometime!! May be in the new year!!🪱🪱🪱
@@VermicompostYes please!
Hi Patrick, Nice job 👍 Big feeding and those guys 🪱🪱🪱are chowing it down like teenage boys 🤣🤣🤣
Happy Christmas 🎅🎄 🤶
Thanks Peggy!! It takes a house full of teenagers to have enough food scraps for my worm bins!! Thanks for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Good morning wormie friend!!! I’m really late to the worm party sorry!!! 🤣 gosh the pumpkin completely disappeared 😂 whoooo!! Check out that mass of red spaghetti!!!! Hahahahaha lovely to hear the Weiner hound!! Good dog!! 🐶❤️🐶 6000 worms is a lot! No wonder they powered through that feeding so fast…… this feeding is gonna be like a theme park for these guys with all those toilet rolls and cardboard hidey holes!!! 😂🎡🎢 they’re gonna love it 🙌🏼🙌🏼 looking forward to seeing the worm theme park next time 🙌🏼🎢🙌🏼 thanks guys and I hope you are all doing awesome 🌻💝🎄🕊 xx
Hellooooo Anita!! You're never late to the worm party!!! This feeding totally is like a theme park for the wormies!! Mini is a good little Weiner hound, but she sure likes to bark when we're filming 😂 I hope all is well with the flower farm and business with the rains subsiding! Thanks so much for the wonderful comment and for stopping by!! I know you all are crazy busy this time of year!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost thankyou so much Patrick, we are doing great! The weather has still been very cool compared to normal and the flowers are slowly starting to come on, but this week it’s meant to warm up finally! Yay! We have well and truly recovered from the flooding now and I completed most of my planting and bed expansion last week 😊🙌🏼 big job but I’m so glad to have it done! You never know, I might even get back to making a video soon 🤣🙏🌷💝🌸
Great news all around!!! No pressure….but we love LOVE LoVe your videos😂
@@Vermicompost 😂💕🙌🏼💝 thanks guys xx
Wow what a 🪱ball in the peppers! They are working well for you.
Thanks! They really worked it over!! I appreciate you stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
I’m watching the corn cob. I enjoy the challenges.
Thanks Joe!! I appreciate you stopping by to check it out!! That corn cob looks like it's putting up a fight!!🪱🪱🪱
I've noticed my worms take a bit of time to eat peppers as well. This feeding will be interesting, they will fill all the spaces in no time.
Thanks!! It was strange, they tore through most of them quickly but took their sweet old time on that last one...I wonder if there was something on it they didn't like at first?? Thanks for stopping by Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱
Amazing to see how they demolished the last feeding, interesting feeding
Ya, that pumpkin on top went from almost the same as when I put it in on day 2 to being completely gone, like someone stole it on day 5!! Jumping in on day 5 and seeing them all through the peppers was super cool!! Thanks so much for dropping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Pepper PH for the win 🤜🤛🤣!! We love this vid, always great to see it chronologically.
That bin has only 400 fewer worms than holes????? Let's gooooo!
$7.99 for shrimp cocktail ???? Suspicious 🤣
Cheers J&C 🪱🌱🪱🤜🤛
😂🤣😂 So there is a chance there is a hole a worm has never been through...That does sound suspicious!! They try to lure you in with the adds then you find out there are less shrimp in the package than Forrest Gump caught on his first try!! Thanks for stopping by you two!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost 🤣🤣🤣
Yay - more honeycomb cardboard! The wormies will be very pleased 👍🏻
😂 My mom always surprises me with the strangest cardboard packaging materials!! Thanks for watching @A-V
I went to my mom's house last night for ladies night _(yeah, yeah - I go over there when she has her girlfriends over for dinner on Tuesday nights... anyhow......)_ and one of her girlfriends presented me with about 10 or 12 TP tubes & about half a dozen paper towel tubes. This resulted in me needing to make a quick trip downstairs to my shredder once I arrived back at home to save me the hassle of needing to find somewhere to stash it all :)
😂🤣😂 I'm at the breaking point with Autumn and my cardboard and food scraps storage...All part of my plan to convince her to let me have more worm bins to help get rid of it all!!
My only hope is that I don't begin getting even more sources of contributions for worm foods & bedding materials. I have only so much throughput capability with my present worm population :)
Fast food junkies. Looks like they are tearing it up. Oh no, they are going to have garlic breath now. lol Potato peels are definitely slow, mine have barely touched them since thanksgiving. I think they are mad at me now. lol Thanks for the video.
😂🤣😂 Garlic breath!! Potato peels are so hit or miss for my worm bins, sometimes they take care of business so I give them more, then they go on strike!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
The worms did a number on those peppers. It’s funny how some items do take a surprising amount of time to breakdown. You should of tried to plant the garlic. They are going to have a great time with this feeding Patrick. I like the cardboard you added. 😁🪱💩
I definitely should have planted the garlic...When I first saw it and picked it up I was surprised it was in there🤣 After seeing your garlic harvest a few months ago I've been wanting to plant some!! Thanks for stopping by Rick!!🪱🪱🪱
An update on the two worm bin:
11/10/22
A slight increase in the population of fungus gnats was observed and monitored using yellow sticky traps which were employed two weeks previous to this date. The topmost layer of the bedding was allowed to dry over the previous week so that a solution of bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti) could be added to the bin. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacteria that, when ingested by the larvae of fungus gnats causes them to stop feeding and prevents them maturing to adult stage thereby controlling the population. The dry top layer of bedding was wetted by misting with a solution of Bti and incorporated into the rest of the material in the bin so as not to over wet the material. The solution was made by soaking ¼ of a “Mosquito Dunk” (commonly used in ponds to control mosquito populations using the same mechanism as previously described here for fungus gnats) in a five gallon bucket of non-chlorinated water. The worm/wisp/juvenile/and cocoon population was not counted this week.
Excellent update! I haven't run into fungus nat or flying insect populations with my worm bins but this seems to do the trick long term from what I have seen over at @worldcomposting and @A-V
Thanks so much for the update!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi! In my experience, the garlic will last longer. But eventually nothing withstand against red wriggles!
Thanks for letting me know, I don't think I've ever put garlic in my worm bins before this so it's good to get feedback from someone who has!! Red wigglers really are the work horses of compost worms!! Thanks so much for watching & for passing on the info about garlic!!🪱🪱🪱
great video sorry was sick for a while and didnt watch videos. ..you worms almost doubled since you gave some away. nice work, tyvm
Thank you!! I hope you are feeling better Sandy!! This population seems to be growing & growing!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick your worms are like a pack of piranha's! Good job they don't have teeth otherwise your fingers would be gone!🤯😂😭😅💚😁🎅🙏👍♥️
😂🤣😂 I can't even imagine if they had teeth!!! Thanks for watching and for the good laugh!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost could be a new horror! Mutant worms in a worm bin near you 💰💰💰💰💰💚🙏😅😭😂😎👍
I noticed you have a lot of worms in your bin. Here's my big question. What do I do if my worms outgrow their bed??? I don't have a lot of room for multiple beds. We just had an unusual two week freeze and although the bed is insulated, I had to bring it into my tiny house, (actually it's currently residing in my bathtub). Eventually would like to have the worms living under deep cover out of doors in the soil, but not quite there yet.
The compost worms will actually self regulate to fit the bin you have them in!! This worm tower has around 6000 worms in it and was started with 2000 worms two years ago. I think it got to its max capacity with in the first year!! If you don't want to split your bin, no worries! They are just as happy to eat your food scraps and make castings for you if you keep them in the same bin forever!! (My wife has put me on a strict 3 worm bin diet because she knows I'd have 50 by now😂)
I bring my one outdoor bin into my garage once or twice a year when we get a frost or freeze. Jason over at @clivesconundrumgarden has an interesting way of insulating his worm bin in Victoria Canada...here is a video on it: ruclips.net/video/GQCeXFFY5w8/видео.html This is his first winter doing it but I think he is on to something!! Thanks so much for the great question and thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Worm ball in the peppers 🌶️🪱👍🏼
It's always fun to get a worm ball in the middle of a W-urban legend food!! Thanks for stopping by to watch Ann (or is it Anne?)🪱🪱🪱
Nice worm ball there near the peppers and banana. So did you reach a conclusion after doing this experiment in regards to which food is fastest/most attractive to the worms? Kinda seemed like they were mad rushing all of it about equally
Thank you! They did seem like they mad rushed it all at once!! 😂🤣😂 All the foods I put in were fast foods in my experience except for the banana peels. I put in a lettuce stalk, strawberry tops, two pieces of pumpkin and two masses of chopped up peppers along with a whole pepper. The lettuce and strawberry tops were nowhere to be seen on day 5 and the top pumpkin was there on day three gone on day 5. The two chunks of pumpkin I put down in the feeding zone were also gone on day 5. The chopped up peppers were being devoured on day 5 but gone on day 15 and the whole pepper had its skin and a bit of flesh on it at day 15....so it looks like the lettuce, pumpkin and strawberry tops were devoured first followed by the peppers. The lettuce stalk and two pumpkin chunks had about the same volume as one of the pepper masses so I'd say lettuce, pumpkin and strawberry tops are super fast foods and the peppers are a fast to medium food where as the banana peels are a slow food. If I had dug in on day 3 I might have seen the difference between the lettuce, strawberry tops and pumpkin...But with a 6000 worm bin almost everything seems like a fast food!! I'm sure there would be a bigger difference in days to be consumed in a 1-2K worm bin!! Thanks so much for all your support & watching my videos!!🪱🪱🪱
Is the casting texture affected by the bedding material?
I heard coco coir gives a different texture than cardboard!
What do you think! Is this worth experimenting?
Well, I'm a firm believer in experimenting to find out!! I haven't noticed a difference based on different bedding material or food scraps for that matter. My first tray in this VermiHut was filled with coco coir. What I do find makes a huge difference in texture is the amount of moisture. I have had castings that are very wet to very dry and it is the difference between feeling like I am playing with mud or clay to feeling like they are tiny pebbles or big grains of sand falling between my fingers. But, I have to think the nutrient value makes a big difference depending on what we feed them!! Great question!! Thanks so much for asking and thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
“fast food” i thought mcdonalds burger
😀 Well...that would be fun to do!! I think I can figure out a way to give it a try!! In worm farming, fast food and slow food usually means how quickly they eat it; too much slow food or not a good mix of both and the food can ferment and cause issues within the bin. Thanks so much for taking the time to check out my channel!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost i have a box of vermi indoor also ☺️
red spaghetti yahh
😂🤣😂🪱🪱🪱
What would happen if you added margarine? Would the worms eat it?
Oooooohhhhhhh sounds like a good experiment!!! I haven't put particularly oily or fatty foods in my bins except for some nuts...but you've got me thinking!!! I may give it a try in a future video!! Thanks for the idea and thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I think pumpkin is their favorite food! Sometimes I forget what I fed them. Time to take pictures at every feeding! 👍🪱🪱🪱🪱🎃
I was so surprised when the pumpkin up top was completely gone on day 5!! If I didn't have my videos I would have no idea what I fed them😂🤣😂 Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost and forgot to mention am attempting to run my first vermihut using all 5 trays. Only one tray will be the inoculation tray. Will see how it goes this month. They are around 2000 in there but they are munching and breeding away! My observation is they mostly concentrate on gobbling the cardboard in the tray below the feeding tray and breed there too. Trying to encourage that. Doing rotation every three weeks...the plan.
@@annsalty5615 Awesome!! Can't wait to here how it all goes!! A harvest every three weeks would be great!!
@@Vermicompost By the time the lowest working tray is harvested, the tray will be 12 weeks old. I am noticing thats about right. My oldest tray in there now is from 9/22 and its ready already. We shall see. By the time the feeding top tray is ready to go down a notch, lots of uneaten bedding, so putting a lot in.
@@annsalty5615 That is fantastic!!