Irish peat moss done it for me.because I wondered when I set it up with ordinary compost .checked it out after a week .the worms were all gone .great video
Hello. Mate. How interesting this was. Never worked for me but I wasn’t doing it your way. I am going to try again using your method. On my tiny iPad screen I couldn’t see what worm eggs looked like, is there a chance you can show a closer shot of them. Many thanks, oh and I have subscribed, you are honoured because I only ever have at the max two subscriptions, you are the second and last.
I followed Rikki’s advice with my first wormery but made a few mistakes along the way (clear plastic crates and not quite big enough) but it worked really well. I then decided to upgrade to a commercially produced worm tower and whilst I have a reasonable supply of worms, it’s not as good as it should be. Just do what Rikki suggests. It works.
@@iwonalasak-hughes5814 I started with 1x (Wham click 13.01) now I have 12 and my friends and family all have lovely gardens, and my angling mates don't buy worms from tackle shops.. Within 18 months. Give or take the odd mass exodus (growing pains). The hardest thing I find is keeping the soil at the correct moistness.. Snap, Crackle & pop!!!!! Other worm breeders'll know exactly what I'm talking about! In 18 months I've bought over 1000L of fresh Irish Moss Peat.... It's a full time job and starting to get in the way of life. I've quit match fishing and just sell the worms and their castings on Ebay.. Let the worms pay for your next holiday. (The black gold sells for more than the worms )
What a great film, this has given me an incentive to start my own wormery. What are the best worms to put in a wormery, where do you get those boxes from and where do you put the boxes in the winter.
Mark Sarul thanks. You can get them off eBay or you can use any container really aslong as it is waterproof. If we are due some really bad weather I would just move it into the garage or a shed to stop it freezing up.
A great video Rikki, I have tried using an old bin but I had rats trying to eat them, now I have seen how you do it I am definitely going to try and get it right, Thanks for the great tips
Great video. Watched it a few weeks ago and forgot to save it as a bookmark. Spent about 2 hours looking for it again a few days ago. Whilst looking for another garden riddle, remembered the word riddle from your watching the video. Bookmarked now. What is the minimum temperature you would keep your worms and worm nurseries, especially over winter months/
Good vid. I don't feed much veg waste to mine, they love the tea from used tea bags (they won't eat the bags as made from lint) and peeled potato skins. They eat the potato, just leaving the skin, so needs to be picked out or riddled off every so often, although no biggie as its also used by them as bedding. They love left over mashed potato, as long as is unsalted, they hate salt, kills them. If I ever have left over potatoes in the cupboard that have started to wrinkle or sprout, I simply boil them up, dry them off, mash up then tip in, gone within a couple of days. I start with a wetted choir block as opposed to peat moss. I also add crushed or powdered egg shell to maintain the PH level, which they also eat. Maintaining the PH is extremely important because a load of worms feeding and breeding together can increase the PH to an extent it starts killing your worms; the alkaline from the egg shells will stop this occurring. I converted a council food waste bin into my wormery, added a home brewing tap at bottom for drainage, drilled very small holes in the top for aeration. Care though, Dendras are master escapees, especially at night, hence their nickname night crawlers, when they all come to the top.
Just bought a wormery for composting and as feeds for the birds. I am absolutely terrified of these scrawlers. Hope I will get used to them. Perhaps I will even start to grow on them ..
Great vid , one question , do you have to periodically add water to the peat ? in other words does it dry out or does the moisture last the three week cycle.
You can freeze the food scraps and feed the worms the frozen scraps. This will add moisture to the bin. I live in a hot climate which means I have to add water if the high temps stick around for a week or more. Other than that the frozen food takes care of the bin. Good luck! It's a lot of fun.
Spuds Apple's carrots tea leaves coffee grounds anything fruit and veg food wise except onions citrus fruit peppers. I breed my own. All good information here. Good post
I keep mine outside. Worms will breed best through the warmer months so if you can keep them in a garage then that would be best if you want them to breed as fast as possible but you will need to feed them quite a lot compared to if they are kept outside. hope this helps
Great video, only thing i need to know though is what worms are you using to breed, i have set up 2 wormerys and have introduced some worms from my garden which i assume are lobworms?. I have read somewhere that i cant breed lobworms? Could you confirm what worms i need as i dont want to buy the wrong ones....thanks
Ricky. HELP?? Did everything you suggested, worms arrived yesterday. This morning they are all climbing the sides of the box, and don't look happy at all. Many lost through the bottom holes too. Any thoughts on the crawling up the sides please? The peat is damp as you suggested and the best peat available, the are in a converted Daiwa seat box so perfect, large sides. Really unsure what to to now? Richard.
I have made 4 worm -5 gallon bins and do get the worm tea from each. It appears that my larger worms have disappeared but can see many small baby like worms. Did I do something wrong or is this a natural part of the evolution. Was it something in the products I was composting? Would appreciate your insight from you and your group.
i haven't had this problem but if it keeps on happening you will have to put some kind of mesh over the holes so the worms can't escape but have ventilation still
iv got some welsh peat moss will that do the same job mate ,and if i saved the worm juice and bottled it do you think i could sell it to the fishermen to mix there ground bait with ?
nice video but won't the small worms get out through the holes in the side? I have not been very successful so far as I just leave all my worms in a lidded bucket with tiny holes but will try to remove the eggs into a separate bucket next time. Does summer or winter give different results?, thanks again.
great video but must just say the irish peat moss has a very high acidity and my worms all escaped because they couldnt stand the acidity, so i now use spent mushroom compost and have had no problems with escapees.
good video but to get a regular supply say harvest 1kg per week you will need a much bigger setup, I ended with 12 100lt tubs each with about 3kg of worm which allowed me to take 1kg per week from a tub then leave it for 12 weeks before going to that tub again, I started with 6kg of purchased adult worms which I put into 2 tubs which I riddled once per week after the first month to get the cocoons and small worms to populate further tubs, best food was liquidized veg leftovers (but no citrus or onion), bread flour or maize flour old tea leaves and coffee grounds and dampened chick pellets for raising baby chickens, the quickest way to get them to feed was to put the food on the soil under wet newspapers, it was great to get free worms but it took over my life so I binned it and now buy them, good luck if you start doing it yourself. I kept mine stacked in the garage as they stop breeding when the temperature drops in winter, whatever you do LEAVE THE LIGHT ON or they will be everywhere
very informative i dont get why you are over doing it with the nursery though ? because i have tiger worms and they breed like hell all i did was put some compost in with no fertiliser and then tipped my worms out with the soil with em then i put some paper and cardboard which was pre soaked like pizza boxes and toilet role with a sand bag cut in half then wet it and left em they are doing great tigers reproduce quicker but dont get as fat as other worms
Informative video, but you don’t NEED to use Peat. If you cared anything for the environment, you’d use a more sustainable alternative. One of the reasons our natural ponds, lakes and rivers are barren of fish is people don’t care about what they’re doing and how they do it. Also another reason for not using peat is, it is slightly acidic, with a ph of about 5. The ideal wormery would benefit from having neither acidity, nor alkalinity and enjoy a ph of 7.
The best video I’ve found on starting a wormery. Presented in a easy listening, ‘no frills’ manner. I felt right at home with the accent👍🏻
Excellent, best video on making a wormery I have viewed.
Great stuff Mr, this has too be the best vid on here, some great info on timescales etc just what I was after tight lines.
Best tutorial I’ve seen on this science. Definitely going to follow this one.
Irish peat moss done it for me.because I wondered when I set it up with ordinary compost .checked it out after a week .the worms were all gone .great video
Great video. Really enjoyed hearing a local accent too!! Inspired me to make my own video on the topic. Keep up the good videos!
Best wormery instructional video out there. Well done Sir ✊🏻
Hello. Mate. How interesting this was. Never worked for me but I wasn’t doing it your way. I am going to try again using your method. On my tiny iPad screen I couldn’t see what worm eggs looked like, is there a chance you can show a closer shot of them. Many thanks, oh and I have subscribed, you are honoured because I only ever have at the max two subscriptions, you are the second and last.
Rikki lad best advice I've ever seen on keeping a wormery.. topman.
thanks mate
That’s the best wormey video I’ve watched and I’ve watched them all!!
britishbluetess thanks mate that very kind of you
I followed Rikki’s advice with my first wormery but made a few mistakes along the way (clear plastic crates and not quite big enough) but it worked really well. I then decided to upgrade to a commercially produced worm tower and whilst I have a reasonable supply of worms, it’s not as good as it should be. Just do what Rikki suggests. It works.
How may worm bin do you have ?
@@iwonalasak-hughes5814 I started with 1x (Wham click 13.01) now I have 12 and my friends and family all have lovely gardens, and my angling mates don't buy worms from tackle shops.. Within 18 months. Give or take the odd mass exodus (growing pains). The hardest thing I find is keeping the soil at the correct moistness.. Snap, Crackle & pop!!!!! Other worm breeders'll know exactly what I'm talking about! In 18 months I've bought over 1000L of fresh Irish Moss Peat.... It's a full time job and starting to get in the way of life. I've quit match fishing and just sell the worms and their castings on Ebay.. Let the worms pay for your next holiday. (The black gold sells for more than the worms )
Great vid Rikki . Easy to follow . Well done .
Brilliant video mate learnt loads not enough people go this type of video keep up the good work up
Darren smith thanks mate
What a great film, this has given me an incentive to start my own wormery. What are the best worms to put in a wormery, where do you get those boxes from and where do you put the boxes in the winter.
Mark Sarul thanks. You can get them off eBay or you can use any container really aslong as it is waterproof. If we are due some really bad weather I would just move it into the garage or a shed to stop it freezing up.
Thanks for the video. I'm going to start my worm farm over the winter for next years fishing.
Well done Rikki - Great Video - Thanks for passing it on to others
Many thanks Rikki, now i know after numerous failed attempts why my wormery failed - WRONG COMPOST !! Great video. Mike, Norwich.
same here. £20 worth of worms died straight away in normal compost . beware though, irish moss peat is hard to find
Great video buddy 👍 done you have problems with the worms escaping out of the tub if so how do you stop them?
this is exactly the vid i was looking for. Thankyou
Great video Rikki, very informative and well presented, good work.
A great video Rikki, I have tried using an old bin but I had rats trying to eat them, now I have seen how you do it I am definitely going to try and get it right,
Thanks for the great tips
Michael Hilton no problem at all mate I'm glad you liked the video.
What a resource! thanks Rikki
Thank you, that was helpful and easy to understand
Hi mat very good video very informative straight. To the point well done
Brilliant video. Where did you get your boxes please
great video mate , going to start one soon following your info. Thankyou
Great video Rikki lots of good information there thanks for sharing keep them coming mate 👍.
Brilliant....deffo makes me want to give this a go....Thanks Rikki
Cool stuff man. Nice video. Thanks
Once again top video from a good angler fair play keep them coming kind regards
Steve Doherty
St Fid thanks you steve we really appreciate you kind comments and we are really glad you enjoy the videos
Great video. Watched it a few weeks ago and forgot to save it as a bookmark. Spent about 2 hours looking for it again a few days ago. Whilst looking for another garden riddle, remembered the word riddle from your watching the video. Bookmarked now. What is the minimum temperature you would keep your worms and worm nurseries, especially over winter months/
Great tip about newspaper. Enjoyed the video and good things to avoid and/or do. Thanks for sharing and your time to create the video:)
Love the teenage worms bit ,lol a good useful vid will try it.
Steve Ames 🤣 I didn't know how else to explain it. You know what I keen though haha
Good vid. I don't feed much veg waste to mine, they love the tea from used tea bags (they won't eat the bags as made from lint) and peeled potato skins. They eat the potato, just leaving the skin, so needs to be picked out or riddled off every so often, although no biggie as its also used by them as bedding. They love left over mashed potato, as long as is unsalted, they hate salt, kills them. If I ever have left over potatoes in the cupboard that have started to wrinkle or sprout, I simply boil them up, dry them off, mash up then tip in, gone within a couple of days. I start with a wetted choir block as opposed to peat moss. I also add crushed or powdered egg shell to maintain the PH level, which they also eat. Maintaining the PH is extremely important because a load of worms feeding and breeding together can increase the PH to an extent it starts killing your worms; the alkaline from the egg shells will stop this occurring. I converted a council food waste bin into my wormery, added a home brewing tap at bottom for drainage, drilled very small holes in the top for aeration. Care though, Dendras are master escapees, especially at night, hence their nickname night crawlers, when they all come to the top.
Sam Cook brilliant mate thanks for you tips.
How do you stop them escaping then ? Was thinking of keeping in an old barn cool, dark most of time and don’t want to leave light on 24/7!
@@tstan73 fly screen mesh from e bay
Good video mate.....subscribed
Great video mate thanks, at £14 per kg I'm going to have a go at doing my own wormery, thanks again 👍
Just bought a wormery for composting and as feeds for the birds. I am absolutely terrified of these scrawlers. Hope I will get used to them. Perhaps I will even start to grow on them ..
Brilliant. Thank you.
Great info man. Been learning. 👍
Great video. If I can’t get that peat what’s the next best thing to use?
just standard compost
Match Fishing Masterclass did u just use a normal raw carrot in there??
Fantastic mate thank you very much. Great video. Very informative.
Brilliant video mate. Thanks for posting 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Great vid , one question , do you have to periodically add water to the peat ? in other words does it dry out or does the moisture last the three week cycle.
You can freeze the food scraps and feed the worms the frozen scraps. This will add moisture to the bin. I live in a hot climate which means I have to add water if the high temps stick around for a week or more. Other than that the frozen food takes care of the bin. Good luck! It's a lot of fun.
The food will add moisture but sometimes water needs to be added if required
Spuds Apple's carrots tea leaves coffee grounds anything fruit and veg food wise except onions citrus fruit peppers. I breed my own. All good information here. Good post
Good video
Hi mate..where do you keep the wormer..is temperature really important
The military does have some handy kit!!
Ricky. Once in the boxes where do you keep the boxes please? Garage, outside, greenhouse, shed, indoors? What temperature is best for breeding worms?
I keep mine outside. Worms will breed best through the warmer months so if you can keep them in a garage then that would be best if you want them to breed as fast as possible but you will need to feed them quite a lot compared to if they are kept outside. hope this helps
@@matchfishingmasterclass1247 Thanks, got the peat ready in a prepared box, just waiting for the worms to arrive today.
Cracking video
This is very helpfull. Thnk you my friend.
Excellent info, thank you.
You ever think of using screened top soil? Where did you buy your worms?
Great video, only thing i need to know though is what worms are you using to breed, i have set up 2 wormerys and have introduced some worms from my garden which i assume are lobworms?. I have read somewhere that i cant breed lobworms? Could you confirm what worms i need as i dont want to buy the wrong ones....thanks
Is it worth starting the process during the winter?
Very helpful thank you so much 🎣 👌
Great video Rikki, am gonna start my first wormery thanks to your simple and pleasant advice. Cheers
Rikki. What type of worms are these please? Don't they crawl through the bottom holes? Great video, lots to work on mate. thanks.
dendrobaena worms. They won't escape if you keep to food topped up
What type of boxes do you use i liked the idea of using boxes I was thinking of starting my own Wormery
just use any kind of solid boxes that light cant transfer through mate. i just got some old ones that was lying around at work
MOD storage boxes come in three sizes
Ricky. HELP?? Did everything you suggested, worms arrived yesterday. This morning they are all climbing the sides of the box, and don't look happy at all. Many lost through the bottom holes too. Any thoughts on the crawling up the sides please? The peat is damp as you suggested and the best peat available, the are in a converted Daiwa seat box so perfect, large sides. Really unsure what to to now? Richard.
hi rikki ,i have a wormery in a plastic tub and took all the little white things and put them in a seperate tub are these worms
Try cornmeal. They love it.
Thanks Riki, going to give it a go....
Can’t be any harder than real teenagers lol !
@@tstan73 hahaaha im sure not mate
I have made 4 worm -5 gallon bins and do get the worm tea from each. It appears that my larger worms have disappeared but can see many small baby like worms. Did I do something wrong or is this a natural part of the evolution. Was it something in the products I was composting? Would appreciate your insight from you and your group.
i haven't had this problem but if it keeps on happening you will have to put some kind of mesh over the holes so the worms can't escape but have ventilation still
How long will the worms last mate??
Thanks for this
iv got some welsh peat moss will that do the same job mate ,and if i saved the worm juice and bottled it do you think i could sell it to the fishermen to mix there ground bait with ?
im not sure if welsh peat moss has fertilisers in it so i can't say too much. i don't think worm juice would be any good for fishing
@Match Fishing Masterclass Could you use a towel as a lid?
Sound video mate I'm gonna give it ago. Nice boxes too 😉😉
Steve Bowles lol thanks mate
How long do they live for?
nice video but won't the small worms get out through the holes in the side? I have not been very successful so far as I just leave all my worms in a lidded bucket with tiny holes but will try to remove the eggs into a separate bucket next time. Does summer or winter give different results?, thanks again.
i haven't noticed my worms escaping mate and they seem to do well all year round
Worms will only escape if they don't like something inside the wormery medium, like if it's too acidic etc.
What type of worms do you use?
Hi rikki do you drill holes in the base of the nursery box
thanks for the info
great video but must just say the irish peat moss has a very high acidity and my worms all escaped because they couldnt stand the acidity, so i now use spent mushroom compost and have had no problems with escapees.
thanks for the info mate
Where did you get the worms from in the first place
i will be making this. Thanks
great video going start my own.i pay 16 kg for worms
Hi mate how do you stop you worm getting out the holes in the bottom ?
Cant the small newly hatched worms get through the drill holes??
will this work with red worms mate
good video but to get a regular supply say harvest 1kg per week you will need a much bigger setup, I ended with 12 100lt tubs each with about 3kg of worm which allowed me to take 1kg per week from a tub then leave it for 12 weeks before going to that tub again, I started with 6kg of purchased adult worms which I put into 2 tubs which I riddled once per week after the first month to get the cocoons and small worms to populate further tubs, best food was liquidized veg leftovers (but no citrus or onion), bread flour or maize flour old tea leaves and coffee grounds and dampened chick pellets for raising baby chickens, the quickest way to get them to feed was to put the food on the soil under wet newspapers, it was great to get free worms but it took over my life so I binned it and now buy them, good luck if you start doing it yourself. I kept mine stacked in the garage as they stop breeding when the temperature drops in winter, whatever you do LEAVE THE LIGHT ON or they will be everywhere
Mike Rayner thanks for you advice mate every little helps 👍
Mike THE VERY BEST FOOD.. chicken players mash... they grow like hell..
how much do you charge for one worm rikki ?
I was so glad when you skipped the drilling bit haha
Cut your onions and let them breathe in the air they love onions not the smells thank you that is a great simple honest for those starting off
Where you buy worms?
Do.i.need.to.had.water.to.the.peet
Where do you get those boxes ?
The MoD. Those numbers on the side are NATO stock numbers.
thanks
Eric Pijpops no problem
Hi mate what type worms you using ?
dendas mate, i also have red worms in the same style wormery
can you get that peat from b n q?
gareth jagger yes mate any decent garden centre
Hi mate wouldn’t the worms get out of the holes in the bottom
not if they are kept well fed and are happy in the peat mate
Worms dont need 3 month to double i you handle them right..
Kompostworms produce 2 coccons a week..
how long do they need mate? im always looking for ways to learn off people with more experience
Good Lad
very informative i dont get why you are over doing it with the nursery though ? because i have tiger worms and they breed like hell all i did was put some compost in with no fertiliser and then tipped my worms out with the soil with em then i put some paper and cardboard which was pre soaked like pizza boxes and toilet role with a sand bag cut in half then wet it and left em they are doing great tigers reproduce quicker but dont get as fat as other worms
thanks for the info mate
also corn left over from fishing
Informative video, but you don’t NEED to use Peat. If you cared anything for the environment, you’d use a more sustainable alternative. One of the reasons our natural ponds, lakes and rivers are barren of fish is people don’t care about what they’re doing and how they do it.
Also another reason for not using peat is, it is slightly acidic, with a ph of about 5. The ideal wormery would benefit from having neither acidity, nor alkalinity and enjoy a ph of 7.
will they eat bananas peelings
sorry but worms dont live in peat under natural conditions
AKAY, so dats meh boxes