This is THE bin you NEED for small spaces- Red Wigglers
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Check in on my red wigglers in the worm factory 360.
Small Spaces Clean Worm Tower Red Wigglers
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• Red Wiggler Compost Worms
Red Wiggler Compost Worms- These red wigglers have been composting in my basement since May of 2019. The first bin was restarted August of 2021, The second bin August 2021, Newest bin started December 6th 2021- Now they move to the worm factory 360.
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I have the worm tower also. I noticed you put the cover to the side when you opened the tower. I always turned the cover over and used it to hold the trays while I was working on the trays. The trays fit perfectly inside the cover. Try it out, see if you like it.
My top is a little flimsy. I didn't want to put the weight on it. I bet it would work for one or two. All 5 together weigh about 40 pounds. 👍🏼🪱😃
If you shop at Costco, they sell wood pellets for pellet grills for around $15.00 for a 40 lb bag, that would work. I started finding some worms in the bottom of my 55 gal cft bin, I just threw some wet leaves down there incase of any worm explorers.
I agree, the tower systems are almost foolproof and convenient, everyone should have one.
Stay Well Ann!!!
I'm not much of a Costco person anymore. I might ask one of my coworker to pick some up. Thank you for the idea. :)
Hi Ann, I keep my bottom tray about half full with slightly moistened bedding for the worms that find their way to the basement. When I pull up handfuls of worms, I take the bedding to a higher tray as well. Then I restock the bottom with some fresh bedding. By the way, I immediately said road trip when I saw your open screen!
~ Sandra
p.s. Are you in the part of the US that will get the cicada?
Yep lol taking my worms for a walk. I'm in the double brood area in the lower mid area of Illinois. The last time this happened I had mild vertigo for a week. I usually wear ear plugs when gardening. On the good side I also have an over abundance of the massive cicada killer wasps. It is wild to see them picked off the tree still buzzing and taken to the underground hive.👍🏼😃🪱
@@PlantObsessed 😳😳😳
Nice & neat - but you still managed to get your thumb muddy 👍🏻
Even when I'm trying to stay clean...lol I think my hands could get muddy in a clean room. :)
Have one similar, given to me. Started mid-February with 500 RW, and two trays filled with partially broken down compost from my outside bin. Have been only feeding top tray. Now have four trays. Bottom two just shredded paper and cardboard. Very similar to your set up. When top tray is close to ready, I will feed second one down. Then will keep it like yours. Can’t count how many cocoons, and babies. Just past week they have been moving to second tray. I am in PA will be moving outside soon.
I love this time of year. I need to peek in on my outside bin. I have been tossing weeds in there but haven't looked for worms this month. Good luck with your tower this year 😃🪱👍🏼
I was asked why can’t you just use the wet compost rather then dry and shift to make the tea! 😮
You totally can. I primarily use it as a top dressing. I don't want chunks on top of the soil. That is the great thing. The whole thing is very flexible 🪱👍🏼😁
8:29 Make sure the spout is always open, and don't make the worm ladder area too comfy down there. If they get comfortable they won't climb back up.
I have the same tower, and some of my bigger worms live in the bottom tray only. They just wait down there for food drippings to reach them while they lock up.
Lazy monsters. 🤦🏿♀️
Lol, they always find a way to beat the system. 👍🏼😃🪱
Nice days are around this time of year. gotta enjoy 'em while you can. you're all neat and tidy today any my whole tub of castings fell on the floor of the greenhouse !? after feeding and putting everything away i had to scrape 'em up and sift it all over again to get the leaves and rocks out. But it worked out ok i suppose. I need better work table arrangement.
You might need some bricks like I have in my basement to keep blue from falling off the ledge. That would be a mess. 👍🏼🪱😃
I don't have this specific tower, but a more aesthetically pleasing one. I'm constantly finding the little rascals in the bottom of it. I did start putting bedding down there the last time i fed.
Yep I am just going to have to get with their plan. Lol 👍🏼🪱😃
Use a piece of weed cloth to cover the bottom of the lowest bin.keeps worms from falling through yet allows the liquid to drain.
Great idea thank you 🙂🪱👍🏼
I have always used the sump area as a partial layer. Yeah the compressed wood pellets are a winter thing. I usually get 2 bags in late fall (50 lbs) and it lasts most of the year. Saw dust (which pellets are made from) boost the fungal content of castings. Also, feed stores often sell wood pellets as animal bedding.
Someone said to try Costco. They should be on sale somewhere 🪱👍🏼😃
I believe those were Blue Jays that were squeaking lol
Lol yep as soon as I looked up I saw them fighting. 😁👍🏼🪱
It’s nice to get outside with the worms every once in a while. I was of the same mindset of the worms at the bottom basin. Now I’m like you want to be there here is a handful of bedding and some water have a blast 😁🪱
I need to get my outside worms on camera. Maybe june.lol. lots to do this time of year.😀👍🏼🪱
I'm interested in the sprinkler type cap on a used milk jug for adding moisture. Can you tell me where you got it?
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I cover the bottom tray with either sheets of newspaper or an old t-shirt, they will eat their way through eventually, but very few get down their before that.
I did put a bit of packing paper down there but it isn't holding up. Next T-shirt out is going in there.👍🏼🪱😃
I purchased a worm tower last year because UK has banned the sale of peat based compost from this year forward and the quality of peat free is shocking unless you have money to burn so I reckon that worm castings will at least add something decent to planters and raised beds. I have to admit to being a neglectful worm parent and other than adding stuff to the top feeder level I’ve assumed that all the cardboard and shredded paper would still be in the layers below. Wrong!!!😮 Thank goodness I found your channel because I’d have still been labouring under my false belief that I didn’t need to do anything to the lower layers.
It took quite a while to sort it out, drain the sump and dredge out the sludge then refill all the layers, but thankfully there were minimal casualties by drowning and there are SO many adult, adolescent and baby worms that I was pretty surprised. There’s certainly going to be a good harvest.
Thank you from both my worms and I for passing on your wonderful knowledge 😊
I'm so glad I can help. I'm not sure what coco coir goes for over there but I use that as well. I see some people even use wood pellets. They last longer than leaves and paper. I do benefit from living south of Canada. They have figured out how to harvest peat bogs sustainability. Peat was 5$ a bale before COVID now it is 17$. We have to cut corners where we can. Don't be too rough on yourself. The wild worms have it much worse off. 😃🪱👍🏼
Thank you so much for your kind reply. Coco coir is around £11 to £15 for a 75L compressed block and peat moss around £6.50 for 40L before it was banned. I did stock up on 30 bags of Irish peat moss before New Year which I'm being pretty frugal with so I added both coir and a little peat to the mega clean after seeing how you prepped the bedding ahead of time so I'll have happy worms now 😁👍 I just looked up the conversion of bale to litres and boy ours is expensive compared to yours although that hike in price post covid is shocking! I do find it so interesting to see the differences around the world in prices, composition, names and availability of gardening / growing stuff and there's so much we don't even have here.
The bags of peat free we are now supposed to buy can be disgusting and can council collected garden waste and is full of stones, sticks, glass, plastic and other worse stuff like pet excrement and invasive perennial weeds. Thankfully I started two compost bins at home and I have a larger one on my allotment. They're going to be a godsend eventually and I can control what goes into them.
I often make lactobacillus to add microbial life to the garden soil, do you happen to know whether it could be added to the bedding for the worms? I've googled it several times and found nothing 😕
Anyway, enough of my essays, I think you are wonderful and a fabulous teacher and can't thank you enough for your exceptionally friendly and helpful videos ❤
I do have a system like this and asks myself that same question... As you said the worms do what they want and they like to hang out in the bottom section. Now I use it to make some compost extract and have to pick up the worms before to do so.
The best option for them to not go at the bottom would be to condemn the bottom tray maybe with some sort of metal piece?
I have given some thought to plastic welding a bottom on one of the trays. That would stop their shenanigans for sure. 👍🏼🪱😃
Cool shoes!! Love the backdrop & scenery for the video!! Worm Towers are my favorite!!🪱🪱🪱
You do them the best. We all learn from you 😁🪱👍🏼
Hi! Just started a 360 and I did not see the length of PVC risers that you showed. Could you please repost it?
They are 2.5 inches long. I think any diameter pipe would work.😃🪱👍🏼
@@PlantObsessed Thx!
I use pet bedding wood all the time great for drying out wet bins also
Good to get a first hand experience that it works. Thank you 👍🏼😊🪱
Can I just ask, do you mean like sawdust for hamster beds or like the wood pellets for cat trays that soak up pee?
@@cherylhowker1792 wood chips for hamster/rabbits and such pine shavings
@@dennisfrench8225 yep agree. Pellets seem to breakdown easier.👍🏼😊🪱
I was actually hoping to find out what kind of shredder you use for bedding? Thank you
If you open the description on any of my videos. There are links to my equipment. I use an 18-24 sheet shredder from Amazon.🪱😃👍🏼
Awesome, thank you so much 😊
I'm glad to see that you had nice weather. It has been very windy and rainy here.
Lol that was the last nice day. It has been storming all week. April shower and all that👍🏼🪱😁
in my 360 system, I always found worms in the sump area. I gave in to their travels and started putting bedding under the ladder. Its kind of an extra level to harvest from.
Yep that is how I'm leaning too. Might as well make it another layer.👍🏼😃🪱
Hey Ann, it does me good for me to see you full camera, mas O menos. Instead of just a hand model. There are good folks watching, not just us evil Republicans! 😎
Hahaha. Yeah my basement doesn't allow for all of me to be in the camera. There is good in everyone I believe.🪱👍🏼😃
As a bird need, those were blue jays being noisy in the background
Yes, once I looked up I saw it was the Jays fighting. Lol They are sassy.😃🪱👍🏼
So how tall is this system? I'm pretty sure it won't fit in the space I have just from looking at it.
It is 24 in (61 cm) tall with 5 trays. 21 in ( 53 cm) with 3 trays. 👍🏼🪱😃
Hey Ann 🙋🏼♂️ Thanks for the upload! Glad you're enjoying real Spring weather already. Hope it comes soon for us, too. 😅
I just use the bottom 'juice-collection' tray as an additional tray, i.e. sometimes add some bedding, or small foodscraps (even lomg-term, it doesn't really matter. Plus, with the very high moisture level, they tend to get broken down pretty fast). Periodically remove some of the very wet castings down there & put it in a working-tray-in-waiting for the microbes & small worms in it. It's in the worms' nature to go & look for a very damp area, I don't think there's much to do about it. 🤷♂️ I started by managing this tray as you do, witb only small amounts of bedding & keeping it slightly damp, but given the popularity of the place, I opted for that solution. 😂
Cheers! -Thomas
Yep if you can't beat them join them right?👍🏼😊🪱
@@PlantObsessed totally! 🤣
I just have a mortar type bin and I’d like to harvest castings but there’s still so many shredded cardboard pieces still in it. (From putting cardboard then food down when I would feed.) If I sprinkle only worm chow over the top and lightly mix in, it will make the cardboard more appeasing to them? It was a beautiful day here too! Looks like your worms went outside for a picnic with your nice blanket!
I'm not 100 % sure if the microbes or the worms that find the cardboard more appealing, but it seems to get processed faster. 🪱😃👍🏼
@@PlantObsessed That’s great! Thank you!