Restart Your Worm Bin After Months of Neglect | Vermicompost Worm Farm
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- How I jump started & rotated my VermiHut worm tower after 3 months off! Knowing where to begin when your compost worms have invaded all your trays and made natural organic fertilizer in the form of worm castings in multiple trays is easy if you take these simple steps to realign your worm tower for maximum efficiency!
In this video I'll show you how many worm tower trays I harvested, how I reset my VermiHut & We'll check out the worm bin time lapse form the shrimp shell & avocado time lapse experiment!
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 4 worm composing bins which you can watch from start to finished worm castings on the 4 playlists following each worm bin. If you haven't started yet, get started now and vermicompost with me!🪱🪱🪱 Visit my Channel at / @vermicompost
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! / @vermicompost
Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin amzn.to/3w15lQt
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)
Mesh screen patches for DIY worm bins amzn.to/3xJjK4r
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
Wrigglebrew Worm Casting Tea amzn.to/46PhV2A
Food Dehydrator amzn.to/3O5Uj2H
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:
Insta 360 ace pro amzn.to/3vgdmR8
Flexible Tripod amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera amzn.to/3nqV6hp
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 & what to look for
00:34 Plan for worm tower reset & tray separation
01:25 Plan for harvestable trays
01:48 Inoculating tray inspection
02:55 Surprisingly dry tray
03:55 Basin inspection, mites & worms
04:54 Rebuilding my worm tower
05:47 shrimp shell worm bin time lapse
06:47 Worm casting harvest
07:32 Feeding setup
08:06 Garden food scraps
08:57 Executive Producer Yay!!
09:18 Amendments
09:58 More bedding added
10:58 How to reset any worm tower
11:25 More cardboard on the cheeks
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! www.youtube.com/@vermicompost?sub_confirmation=1
Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin amzn.to/3w15lQt
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)
Mesh screen patches for DIY worm bins amzn.to/3xJjK4r
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
Wrigglebrew Worm Casting Tea amzn.to/46PhV2A
Food Dehydrator amzn.to/3O5Uj2H
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:
Insta 360 ace pro amzn.to/3vgdmR8
Flexible Tripod amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera amzn.to/3nqV6hp
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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I have been watching all of your videos on RUclips on the television. The television does not give me an option to like or subscribe. So I went to my phone just so I could tell you how much I appreciate, and enjoy your videos you have helped me a lot, and my Vermicompost experience.
Oh wow!! Thank you so much for making the extra effort to like & subscribe!! That really helps the channel out to let RUclips know to show it to more people! I'm so glad our videos have helped out!! We really appreciate your support! Thanks so much for watching & taking the time to leave such a nice comment!!🪱🪱🪱
I hope your shoulder continues to heal well. Thanks for the update on the bin. It makes me feel better that if I happen to neglect the worms because of unexpected reasons, most of them will survive. 😁
Thank you!! Yes, a little benign neglect is just fine if the have ample bedding & moisture! Life gets in the way sometimes!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
Hello, very glad to see you back to your Vermi-hut. I wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your videos as someone who is just getting in to vermiculture, so very informative and honestly relaxing. I'm about a month in with the tower and have had my Urban Worm bag set up for a couple weeks and the worms should arrive within the next few hours. So thanks for your videos.
Thank you Norm!! I'm so glad you like our videos; we really appreciate the kind words and feedback! I'm so excited for you to get your worms up and running in your UWB!! I really enjoy both those worm bins and how quick the population grows in them! You are going to have soooo many worm castings coming up in a few months and they will just keep on coming!! Thanks so much for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Awesome reset Patrick. This is a great system that really runs well with minimal inputs. I think that will be a great harvest with combining the two trays 😁🪱
Thanks Rick! Ya, I love how easy it is to run our VermiHuts!! What I experienced definitely shows that we can be filling up our trays with bedding each time we feed because they sure do knock down the volume as they devour it along with the food! Thanks so much for stopping by and for your excellent VermiHut videos over on your channel as well!!🪱🪱🪱
Those worm really did party while you were gone! Great castings. Is amazing how forgiving they are, especially the red wigglers.
I am absolutely amazed how well a mature worm bin does when left with enough moisture and bedding! You are right, red wigglers are the most forgiving in my opinion!! Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
Glad all is well in the health department.
My bin is 6 months old and weighs over 50lbs😱😱. The top 2 trays are all castings.... All the drip trays are castings. It's great that I need about all of that for planting in the next 5 days.
Thanks again for the info. I'm glad this channel motivated me to get the Vermihut started. All my plants thank you, good sir 👍🌱🍄🪴🌼
That is fantastic!! I love having lots of castings on hand! Yes, the VermiHut can get heavy with all of those rich castings. It's amazing how fast they pile up after the system really gets going! I'm so glad we helped motivate you to get started with your VermiHut! It is so fun to feed your garden with your food scraps that have been processed by your worms!! Thanks so much for watching and for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
I think I have fallen into a time warp, I have noticed that my bins are a bit being ignored as well. Yours did a fantastice jobe staritng on the pure cardboard. I can't wait till my garden is in full swing. Have a great day, glad to see you all healed up.
I was real surprised how worked over that tray with just pure dry cardboard was...kinda reminded me of your basin in your worm farm 360. Unfortunately my garden is winding down for the summer months...kinda of our no grow months like your winters. Thanks so much for stopping by Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱
Wow - has it really been that long? System seems to have done OK despite that lack of attention. Great time-lapse clips 👍🏻
Thanks AV! Yes, I've been a really bad worm dad! The rotations are so hard to film so I ended up putting it off and then I got caught short with my shoulder surgery. Every so often I'd throw a napkin and some lettuce or a banana peel in, but never dug through it.
All good!
Thank you! Always good to get your positive feedback!!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Glad you have recovered from the surgery. The worms made some fantastic castings during your recuperation.
I was pretty amazed how well they did without my "help." I think the excess bedding and moisture had a lot to do with it! Thanks so much for watching Joe!!🪱🪱🪱
❤️👍I got some catching up too do.
I appreciate your views anytime Tory!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Don't tell me about those people who don't want to eat bread crust. My wife's the same. 😏
Been neglecting my bins a bit, too. Got to get back to it. 😅
Cheers Pat, have a great weekend!
😂🤣😂 Yep, it's my son's fiance' but ironically he used to not eat crust when he was little as well. Luckily, even with a little neglect, our worm bins bounce back quickly!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!! Have a great weekend as well Thomas!!🪱🪱🪱
Happy mother's day to the executive producer! Glad to see you getting back in the video groove!
She says thank you very much Lisa!! Yes, it's great to be back in a rhythm! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick,
Your worms are looking good.
Reset and ready for another season of producing Castings.
I'm glad your shoulder is almost back to 💯 ❤
❤Peggy❤
Hello Peggy!! I was running low on castings after building 3 garden beds at the end of January, so I am loving how full my storage containers are getting! I love how my worms are always working, even when I am not!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Great timing for this video as i have a can o worms style bin so I will definitely be using some of your tips to start the bin when I get organised. Looks totally full of castings 😮😁 👌🙏💪🪱😁 Your mum loves that shredder💃👌
In a perfect world where the Executive Producer lets me have as many worm bins as I want I'd have a Can O' Worms as well...and I'd be building something like your mammoth worm bin in my backyard😀 Yes, my mom absolutely loves that shredder which has helped me immensely with that chore!! She has lots of energy!! Thanks so much for stopping by Nick!!🪱🪱🪱
Great video 🇳🇿❤️🪱
Thank you!! We appreciate you watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Fortunately, worms are pretty forgiving, as long as they do not dry out.
I have been harvesting one of the 50 gal grow bag bins, so far 2, 5 gal buckets full, perhaps 2/3rds the way done, need to do the final harvest with a downward migration.
The castings in the top 2 trays looks fantastic.
Sure the worms missed you, I could hear them all yelling YAY!!!! Papa's back!
Stay Well!!! Hope the shoulder is improving.
My poor worms have been having to do a lot of forgiving lately😂 That's a fantastic haul out of castings you got!! I've been starting to build up my supplies again with all these harvests I've been doing lately! Shoulder is doing better and better everyday! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Brian!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick and Autumn, great video. Those castings look very good. Your garden is going to be very happy. Enjoyed the time lapse. Are you sure that was a squirrel, or was it you nibbling at the edges while your shoulder was healing. Have fun, Mark : )
I'll tell you, it might have been me...that's how stir crazy I was going!! 😂 I was super happy with the castings it produced in my negligence/absence! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch Mark!!🪱🪱🪱
I want to add more worms to my VermiHut. Working with a budget I plan to add about 100-200 worms every week or 2 for a couple of months. I added 1000 new worms to an 18-gallon 500-1000 worm bin a year ago and most of them ran away. Will you do a video where you add a few (100-200) new worms to an established VermiHut?
Thanks! I really love how easy you make it look!
I started my Tiny Traveling Worm Bin ruclips.net/p/PLimznaPXKV09y9X94Q4aNpNzwUoLoVXug with 50-100 worms and after 5 months it was up to about 500 and then steadily 1,000 after each harvest to due to reaching its carrying capacity. I think if you start with 100-200 every week for a couple months or even just 1 month you will be in great shape. Your experience is very interesting because the worms usually would not flee an established bin with compost worms already in it. With a tote that tall sometimes carbon dioxide can get trapped down low if there is not enough air flow causing the worms to flee. And as you know excess food can also be a factor if the nitrogen cycle turns things into ammonia or if the food ferments. Did you ever find out what caused them to flee and did the whole worm bin crash? I can add some worms I bait out from my casting storage ruclips.net/video/WCevZRPuYug/видео.html to my VermiHut (I've been putting them in my Urban Worm Bag) and we'll see if it affects the bin. Thanks for the suggestion and of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
You win y favorite worm channel vote! Question: I just got my Vermihut. What would be the effect if I placed some Insect screen fabric left over from covering my raised garden bed in the bottom-most bin that has dry shred? I am thinking that it would prevent any migration into the sump. What are your thoughts?
Yay!! Thanks so much Mary, we really appreciate the kind words!! I would give it a try to see how it works! You may have noticed a white fabric-y almost plastic-y sheet in the contents of the VermiHut (not sure if they still include it). This was used as a worm block in the early versions before they came up with the hard plastic white piece with lots of holes. It was not very good as it sometimes collected/trapped water & sludge. I find the best way to prevent worms from going down into the sump is having enough dry shredded cardboard in the bottom inoculating trays. I'm not sure if you have seen my rotating videos but here are a couple of them: ruclips.net/video/XNG4i8iXc_g/видео.html & ruclips.net/video/_uRRpwZcMXM/видео.html It is a different way of rotating from the instructions but it helps me keep the worms out of the bottom while I also inoculate the trays with microbes! If your mesh works well for you please be sure to let us know so we can try it!! Thanks so much for watching Mary!!🪱🪱🪱
My bins and I have also been in a neglected mode for a while after having 2 knees and a hip replaced… the worms get smaller, but they bounce back. I hate having to let them go longer than 30 days, but sometimes, I just can’t.
Oh wow, I've been wondering where you've been this last year!! 2 knees & a hip...you're practically bionic!! We're so lucky our worms are resilient in our absence!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick, your tower is getting the full treatment today! Do you think the worms slowed reproduction (or sped it up) because they hadn't been fed?
~ Sandra
That is a great question Sandra!! I was actually pretty afraid that I would see the population shrink and was pleasantly surprised to see what looked to me to be a similar population to what I'm used to seeing...especially when I drove them down with the agitation method of harvesting. What I did notice was they seemed to be thicker...not sure if that was more red wigglers in the mix and less blue worms or if the lack of food but plentiful cardboard had anything to do with it??!!? So in short, I don't think I saw a shrinking or speeding up of reproduction. I hope that helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Really enjoy the videos and information you always give. could you maybe try and mix the eggshell and the coffeegrounds before you put it in? My experience is they go through it way faster.
That is a great idea!! I'm such a lazy worm farmer that I just put them in their own containers as I generate them...coffee grounds much faster than egg shells which I rinse dry and grind. I'll give it a try and see how it goes!! Thanks so much for the suggestion & thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thanks for your answer! ! oven bake or microwave the eggshells for a short time as well before the grinding, i find the worms go through it like it's redbull.
@ymcmbas 😂
I've been inspired to get an indoor worm bin. I has legs and fits in a corner. I did for a year and got great results. I was using scraps from peels etc, instead of putting in my food disposal. I shut operations down. Would like to restart. But I've been JUICING and every week I get a grocery bag fill with material. I'm currently using a BOKASI BIN, because I've got enough material to use it. I burrow after 2 weeks in the garden and in a month I'm getting usable material. I'd like to get back to the worms. judgeing by the amount of material. What size should I be working with , as far as worm amount.? And would I need the worm bag vs worm bin?
Oh Ya! The worms will absolutely love the juicing material, especially if you freeze it first!! When I start new bins or help folks start new bins I like to give them 2,000 red wigglers to really jump start their bins. Of course as you know the worms will quickly double and triple their population after a few months. As for worm bins, I would set up your current bin again and maybe get the Urban Worm Bag to be able to throw bigger amounts of food scraps in at a time. Between a BOKASHI Bin and an UWB, as long as you keep feeding and adding more bedding to the UWB, they will quickly take care of all your juicing leftovers! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching Mark!!🪱🪱🪱
The squirrel damage!!! Tragic! Also I’ve always put banana peels with the stickers in my worm bins and compost tumbler and never see them, only the plastic apple stickers. Do you see the banana stickers in yours?
I know!! I was pretty devastated when I saw what they did to my VemiHut tray!! Totally my fault for leaving it in my kids jungle gym which has turned in to my garden equipment storage now that they are in their 20's! I'll have to leave these stickers in here...I guess I thought the stickers I pull out came from the apples and bananas, but now you have me wondering?!!?? Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Do you have a video of removing some worms to share ?
Besides the little glimpse I gave of the agitation method I use in this bin about halfway through this video, I have this video where I show how I harvest using one of the VermiHut trays as a sifter: ruclips.net/video/tI--M5E-oKg/видео.html and these videos of how I individually pluck them out of my Tiny Traveling Worm Bin: ruclips.net/video/uH3xPs9T5s0/видео.html & ruclips.net/video/Img2UsmHL3A/видео.html I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching Lara!!🪱🪱🪱
1) can we replace cardboard with brown leaves.?
2) your vermi system may cause we can't harvest for worm pee, isn't bring us some disadvantages?
3) is it normal to have mites in the bin?
I am sorry,my English is not good.
Your English is great!! But I can translate if you want to ask questions in your native language. Yes you can use brown leaves instead of cardboard, but it will take longer. I have an abundance of cardboard and not too many leaves so I use cardboard. I don't use the liquid that accumulates down below because it can harbor harmful anaerobic microbes if it sits for awhile. So I try to avoid that. But you can run water through your worm tower and use that right away if you want. I make worm casting tea in a mesh bag in a 5 gallon bucket of water with worm castings and a fish tank bubbler which I use on my plants. This makes sure the beneficial aerobic microbes are present in the liquid. It is very normal to have mites in your worm bins. They help the worms break down the food, but if you have a big population bloom of mites, you may want to feed the worm bin less food scraps and more bedding. Thank you for all the great questions! I hope I have helped!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost thank you, and I enjoy watching your videos, it is informative and easy to understand.
I’m so glad you are enjoying our videos! Thanks so much for the kind words!
Can we leave any worm bins outside?
I live in the Tampa Florida, USA area where it is sunny, humid and hot for 7 months out of the year. I have two worm bins outside, My Outdoor Worm Bin: ruclips.net/p/PLimznaPXKV08Y-7OifhRa_JBH0b5-nR-O and my Urban Worm Bag: ruclips.net/p/PLimznaPXKV09Jg8S3xp-08eOoTN21S2Q1 As long as your worm bin is in the shade and you don't overfeed it, they should have no problems being outside. In the winter, even in a freeze, their cocoons survive and you will continue to see compost worms in the winter in your bins!! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Q) how to tell if someone has had surgery ? À) talk to them for 5 minutes and they will tell you about 6 times .
😂🤣😂 So true!! Only one more video for me to talk about it because I have 4 worm bins I have neglected and I've only refed three of them...gotta let folks know why I've been such a bad worm dad for 3 months!! My wife will tell you the corollary to that is: How do you know if someone is a pilot? Just talk to them for 3 minutes and they'll tell you!! (and yes, I am a pilot😂✈️) Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Wow, a good set it and forgot it example 🎉🎉I'm surprised the bottom is dry. . good to get back on track. 👍🏼😀🪱
Thanks Ann! The bottom surprised me as well, I thought for sure it would have been completely soaked! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch & Happy Mother’s Day!🪱🪱🪱