WORM BIN 🐛 from a 🗑 SCRAP HEAP
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
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It has been a long time coming but we finally have our own worm compost bin up and running.
Nearly the whole thing is made from scrap - from the bathtub to the frame supporting it to the lid on top of it. In fact, the only new stuff is the plumbing to drain the leachate!
This is how we made a worm bin!
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Nice build Jarred. Here's out clip on the bathtub build if you're interested in listing it 👍
ruclips.net/video/MvIWLu3o5OY/видео.html
Hope all's well with you & the family.
Rob.
Thanks so much for sharing Rob! Anybody would do well to follow the designs of *ANYTHING* you build!
Thanks for the vote of confidence Jarred. 😊😊
Very cool!
Thanks!
Nice bin!
Thanks so much!
"leech eight" :)
Thanks for the video!
One day I'll learn to speak properly ;-)
You do just fine. :)
Great vid Jared.
Thank you kindly!
Great vid man. I really need to build a worm bin
You can do it!
That's awesome. I have an old bathtub sitting out in the woods somewhere. I wonder if I should try this.
Absolutely!
Can you explain why you chose the nightcrawlers, rather than the red wigglers?
Would be happy to! Might shoot a live video about it later this week, how's that suit ya :-)
I would LOVE that, especially since I have an abundance of night crawlers in my garden beds, and I could easily assemble a worm bin, just from "harvesting" some from my yard (or even the local playground, LOL!)
Keep an eye out, supposed to be sunny all week, so the weather shouldn't stop me from going live outside :-D
Good video Jared. Worms are yet another thing I have been wanting to try out. I think I can come up with an old tub easily enough.
Thanks, and good luck w/ your worms! They don't seem too picky about how fancy their mansion is.
good video Jared! thank you for sharing. I had not even thought about a bathtub!! ☺ I did get the red wigglers, and indeed, they multiply easily so each 90 days, I "turn" my buckets and take about 1/3 of the "dirt" to share in my garden. (it's just a small garden, but we enjoy it). I'm doing worms as much for the enjoyment as for the castings. When I bought mine from a local man, he sheepishly said, "I over feed my worms, I guess" and so, each day, I divide our coffee grounds - and any coffee left in the pot - between the 2 5 gallon buckets I have my worms in. We put our sprouts that are left over into the buckets as well (and the worms seem to really enjoy the sprouts going into plants), but we don't have a cover over our buckets as they are under our car port. I also add about 1 cup of water to each bucket about every 7-10 days...simply because I fear them drying out. I doubt you will produce any liquid, unless rain happens to get into your tub...but what a great plan to catch it!
Excellent, thanks for sharing! I wager that to produce liquid we will have to over water it, as you suggest.
Jarad, I started the very same type of worm bin as yours. I have an old bath tub that has the drain hole rusted out. I added some large rock in the bottom to cover the rusted hole. So glad to see you use the landscape fabric in yours. I may do the same with mine. What type of soil did you add in the tub? I will follow your update on the tub bin to see how the fabric idea works out.
The soil is just a "potting soil mix" from the local mulch company. The same stuff we used to fill our strawberry beds. Has a good bit of organic material in it, like wood chips, for the worms to process.
Hey Jared good stuff once again. What is your goal here, is it the leachate and castings? I'm unfamiliar with using night crawlers for this, but I guess it would work. I have been keeping worms (red wigglers) for years now and I have tried many containers for them to include those expensive worm towers. To be honest the best worm bin I have ever used are 5 gallon buckets. Keep on on the bottom for the leachate (put a drain in it) drill 20 - 30 holes in the 2nd bucket and stack it in the first one. You can build this up about 3 or 4 high, any more than that just compresses the bottom one too much. I start off by feeding the 2nd bucket (first with holes in it) for about two weeks, throw on the second buck and feed it for two weeks (ignoring the bottom feeder) and then a 3rd and 4th the same way. After two months the bottom container is basically done, the worms have moved up and you are ready to process castings. Clean it out and you now have a new container to place on top and start the process again. Soooo easy.
I get what you mean about the big box stores. There is nothing worse than asking the "specialist" a question and they pull the product off the shelf and start reading it to you. I don't know who gets more frustrated, me because the guy thinks I cant read or my wife when I just walk away and leave the "specialist" there talking to himself. LOL>
Good luck with those worms Jared, make sure you keep them in the shade, that heat you have down there will turn them into some kind of fancy French cuisine....:)
Great stuff, thanks again for sharing this.
So my understanding was that red wigglers are the super-fast composters of the world. I was worried I wouldn't be able to keep up with how fast they eat through stuff and would eventually lose my worms. The european nightcrawlers are supposed to be a good composting worm, just not as fast (and they do seem to be doing a good job over the 1 weekish we've had them. Plus I can also grab a few and go fishing, if I so choose - or, if things get really crazy at some point, there is a bait shop near the local lake and once I'm done worming-up my whole property maybe I can wholesale him some down the road.
So, that's basically the gist. Maybe I'm crazy, I don't really know.
I like the bucket idea, it does seem very simple. As I understand it with this setup when you are ready to harvest the castings you just put all the food to one side, give them worms a day to move to the new food and then harvest the other side of the tub. Hopefully that'll be easy too.
How do the worms do with temperature extremes outdoors?
couldn't you grow flowers in that too
In the actual worm bin? No, we keep a lid on it. No light.
What did you put in as soil exactly?
Paper would have been fine.
It's just the "potting soil mix" from the local mulch company. Good stuff with a good amount of organic material still in it.
If I were a worm, and dirt was my home, and then I'd be happier having a bed of soil and the paper and stuff added on top, wouldn't you?
IMHO Potting soil mix is not wrong , but I think it is an expensive way of doing things. You could have done it way cheaper with wetted dry leaves , shredded cardboard. Over time they would have decomposed and devoured by worms. It is not wrong just expensive.
I agree, *TOTALLY* a cheaper way to do it! That said, The amount of soil in this bath tub roughly cost me $3, as I bought it in bulk from the mulch company.
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Squirmy wormy!
Love the bathtub idea and cool drain idea! You're so clever! Thanks for sharing. 😀
Just a little heads-up... The word leachate is pronounced... leach·ate \ˈlē-ˌchāt\) It basically means a solution obtained from leaching. The word you pronounced in your video is leche, like the Mexican word for milk. 😜 And I don't know about you, but I would not want to drink worm leachate; however, I could go for a glass of leche with chocolate anytime! LOL
Also, I found this link www.wormfarmingrevealed.com/leachate-vs-worm-tea.html about the difference between Leachate vs Worm Tea (vermitea) that is very interesting and thought maybe you would enjoy checking it out as it seems you are always up to learn new things and are so great about sharing with your subscribers. That's just one of the many reasons your videos are so awesome! 💜 to you and your super cool family!!
It's a great example of "things you should google before recording". You know there is a term, but you aren't sure of it, so instead you say "milk" in Spanish the whole time when you mean "what came out when water passed through the soil/castings". Oi... the glory of being a RUclipsr :p My mistakes will live with me forever!
Thanks so much for the kind words and for being such a loyal watcher!