How I'm Making 180 Lbs of Worm Castings in my Urban Worm Bag | Vermicompost Worm Farm
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Huge ramp up of my Urban Worm Bag production! 6000 compost worms are devouring food scraps & cardboard boxes at a record pace as I plan to harvest every 30 days while feeding these hungry worms 3 times a month!
After a huge 14.5 pound harvest last week we offer our red wigglers & blue compost worms a huge feeding & plenty of bedding to fill this Urban Worm Bag back up. In this video we'll also mix up the contents of the bin to allow any worms trapped in the layers to move around freely & dig up any leftovers from our last feeding 12 days ago. We'll also check up on the unique cross hatched bedding my son @LaurenandPJsAdventures gave me to compost.
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 or amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
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
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:
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, recap & what to look for
00:40 | Digging in
01:08 | Unique bedding update
01:22 | Last feeding
02:12 | Mixing up the layers
02:46 | Temperature differences
03:26 | Avocado update
03:54 | Starting with bedding
04:49 | Big feeding added
06:25 | Amendments
07:20 | Another layer of bedding added
08:15 | Frozen water bottle barrier
08:50 | 180 pounds is possible!!
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 or amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
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
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:
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
That would be an amazing amount of compost.
Fingers crossed I can make it happen!! Thanks so much for stopping by Joe!!🪱🪱🪱
😃I really enjoyed watching your video today.👏👏 Thank you for sharing and doing such a great job 👏 😆
Thank you!! I appreciate the kind words!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
ODWB-UWB is a mouthful 😂
We love the cross cut shredder !! That's a ton (well, about 8%😂) per year !!
Awesomeness brother
Cheers J&C 🌱🤞👍🤜🤛
😂🤣😂 Anyway you calculate it, it's a lot!! Lots of neighbors and family are gonna be getting worm poop for Christmas & Birthdays!!! (Just kidding any that are reading this) Thanks for dropping by J&C!!🪱🪱🪱
❤👍real nice!!
Thanks Tory!! I'm definitely having fun with this big bin!! Thank you for taking the time to watch & comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Those worms really seem to be getting into a groove now with this bin, much like your outdoor bag system. Great seeing its progress 😁
Thank you!! They are really producing and reproducing like crazy!! Thanks os much for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Have a great week.
Thanks AJ!! I appreciate you stopping by to watch this morning!! Have a great week as well!!🪱🪱🪱
Fun music!🪱🎵
😀Thank you! Just a little something to pass the time while I’m aerating the bin! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch & comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Hellooooooo my wonderful wormie friends!!!!! I hope you’re doing great 😊 I had 5 mins so popped on to say hi! Harvesting castings every 30 days sounds brilliant 🙌🏼 poor autumn got a splash 😅 so great to see they’re all travelling well guys, I bet it’s been warm….. much love xx 💐💕🌻🌷💝
So good to see you Anita!!!!!! I hope you are healing well! I’ll send you some pictures of the flowers from our son’s wedding over on IG (which I am horrible at checking😔) We’ve been thinking of you and your family a lot. This huge bin is fantastic for making casting which is just in time for our fall garden!! Spring is in the air for you all so I’m sure it’s been busy!! Thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to watch!!! 🌺🌸🌺🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost oh fantastic I can’t wait to see the wedding flowers Patrick! I LOVE doing wedding blooms…. Very special :) and thanks so much for your prayers, I’m doing great 🙏🌷💕 I’ve done a little update just on my community post, just to thank my prayer warriors 💐🙏💝🌷🌻🌱🐝☀️
Just a thought but, it occurs to me that maybe you should harvest first before you agitate the bin and drive the worms down into the harvest zone?
Great point! For this bin I feed them 2 days prior to harvest to get them to try to come up to the top. So 2 days later I harvest from the bottom, and take those castings and agitate them to drive any left over worms out of the harvest back into the bin like I did in this video: ruclips.net/video/xBLZGu_gZGo/видео.html I may need to feed 3-4 days prior so they aren't still fleeing the agitation I do when I'm feeding. There were a lot of worms in the harvest so I think the moisture was pretty high down low and they may have been fleeing the heat at the top as well. Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
15 lbs. a month would be a great amount of castings plus your other bins. Do you think you can collect over 300 pounds total between all of the bins? Nice feeding Patrick😁🪱🪱
That is a great question Rick! 350 pounds sound like a good conservative average for all of my bins if this UWB keeps up with 15 pounds a month. The VermiHut is pretty consistent at 10 pounds every 60 days, the Tiny Worm Bin is good for about 6-8 pounds every 5 months and my Outdoor Bin is good for at least 10 pounds a month...more if I need it. It's a pretty amazing amount now that you have me thinking about it!! Thanks for watching and sparking a fun calculation to add up!!🪱🪱🪱
What is easy solution of froot vegetables heat come out during bin process
Sansar😊
The best thing to do if your bin is overheating due to the food heating up is to skip a feeding, feed less food and add more bedding. If the heat is from the worm bin being outside then you can do what I do and add some frozen water bottles each morning and try to find a very shady spot for your bin. I live in Florida, USA and it stays pretty warm here for about 7 months out of the yeas. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Nice work with the worms but in all your videos you only wear one glove. What's up with that? Do you only wear one shoe too?
😂🤣😂 Believe it or not there is a method to my madness! I just use a glove on my right hand because that’s the hand that typically digs into the bin & my dirty finger nails don’t look very good on camera to me. I usually only hold things or pick up things with my left hand so no need for a glove as the finger nails stay clean on that hand. I also figured I'd save more gloves that way! I have no issues getting my bare hands into the worm bin when I'm not filming, it is just for aesthetics on videos!! Great question, I know it looks odd to wear just one when my left hand gets dirty anyway😂 Great question, It's been a while since I addressed it in a video so probably time to mention it agin!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and ask a great question in a fun way!!🪱🪱🪱
That's great that your downward migration from the tray of castings worked even in the UWB, Patrick. That's creative thinking to use the tray of one system to help your other! One observation is I do think you are feeding this system more than you fed your VermiHut, even though you thought both had about 6000 worms at one time. I think the surface area of the UWB is conducive to larger feedings. Also, you need the moisture in that system from the larger feedings. The worms look like they will have no problem rising to the challenge and gobbling up anything you can give them.
~ Sandra
p.s. does Autum get danger pay from getting squirted?!
Between me and our 3 boys, Autumn deserves hazardous duty, danger, and any kind of extra pay out there!! 😂🤣😂 This bin is a tough one for me to guesstimate my worms in. I started with 2100 and eventually put in a total of 3000 over the first 4 months and I'm just starting month nine, so realistically I could have as much as 10k in here by now! I'm not sure how much it's caring capacity is. The VermiHut I have more confidence in since I counted out a harvest tray one time, but this one is so huge compared to that! Right now I'm so used to running this in the summer with our extreme humidity and the sweaty frozen water bottles adding water as well, but when things start to cool off in November, I'll probably need to go back to the spray bottle to add some moisture, especially if I keep up these big bedding & food scrap feedings! Thanks for all your support and insight Sandra!! Have a great week!!🪱🪱🪱
That system really is producing castings, another colourful feeding, looks good. Did you forget to take out your mite baits?(banana peels).😉🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱
Thanks Mikko!! I didn't explain that very well...there were hardly any mites on the banana bait station compared to the last time so I just mixed them into the feeding zone. Thanks so much for watching and for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Excellent video and advice 👌
180 pounds a year 👍
Was that squirt really an accident 😂
❤Peggy❤
Thank you Peggy!! It was accidentally on purpose😆She's a good sport about my antics!! Thanks so much for all your support Peggy!!!🪱🪱🪱
Even on the hottest days here in New Jersey I never really pay much attention to the possibility of my worm bins heating up. Considering that my systems are mostly bins that are far smaller than your large CFT bag, I wonder if I should be more mindful of temperature (??). With thermometers, ice bottles, etc., you certainly make it into a priority - but considering that you're in a tropical environment, I suppose it kinda makes a lot more sense for you to be mindful of heat in your bag 👍🏻
I think your basement wormery is the way to go! If Autumn would let me have this bin inside I think a lot of my heat issues would disappear. I'm still working on her, especially since all three of our boys have moved out and I have 3 potential wormeries!!! Unfortunately, even with the blind I have put up, this bin gets heated up in the afternoon from being on the south west side of our house (the only place I can put it). I've seen 105℉ on one of my temp sensors🥵 when I forgot the frozen water bottles one time!! Just this morning I checked on the worms to add more frozen water bottles and a bunch of them had come up through all that dry bedding to huddle underneath the condensation and coolness of the thawed out previous water bottles with some climbing the walls as well. The tropical environment definitely creates some unique issues for outdoor worm bins! I need to get some ANC's!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch AV!!🪱🪱🪱
I wonder if you might get reduced resistance to using the basement if you began kicking around an alternate idea of occupying a recently vacated bedroom for your worm farming :)
If we had basements in Florida, I'd have a womery for sure!! We loved having basements when we lived in North Dakota, Washington State, Illinois and New Jersey over my time in the Air Force...but they kinda scared us at first since we're both from Florida and never had a creepy room below our house😂🤣😂
You guys have sure lived in a lot of places 👍🏻
This is what I am discovering about my big outdoor composters, that the size of a composter really ramps up production! Just harvested part of the one I just harvested last in July! About 30 gallons worth. I can hardly keep up with making shredded cardboard. I need a whole day to get ahead on that now. It should slow down once winter arrives. I will be ready for a rest! 😂🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱 But separating the worms out on this scale is a pain. I decided to do a combination of baiting them out and a downward migration from light and agitation into casting storage rather than sifting at first. Seems to work. Easier on the worms and myself. I may sift as needed later down the production.
Oh wow, you will definitely need a winter's rest after tending to your worm farm!! I think I'm discovering what you're experiencing with regard to sifting on a larger scale...it's just not worth the time. I like your idea of just doing the agitation/light method and baiting out of storage...So much easier for me and the worms!! Thanks so much for watching and passing on what you've learned on your large scale worm bin adventures Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I was seriously thinking of buying or building a small sifting tromel (sp?) but came to my senses......so far. Is easier on me and the worms to bait them out and no rush. I am also trying out the side rotation method in unsifted castings in these inexpensive totes from Costco. We shall see how well this works.
Or is it side migration method.....i forget 😂
Looking forward to hearing what works best for you!!
😂 We know what you mean either way!! Horizontal migration is what I've heard AV call it.
Please tell us. Approximately how many worms are in this bin here?
My guess is over 6000 by now...but I think it may be as high as 10,000. I started with about 3,200 put in over the course of 2=3 months. I am amazed how quickly it produces worm castings compared to my other bins. Thanks for the great question and for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Maybe if you put the slow food and maybe all the food in a blender it could be consumed faster. Just a thought.
That is a great idea for speeding things up! I've done that in the past for some of my other bins, but I have become a lazy worm farmer as my populations increase and they eat so much and so fast. But, if they can't keep up with my goal of 15 pounds every month, then I'll start doing as you suggested! Thanks again for dropping by to watch & passing on good tips!!🪱🪱🪱
Would white paper with ink be okay for worms? Our school is looking to build worm farms for our garden and we have lots of boxes, shredded paper, and discarded pieces of fruits and vegetables
White paper with ink is just fine for the worms. inks in the US and most of the world are soy based. They did away with heavy metals and toxic inks in the 1970's from the research I could find. White paper does tend to mat down so mix it well with cardboard shreds and you will be just fine. That is so great your school is building worm farms to help dispose of waste!! Thanks so much for watching and telling us about that wonderful project!!🪱🪱🪱
Can I ask. .. where did you get the bottom white tray on your tower city pleas I’ve been on every sight and can’t find it thank you 🪱🪱
The bottom white tray or the "worm saver tray" as they call it came with my VermiHut when I bought it. However the company that makes the VermiHut also sells the tray separately as an accessory. But I think they are designed specifically for the VermiHuts. They have one for the original style VermiHut and one for the kind I have. Here is the website to see what they have: vermitek.com/store/c7/Accessories.html I hope this helps! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost
Thank you so much for the link my tray is on the way. 😁
@@Vermicompost I think your video’s are great I’ve learnt a lot from you.
Keep up the show and tell your doing great 🪱👍🏻🪱
Awesome!!
Thank you for the kind words!! We appreciate it!!
Hi Patrick is this worm bag ur favourite bin to run now? Probably going to be the best for the amount of castings you get and they also looked dry enough to sift straight away even though it probably didn't need to be sifted. Looks like a great product and I'm fascinated to watch you make the most of it. 🤠👍💩🪱💪
I think it is very quickly becoming my favorite!! I was really surprised how good and how much vermicompost I got out of my second harvest! If can convince Autumn to let me have this bin inside the house then it will become my favorite!! Thanks so much for dropping by to watch Nick!!🪱🪱🪱
4 years and that shredder is still kicking?! Mine like caught fire or something on the internals just last night... Just shy of its one year service mark! Also an Amazon Basics 12-sheet, but mine was just cross-cut. I must just have really bad luck. 🥲
Oh wow!! I had really bad luck until this shredder as well, it seemed like I would go through them once a year, but when I went to the micro, cross cut it has worked like a champ!! In this video I show the difference between shredding 12 sheets of paper versus a piece of corrugated cardboard: ruclips.net/video/rRXWtNT9PSo/видео.html It works a lot less hard when shredding cardboard. I hope you have better luck with your next shredder!! Thanks so much for watching Evelyn!!🪱🪱🪱