I've been vermicomposting for 5 years, and this is by far one of the best introductions I've seen in the subject. This video was posted 12 years ago and I just now discovered it!
Thank you for explaining why I need to add eggshells to my worm bin. I thought they just liked it not that they needed it. I wouldn't forget to add eggshells every time I feed them.
very informative i am going to do my own bin soon so i was hanging on every word. my advice to any one is. read as much as you can watch as much as you can and make notes then go ahead and do it.
An excellent video and well worth watching. I have been trying to purchase some worms but never thought to look outside. Silly me. Thank you so much for your talk.
☝🏻😯Ahhh the worms moving UP! I see all these videos with the stacked bins and it never made much sense which is cause people are talking about them moving down 🙄🤦🏼♀️duh. Thank you! ✌🏻😘
All right last comment sorry but I just wanted to input my good idea I discovered yesterday we’re getting the worm tea out of the bottom of the bin I have a Spicket but also Found a “oil catcher container”?? (I don’t know what this thing is called but it’s basically what you would put under your car to catch the oil and it’s about the size of a tire and it has a hole on top and it lays down flat and has a pourspout) so I just have it under my bins until it gets a little more filled up and then I will pour it on my plants. So I don’t know what they’re called
I started a worm tower in February 2019 with 250 red wigglers. It is now September 2019 and I'm still in the same bin that I started. I just added 250 more red wigglers. I originally was providing alot of food but it wasn't getting eaten as fast as I'm told, so I cut back. I'm again adding food at least once/week or more. I'm keeping everything moist like a rung out sponge and have newspaper over the top. The bedding consists of coconut coir, a little sand, compost and newspaper. I have them outside under a covered patio right now and inside the house during the winter. I just cannot figure out why I'm not able to add a bin/tower once a month (I'm told is the average). I'm into my 7th month on the same bin. Should I be adding more food? What about little bugs that come around when I have too much food and how can I justify adding another bin/tower when there is still food in the first bin? Help please. P.S. Great video.
A few things I was wondering about putting in there was like if they were in my garden does fertilizer hurt them and the answer is yes… But I’m not sure if they would like or not like molasses and other things that I might be putting into my soil or it might be dripping off my plants or whatever. I don’t want to hurt them. I think a lot of people don’t think about when they spray their plans for pesticides or use fertilizer is to “help“ how much they’re hurting the soil and life there. Animal products are OK though it just depends which ones you don’t want to get processed and salted and preserved ones but like fish bones and eggs and scraps from things that are found in nature are OK. I think mostly with people just think about not overdoing it and if it would ever happen in nature because so far in all my searching I’ve never found one instance of people actually approving up on mother nature
I’m just commenting here I don’t know if I’ll see any responses so don’t worry about responding to me but another thing I just thought about that might concern other people to is if mold ever started to grow on the soil do you worms like that or not like that. I know it’s not ideal for your soil but I had to plant the other day it started to grow a little bit of white fuzz because it was sitting in the shade and I didn’t know what I thought about that being and I were in bed but I decided I didn’t want it in there
Thank you for this detailed video. Finally got a lot of my questions answered! Just 1 question - my good scraps that I keep during the week, so I just keep those in a container on the counter for the week, put them into the frig, of I've even heard you need to freeze them before putting them into the bin (heard that is to keep down on bugs). I just want clarification on what to do with the scraps I'm collecting.
@@1FISH then you get Coco cuire that is also sold by the bag? Unless you don't have Amazon where you live? You don't have grass you can collect ? You need to.learn how to think! Oh ya ... Dry the grass well before you use it as bedding! You do have white copy paper where you live.... Don't you?
VERY GOOD --- but just an add on here , if you have any animal carcass , worm s LOVE EM . they flourish on the microibes that are attrected to any animal flesh !!
I started mine in just a corrugated cardboard box, with an extra layer of cardboard. In the basement. They'd probably need to be in plastic if I kept them in the kitchen.
No, it is a material that would compost too hot for the worms. In addition some negative items are passed in human waste like antibiotics. These items would make the castings unsuitable you use to supplement food bearing plants.
Great video! I’ve listened to many videos on worm farms and I’ve learned so much from this informative discussion. I’m going to run out tomorrow morning and move my worm farm because I’m pretty sure they’re too hot! I noticed the other day it had ‘heated up’ inside and began generating condensation but I didn’t realize what made it do that.
What would create the lowest amount of soil? An indoor vemicomposter, or a regular indoor bokashi composter? I live in an apartment and am an environmentalist. My building manager told me that he stopped having the Yard Waste (where the apartment residents are supposed to dispose of their kitchen scraps), because it too smelly. What he did is actually against municipal laws, because the city in which we live has a law that allowed to put food into the garbage dumpster. I am a busy student who wants to spend 100% of their time studying; not travelling far distances on the bus to dispose of soil. I don't have anywhere to put the soil in my apartment. I don't have an infinite number of clay pots for storing plants in my small apartment. So would vermicomposting create less soil than regular composting? I suspect it would, because there be energy loss due to the worms' body movements. Chemical energy (in the food scraps) would be converted into kinetic energy. I learned in high school physics classes that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Then again, even insects and bacteria move too, so they would be producing their own kinetic energy. Perhaps is my regular compost bin contained millions of bacteria, but my vermicomposter only contained a dozen or so worms, there would be more kinetic energy cred in the regular compost bin, an thus less soil? Soil is chemical energy. Soil is made of chemical atoms. Matter is energy. What has your experience been with volume of soil created in vermicomposting versus bokashi composting?
@Old chunk of coal. I want to maintain the purity of the earth, and I get painful feelings of guilt when I put compostable items into the garbage can. I want to stop feeling this guilt.
Social anxiety and trying to be socially acceptable and sit at the table relatively properly vs being able to see. Not wanting to move mid lecture either and call attention to yourself. I’ve been there, it sucks.
Earthworms are also bad for birds because they piggyback gapeworm which attaches in the trachea and close off the passage . the bird then begins to gasp for air and eventually die .
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I've been vermicomposting for 5 years, and this is by far one of the best introductions I've seen in the subject. This video was posted 12 years ago and I just now discovered it!
Who is this man, he is a national treasure that needs preserving
Thank you for explaining why I need to add eggshells to my worm bin. I thought they just liked it not that they needed it. I wouldn't forget to add eggshells every time I feed them.
This should be the very first video that pops up when inquiry information on worm composting. I've been searching for two days, search is now over!
Best and most informative video I've seen so far on worm composting.
very informative i am going to do my own bin soon so i was hanging on every word. my advice to any one is. read as much as you can watch as much as you can and make notes then go ahead and do it.
Sensacional! Valeu! Ótima vídeo aula sobre vermicompostagem.
Great video. Should rename the title. This should be on top of the search list for raising worm bin..
Awesome information content!!!!
Great information. Best I’ve watched! Thank you.
You are just FULL of information! I've learned so much just watching this video! Thanks for sharing!
An excellent video and well worth watching. I have been trying to purchase some worms but never thought to look outside. Silly me. Thank you so much for your talk.
Does anyone know his name? Great teacher
James Corven
Awesome. Is there any way to get the wormy references?
☝🏻😯Ahhh the worms moving UP! I see all these videos with the stacked bins and it never made much sense which is cause people are talking about them moving down
🙄🤦🏼♀️duh.
Thank you! ✌🏻😘
All right last comment sorry but I just wanted to input my good idea I discovered yesterday we’re getting the worm tea out of the bottom of the bin I have a Spicket but also Found a “oil catcher container”?? (I don’t know what this thing is called but it’s basically what you would put under your car to catch the oil and it’s about the size of a tire and it has a hole on top and it lays down flat and has a pourspout) so I just have it under my bins until it gets a little more filled up and then I will pour it on my plants. So I don’t know what they’re called
I started a worm tower in February 2019 with 250 red wigglers. It is now September 2019 and I'm still in the same bin that I started. I just added 250 more red wigglers. I originally was providing alot of food but it wasn't getting eaten as fast as I'm told, so I cut back. I'm again adding food at least once/week or more. I'm keeping everything moist like a rung out sponge and have newspaper over the top. The bedding consists of coconut coir, a little sand, compost and newspaper. I have them outside under a covered patio right now and inside the house during the winter. I just cannot figure out why I'm not able to add a bin/tower once a month (I'm told is the average). I'm into my 7th month on the same bin. Should I be adding more food? What about little bugs that come around when I have too much food and how can I justify adding another bin/tower when there is still food in the first bin? Help please. P.S. Great video.
How is your bin looking now?
You need about a thousand worms or 250 worms per square foot of surface area
I have 3 bins and I started each with 2000 worms. 250 worms would be incredibly slow progress. They will breed though.
So informative!!! Now I'm in doubt if to make compost or keep worms. Now I have to decide! Thank you!!!
Susazeu do both!
This is the most interesting video and informative Ihave watched thank Your
Really great video and very informative, really enjoyed the teachers sense humor.
A few things I was wondering about putting in there was like if they were in my garden does fertilizer hurt them and the answer is yes… But I’m not sure if they would like or not like molasses and other things that I might be putting into my soil or it might be dripping off my plants or whatever. I don’t want to hurt them. I think a lot of people don’t think about when they spray their plans for pesticides or use fertilizer is to “help“ how much they’re hurting the soil and life there. Animal products are OK though it just depends which ones you don’t want to get processed and salted and preserved ones but like fish bones and eggs and scraps from things that are found in nature are OK. I think mostly with people just think about not overdoing it and if it would ever happen in nature because so far in all my searching I’ve never found one instance of people actually approving up on mother nature
I’m just commenting here I don’t know if I’ll see any responses so don’t worry about responding to me but another thing I just thought about that might concern other people to is if mold ever started to grow on the soil do you worms like that or not like that. I know it’s not ideal for your soil but I had to plant the other day it started to grow a little bit of white fuzz because it was sitting in the shade and I didn’t know what I thought about that being and I were in bed but I decided I didn’t want it in there
Thank you for this detailed video. Finally got a lot of my questions answered! Just 1 question - my good scraps that I keep during the week, so I just keep those in a container on the counter for the week, put them into the frig, of I've even heard you need to freeze them before putting them into the bin (heard that is to keep down on bugs). I just want clarification on what to do with the scraps I'm collecting.
Free bedding that you don't have to buy is fall leaves. Fall leaves is also a renewable resource and free material for their bedding
Unless you live in an area where trees do not drop leaves in the fall.
@@1FISH then you get Coco cuire that is also sold by the bag? Unless you don't have Amazon where you live? You don't have grass you can collect ?
You need to.learn how to think!
Oh ya ... Dry the grass well before you use it as bedding!
You do have white copy paper where you live.... Don't you?
VERY GOOD --- but just an add on here , if you have any animal carcass , worm s LOVE EM .
they flourish on the microibes that are attrected to any animal flesh !!
I wanted to hear about winter maintenance in a bin outside/
Very informative
Great information. When do we know to harvest. How long should we stop feeding before harvest
It would be great to offer your youtube viewers access to the handouts. Great training! Thank you.
Why not wood boxes to keep everything organic?
I started mine in just a corrugated cardboard box, with an extra layer of cardboard. In the basement. They'd probably need to be in plastic if I kept them in the kitchen.
What kind of worms do you recommend for worm towers in the garden here in PA?
red wiggler for composting
Спасибо !!!
Not they invaded you also invaded because if you weren’t happy about it you wouldn’t be here you would go back.
What about a worm slurpee
excellent info thanks
Thank you
Is Humun,e waste can be added to compost ?
No, it is a material that would compost too hot for the worms. In addition some negative items are passed in human waste like antibiotics. These items would make the castings unsuitable you use to supplement food bearing plants.
What was that grainy stuff you put in the bed? For the grit
Clean sand.
But crushed egg shell But crushed oyster shell even better
What about pineneedles ?
I just wear dish gloves .. cause I never want to cut a wormy in half or hurt them while I’m digging and flipping their world upside down 🥺
Worms ate my homework
they ate may yardwork...
Great presentation
Would it be beneficial to run food scraps through a blender before adding to the bin?
Definitely, yes
Like cow don!
Great video! I’ve listened to many videos on worm farms and I’ve learned so much from this informative discussion. I’m going to run out tomorrow morning and move my worm farm because I’m pretty sure they’re too hot! I noticed the other day it had ‘heated up’ inside and began generating condensation but I didn’t realize what made it do that.
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What would create the lowest amount of soil? An indoor vemicomposter, or a regular indoor bokashi composter? I live in an apartment and am an environmentalist. My building manager told me that he stopped having the Yard Waste (where the apartment residents are supposed to dispose of their kitchen scraps), because it too smelly. What he did is actually against municipal laws, because the city in which we live has a law that allowed to put food into the garbage dumpster. I am a busy student who wants to spend 100% of their time studying; not travelling far distances on the bus to dispose of soil. I don't have anywhere to put the soil in my apartment. I don't have an infinite number of clay pots for storing plants in my small apartment. So would vermicomposting create less soil than regular composting? I suspect it would, because there be energy loss due to the worms' body movements. Chemical energy (in the food scraps) would be converted into kinetic energy. I learned in high school physics classes that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Then again, even insects and bacteria move too, so they would be producing their own kinetic energy. Perhaps is my regular compost bin contained millions of bacteria, but my vermicomposter only contained a dozen or so worms, there would be more kinetic energy cred in the regular compost bin, an thus less soil? Soil is chemical energy. Soil is made of chemical atoms. Matter is energy. What has your experience been with volume of soil created in vermicomposting versus bokashi composting?
@Old chunk of coal. I want to maintain the purity of the earth, and I get painful feelings of guilt when I put compostable items into the garbage can. I want to stop feeling this guilt.
Peat/peet moss is mined out of weapons! 15:00
No..."wetlands."
Oh hehehe. Better clean my ears 😅
Is this lady your assistant, or she just know everything??? Why is she taking your class if she already knows all this.
Ha! There’s one like her in every class it seems.
Why is that lady sitting and looking backwards ? She should turn around to see better .
Torontoians want FAITH GOLDY she is protesting the capture of those poor defenseless worms
Social anxiety and trying to be socially acceptable and sit at the table relatively properly vs being able to see. Not wanting to move mid lecture either and call attention to yourself. I’ve been there, it sucks.
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Earthworms are also bad for birds because they piggyback gapeworm which attaches in the trachea and close off the passage . the bird then begins to gasp for air and eventually die .
Bristol community college composting