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That pole was by far the largest feeding zone indicator I've ever seen :) I must admit... I was skeptical of the stuff placed into the garden. I was actually kinda surprised at how it all vanished. Very interesting! 👍🏻
😂🤣😂 Autumn made me read your comment out loud because I was laughing so hard!! Yes, that was a ridiculously sized feeding zone indicator!! I was so shocked, after I was done filming I dug up more area just to be sure I didn't miss anything...it was amazing how quickly they devoured what I gave them in the garden!! Thanks so much for watching & for the good laugh AV!!🪱🪱🪱
My pleasure!! It was a fun experiment to run and I was absolutely blown away by the results...so much so that I dug up more of my garden to make sure I didn't miss anything!! It sure is one bio active garden!! Thanks so much for watching Laura!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you Sandy!! I've been steadily mixing in vermicompost and regular compost over the years...It was pretty pathetic builders sand before I started amending it! It is so nice to hear from you!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Good morning, Patrick and Autumn, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 Great idea to use them in both your Garden and your worm bins. I put frozen peels in my Geobin Junior and a week later they were absorbed into the system ❤ ❤Peggy❤
That Geobin Junior looks so fun to use versus my big Geobin...I never feel like I can fully rotate my compost with how deep it is! Thanks so much for watching Peggy!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you Nick!! It's great to see the garden swallowing up food scraps just as fast as my worm bins!! Now I just need to get an allotment!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I love your videos. I really watch all of them. It really relaxes me and it's so interesting. I built and started my own worm composter in February. I collected 84 worms in the German forests and from friends' composters. And they multiplied so fast. Now I have hundreds. I already said I'd make a video but that will take a few more weeks. I really enjoy looking after my worms 😄 thanks for the Inspiration.
I forgot to ask a question: I followed your advice, I also freeze everything and then give it to the worms. But recently I put frozen food in and an hour later there were two rock-hard frozen worms. 😔 Since then I put the frozen food in the microwave first so that no worms freeze to death. How do you do it? And do you have an alternative to eggshells? I don't eat eggs and my friends collect the shells but there aren't enough 😄
That is wonderful to hear your worms are multiplying so fast!! Thank you so much for the kind words!! We really appreciate getting such great positive feedback; we're so glad you like our videos!! Thanks so much for watching Jenny!!🪱🪱🪱
I usually set my frozen food scraps on the counter and let them thaw out for a little bit. I also try to add some bedding first then place the food scraps on top of that so I don't accidentally place them directly on the worms. You can use crushed oyster shells or crustacean shells. Or you can use a little bit of sand, but you don't need much. You see me adding a lot of egg shell grit but the worms don't need that much, I just put that much in to help dispose of the shells and to get them out into my garden. I hope this helps!!
@@Vermicompost Thank you for taking the time to answer me, that means a lot to me. I didn't put the frozen food on the worms either, they were greedy and ran over there straight away and froze to death, the poor worm friends. I'll let it thaw better in the future. Thank you! Best wishes from Germany.
Hi Patrick and Autumn, excellent experiment. Definitely a close call. Surprising the shredded cardboard was also all gone in the garden. I have done the in ground, well, in raised bed food scrapes, but never checked to see how quickly it got eaten. Food for thought. Scrapes for garden. And for worms obviously. Have fun, Mark : )
😂 Yes, food for thought, scraps for garden! I was surprised they ate all the bedding as well!! I even went back and dug up some more area to make sure I didn't miss anything! It was a fun experiment to do and we're hitting our time of year when it is too hot and too many pest to really grow anything other than okra & sweet potatoes around here, so I was excited to test it out! Thanks so much for all your support Mark!!🪱🪱🪱
Yes!! It is pretty amazing that just putting food scraps in the garden bed can make fertilizer for you so easy!! Thanks so much for watching my friend!🪱🪱🪱
Nice video Patrick! The sourdough will add lactobacillus to the bin which is great. LAB (lactic acid bacteria) does not give off heat when breaking down organic material, actually, I am starting to add it to the pre compost I use as bedding for my worms. LAB can reduce the pH but only slightly. The 1st year I discovered jumping worms in my potato bed (literally thousands because I used to use leaves as a Ruth Stout method) I could find very little info on them, so I raised them in my grow room that winter. I fed them the same foods, fruit and veggies as I did my red wigglers, the JW's could care less, all they wanted were wet leaves, therefore I can no longer use leaves in my gardens. The disappearance of the food in your garden bed is testament that you have a very biologically active soil. If I buried that in my clay soil it would be there for a long time. I believe they call that the trench method of composting. All around great video, looks like your outdoor bin could yield some beautiful vermicompost right now. Stay Well!!!!
Thanks for the information on LAB Brian!! I've been meaning to give that a try on my garden! I never realized how many JW I had until I started digging in my soil more...anytime I find them I through them in the direction of the lizards all around my bushes and garden😄 I was super surprised and happy that the food scraps went so fast...and we're in our dry season...if it was during our daily thunderstorms it would have been even faster I bet! Thanks so much for watching and for all the great info you pass on!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost JW's are being more of a problem up here in WI. I was very pleased not to find any in my tomato bed with the perennial cover crop of thyme and oregano. The JW's mainly feed on high carbon sources, I am trying aged straw as a mulch on my potato, onion and a couple other beds to see if the JW's go for it. LAB is so easy to make, so many applications. LAB was the only thing that really worked on the powdery mildew. Looking forward to your next video. Stay Well!!!
Interesting experiment. I would have guessed that the worm bin is faster than the garden worms. I also put in some dry fruits during the last feeding, they came from some long expired Bundeswehr field rations. I froze them together with some other stuff, but I have yet to see if they already ate it.
That will be interesting to compare our two dehydrated foods feedings! I thought I was going to be digging into a big mushy mess when I dug into the garden, so I was pleasantly surprised to find barely anything left!! Thanks so much for watching & for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Its been a while that i was on youtube, so nice to see the ever famous worm bag, interesting comparison, to me it looks like a tie, both the garden and the bag finished their food after 7 days
It's so good to see you back!! It was a fun experiment to run...I really can't believe how quick both of them went through all that food!! I definitely thought I would be getting into some mushy mess down there! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
My mother always does the composting outside in her bins. I personally prefer using the worm bin because when I use the castings for my potted plants I don't have to deal with pests particularly gnats SB: I finally got that paper shredder. My aching hands thank me 🤣
👍I prefer worm bins as well so I can make all my different soils!! That shredder is a game changer huh? I'm so glad you got one to do all the hard work!! Thanks so much for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you!! I'm so glad you liked it!! It was hard to wait & and edit a longer video but I think it was worth it to show the results in the same video!! Thanks so much for the kind words!!🪱🪱🪱
Very cool! Your worms sure are hungry! I put a watermelon rind in my small indoor worm bins before I left to go out of town. I can’t wait to see the results when I get back. I had an in garden worm bucket but took it out because of all the Rollie pollies I have. I thought that was contributing to their over abundance. But nope, still have a bazillion. My soil is full of leaf mulch so the Rollie pollies and worms all have a perfect habitat. Now if those Rollie pollies would stop eating my marigold seedlings that would be great!
I bet that watermelon is gone when you get back!! It might be fun to try this experiment again but go back in after 4 days to try to catch all the soil dwellers devouring it...I'm a little scared of what I might find! It sounds like you have some great soil you & the rolllie pollies are making over there! Thanks so much for watching Julie!!🪱🪱🪱
My worry with the garden would be vermin. And we do get problems in the compost bin if I put food in it. I use a compost tumbler for food, but a lot of worms have made their way into it lol. As I didn’t put any in there.
If you bury the food scraps deep enough, several inches, then it shouldn't be a problem...but you are right, it is always possible that a hungry animal might try to dig it up! I have had a mouse get into my regular compost pile but never buried food scraps!🪱🪱🪱
This is my first season with them, I've only had them 5 months but so far I love them! My neighbor has had the same ones for 3 years and they are holding up perfectly with no issues. My previous raised bed was made out of wooden 2x6's and rotted apart after 5 years. I'm hoping these last for 20 years! So I guess I can recommend them for how well they hold up when building and adding soil etc. but long term I just don't know until I've had them for more time...but my guess is they are going to continue to serve me well into the future! As I put them together they seemed slightly flimsy but that is just because of the length versus how thin they are and the power of leverage. Obviously I was used to very rigid wood planks. But once you get them in place and all screwed together they are so easy to move around and they hold the soil so well!! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching Adam!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick, I must say I had mixed feelings about feeding in an area that clearly has jumping worms. I'm not sure about their diet preferences! That grub also would have burned through quite a bit of that food and cardboard. ~ Sandra
I know! I can't believe we have them, It's not like I have planted a lot of landscaping since we bought the house almost 20 years ago, almost everything I grow is from seeds...but here they are. There are also a lot of red wigglers in the soil from my vermicompost, but the jumping worms are much easier to see. It seems to me they thrive in our heat, because in the spring I saw a lot more red wigglers towards the surface and right now I am starting to see a few more of the jumping worms. I think North America is losing the battle with them...But I'm pretty impressed with all the other soil helpers that tore through that feeding!! Thanks so much for watching Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
That was an awesome experiment! I was surprised that the garden won! I am sooo gonna do that. I have a question not related to the video, do you take the amazon kind of tape and all the shipping stickers off of your boxes before shredding them?
Thank you!! It was a fun experiment to run!! I do take off all the amazon tape and shipping stickers. I have left the tape on before and the strings that are intertwined in it do not get eaten by the worms or any other bin critters. There must also be a plastic part to the tape because we ended up with little pieces of rubbery/plasticky material in the bin as well. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching Amy!!🪱🪱🪱
Maybe I will try sourdough starter again when I have some excess, it went terrible the first time, smelled just awful! But that was 2 years ago when I was new and so was my bin...
Because I didn't check on it sooner there is a chance the starter might have smelled as well in my bin! I bet it will go over better for you with a more mature bin and more worms. Maybe even spread it out a bit?!? I know if I fed like I do now in this bin when it was only 2-3 months old, I would be getting a whole lot of rotting smells coming from it! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I have to garden in grow bags here in 9B (Florida) because of root knot nematodes but I have one 4x12 plot that I will try *again* to garden in after putting scaps in there to develop the soil with worms. I am thinking of doing some scraps in some grow bags with worms to plant in when I start up again in the fall. Do you think I should just leave the casting in there since I can grow in the bag?thanks
I hope your garden plot recovers in time for some fall gardening! That is great that you are gonna start some grow bag worm bins! So to answer your question I will say that I create my own potting soil mix with about 20% worm castings, 20% perlite or vermiculite and 60% peat moss or a little less peat moss and some regular compost if I have some ready. So if you use your grow bags as worm bins, I would make sure they are no more than 1/3rd to 1/4 full of worm castings when you add soil. This worm bin is made from a 20 gallon fabric pot and is never more than 1/2 to 1/3rd full. If you do use the worm bins directly to plant in I would take the worms out and start another bin with them. It will be next to impossible to feed compost worms and grow plants in the same bin...They will most likely run out of food and flee. I'm always up for experimenting so I say give it a try!! Here is a video of how I make seed starting mix out of my worm castings that you might find helpful if you haven't already seen it: ruclips.net/video/jSbdh7e_D04/видео.html I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Do you think a bin like this would work in the uk? It’s between 9c-25c max in the year, obviously in winter it gets colder but I can put them in the house- the rest are in the house. So when it gets below, 9c I will bring them in. I have grow bags I can use, from 1gallon up to 10 I think. Again I will use cardboard and red wiggler
That temperature range is actually perfect for most compost worms like red wigglers and ENC's! So I would think that a 10 gallon grow pot would work great! I don't bring my Outdoor Worm Bin in unless it gets below freezing...and sometimes not even then! Because these drain be sure to add water when you feed and be sure NOT to feed too much at first. Once the microbial content increases then you can test the limits of your worm bin with foods like I do! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching Cheryl!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost my plan was to just move one of my nursery bins from inside that will have 600+ worms in, put the entire thing into the new container bag, and add more bedding and then there is the ecosystem I got in the bins to start…. I may even add 2 to start and then when I get another couple I’ll add them too. Just would be easier to look after the worms in one larger container then more smaller ones. And be easier to deal with food scraps, get more of a buffer that way. Just didn’t think they would be happy in the cooler weather. Obviously I want them happy and eating etc
@@cherylhowker1792 Sounds great! I would only fill the fabric pot halfway or less so you have plenty of material to fold over as a "lid" I show how I do it at the end of most of my Outdoor Worm Bin videos. You may even want to go with a 20 gallon fabric pot. With the combination of all those bins your "new" outside bin will be roaring and ready to go for food scraps!! Larger bins are easier to manage since there is more room for the worms to "flee" if we accidentally over feed or heat up the feeding zone!
😂🤣😂I give some to my family and neighbors all the time!! Sounds like I'd be a good neighbor to have nearby!! Thanks so much for dropping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
That is a great question...maybe another video??!? All four worm bins against the garden!! I'll have to check them quicker than 7 days so I can see some good action!! Thanks so much for watching Cookie!!🪱🪱🪱
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@Vermicompost ah ok I have a coffee bean grinder I'll try that. Thank you! Just started my bin a few days ago and your videos have helped inform me so much. Thank you 😊
Oh wow!! Congrats on getting started!! The hardest thing to do as a new worm farmer is to not over love them in the form of overfeeding them!! If it is a fancy/expensive coffee bean grinder I wouldn't use it, the egg shell grit can get so fine and mess with the mechanism so I would keep it to the magic bullet grinder! Thanks again for watching our videos!! Ask any questions you have as you go along on any of our videos!!
היי חבר שלי. רציתי לשאול אותך שאלה. את האוכל שאני נותן התולעים עדיף להעביר אותם במיקסר. או לתת להם את הירקות שלמים? לפי מה שראיתי את האוכל שעבר במיקסר הם אוכלים מהר יותר וכן גם ההתרבות שלהם. לכן רציתי לדעת מה דעתך. כי לך יש הרבה יותר ניסיון ממני😊😊
אם יש לך זמן, מיזוגו במיקסר יעזור לתולעים לאכול אותו מהר יותר, כל עוד לא תזרקו אותו בערימה אחת גדולה מכיוון שהוא יכול לתסוס. אבל אם אתה משחרר את האוכל ופשוט מכניס אותו לפח התולעים זה עובד כמעט באותה מהירות. למעשה עשיתי סרטון שבו בדקתי איזה מהם הולך מהר יותר: ruclips.net/video/Ty3FNheJFoc/видео.html אני מקווה שזה יעזור! תודה רבה שצפיתם ידידי!! 🪱🪱🪱
I would probably hold off on throwing food scraps in a hole and then planting a tree right over it. The tree hole would probably be deeper than how deep I put down these food scraps. There are an increasing amount of organisms to process the food scraps in the top inches of soil versus deeper down and the tree roots will most likely be trying to send down a tap root straight down right away. I think it would be best to put some food scraps in the ground first then come back later and dig a hole for the tree to be planted after the food scraps are gone. I hope that helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Oooohhhh!! Sorry about that! I think burying food scraps around an established tree would be alright if you can get it buried enough that some mammal won’t dig it up. I use worm casting tea on our fruit trees all the time. I know banana “trees” do well with buried food scraps.
😂🤣😂 We don't have cats but I have no doubt some cats have tried it!!!The guarder of our garden, our little miniature dachshund puppy dog would be pretty upset!! Thanks so much for watching Timothy!!🪱🪱🪱
The trench composting should work very well. Haha well it did work well😂 that was a nice experiment Patrick. I put some food scraps in the raised garden bed in the winter, we got snow and the snow melted in the middle of the bed faster than the other beds. 🪱🪱 We have to watch out for the Jumping worms.
That's pretty interesting that the snow melted faster!! Lots of biological activity heating things up!! I was super surprised at how fast my buried food scraps went...so much so that I dug up all around it after the video to make sure I checked the right place😂 Yep, nothing anywhere!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch Rick!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you!! It has about 4 years of worm castings and regular compost...the original "soil" was builders sand! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch John!!🪱🪱🪱
Asian jumping worms eat heavily. Which is why the garden has an advantage. The feeding again was not equal to me. The AJW would've probably gone through either pile just as fast. That's the worry of these species is that they'll eat all the resources and inhibit the natural species that we have.
Great info!! Thanks so much for sharing!! I haven't had any landscaping done in over 20 years so it is so surprising to me that we have them, but they seem to be thriving in the garden...Ironically I don't find them in my compost pile, only red wigglers, so they must like slightly different foods??!? Thanks again for taking to time to pass on your insights & of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I was surprised how quickly the garden worms/soil critters devoured those food scraps!! I've been running this worm bin for about 4 years and over that time I occasionally throw in some regular compost from my compost pile. When I started it years ago I did add some of our native soil to get it inoculated with native soil microbes...it is an outdoor bin so I don't mind if it gets some other arthropods besides mites! Thanks so much for passing on your thoughts and advice & of course thanks for watching!!
😁 As my food scraps start piling up I may have to get back into backyard garden composting!! It sounds like you've stream lined the process completely!!😂🤣😂 Thanks so much for all your support Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
Yes I do!! I bet one got at least one of those jumping worms I threw towards the bushes! Yes, garden critters for the big win!! Did you see my shirt? Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
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That pole was by far the largest feeding zone indicator I've ever seen :) I must admit... I was skeptical of the stuff placed into the garden. I was actually kinda surprised at how it all vanished. Very interesting! 👍🏻
😂🤣😂 Autumn made me read your comment out loud because I was laughing so hard!! Yes, that was a ridiculously sized feeding zone indicator!! I was so shocked, after I was done filming I dug up more area just to be sure I didn't miss anything...it was amazing how quickly they devoured what I gave them in the garden!! Thanks so much for watching & for the good laugh AV!!🪱🪱🪱
If I were you I think I would have also gone back to dig up more... just to be sure of what I saw :)
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Wow ! The garden action was fascinating! Thanks for the great demonstration/experiment!
My pleasure!! It was a fun experiment to run and I was absolutely blown away by the results...so much so that I dug up more of my garden to make sure I didn't miss anything!! It sure is one bio active garden!! Thanks so much for watching Laura!!🪱🪱🪱
Great looking garden soil.
Thank you Joe!! It's amazing how years of compost and vermicompost can transform sandy soil to what we have now! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Woooh...Patrick you have nice black soil in your garden. Your compost is really helping there...Good luck
Thank you Sandy!! I've been steadily mixing in vermicompost and regular compost over the years...It was pretty pathetic builders sand before I started amending it! It is so nice to hear from you!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Good morning, Patrick and Autumn, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
Great idea to use them in both your Garden and your worm bins.
I put frozen peels in my Geobin Junior and a week later they were absorbed into the system ❤
❤Peggy❤
That Geobin Junior looks so fun to use versus my big Geobin...I never feel like I can fully rotate my compost with how deep it is! Thanks so much for watching Peggy!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I have the big one, also. I agree with you. I about kill myself, trying to aerate it.
Great idea for an experiment! Very interesting.
Thank you!! I've been wanting to compare the two for a while! Thanks so much for watching and for your long time support of our channel!!🪱🪱🪱
That's cool you can do it outdoors like that, very interesting results indeed 😊
Thanks Tamson!! It is how I got my start into vermicomposting...the easy man's outdoor worm bin!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick nice experiment, soil looked amazing.👌👍💪😁💩🙏🪱
Thank you Nick!! It's great to see the garden swallowing up food scraps just as fast as my worm bins!! Now I just need to get an allotment!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I love your videos. I really watch all of them. It really relaxes me and it's so interesting. I built and started my own worm composter in February. I collected 84 worms in the German forests and from friends' composters. And they multiplied so fast. Now I have hundreds. I already said I'd make a video but that will take a few more weeks. I really enjoy looking after my worms 😄 thanks for the Inspiration.
I forgot to ask a question: I followed your advice, I also freeze everything and then give it to the worms. But recently I put frozen food in and an hour later there were two rock-hard frozen worms. 😔 Since then I put the frozen food in the microwave first so that no worms freeze to death. How do you do it? And do you have an alternative to eggshells? I don't eat eggs and my friends collect the shells but there aren't enough 😄
That is wonderful to hear your worms are multiplying so fast!! Thank you so much for the kind words!! We really appreciate getting such great positive feedback; we're so glad you like our videos!! Thanks so much for watching Jenny!!🪱🪱🪱
I usually set my frozen food scraps on the counter and let them thaw out for a little bit. I also try to add some bedding first then place the food scraps on top of that so I don't accidentally place them directly on the worms. You can use crushed oyster shells or crustacean shells. Or you can use a little bit of sand, but you don't need much. You see me adding a lot of egg shell grit but the worms don't need that much, I just put that much in to help dispose of the shells and to get them out into my garden. I hope this helps!!
@@Vermicompost Thank you for taking the time to answer me, that means a lot to me. I didn't put the frozen food on the worms either, they were greedy and ran over there straight away and froze to death, the poor worm friends. I'll let it thaw better in the future. Thank you! Best wishes from Germany.
@@JennyKylie So glad you are watching from Germany!! We loved our visits there!!
Hi Patrick and Autumn, excellent experiment. Definitely a close call. Surprising the shredded cardboard was also all gone in the garden. I have done the in ground, well, in raised bed food scrapes, but never checked to see how quickly it got eaten. Food for thought. Scrapes for garden. And for worms obviously. Have fun, Mark : )
😂 Yes, food for thought, scraps for garden! I was surprised they ate all the bedding as well!! I even went back and dug up some more area to make sure I didn't miss anything! It was a fun experiment to do and we're hitting our time of year when it is too hot and too many pest to really grow anything other than okra & sweet potatoes around here, so I was excited to test it out! Thanks so much for all your support Mark!!🪱🪱🪱
i will try this too i like it
Yes!! It is pretty amazing that just putting food scraps in the garden bed can make fertilizer for you so easy!! Thanks so much for watching my friend!🪱🪱🪱
Nice video Patrick!
The sourdough will add lactobacillus to the bin which is great. LAB (lactic acid bacteria) does not give off heat when breaking down organic material, actually, I am starting to add it to the pre compost I use as bedding for my worms. LAB can reduce the pH but only slightly.
The 1st year I discovered jumping worms in my potato bed (literally thousands because I used to use leaves as a Ruth Stout method) I could find very little info on them, so I raised them in my grow room that winter. I fed them the same foods, fruit and veggies as I did my red wigglers, the JW's could care less, all they wanted were wet leaves, therefore I can no longer use leaves in my gardens.
The disappearance of the food in your garden bed is testament that you have a very biologically active soil. If I buried that in my clay soil it would be there for a long time. I believe they call that the trench method of composting.
All around great video, looks like your outdoor bin could yield some beautiful vermicompost right now.
Stay Well!!!!
Thanks for the information on LAB Brian!! I've been meaning to give that a try on my garden! I never realized how many JW I had until I started digging in my soil more...anytime I find them I through them in the direction of the lizards all around my bushes and garden😄 I was super surprised and happy that the food scraps went so fast...and we're in our dry season...if it was during our daily thunderstorms it would have been even faster I bet! Thanks so much for watching and for all the great info you pass on!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost JW's are being more of a problem up here in WI. I was very pleased not to find any in my tomato bed with the perennial cover crop of thyme and oregano. The JW's mainly feed on high carbon sources, I am trying aged straw as a mulch on my potato, onion and a couple other beds to see if the JW's go for it.
LAB is so easy to make, so many applications. LAB was the only thing that really worked on the powdery mildew.
Looking forward to your next video. Stay Well!!!
I'll have to try it on my cucumbers and squashes!!
All good!
Thanks Scot!! It was fun to see what the garden soil creatures can do to food scraps!! Thanks so much for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Great results.
Thanks AJ!! It just seems like you can't go wrong with worms in or out of the garden!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Interesting experiment. I would have guessed that the worm bin is faster than the garden worms. I also put in some dry fruits during the last feeding, they came from some long expired Bundeswehr field rations. I froze them together with some other stuff, but I have yet to see if they already ate it.
That will be interesting to compare our two dehydrated foods feedings! I thought I was going to be digging into a big mushy mess when I dug into the garden, so I was pleasantly surprised to find barely anything left!! Thanks so much for watching & for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Its been a while that i was on youtube, so nice to see the ever famous worm bag, interesting comparison, to me it looks like a tie, both the garden and the bag finished their food after 7 days
It's so good to see you back!! It was a fun experiment to run...I really can't believe how quick both of them went through all that food!! I definitely thought I would be getting into some mushy mess down there! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
My mother always does the composting outside in her bins. I personally prefer using the worm bin because when I use the castings for my potted plants I don't have to deal with pests particularly gnats
SB: I finally got that paper shredder. My aching hands thank me 🤣
👍I prefer worm bins as well so I can make all my different soils!! That shredder is a game changer huh? I'm so glad you got one to do all the hard work!! Thanks so much for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
This is an excellent video. I was thinking video is finished and il have to wait 7 days to see the result but hey you put it in one video yaaay
Thank you!! I'm so glad you liked it!! It was hard to wait & and edit a longer video but I think it was worth it to show the results in the same video!! Thanks so much for the kind words!!🪱🪱🪱
Very cool! Your worms sure are hungry! I put a watermelon rind in my small indoor worm bins before I left to go out of town. I can’t wait to see the results when I get back. I had an in garden worm bucket but took it out because of all the Rollie pollies I have. I thought that was contributing to their over abundance. But nope, still have a bazillion. My soil is full of leaf mulch so the Rollie pollies and worms all have a perfect habitat. Now if those Rollie pollies would stop eating my marigold seedlings that would be great!
I bet that watermelon is gone when you get back!! It might be fun to try this experiment again but go back in after 4 days to try to catch all the soil dwellers devouring it...I'm a little scared of what I might find! It sounds like you have some great soil you & the rolllie pollies are making over there! Thanks so much for watching Julie!!🪱🪱🪱
I was a bit surprised, I thought the bin would win. No issues composting both ways. Nice comparison.
Me too!! There must be a lot of hungry helpers in my garden soil!! Thanks so much for watching Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱
My worry with the garden would be vermin. And we do get problems in the compost bin if I put food in it. I use a compost tumbler for food, but a lot of worms have made their way into it lol. As I didn’t put any in there.
If you bury the food scraps deep enough, several inches, then it shouldn't be a problem...but you are right, it is always possible that a hungry animal might try to dig it up! I have had a mouse get into my regular compost pile but never buried food scraps!🪱🪱🪱
How long have you had the galvanized raised beds? Would you recommend them?
This is my first season with them, I've only had them 5 months but so far I love them! My neighbor has had the same ones for 3 years and they are holding up perfectly with no issues. My previous raised bed was made out of wooden 2x6's and rotted apart after 5 years. I'm hoping these last for 20 years! So I guess I can recommend them for how well they hold up when building and adding soil etc. but long term I just don't know until I've had them for more time...but my guess is they are going to continue to serve me well into the future! As I put them together they seemed slightly flimsy but that is just because of the length versus how thin they are and the power of leverage. Obviously I was used to very rigid wood planks. But once you get them in place and all screwed together they are so easy to move around and they hold the soil so well!! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching Adam!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick, I must say I had mixed feelings about feeding in an area that clearly has jumping worms. I'm not sure about their diet preferences! That grub also would have burned through quite a bit of that food and cardboard.
~ Sandra
I know! I can't believe we have them, It's not like I have planted a lot of landscaping since we bought the house almost 20 years ago, almost everything I grow is from seeds...but here they are. There are also a lot of red wigglers in the soil from my vermicompost, but the jumping worms are much easier to see. It seems to me they thrive in our heat, because in the spring I saw a lot more red wigglers towards the surface and right now I am starting to see a few more of the jumping worms. I think North America is losing the battle with them...But I'm pretty impressed with all the other soil helpers that tore through that feeding!! Thanks so much for watching Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
That was an awesome experiment! I was surprised that the garden won! I am sooo gonna do that.
I have a question not related to the video, do you take the amazon kind of tape and all the shipping stickers off of your boxes before shredding them?
Thank you!! It was a fun experiment to run!! I do take off all the amazon tape and shipping stickers. I have left the tape on before and the strings that are intertwined in it do not get eaten by the worms or any other bin critters. There must also be a plastic part to the tape because we ended up with little pieces of rubbery/plasticky material in the bin as well. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching Amy!!🪱🪱🪱
Maybe I will try sourdough starter again when I have some excess, it went terrible the first time, smelled just awful! But that was 2 years ago when I was new and so was my bin...
Because I didn't check on it sooner there is a chance the starter might have smelled as well in my bin! I bet it will go over better for you with a more mature bin and more worms. Maybe even spread it out a bit?!? I know if I fed like I do now in this bin when it was only 2-3 months old, I would be getting a whole lot of rotting smells coming from it! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I have to garden in grow bags here in 9B (Florida) because of root knot nematodes but I have one 4x12 plot that I will try *again* to garden in after putting scaps in there to develop the soil with worms. I am thinking of doing some scraps in some grow bags with worms to plant in when I start up again in the fall. Do you think I should just leave the casting in there since I can grow in the bag?thanks
I hope your garden plot recovers in time for some fall gardening! That is great that you are gonna start some grow bag worm bins! So to answer your question I will say that I create my own potting soil mix with about 20% worm castings, 20% perlite or vermiculite and 60% peat moss or a little less peat moss and some regular compost if I have some ready. So if you use your grow bags as worm bins, I would make sure they are no more than 1/3rd to 1/4 full of worm castings when you add soil. This worm bin is made from a 20 gallon fabric pot and is never more than 1/2 to 1/3rd full. If you do use the worm bins directly to plant in I would take the worms out and start another bin with them. It will be next to impossible to feed compost worms and grow plants in the same bin...They will most likely run out of food and flee. I'm always up for experimenting so I say give it a try!! Here is a video of how I make seed starting mix out of my worm castings that you might find helpful if you haven't already seen it: ruclips.net/video/jSbdh7e_D04/видео.html I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Do you think a bin like this would work in the uk? It’s between 9c-25c max in the year, obviously in winter it gets colder but I can put them in the house- the rest are in the house.
So when it gets below, 9c I will bring them in.
I have grow bags I can use, from 1gallon up to 10 I think. Again I will use cardboard and red wiggler
That temperature range is actually perfect for most compost worms like red wigglers and ENC's! So I would think that a 10 gallon grow pot would work great! I don't bring my Outdoor Worm Bin in unless it gets below freezing...and sometimes not even then! Because these drain be sure to add water when you feed and be sure NOT to feed too much at first. Once the microbial content increases then you can test the limits of your worm bin with foods like I do! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching Cheryl!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost my plan was to just move one of my nursery bins from inside that will have 600+ worms in, put the entire thing into the new container bag, and add more bedding and then there is the ecosystem I got in the bins to start…. I may even add 2 to start and then when I get another couple I’ll add them too.
Just would be easier to look after the worms in one larger container then more smaller ones. And be easier to deal with food scraps, get more of a buffer that way.
Just didn’t think they would be happy in the cooler weather. Obviously I want them happy and eating etc
@@cherylhowker1792 Sounds great! I would only fill the fabric pot halfway or less so you have plenty of material to fold over as a "lid" I show how I do it at the end of most of my Outdoor Worm Bin videos. You may even want to go with a 20 gallon fabric pot. With the combination of all those bins your "new" outside bin will be roaring and ready to go for food scraps!! Larger bins are easier to manage since there is more room for the worms to "flee" if we accidentally over feed or heat up the feeding zone!
Quality compost! Can I have it all?
😂🤣😂I give some to my family and neighbors all the time!! Sounds like I'd be a good neighbor to have nearby!! Thanks so much for dropping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
So I wonder how the worm towers would compete with that same thing
That is a great question...maybe another video??!? All four worm bins against the garden!! I'll have to check them quicker than 7 days so I can see some good action!! Thanks so much for watching Cookie!!🪱🪱🪱
How do you get your eggs like that. I've tried your method and I just can't get it that fine.
I have a coffee bean/nut grinder blade for my magic bullet blender: amzn.to/3LeQWV3 It seems to do the trick faster but I've used the other blade as well. It takes a bit longer and multiple grind sessions. I shake it up occasionally and don't put too much in at a time as it grinds. Multiple sessions with smaller amounts actually works way better for me than trying to do a lot at one time. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@Vermicompost ah ok I have a coffee bean grinder I'll try that. Thank you! Just started my bin a few days ago and your videos have helped inform me so much. Thank you 😊
Oh wow!! Congrats on getting started!! The hardest thing to do as a new worm farmer is to not over love them in the form of overfeeding them!! If it is a fancy/expensive coffee bean grinder I wouldn't use it, the egg shell grit can get so fine and mess with the mechanism so I would keep it to the magic bullet grinder! Thanks again for watching our videos!! Ask any questions you have as you go along on any of our videos!!
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Would you recommend putting food s raps under a tree?
I would probably hold off on throwing food scraps in a hole and then planting a tree right over it. The tree hole would probably be deeper than how deep I put down these food scraps. There are an increasing amount of organisms to process the food scraps in the top inches of soil versus deeper down and the tree roots will most likely be trying to send down a tap root straight down right away. I think it would be best to put some food scraps in the ground first then come back later and dig a hole for the tree to be planted after the food scraps are gone. I hope that helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I meant an already fully established tree. I plated it in 2007 I was just wondering if it would only benefit gardens
Oooohhhh!! Sorry about that! I think burying food scraps around an established tree would be alright if you can get it buried enough that some mammal won’t dig it up. I use worm casting tea on our fruit trees all the time. I know banana “trees” do well with buried food scraps.
You can use castings as cat litter too hahaha
😂🤣😂 We don't have cats but I have no doubt some cats have tried it!!!The guarder of our garden, our little miniature dachshund puppy dog would be pretty upset!! Thanks so much for watching Timothy!!🪱🪱🪱
The trench composting should work very well. Haha well it did work well😂 that was a nice experiment Patrick. I put some food scraps in the raised garden bed in the winter, we got snow and the snow melted in the middle of the bed faster than the other beds. 🪱🪱
We have to watch out for the Jumping worms.
That's pretty interesting that the snow melted faster!! Lots of biological activity heating things up!! I was super surprised at how fast my buried food scraps went...so much so that I dug up all around it after the video to make sure I checked the right place😂 Yep, nothing anywhere!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch Rick!!🪱🪱🪱
You outside soil looks like black gold
Thank you!! It has about 4 years of worm castings and regular compost...the original "soil" was builders sand! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch John!!🪱🪱🪱
Asian jumping worms eat heavily. Which is why the garden has an advantage. The feeding again was not equal to me. The AJW would've probably gone through either pile just as fast. That's the worry of these species is that they'll eat all the resources and inhibit the natural species that we have.
Great info!! Thanks so much for sharing!! I haven't had any landscaping done in over 20 years so it is so surprising to me that we have them, but they seem to be thriving in the garden...Ironically I don't find them in my compost pile, only red wigglers, so they must like slightly different foods??!? Thanks again for taking to time to pass on your insights & of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
i think its not a fair comparison. Your worm bin should have been inoculated with the soil. This would add biodiversity and real clay grit.
I was surprised how quickly the garden worms/soil critters devoured those food scraps!! I've been running this worm bin for about 4 years and over that time I occasionally throw in some regular compost from my compost pile. When I started it years ago I did add some of our native soil to get it inoculated with native soil microbes...it is an outdoor bin so I don't mind if it gets some other arthropods besides mites! Thanks so much for passing on your thoughts and advice & of course thanks for watching!!
Thats similar to my operation now. I find the outdoor composters sitting directly and open to the ground just rock! 👍🪱🪱🪱🪱
😁 As my food scraps start piling up I may have to get back into backyard garden composting!! It sounds like you've stream lined the process completely!!😂🤣😂 Thanks so much for all your support Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
You have lots of lizards to eat the worms right? Good job garden critters for the win.👍🏼😀🪱
Yes I do!! I bet one got at least one of those jumping worms I threw towards the bushes! Yes, garden critters for the big win!! Did you see my shirt? Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
Lol I must have blinked...or I was multitasking I went back and looked. Thanks for the brand share. 🎉🎉