Ann, you were the first person I saw recommend ageing bedding. It worked so well for me, my two aged bedding bins turned into worm bins from cocoons and wisps in the castings I mixed into the bedding! Thank you for continuing to help us all learn. ~ Sandra
@@PlantObsessed Yes, that’s where I saw it first too and do it like him. I mix up wet, warm coco coir, coffee grounds, pulverized egg shells, Azomite, Humichar, kelp meal, Neem seed meal, a sprinkle of Mycorrhiza Fungi; then slowly work it into a wheelbarrow of shredded cardboard and paper, dried leaves, a few handfuls of fresh cut grass, and hopefully what aged bedding I may have left from last time. It works so well that if I’m in a hurry, the worms will thrive with just the bedding. I find those worms up in the bedding faster than they hit the kitchen scrapes. Now I keep a 32 gallon Rubbermaid garbage can (on wheels!) ready with bedding. I’m making so much castings a lot faster, faster than I can use them up. I enjoyed your showing how you built the Vermibag lil mammoth and knew I had to have it. It holds so much! I’m not sure which I like better between the Vermibag verses The Hungry Bin though. They both have their pros and cons.
Looks like I'm late to the party. Great video, I'm in the market to start vermi composting and living in South Dakota I need to do it indoors. I'll be watching more of your videos for sure.
Great review & demo of the lil mammoth!! I really like the stand you constructed from their free instructions where you can slide the tray back & forth! Lots of good food scraps & other bin edibles in this feeding!! Excellent video!!🪱🪱🪱
@@PlantObsessed Hahaha, you were right!! She got me a worm bag (UWB) for Christmas!! This was great to watch again 8 months later!! I think I need to get a lil mammoth as well, just so my UWB is not lonely😂🤣😂Luckily they corrected some of the issues you had with the UWB...but I have yet to harvest it so that should be interesting!!! Great to watch this agin!!
Hi Ann I used to mince all the food for my worms which made it easier for the worms to work through their food and they really loved it, but when I moved the mincer disappeared
Hello Ann, Thank you for doing this review. I appreciate your time and honest opinion. After harvesting the castings from the bottom of the Vermibag, I suppose you filter the harvest through a seive? Could you please let us know how you do that? A video would be great! 🙂 I've a 1/4 inch sieve (made from chicken wire mesh stapled to a square wood frame) that I've used for soil and was wondering if I could use that. Does the food and non-composted material go back to the top of the Vermibag? Thanks for helping to address my questions. I'm grateful.
Yes the quarter inch screen will work great. I sift all my castings. I put all the items that don't fall through right back on top. Sometimes I soak them in water to make sure they are more workable by the microbes and worms.
i really wanted to buy a little mammoth but because i live in europe i can't actually buy it, and the urban bag like you mentioned is actually annoying to harvest from. However i still prefer it over the hungry bin because the bin doesn't have any ventilation and gets way too wet
Quick update on the shredder we use . The auto run switch feature stopped functioning and the shredder stills runs and shreds but will only shutoff manually. As many bins my wife has now , I wish we could find a shredder with a higher volume one .
I only like the bag because of where I live the ANC crawl all the time. It is the only way I can keep them contained. Thunderstorm and heavy truck vibration make them nuts. I used to find them all dried up on the floor the day after a storm.
Ann, you were the first person I saw recommend ageing bedding. It worked so well for me, my two aged bedding bins turned into worm bins from cocoons and wisps in the castings I mixed into the bedding! Thank you for continuing to help us all learn.
~ Sandra
Thank you for the kind words. Tom from vermibag is the one who got me started using aged bedding.
@@PlantObsessed Yes, that’s where I saw it first too and do it like him. I mix up wet, warm coco coir, coffee grounds, pulverized egg shells, Azomite, Humichar, kelp meal, Neem seed meal, a sprinkle of Mycorrhiza Fungi; then slowly work it into a wheelbarrow of shredded cardboard and paper, dried leaves, a few handfuls of fresh cut grass, and hopefully what aged bedding I may have left from last time. It works so well that if I’m in a hurry, the worms will thrive with just the bedding. I find those worms up in the bedding faster than they hit the kitchen scrapes. Now I keep a 32 gallon Rubbermaid garbage can (on wheels!) ready with bedding. I’m making so much castings a lot faster, faster than I can use them up.
I enjoyed your showing how you built the Vermibag lil mammoth and knew I had to have it. It holds so much! I’m not sure which I like better between the Vermibag verses The Hungry Bin though. They both have their pros and cons.
Looks like I'm late to the party. Great video, I'm in the market to start vermi composting and living in South Dakota I need to do it indoors. I'll be watching more of your videos for sure.
The bag system is great. 🪱😃👍🏼 Good luck
Love the comparison and I agree 100% that the VermiBags are better .
Thank you.
Great review & demo of the lil mammoth!! I really like the stand you constructed from their free instructions where you can slide the tray back & forth! Lots of good food scraps & other bin edibles in this feeding!! Excellent video!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you. Maybe your executive producer will get you one for Christmas 😬
@@PlantObsessed That's a great idea!! She won't let me have another worm bin, but if I gift her one then it's a win-win right?🤣
@@PlantObsessed Hahaha, you were right!! She got me a worm bag (UWB) for Christmas!! This was great to watch again 8 months later!! I think I need to get a lil mammoth as well, just so my UWB is not lonely😂🤣😂Luckily they corrected some of the issues you had with the UWB...but I have yet to harvest it so that should be interesting!!! Great to watch this agin!!
@@Vermicompost we will need a video of that!!
@@PlantObsessed I can't even imagine how to film it!!!
Nice video comparing the bag brands & demonstrating the harvest & reset of the system 👍🏻
Thank you. I do tend to abuse the systems. The VB stands up to it. Thank you for watching.
I hate my uvb as I have had so much trouble with the zipper both above and below.
I'm going on 2 years with the vermibag and the zipper is like new. It cost more but is like new with all the abuse I give it. 😀👍🏼🪱
I just started an Urban Worm Bag v2.0 and the zipper is gone and the cover is now held on by super strong Velcro strips.
I think the difference is UWB is industrial made and VB is hand made by a guy.
@@PlantObsessed that is correct.
Lovely castings Ann. Gd work wormies.
Thank you.
Hi Ann I used to mince all the food for my worms which made it easier for the worms to work through their food and they really loved it, but when I moved the mincer disappeared
Way back when I started I did grind all the food but now I have too many bins. It does make them eat faster 👍🏼😁🪱
Hello Ann, Thank you for doing this review. I appreciate your time and honest opinion. After harvesting the castings from the bottom of the Vermibag, I suppose you filter the harvest through a seive? Could you please let us know how you do that? A video would be great! 🙂 I've a 1/4 inch sieve (made from chicken wire mesh stapled to a square wood frame) that I've used for soil and was wondering if I could use that.
Does the food and non-composted material go back to the top of the Vermibag?
Thanks for helping to address my questions. I'm grateful.
Yes the quarter inch screen will work great. I sift all my castings. I put all the items that don't fall through right back on top. Sometimes I soak them in water to make sure they are more workable by the microbes and worms.
Thanks. This makes sense.
i really wanted to buy a little mammoth but because i live in europe i can't actually buy it, and the urban bag like you mentioned is actually annoying to harvest from. However i still prefer it over the hungry bin because the bin doesn't have any ventilation and gets way too wet
Currently the Vermibag is made in Italy. I'm surprised he doesn't ship to Europe. Send him an email and ask.
Quick update on the shredder we use . The auto run switch feature stopped functioning and the shredder stills runs and shreds but will only shutoff manually. As many bins my wife has now , I wish we could find a shredder with a higher volume one .
Operator error? lol
I wish I had bookmarked it but I could swear there is a You Tube on a DIY cardboard shredder. It is a heavy-duty unit.
Great comparison video. 🙂
Thank you.😁
I like blue the best!!! Not crazy for the bags.
I only like the bag because of where I live the ANC crawl all the time. It is the only way I can keep them contained. Thunderstorm and heavy truck vibration make them nuts. I used to find them all dried up on the floor the day after a storm.
I love my MAX VEMIBAG 🙌
They are great.👍🏼🪱😁