The Most Amazing Compost Worms- Rock Stars of the Worm World
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2022
- / @plantobsessed This population is entirely from 500 cocoons in May 2019.
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• Red Wiggler Compost Worms
Red Wiggler Compost Worms - 2 Stages of Migrations
They have been in 10 -gallon totes of various shapes since the beginning.
These red wigglers have been composting in my basement since May of 2019. The first bin was restarted August of 2021, The second bin August 2021, Newest bin started December 6th 2021
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🎶 That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight losing my migration 🎶
Lol well that song will be stuck in my head now.
Ann that first bin is some of the best castings I have seen
I know they were so fine and silky. Good job worms!!
Are you sure it isn’t the ghost of the basement eating all that food???
We used to live in an old house with a cellar basement that was “finished” and looked like a place where serials took people and they never left…ya know?
The laundry room was down there, behind a cement wall … so scary…. One of our roomates rented the basement for $55 a month!! (We paid $650 - this is how undesirable it was… I paid him to do my laundry and I was super broke but whatever it took not to go down there…
Your video brought back memories I haven’t thought about since my 20’s!!!
Thanks!
Nice castings
Lol it 100% looked like a dungeon in a horror film. I have 6 shop lights on down there to make it feel better.👍🏼🪱😃
@09:55 Migration, take-2 - clap! Haha! I have a migration that's been going for 3 weeks now & is long, long overdue - chances are that the feeding zone I made for them all that time ago is probably history. Perhaps tomorrow I'll get in there to see how things are comin' along..... :)
We all get busy this time of year. Good thing worms are forgiving.
Amen to that! :)
Godmother of the worms!! Lol
Thank you 👍🏼😃🪱🪱🪱
Lots of castings for the garden !
Yep just in time to up pot my bonsai.
My worm castings are rich like Russian Vodka! I feed them like they are pigs. I'm a half assed worm farmer. ok fine.. What role does bedding play in? Dilution. Be prepared Scout Motto. Glad you back to States safe.
Thank you. Lol Worms are not so picky. I prefer polish vodka 😜
Great Castings, Ann. Sorry your vacation didn't go as planned. I hope you are feeling back to normal now.
Yep all back to normal
Looks like you will have a triple harvest soon, Ann. I’m guilty of starting migration way too early and not waiting long enough for the worms to move over before I remove castings. The castings thus contain worms, which happily finish off any residual bedding, so my castings get to the finish line eventually!
Exactly they will get to it sooner or later.
Always fun to see the progress : ) I moved one of my indoor bins out to their "summerhouse"
Hope they like it sunk in the garden !
I bet they do. My outside towers are usually full of worms.
You know worms aren’t the ONLY thing PERFECT for growing in a cellar. You can grow MUSHROOMS!! 🤩
Do they take a lot of care? If not that would be nice we love mushrooms
Wow! So much nice casting. I guess they will migrate quickly
I think they will. Fingers crossed.
Wow reminds me of my bins...I never migrate my buds, I sift when the castings are 50/50 at least. The left overs are great to start the new bin.
Two weeks ago I restarted my bins and last night I looked at them and my goodness they're about 70/30 after 2 weeks can you imagine!
Well anyways I'm off to sift out babies and cocoons from my last harvest, I think there was almost 150 pounds.
Oh yeah anotherthing since Feb 1st I have used 615 pounds of food bedding egg shells coffee and dry foods.....just started recording casting amounts.
Excellent congrats on keeping almost a ton out of the land fill.
I wonder if the clods are similar to what happens when you churn through clay soil when it is too wet.
Yes I think so. If I am breaking the clouds when damp it doesn't get like that.
I love your videos!! This is another great video
Thank you. I have some catching up with everyone now that I'm back.
Mushrooms would grow really well down there
I have always wondered. That might na a winter project this year. Thanks for watching 😊
Hi Ann, just wondering now that you have seen how well they have done being left for a month do you think you will start spacing your feedings out a bit longer.
I know the bigger bins are ok at a month if they are given a larger feeding. I think the smaller bins still need more frequent attention. Thank you for watching.👍😃
Hi, I've noticed that you've used clear plastics for your worm bins. I was told to use dark plastic bins as worms do not like light. Can you kindly clarify this for me? Thank you, Resi
My basement is only used for the wormery so the lights are always off unless I am filming. It is true the worms do not like light. 😃👍🏼👌
@@PlantObsessed Thank you 😊
Is your bedding shredded paper and cardboard ?
Yes, i make the bedding from what I have available. about 75% cardboard the rest paper and coco coir. Here is a short video on how I made it ruclips.net/video/9kPXT1fRsL8/видео.html
Those who want to sell castings should only use red wiggler worms ?
It depends on the environment and food. If I had to choose one for paper and people food. The red wigglers are the best in my area.
Based on my more than 15 years' experience worming,
Since your bins don't have "before" info to know exactly what you started with, for the size of bins you're using I'm guessing a starter of about a half a pound of worms (only worms, nothing else) should be plenty. I think somewhere you said you may be starting with 2 lbs which would be a massive start which should be OK but makes your results even less impressive. Once you start a bin, it will take 3-7 days for the worms to acclimate and won't feel like eating but after that should be going to town on the food. You should also consider whether regular turning of the bed is causing more disruption than benefit. Like any other animal, worms won't want to be disturbed and like to live their own lives. You should know that happy worms consume their own weight ever 14 days or so at least depending on chunkiness or surface area of the food. This means that if you have 2 lbs of worms, you literally should be feeding them 2 lbs of food every couple weeks if they're happy.
I'd say your bins are far too dry. I don't know why you may be choosing to keep your bins so dry or who may have suggested to you keeping your bins so dry, but that is one reason why your food is not being consumed quickly. Generally speaking, if the environment is right, your worms should finish consuming nearly anything that's not thick and chunky within 14 days or so. Leafy greens should disappear within 3 days. All your bedding should disappear within 14-30 days.
Processed vermicompost will not look like "high temperature" regular compost, in fact it will tend to be sloppy and wet. Take a close look at your worms... They're close to 100% water and don't like drying out. They're happiest when they can almost swim in their environment. And with tiny mouths and no teeth, they're not chomping down on all that big stuff you're giving your worms, the worms are creating an environment favorable to the cultivation of bacteria that breaks down the food, and then consuming the bacteria and the soupy nutrients the bacteria produce. What comes out the other end of the worm is wet fecal matter which further promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria, protozoa and insects.
I highly recommend do not encourage migration by manipulating moisture in the environment. Your entire bin should be hospitable to your worms so they can go anywhere they want. Use something else to promote migration. I personally favor using differences in heat (like allowing the sun to shine on one side of the bin or setting your bin next to a water heater in your basement) and food (food always attracts worms). And, unless you're ready to harvest, you really don't want your worms leaving castings behind entirely... Worms can and will re-ingest castings and produce an even better quality each time. So, for example for your bins longer than 90 days, I would have expected not to see any bedding or food, and that the castings would be reprocessed at least 4x if not more often, giving you a very high quality compost. Instead, your worms appear very unhappy and want to keep moving, you're not getting the results you should be getting.
Bedding should not need to be added to your bin after it's started. Bedding is only to provide a starting environment that isn't compacted. After your bin has been operating for more than 7 days, it should be sufficient to simply add a proper amount of browns in the food, and that is the equivalent of bedding from then on.
The "wedge" method you're attempting to do is more often seen in regular composting but is OK in a worm bin, too but IMO you're doing it wrong. "Wedges" are supposed to be like pie wedges where you go around in a circle. You're going back and forth from one end to the other in your bin. I recommend instead that you should use the 4 corners of your bin, and move around your bin in sequence, putting the food in each corner each time. This is popular in regular composting because it means less work turning the pile. With worms, it may mean less work separating casting from the worms. Note that if you do the 4 corner method I recommend, you should disturb your worms less and they'll be happier. BTW - This avoids a common mistake beginners make which is to simply toss new food on top of the worms which covers the entire surface. When that mistake is made, the decaying food sucks up all the oxygen and the worms die from suffocation. By placing food only in a corner or end of the bin, worms can go to the other places of the bin, come near the surface and breath oxygen.
Thanks for watching 😊
Muddy Thumbs up!! These red wigglers really did a great job of making castings while they were waiting for you to get back!! Should be fun to see which migration does the best or finishes first!!🪱🪱🪱
Got to love Red Wigglers they really are self starters. They get the job done.