A free-ish and more eco friendly way to dry your castings lay a piece of screen, netting, mesh, or whatever over thet op of your castings. Lay a 3" layer of shredded cardboard or paper on top of that. It will wick the moisture away from the castings and make them more workable while also sucking up some microbes that will begin to break down the card board and become an excellent bedding and food source for your next round of worms/castings.
Thought you might be interested in my worm farm. Up until this morning I had 26 working farms. Farm 19 was behind a shed and not neglected just difficult to get out. I had avoided harvesting it be cause its heavy and awkward to carry out. Yesterday I dug through the top 100 mm or so and didn’t find many worms. This morning, I decided to harvest it anyway. I found thousands of worms. So many that I have setup 8 new bins (one of which is the same bin reset). And I still got about 8 litres of casting. I could have had more but I put a lot back in with the worms. This farm has only been fed soaked horse manure. I soak the manure in 25 litre buckets and scoop out double handfuls (with Gloves) letting most of the water drain back into the bucket. I'm in Australia and my farms are outside all year round. I try to keep them shaded and full during the hotter months as I think the dig deep to avoid the haet.
This is a good idea… I’ve had a few problems in my worm house,tier system-no letche but wetter and not able to be sifted and I’ve tried living the lid off to dry it down no changes really …. Probably our humidity level. So now have taken a few inches out and put into another container-same as my breeder bins to hope it drys down bring thinner, instead of maybe 10inchs in the trays, only have 2 and both at the same level ish as never been able to dry the first as drips down into it and the top has never dried out. So taking different steps and then will start again.
@@NanasWorms is what I’ve done the best thing to do??? I know with the towers how it’s ment to work but the worms are throw out the 2 trays. So I don’t wanna set up as 1 tray as may loose some or get less caccons and babies etc so think I’ll just set the them up in a tray once I’ve dried and harvested I’ll set up each tray 1 at the time with fresh bedding
@@cherylhowker1792 Cheryl, I gave up trying to migrate worms from my tower system and now just harvest them one at a time when they are ready. HOWEVER, I do believe the best place to put the tray closest to harvesting is on the top. Feed the second tray down and hope that the worms leave the top tray and go seek food and moisture. ~ Sandra
Hello Hello! i read that you recommend feeding worms ~25-33% of their weight. do you mean 25-33% in purely food waste or already including the bedding in 2:1 ratio one should mix in with the food waste? it says on the brochure of the wormbag that at max capacity it can take up to 2kg of food a day. with a 2:1 bedding:food waste ratio, that would only be ~700gramms food waste a day. am i understanding it correctly?
A free-ish and more eco friendly way to dry your castings lay a piece of screen, netting, mesh, or whatever over thet op of your castings. Lay a 3" layer of shredded cardboard or paper on top of that. It will wick the moisture away from the castings and make them more workable while also sucking up some microbes that will begin to break down the card board and become an excellent bedding and food source for your next round of worms/castings.
Thought you might be interested in my worm farm.
Up until this morning I had 26 working farms. Farm 19 was behind a shed and not neglected just difficult to get out. I had avoided harvesting it be cause its heavy and awkward to carry out.
Yesterday I dug through the top 100 mm or so and didn’t find many worms.
This morning, I decided to harvest it anyway.
I found thousands of worms. So many that I have setup 8 new bins (one of which is the same bin reset). And I still got about 8 litres of casting. I could have had more but I put a lot back in with the worms.
This farm has only been fed soaked horse manure. I soak the manure in 25 litre buckets and scoop out double handfuls (with Gloves) letting most of the water drain back into the bucket. I'm in Australia and my farms are outside all year round. I try to keep them shaded and full during the hotter months as I think the dig deep to avoid the haet.
Thanks Cliff! Sounds like this method is working out. :)
When doing multiple screenings, why is it fine > coarse? And not coarse > fine Is it less damaging to the worms?
Pulverized dry leaves or finely sifted dry wood chips can be worked into wet castings to instantly dry them out too.
~ Sandra
This is a good idea… I’ve had a few problems in my worm house,tier system-no letche but wetter and not able to be sifted and I’ve tried living the lid off to dry it down no changes really …. Probably our humidity level.
So now have taken a few inches out and put into another container-same as my breeder bins to hope it drys down bring thinner, instead of maybe 10inchs in the trays, only have 2 and both at the same level ish as never been able to dry the first as drips down into it and the top has never dried out. So taking different steps and then will start again.
@@cherylhowker1792 That's been my experience, too. The longer they stay in there the more wet they get!
~ Sandra
@@NanasWorms is what I’ve done the best thing to do???
I know with the towers how it’s ment to work but the worms are throw out the 2 trays. So I don’t wanna set up as 1 tray as may loose some or get less caccons and babies etc so think I’ll just set the them up in a tray once I’ve dried and harvested I’ll set up each tray 1 at the time with fresh bedding
@@cherylhowker1792 Cheryl, I gave up trying to migrate worms from my tower system and now just harvest them one at a time when they are ready. HOWEVER, I do believe the best place to put the tray closest to harvesting is on the top. Feed the second tray down and hope that the worms leave the top tray and go seek food and moisture.
~ Sandra
is it possible to vermicompost baby diapers if they are biodegradeable?
this question regarding
1. the diaper itself
2. the contents / baby excrements
Thanks for the idea, The mortar tray as tracks is brilliant. Go Dan!
Yes…that was a very elegant solution!
Looks like a pretty functional design. Beats the heck outta shakin a hardware cloth frame over a wheel barrow. Love your no BS approach
Glad you like it John!
Dan is a genius. He made something like you made before this product
Yep…that was Dan’s design!
What are the measurements of the tray? Would like to be sure l can get something here in Australia before buying the sifter. Cheers
So, when you order you only get to chose one size of screen? Or do you get all sizes?
Hi Julie, uou get one of the screen sizes! You can buy discounted screens at checkout though!
I have a similar system and product. I am looking for something like just the screens and I can hand screen it
You can find them on Amazon. What did you do for wheels? Thanks
Hello Hello!
i read that you recommend feeding worms ~25-33% of their weight. do you mean 25-33% in purely food waste or already including the bedding in 2:1 ratio one should mix in with the food waste?
it says on the brochure of the wormbag that at max capacity it can take up to 2kg of food a day. with a 2:1 bedding:food waste ratio, that would only be ~700gramms food waste a day. am i understanding it correctly?
This looks awesome!! I want, I want, I need, I need!!🪱🪱🪱