Worm Casting Harvest Made Easier! | Vermicompost Worm Farm
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Massive feedings & vermicompost harvests just got easier in my Urban Worm Bag with this simple step I should have taken long ago!! Now my huge harvests of natural organic fertilizer in the form of worm castings for my garden won't break my back!
Epigeic worms or composting worms are fascinating natural composters & fertilizers that are in most homesteaders bag of tricks to make free organic fertilizer & soil amendments as well as fishing bait. If you've ever thought about vermicomposting or composting with worms to make organic fertilizer & natural soil amendments with your plant based kitchen scraps or food waste, this is the channel for you. I have 4 worm composting bins which you can watch from start to finished worm castings on the 4 playlists following each worm bin. If you haven't started yet, get started now and vermicompost with me!🪱🪱🪱 Visit my Channel at / @vermicompost
Happy Vermicomposting Everyone!!!🪱🪱🪱
Below are some of the items I use for vermicomposting & my channel's videos. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you if you use these links. Thank you for supporting this channel! / @vermicompost
Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin amzn.to/3w15lQt
Urban Worm Bag V2 amzn.to/3XE9QsT
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots amzn.to/3EBYhdr
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote amzn.to/3eKDLhO
Other Worm Bins:
Worm Factory 360 3-Tray Version amzn.to/3AHnjqK
Worm Factory 360 5-Tray Version amzn.to/3tYfWY4
Bus bins amzn.to/3fd8AvP
Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) amzn.to/3xYZKYu
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) amzn.to/3gwEzb4 or amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
Worms Red Wiggler mixes amzn.to/3yGNhwl & amzn.to/3R5tKvD ENC's amzn.to/4bXN5XP
Mesh screen patches for DIY worm bins amzn.to/3xJjK4r
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin amzn.to/3wIdXbO
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz amzn.to/3WTFgua Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Wrigglebrew Worm Casting Tea amzn.to/46PhV2A
Food Dehydrator amzn.to/3O5Uj2H
Mosquito Dunks 6 pack amzn.to/3Oe4Sl0 granular amzn.to/42KDtM0 or 20 pack amzn.to/42Br4Kf
Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: amzn.to/3HnOQjg
Blue gloves amzn.to/3XsBg5n
Spray bottles to mist bedding amzn.to/3Fq23rN
Digital handheld Thermometer amzn.to/3EWfC2j
Compost Tea Bags amzn.to/3fCb5o1
Solar powered light amzn.to/3nOucAq
Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups amzn.to/3FNXvt6
Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: amzn.to/3S2k184
Cameras & camera equipment I use:
Insta 360 ace pro amzn.to/3vgdmR8
Flexible Tripod amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera amzn.to/3nqV6hp
iPhone 13 Max Pro amzn.to/3nq52aU
Canon EOS Rebel T8i amzn.to/3HcBuX6
4 Ocean bracelets I wear
Multiple colors to chose from bracelets amzn.to/3HMbHEx
Books on worms & worm farming
Worms Eat My Garbage amzn.to/3L4FXN2
Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com
/ @vermicompost
#Vermicompost #wormfarm #urbanwormbag #redwigglers #selfsufficiency #homesteading #vermiculture #wormcastings #baitworms #wormbin #compostworms #compost
00:00 Intro
00:24 Trick for temperature sensor
01:33 Recap of last feeding
02:50 Worm close ups
03:45 So many worms in here!
04:40 Digging deep
05:27 Massive feeding
07:01 Amendments
07:55 Why my worm bins do so well
09:16 Harvesting Game Changer!!!
10:24 Nice worm castings!!
11:55 Weight of harvested casting
Below are some of the items I use for vermicomposting & my channel's videos. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you if you use these links. Thank you for supporting this channel! www.youtube.com/@vermicompost?sub_confirmation=1
Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin amzn.to/3w15lQt
Urban Worm Bag V2 amzn.to/3XE9QsT
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots amzn.to/3EBYhdr
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote amzn.to/3eKDLhO
Other Worm Bins:
Worm Factory 360 3-Tray Version amzn.to/3AHnjqK
Worm Factory 360 5-Tray Version amzn.to/3tYfWY4
Bus bins amzn.to/3fd8AvP
Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) amzn.to/3xYZKYu
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) amzn.to/3gwEzb4 or amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
Worms Red Wiggler mixes amzn.to/3yGNhwl & amzn.to/3R5tKvD ENC's amzn.to/4bXN5XP
Mesh screen patches for DIY worm bins amzn.to/3xJjK4r
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin amzn.to/3wIdXbO
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz amzn.to/3WTFgua Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Wrigglebrew Worm Casting Tea amzn.to/46PhV2A
Food Dehydrator amzn.to/3O5Uj2H
Mosquito Dunks 6 pack amzn.to/3Oe4Sl0 granular amzn.to/42KDtM0 or 20 pack amzn.to/42Br4Kf
Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: amzn.to/3HnOQjg
Blue gloves amzn.to/3XsBg5n
Spray bottles to mist bedding amzn.to/3Fq23rN
Digital handheld Thermometer amzn.to/3EWfC2j
Compost Tea Bags amzn.to/3fCb5o1
Solar powered light amzn.to/3nOucAq
Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups amzn.to/3FNXvt6
Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: amzn.to/3S2k184
Cameras & camera equipment I use:
Insta 360 ace pro amzn.to/3vgdmR8
Flexible Tripod amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera amzn.to/3nqV6hp
iPhone 13 Max Pro amzn.to/3nq52aU
Canon EOS Rebel T8i amzn.to/3HcBuX6
4 Ocean bracelets I wear
Multiple colors to chose from bracelets amzn.to/3HMbHEx
Books on worms & worm farming
Worms Eat My Garbage amzn.to/3L4FXN2
Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com
www.youtube.com/@vermicompost?
Looks like the cinder blocks really made the harvest easier. Great feeding Patrick, nice moldy strawberries 🍓
Oh my gosh!! It was an absolute game changer!!...Both for the harvest and for my back the next time I fed!! Thanks so much for watching Rick!!🪱🪱🪱
Congrats on the exciting family developments! It always cracks me up watching how the ungloved hand seems to get into the middle of some of the messiest tasks :)
😂🤣😂 Isn't that the absolute truth!!! I always seem to grab messy stuff with that ungloved hand!! That string was acting as a path for the liquid to go down into the mortar tray so when I grabbed it, and especially when I was closing the bottom up, it slimed my hand pretty good!! Thanks for the good laughs AV!!🪱🪱🪱
11:39 The mites went in to full blown panic mode.
🤣😂🤣 They thought they had it made down there at the bottom of my UWB!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Tiffany!!
@@Vermicompost 😊
Congrats to your son
Thank you!!🪱🪱🪱
❤️👍Got it raised, Right on
Finally!! I should have done this a lot earlier like so many of you mentioned!!! Thanks for stopping by Tory!!🪱🪱🪱
Nice looking worm castings 🇳🇿🪱
Thank you!! This Urban Worm Bag does a good job of giving me a lot at a time!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Amazing system, also quite amazing that you come up with that much food for your worms.
😀 It is my most forgiving fun bin!! I get my mom's, some of my son & daughter in law's, and our own food scraps to feed them. Our youngest son is back from college as well so we have been producing lots of food scraps!! Thanks so much for watching Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick and Autumn, firstly, a big congratulations to your son on both accounts. You 2 must be very proud 😇
Great video as always. 19lbs of castings in one go is excellent. Those UWB certainly do a good job. It amazes me how much food you are able to put in in one feeding. I know you have a lot of worms in there but still. Have fun, Mark : )
Thank you Mark!! We are very proud of him!! Yes, these worms in my UWB really do eat a lot of food...I'm pretty sure it's my biggest population by now. I've found that feeding in 7-10 day intervals with smaller feedings just doesn't feel as natural as feeding every 15-10 days with bigger feedings...almost as if I'm interrupting them!! Thanks so much for watching & for all your continued support!!🪱🪱🪱
Excellent harvest, that bin is really crankin. Think it was a good idea to feed a couple days prior to harvesting, I will have to remember that when I go to harvest my CFT bin.
Congratulations to your son!
Nice video! Stay Well!!!
Thank Brian!! I think 2 days is the sweet spot, I fed 4 days prior without as good results...I was very happy with the fewer amount of worms in this harvest! We are very excited for our son & his fiance'...we got one son married, one almost married, and the other only few years behind them!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
It's true, cross shredder is a game changer
!00% The worms in my bins devour this shredded cardboard quicker than any other bedding I have used!🪱🪱🪱
Hello - Congrats to your son and future DIL. I'm a big fan of your channel and have learned a ton - thanks for that. Can you explain the correlation between having sandy soil and choosing not to use sand as grit?
Thank you!! We appreciate the kind words!! Not using sand is more of personal choice. Here in Florida it seems like all the soil the builders use has a high sand content. Too much sand or clay and not enough humus or organic matter makes for inferior soil so in my garden beds I've tried to add more and more compost & vermicompost, so adding sand kinda defeats the purpose...but realistically adding a little bit of sand for grit in my worm bins really would not affect things too much. But since I have an overabundance of egg shells I use them. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I use a hand cultivator that does not have sharp ends to help get the casting out from my Urban Worm Bag. It helps to get the castings off the sides.
Oh man, I totally should have used the little rake that came with my VermiHut!! I will definitely give it a try next time!! Thanks for mentioning how you harvest!! I can't believe I didn't think of that!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
🙏 thanks
My pleasure!!🪱🪱🪱
Yay! Harvest day. I think ample eggshell powder is needed for the calcium it provides the bin, Patrick. With such large feedings, ample calcium means less likelihood of any protein poisoning from high bacteria, fermenting foods. I think it's one of those things that the calcium from powdered egg shells you feed today is available to the worms in the future, but maybe that's something to research!
~ Sandra
Yay, harvest day with less pressure on my back😂🤣😂 Yep, with my big feedings I'm sure that egg shell grit is helping enormously! Not sure if you get the same questions on your channel but lots of people ask if there are alternatives to egg shells or if they are needed at all, so I figured I would just ease their minds and let them know worms have been getting along without any of that stuff for eons!! But luckily for our worms we have plenty to go around!! Thanks so much for watching & for your insight as always Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I think the difference with calcium in nature versus added calcium is worms don't necessarily have calcium available to them in a closed system. I just said to Brian over on my channel that I wonder if worms benefit from the calcium found in comfrey and borage when added to a worm bin because these plants are known to be extra rich in both calcium and magnesium. I definitely think they can find grit on pretty much any food scrap, though, as a demonstrated by Ann in her no grit bin.
~ Sandra
I was thinking of Ann's No Grit Bin as well!!
Good idea on raising it up! By the way, our vegetable garden is growing great after adding last year's castings into the soil before planting. First time really putting them to work everywhere. And good reminder on shrimp shells as we are having Spot Prawns tonight! 🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐
Just a quick update. The Spot Prawns were the Bomb! Oh, so good. But within minutes the shells stunk pretty bad 😂. So, into the trash and outside! 🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐
That's so great to hear your worm castings are making your garden grow so well this year!! I have to freeze the shrimp shells right away so they don't smell😂 We did a top feeding time lapse a while back and it was nasty!! Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
Glad to hear the prawns were so good!! Sorry the shells smelled so bad😂🤣🤢
Worm 2: Cacawww’s Revenge
😂🤣😂 This comment got "held for review"...Jeff is not to be trusted!!🪱🪱🪱
Hey Patrick, congrats to your son.
Do you think it might be more useful to measure the harvest by volume instead of weight?
The weight will vary wildly depending on moisture level. Maybe liters or pints/gallons would be better. Just a thought. Cheers!
Thank you!! That is a very interesting point! You are right, worm casting weight is very dependent on moisture content so volume would be a good additional, if not primary, unit of measure. I'm sure fine castings have greater ability to fill a volume container than bigger chunk castings, like putting rice into a jar versus marbles, so I guess it's not perfect either but I agree it is probably better than weight! I store my casting in old kitty litter containers which I think are about 3-4 gallons so maybe I can start trying to measure in gallons as well. Thanks for the very insightful question!! I'll try to remember to measure in gallons next harvest!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
If I were a worm I’d want to live in one of your worm bins. Amazing harvest.
😂🤣😂 They are living the life of plenty, that's for sure!! I was pretty happy with the harvest and felt like I could have doubled it if I just pulled out more!! Thanks so much for watching Joe!!🪱🪱🪱
The worm balls never cease to amaze me. I had three in my bin today, two in bananas and one in an avocado shell. They really do love the avocados! 🥑 😁 Another great video. Thanks!
That's fantastic!! I love avocado worm balls!!! It's like a little worm bin within a worm bin!! Thanks so much for watching & leaving a nice comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick, Peggy is a wealth of knowledge 👌. Amazing harvest, always amazing,👍👌🪱💪😁 great idea to make it higher up, make it easier to harvest.💪
Yes, Peggy has so many good tips!! My back is really liking the adjustments I finally made. So many folks mentioned I should lift it so I had to give it a try!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Nick!!🪱🪱🪱
19 pounds. 👍
I was pretty happy with that harvest and the fact that I could lift it with my bum shoulder!!😂💪 Thanks so much for stopping by AJ!!🪱🪱🪱
So, the stuff in the store is sold dry weight. Did you re-weigh that after drying, and what was the dry yield? I really like that worm bag idea because it looks SO much easier to harvest than my worm tower.
I did not re weigh it more dry...I sent all 19lbs home with my mom!! I could have probably pulled 30 pounds of worm castings out if I decided to dig up some more! This bin is my easiest bin to harvest. I actually just leave the castings in that mortar tray under the bin for a few days to let them dry a little before I throw them in my storage containers...or give them away. If you are thinking about getting one, and you have the space for it, you will definitely fall in love with it!! I didn't harvest until 6 months for my first harvest so I could fill it up, but now I have the ability to take out 20lbs a month at least if I want to. Thanks so much for watching Dan!!🪱🪱🪱
I keep a mortar tray under my Urban Worm Bag, and the castings drip into it constantly, and they are always filled with worms. I took off the cover because worms were always trapped in the velcro. Lost too many that way.
Oh wow! I usually don't have anything dripping down, but I started spraying down the contents and using damp bedding recently because the castings felt crunchy in the little bottom bladder part. It worked, now the castings towards the bottom are wet! I haven't had any castings fall out yet. I stopped using the cover as well pretty early on because I wanted to see if anything was coming out of the bottom, luckily I never ran into issues of worms falling out then crawling back up to the Velcro! I wonder if you switched to dry bedding if that would help? Thanks for passing on the issues you've been dealing with in your UWB & of course thanks so much for watching Marco!!🪱🪱🪱
Do you use your casting as a fertilizer
Yes! Every time I reuse a pot of soil I mix in worm castings in it to refresh it. I also make worm casting tea to pour over my plants and garden. Here is a video about that: ruclips.net/video/Q-Lfcsx0xUM/видео.html I also add worm castings directly to the hole I dig when I plant seedlings or trees and I top dress my plants with worm castings as well. I also make seed starting mix with it as in this video: ruclips.net/video/jSbdh7e_D04/видео.html In addition to nutrients, worm castings more importantly have the microbes that help the plants to absorb the nutrients they need. A synthetic fertilizer will boost plants in the short run, but they will be addicted to it like a drug and need more and more instead being able to get what is readily available in the soil through the microbial symbiotic relationships that worm castings provide! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching John!!🪱🪱🪱
I got an urban worm bag about 5 weeks ago. I went in to feed today and only found about 5 worms, I started with 1000 red wigglers. I was feeding once a week, maybe I overfed them? I’ve had a vermihut for 9 months and haven’t had any issues. Is there a way to know what I did wrong?
My other question is can I just add new worms to the bag when they arrive? I ordered more red wigglers
Without knowing anything about it, I would say you are probably right about over feeding. I would say if you had it inside and the temperature was not too warm then something in the food scraps probably spoiled or converted to ammonia which will kill worms quick. Did it have foul odors? I would say the best thing to do is restart with damp bedding and a few hand fulls of the VermiHut's contents to inoculate the UWB. Feed very sparingly, maybe every 10 days at first until you know they are eating the food. I feed mine on average every two weeks. And yes, after you empty the contents of the UWB (we don't know what killed the worms so best to get rid of it) and restart it, you can put the worms right in! I hope this helps! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Why get a pump sprayer when you can be Popeye
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Pretty dang cool...19 pounds 👍💪👍
Thanks for the Shout-out and congratulations on getting Son#2 through school and engaged.
You are producing a lot of Castings this year!
Well done, Worms 🪱
❤Peggy❤
When I watched your video, I immediately thought of this!! Thanks for the great tips you always have!! Time is really flying by as our boys fly out of the nest!! Soon it will be empty!! Thanks so much for watching Peggy!!🪱🪱🪱
Peggy @peggyhelbinggardenwhatyougot has some great ideas. Weird the worms didn't just leave the hot side. I often bank on that when I give a huge feeding. If the bag gets more full maybe it will help? Congrats on the future daughter.🎉🎉 ( I'm also boy mom waiting on a future daughter) Good call on the cinder block risers. Muddy thumbs up!!🪱😃👍🏼
🤣 Unexpected Ann inspired muddy thumbs up!! The moisture was falling down that drawstring so when I grabbed the string, it slimed me!! First time, since usually it's pretty dry below. As for the worms, it was only a few and I think the worms traveled up as the heat was generated and got stuck in the layers of paper towels. I'm sure most fled to the other side and down below, it was just the amount of heat and how quick that surprised me! We have three boys (no girls) with one married off to our first daughter in law, our middle one here about to married in a year and the last in college. It was an adjustment getting used to girls when they all started dating😂🤣😂 Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱