Gardening is my passion, growing organic food is so rewarding. I have recently started exploring how to make my own fertilizer and discovered worm farming. Why did I wait so long? That is a good question, but today is where we need to focus our energy, not in the past, and not too far into the future. So going forward I will have 2 worm farms aka 1. worm Factory 360 and 2. Big blue. Number 1 has red wigglers and # 2 has a mix of red wigglers and night crawlers, or garden worms that my little helper and I dug out of the dirt to start this journey. The future shortages and turmoil have motivated me to grow longer term food such as dried beans, tomatoes (canned), sweet potatoes, and winter squashes. I will also grow fun foods like cantaloupe and watermelon because we need a good break once in a while.
Recently we got 6 laying hens and moved over 1000 worms under the food scraps in their run. Will they survive? Stay tuned.
I have a wolf spider in my homemade barrel cft bin, every time I go in there it runs around in circles, I know it could get out, he or she must like it there. Stay Well!!!
@@TiinaRideout I couldn't put my hand that close, we said to squish it, but he didn't want to. Thanks for watching and commenting. See you in a few days!
360 is looking great. Your lower levels were nice and loose. I’m thinking about adding some spacers to my Vermihut plus. The lower trays are getting crushed
@@Vermicompost thank you, I'll see how much powder, sauce I can make this year. That's for watching and commenting. I still need to produce more garden scraps to keep up with your garden 🥬👍🪱
I love the volunteer plants. I absolutely hate thinning, I know it needs to be done sometimes but still hurts my soul. 😂 I like that you dug a hole and added compost to do an in ground container setup.
@@GardeningwithBarchuckin I know what you mean, it's tough at times. This year turned from "is anything growing?" to "oh no, was I gone for a month?". Thanks for watching and commenting. Have a great day.
No wonder the pepper transplant did so well - your soil mix looked fabulous. I save every seedling too, even the misfits! I always watch to the end out of respect for other video creators🤗 ~ Sandra
@@GardeningwithBarchuckin agreed, checked today and all the leaves are gone, stalks still left, but the stalks will break down, attract worms and bugs, more chicken food. Win win. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Looking good! Worms going through the food nicely, reproducing and producing some awesome castings. Is this bin inside or outside, finally got my grow bag bins outside, a tad late. Stay Well!!!
Both my systems are inside, in my basement. My outdoor worms are in the compost pile that I periodically feed some to the chickens. That's for watching, and for commenting.
I missed this reset!! Glad I saw it now!! That's how I feel half the time, doing things backward and forgetting stuff😂We end up doing a lot of editing post production!! Great video guys!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you, it's always good to see worms with almost every hand movement. I think I knows where their relatives are. I moved a bunch of compost into a tote and planted a sweet potatoe slip and two peppers. There are a tonne of worms in it. I may do a video on it.
I know they are part of the process, however I just don't like sharing my scraps with them. I'm on my worms side 😊. Thanks for watching, beautiful summer day here! 24C! Yay
@GardeningwithBarchuckin we are having the high temps as well. High 20's and by next Thursday 32C. Those peppers should really now, plus the sweet potatoes.
They are 30 gallon grow bags, not sure of the L size. So far the bunnies have only got to the blue berry bushes and cantaloupe starts. I'll update the blue berry bushes they are growing fantastically now. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Just a guess, the smaller plant could be because, the soil may have dried facing the sun where the plant in the back the sun never hit that side of the bag? I wrap my south facing grow bags with mylar blankets, to retain moisture and to help keep the temp of the soil in the bag more moderate. Stay Well!!!
The smaller one seems to be coming back, it never hurts to have plants at different stages. They will extend the peppers picks??? That's for watching. Have a great day.
Did you figure out how many worms? A lot more than what you started with for sure. I just harvested a 50 gal grow bag bin. When I dumped the castings into a downward migration bin, the bottom of the fabric grow bag had dozens of teeny tiny baby worms stuck in the fabric. Just threw some bedding with worm chow, to keep them going until I dump the main bedding with worms back into it. Have a great weekend! Stay Well!!!!
Those grow bags do produce a lot of worms, good idea adding the bedding etc. I figured there were 180 or more , I'll probably find more when I go through the compost again. Thanks for watching and commenting. Have a great Memorial weekend.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Gardening season is in full swing here. The castings I harvested will get mixed into my other compost. Have a great day.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who has left their worms to fend for themselves for a while😂🤣😂Luckily they are pretty happy with some bedding and moisture as you demonstrated so well in this video!!🪱🪱🪱
Thanks for watching, it's been busy with work, garden prepping, and general house stuff. A good system like yours has lots of bedding to keep them going. Like Ann says, good little worms.
This was my first winter trying to over winter plants. This one was close to lights all the time and slowly lost all of the leaves. Then a couple of weeks ago it started waking up. Next year I will try to save plants in a different way, cutting down the size, trimming the roots, so that it/they will fit on my grow shelf. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@mikkosgardenI am interesting in watching that process. How you document the details as I tried to over winter a pepper and it died in February! Sooooo close!
@@wendyburston3132 luckily I tried to over winter two plants. This one made it, it's growing slowly, once our weather gets warmer it will take off and fill out. Thanks for watching and commenting, have a great day.
When will you harvest that now 2nd tray from the top? looking pretty good on this side of the video. I have to harvest all the bins I had down in the basement this winter, just in time too, went through about 35 gallons of castings so far this winter and spring. My worms have been on autopilot for the past month, although I did give them some worm chow of chicken crumble, ground up bird house gourd seeds. crab and egg shells yesterday. Stay Well!!!
I will probably harvest that tray and others in a few weeks to add to the fabric pots when I set them up. I will try and grow as much food as I can this year. Have a great day.
Busy days, chickens, work, I'm also glad that the worms don't need constant food scraps to survive. Thanks for watching and commenting, have a great day.
Easy no nonsense way to grow lettuce for sure. Dabbled in hydroponics this winter for the 1st time. I tried an experiment natural nutrients vs conventional, conventional won, took my eyes off of the pH. Lettuce really took off, only problem was my grow room was so hot and humid the lettuce bolted, lol. worm food.. Have a video posted if interested. Stay Well!!!
I saw one where you were talking about your natural fertilizer vs commercial one. I may try in the summer to duplicate with my own fertilizer that I will be making in a "garbage can". That for watching and commenting. Have a great day.
Thanks for watching, I have the introduction video waiting to process. I never knew there was this much to learn. I'll check on them before work this morning. Hopefully they got along well during the night.
You could try trapping the springtails with some stale bread. Springtails not only break down organic matter, they also feed on mold and mildew (that is why they can be a problem in bathrooms). I would just moisten some stale bread and lay on top of the bedding, wait a week to 10 days for some mold to start growing and discard the bread into a compost pile, you will not eliminate them, but should dramatically reduce their numbers. Personally, the springtails are just aiding in breaking down the materials in the bin, competing for the worm food is the only issue. Stay Well!!!
