Thinking about starting your own worm composting bin? I publish video guides to learning how to take care of a worm farm and start vermicomposting at home correctly. I would like to teach you how to start Vermiculture and keep it thriving. This is great for your family and sustainably of our planet.
Worm farming is a great way to create healthy compost quickly for your garden, house plants, and vegetables. Worms can eat all your food scraps and make them into compost much quicker then other methods of composting. They are easy to look after and require some care. Setting up a home worm bin is a great way to teach kids about substantiable living. You can set up a worm bin in an apartment, house or garage. It is an easy way to start farming at home for everyone that would like to raise worms for composting or fishing. I hope that my channel can help you learn how to get started farming worms and understand how to run a healthy thriving worm bin at home for hobby or commercial use.
Thank you for the great content and info. Just started a new hobby. Hopefully the is might turn into a successful biussness, but that a hole nother stage thank you and have a blessed day.
My nightcrawlers are happy in my bin.💜 I use tote with a lid to keep nats and bugs out and leave the lid partial open at times to air it out too i have alot of food but soil bedding and sweet smelling or soil smell so far not high toxicity or stinky smells as of yet for about 2 weeks old now. PH information was most helpful to me and thank you.🤔
I have a question! Do you feed in different locations in the bin? And do you add the powder/ cardboard/ browns on top of the food? Or just on top ? I’m a couple months in to worm composting.. thanks!
Hey Angel, thank you for watching and commenting. Either of these will work just fine. I make up a new worm bin and add all new bedding, then add food to the top. The worms will break down a full new bin of bedding into about half once it has been eaten and turned into worm castings. I will then proceed to add new worm bedding to the top, to top up the worm bin with new bedding and have a few bin of castings at harvest. I continue to keep feeding the worms on top with banana peels other food as needed till the bin is ready to harvest. Hope this can help you out :)
Hi ! I just subscribed to your Chanel I’m using leach tea mixed one to three in my garden . It seems to do well . Than I want to use worm casting tea once a week as an spray for the leaves . Can you tell me your opinion about please . We in Australia, Melbourne have very bad and poor soil . I’ve always looking for ways to improve it Thanks again
HI Richard, worm tea is great for foliar feed I use it all the time on my plants, I do it once a day most of the time :) The worm castings in the soil will also go a long way to improve the soil as well. Thanks for watching!
@@TheWormWhisperer Good Day Mate ! Three points I want to make . If I put mulch on my garden or dig kitchen leftovers in , than when the worms come , eat the half rotted stuff than with a bit of rain we would have leach tea in the garden soil . Which nobody complaints about it in fact everything grows well in my garden. The second point . I’ve been using leach tea for some time now and people commenting how wonderful and fast things grow. The third point. The way how we make compost it’s all wrong, we should all collect the waist water from the compost and reuse it . Most animal maure have some kind of chemicals, medicine in their manure . That’s why I’m careful not to use it any more
Hey thanks for watching. Not if you don't want to, cardboard, flyers and coco coir are working great for me over the years, the worms eat it right up and seem very happy :)
Thanks bro years later I promise you new people are hopping into this hobby and your video helps a lot to those who have started and just got this problem
Hello, I'm having issues with too moisture. Worms are lethargic and some have "string of pearl". I had mould, tons of white mites and pot worms. I took out all the food. Aired out the bin by removing lid temporarily, added more bedding. Used bread and physically removed a ton of mites. I reduced their food drastically. My ph is around 7. My moisture looks better. Now that its been a few weeks my worms are still lethargic and and some dying.. any other suggestions?!
Make sure the drain in your worm bin is working well to keep that moisture down. Add drier bedding on top to give the worms somewhere to go. If that doesn't work remove the worms and start a new bin from scratch. Looks like you have the mites in control. Thanks for watching and I hope it goes better soon!
What do you think? Can I add more used dried pot soil into the worm bin while it's too wet? So it can recycle my used soil and also balance out the moist level of the bin. At the end of the day, worms love eating soil and by feeding them kitchen scrap only is not good for them.
Hi Thank you for watching. I always say if it is working for you then keep doing what you are doing. If it's not broken than don't fix it :) I personally have never had an issue in four years using coco coir and old brown paper bags and non glossy flyers.
Hi Worm Whisperer, Hope you are keeping well. Thanks for another great and helpful video on caring for worms in a wormery! May I ask a question please ? When giving used tea bags to worms, do you give the whole tea bag or do you open the tea bag and empty the used tea leaves?. Warm regards, Guy
Hi Guy thank you for the kind words. I really depends on the type of tea bag, I have had some that will break down and others that will not and I had to break them open and remove the stuff in them. You can always add one and see what happens with the type you use if the worms are able to break it down or not. Then you can go from there.
Hi Thank you for watch the channel. I just pick them out when I harvest the worm castings. However commercial worm farmers will use a large screen to screen out the worms and the cocoons. (eggs) This is much faster, however I only have a bunch of hobby bins so I just do it by hand.
Very good space , be careful while feeding earthworms , all my earthworms died from food poisoning (protein poisoning ). I had more than 200 adult worm in my bin
Hi Worm whisperer, Great video! Thankyou for giving straightforward clear guidance on making worm bedding , worm bedding the worms will enjoy, feel comfortable in and thrive in. A question please, could you please tell me how often should the worm bedding be changed or refreshed ? Thank you for the helpful video, Wishing you well, Guy
Hi Guy, thanks for watching. I sure can help you out! It is very easy to know when you should refresh your worm bedding. Once all of it is processed into worm castings :) Once the bedding and food is completely broken down and the worm casting are ready it is time to harvest and remove the worms and create new bedding and add the worms back to it. I have a short, and video on how to know when your worm casting are ready to harvest please check it out :)
Thank you for the informative video! Do you or anyone else here happen to know how to get rid of Sap Beetles in my worm bin? Last year, I fed my worms a bunch of Jack Fruit and before I knew it, my bin was infected with tons of these beetles that I had never seen before. I didn't suspect the Jack Fruit at the time, but now I'm pretty certain that that's where they came from. Any ideas on how to get rid of them completely, because I can't use my worm castings now, as I'm afraid that the beetles will take over my garden, as they like fruit, tomatoes, etc.
This is by far my favorite side hustle. Its super low effort and be scaled up almost infinitely. Would definitely recommend anyone who is interested to get started. Just make sure you get the right worms youre looking for. Especially when looking for Red Wigglers, they are often confused or sold as Indian Blues or vice-versa. Happy farming and thanks for the video!
Hi thanks for watching, it really depends on how many are in the bin. If they are not causing any issues they are most likely fine, and are helping to break food down.
Excellent!! Thank you for the advice, I’ve been having trouble with my worms trying to escape I tried the light trick and it worked until I took it away. I now know that I’ve over fed, over watered, temp is too low, ph is too low, not enough carbon, basically everything a good worm bin is not supposed to be 😵💫I’ll do better! They deserve better! Now I know. Thank you
Hi Thanks for watching. I am in eastern Canada, I got my worms years ago from a lady on Kijjii that was selling them out of New Brunswick, she shipped them to me on the bus. I have been growing them for about 4 and half years now and have many bins from them. Not sure if she still sells them or not, but you could check Kijjii.
Hi! Great video! Have you ever tried to use this solution in hydroponics? I don’t want to use synthetic’s and was wondering if this could be a viable option for my super hot peppers this season! Thanks and keep ‘em comin’!
Hi, and thank you for watching. Using worm castings in hydroponics probably isn't a great idea, you could grow the peppers entirely in them and they would do fine. You could keep adding them but they will not work well with salt hydroponic nutrients (as you mentioned) as these nutrients will kill all the life that is in them breaking down the nutrients. They work far better as a supplement but I have never tried it so I can't say for sure.
I have a question... First a little relevant background info...In my research on worms of what sort to feed my toads, I found a few articles on worms warning that earth worms, with the exception of Night Crawlers, contain harmful toxins to toads and worms not farmed for some generations in compost that is safe from parasitic contamination can host a variety of worm parasites. The articles all said that worms you find outside are notorious hosts for parasitic worms like pin worms, round worms, tape worms and others as well as other intestinal parasites, etc., so when now I'm researching soils that are safe for toads, coir is the top soil listed but my toads actually did not do well at all with it and ate more coir than insects while hunting them and were compromising their nutrients as they were full all the time on coir and felt too full to hunt for more insects and coir made them itch all the time. When they shed and eat their skin, lots of coir stuck to their shed that they naturally swallow to benefit from the shed nutrient, but all the coir that stuck to it caused them not to feel hungry and not hunt for too many days. I recently found a video on sterilizing topsoil which has more nutrients than coir, and is more the natural soil toads would ingest and actually benefit from, but I'm interested in using worm castings from reputable Amazon sellers and wondering if you would know whether worm castings would contain parasitic worm eggs, etc., or is their worm farm environment free of such things. Do the farmers collect the worm's eggs and start a clean colony the way is done with feeder insects to ensure they have no parasites? My European Green Toads can live up to 15 years or more and I want the very best for them, not only for their nutrition but for their gut health as well. If you know and can tell me or can suggest where I can find the answer, I'd be very appreciative! Thank you for reading my comment to the end.
Hi Thank you for watching. I am not sure, you may be better to ask this question to a commercial worm farmer. I just farm worms for castings for plants.
Hi Thank you for watching. I guess if you have no way to keep the worms cool, then I guess you can't worm farm. No one said you had to use ice cubes, do something else maybe lol.
