My personal mission is to reduce the amount of items my family sends to the land fill. Composting in my outside bins, worm bins, burn barrel, and recycling. This channel Starting in Jan/2018 is mostly about vermiculture aka worm farming on a medium scale in Zone 5A in Illinois USA. I do occasionally post about my garden aka what I spend my casting on. I have 4 species of worms. I started with a pound of compost mix from Uncle Jim's. That mix contained Red wigglers, European night crawlers and Blue worms. About a year later I bought 4 pounds of African night crawlers. I do most of my worm farming in my basement. I do have 1 flow through bag for my African night crawlers on my main floor of my hose to keep them warm. I have 2 worms tower outside in the garden to manage bad garden fruit and bad apples from my tree. I have also started an outside worm bin to put garden clipping in and have a location for my neighbors to add kitchen scraps to. plantobsessedytchannel@gmail.com
I seriously doubt that any public water treatment facility uses reverse osmosis. In order to get 1 gallon of water, reverse osmosis wastes 5 gallons. I do not wish to gross anyone out, but the more urine in the water, the greater that "swimming pool smell." That smell is formed by chemical reaction between urine and chlorine.
I have a small inside bed Climate controlled in MS. I used peat moss. Some like to hangout at the Top edge of the bin close together. They all eat well. I use shredded paper bags Egg shells powdered. Any ideas you might share? Thankyou!🌺
Sometimes they're all hanging out together because there's some nice food they all are eating. It doesn't always mean that there's a problem unless they're trying to escape.
they say that there are three foods not to feed the worms with 1. onions, garlic, and so 2. citruses off all kinds 3. meet of all kinds (mainly because it smells real bad) thus … are you sure it is ok to feed your worms with onions?
Hey Anne! Spot on: I think what 99% of all ppl visiting worm farming channels are looking for, is just that: getting rid of garbage, and turning it into useful stuff. 🤣 Well as far as I can say, the cacti, succulents, and chilies I repotted with some added fresh worm castings this year are loving it. For the chilies I can really measure the difference in output (although the season started late), and for the cacti, the growth was just outrageous (only 2 cacti & a few succulent this year, but 🤞 next year I'm not too lazy and do all of them decorative plants). Tough to say if the faster growth was due to the castings, or the plants just hit their 'sweet spot' (for the chilies I'd say 100% due to castings), but even if it does nothing, self-made soil is always cheaper! Btw I still add rice water to my heavy feeders once in a while. Probably helps with maintaining a healthy soil biome. ;) Cheers! 😊
@PlantObsessed hehe so nice not having to grow them from the start every year, right? 😁 I heard about folks keeping the same chili plant for over 10 yrs, hope to get there too! 😜
I have a 16 gallon low profile sterilite bin as a mini wedge system. I hope my worms can create enough castings to feed my 3 garden beds. Also I hope my 5 year old learns about recycling via composting. She already loves rolling the compost tumbler and feeding the worms.
Believe it or not they are the reason I go into worm farming. All the RU-vid bonsai channels said it was the best fertilizer. They are so expensive to buy. I thought I could do that. And here we are 👍🏼🪱😁
My measure of success is exactly the same as your's :) 👍🏻 Hey wait - I recognize the voice, but what's the deal with the hands? Is this a voice-over of a video filmed with your understudy? ;) Great video - as always (despite the missed footage due to technical issues)! UPDATE: I posted this comment right before the end of the video played out - so now I can see that the glove mystery is explained. Haha!
Hey Ann! Charlotte here. I'm only about 6 months in but am having success so far. My hopes are to have a healthy and productive garden, but what I realized over the past couple of years was that I could likley only trust my own compost. If I buy compost, there are multiple ways that grazon type chemicals could sneak in and ruin it. So, we have our own yardwaste compost piles outside. However, it seems it's a rare person that can produce enough on their own. Sucess would be to have a win win by using our own fruit/vegetable scraps, used coffee grounds, and cardboard waste to create at least a reasonable volume of valuable vermicompost to add to our garden beds. The goal is about 2 inches in each raised bed. We have one 6.5 sq ft surface area bin that is doing very well at this point. My next one which I will start in a few days will be 15 sq ft surface area. I'm a new subscriber here. I've been learning so much from you and Jayne from Rockin Worms. Thank you and stay cool!
Yes I produce about 2k pounds of worm compost a year and still don't have enough. I have bought organic compost and it still had grazon. It can persist for years. Frightening. 🪱👍🏼🙂
Hi Ann, wow, those are warm temperatures for a basement. I hope you get some relief soon. It amazes me that I still see videos where people feed worms nothing but buckets of veggie scraps or handful of worm chow. It shows the resilience of worms that they can withstand that (to a point). ~ Sandra
wow! learning so much after watching your video - thanks for sharing! I've recently sat thru many other worm farmers also - so many "new" ideas.... Our acres of worms must be depressed - we never 'spoil' them with special feed - they eat animal manure and kitchen scraps - always have, always will - just can't buy feeds for them but we do enjoy picking up other folks 'compost' items from their commerical kitchens. Keep up the great work and have fun!
I let my 5 gallon cooler bin with 100 red wigglers go for a year without pulling anymore than a few cups worth of castings. I got about 4 gallons worth of castings, I finally pulled yesterday. I have more than 100 now, but didn't see a single cocoon.
You talked about “water harvesting” your castings due to all of the plastic in your bin. How do you do that? I have the same problem with my first bin that I set up, but all my shreds come out at 1/4”. So annoying.
Really enjoyed this, and yes definitely a difference in the moisture levels in them 2. 2nd is way way wetter and more worked over and the worms were more active in my opinion and plumper too I’d say. That’s due to the moisture in my opinion. Xx
