I love worms. If your thinking about starting a worm bin or already have one, welcome to our ever growing community. I will be sharing all my working bins and worm keeping methods here. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Things I've done that worked and those that didn't. If it helps you in your composting adventures or just keeps you entertained, please enjoy.
Hi Lilia, new worm farmer here. I really love the Indian blues but they have escaped the bin by going in between the lid and bin (black and yellow bin from Lowe’s). It is only before a storm. Otherwise, they stay put. How do you manage to keep them from escaping? I see that the bin you’re using using air-tight. Thank you 🙏
This is why i dont want a hungry bin too wet. But your doing a great job on top. I use a 3 to 4 tower worm farm,they get wet too at the bottom. I use mainly wood chips on the bottom tier.
One thing I don't like about the hungry bin is the worms went everywhere. Plastic on top works well. There is 2 channels I thing are the best and that's this channel and worm ohana.
Quick question. I have variants in color. My blue worm have a super dark head, lighter clitellum and pinkish body. Only very few are that dark red (blue) color. Your video is the best a because other people were showing worms with bad lighting.. I couldn’t tells your blue looked like mine… do you have any that look albino???? I do? Any idea if they aren’t blues? Clitellum is at the correct segment. They move like the PE and have the vein, pointy tail, the whole 9.
Just watched ur entire uwb series, sorry to see u stopped updates. Hope all is well and the bag started working for u in later years. Just got mine and trying to learn from others.
Lol your funny asf, spending more money on a worm housing isn’t gonna help you get better compost, you need to know how much food is too much to put in any food scraps when broken down can be up to %80 water, nitrogen rich materials will heat up bin so don’t add too much if it’s summer or hot out and add ice if container gets too hot, blend food scraps to get worms to eat faster, unlike some people in the comments are saying worms do not need to eat what we consider food scraps in order to survive they eat all organic matter but keeping a high variety of different things for the worms to eat will result in a better casting, use malted barley as a food source to add beneficial fungal growth in castings. There’s many other things that can help just research
Possibly some cocoons haven't hatched yet. Also are the cocoons ENC?, because on bin label it seems to say "ANC". Thanks for a very interesting video. I will subscribe now.
So glad I read the comments about the hungry bin being misused. I saw this video a few days ago and wrote off the hungry bin. So happy to find that it was user error.
I like to run my bins on the wetter side too. I'm doing a Bedding experiment to see if the Natural Bedding I use will perform better than Cardboard ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MwPyC85dxK8.html
That was very cool!! Thank you... How long did this experiment run for? Do you think that the temps played a role in the blues numbers? The reason I ask is I started with a mixed bin and once I moved it to the basement, I've noticed the blues struggling... I started collecting them and moving them upstairs and onto a heat mat, and the population exploded... The euros however seem to do better in the cooler basement
Glad you enjoyed that. The experiment ran for about 6 months. Since my basement is climate controlled, I think they all had pretty much the same conditions for reproduction. If however, you don't have the ability to give the worms optimal conditions, the blue worms will be the ones to complain. They like wormer temps.
I don't understand why people feed the worms so much shredded paper, when they could give them free leaf mulch, that is much better for them and produces better quality castings.
I noticed you are put food on top a shredded paper. More paper,coir,straw on top of food acts like a mulch and let's air in. Just constructive observation.
I see you posted this video three years ago so maybe by now you have figured the Hungry Bin out. For the benefit of your viewers- you were not running this bin according to the directions. That matters because if you do not use it the way it was designed to be used you will not get the desired results. I have one and think it is the best worm bin I have owned in almost 30 years of vermicomposting. I wish I could afford to buy ten of them!
I'm looking at a lot of Hungry Bin videos trying to decide if I should put out the big $$$ for it. Your comments are very helpful. I have a Vermihut and it's not easy for me to retrieve the castings. I assume you are still using it and still loving it?
I have this bin and find that the worm compost becomes compacted like yours at the bottom and the moisture content gets quite high. I have drilled several holes in the flat water plate at the bottom and this has allowed the extra moisture to go down into the tray. Other than those two complaints one of which was fixed, I am reasonably happy with it. I would buy second hand though to expensive for what it is suppose to do
So u don't like it use a drill an aerate make holes bigger .as for food what u like don't mean they do . If it smells maybe u overwelm Ur worms with too much .
So glad you finally got how to use this amazing worm bin processor for worm tea an castings. i saw your video comparing a worm bag vs HB which was damaging to HB . ALL CREDIT TO THE INVENTOR WHO SENDS PER ORDER THE SAME SETUP FACTS . SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE WORMFARM INDUSTRY. YOU KNOW DOUBT APOLOGISED TO YOUR VEIWERS AN the ( New Zealand inventor) who has the (AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL) USING THE HB IN COUNCIL BUILDINGS ) FOR THE VIDEO YOU MADE CLAIMING AFTER 44WKS NO CASTINGS AN LITTLE TO NONE WORM TEA.WISHING YOU GOOD CASTINGS AN TEA TO YA.
So glad you finally got how to use this amazing worm bin processor of worm testing an castings i saw your first video which was damaging to HB . ALL CREDIT TO THE INVENTOR WHO SENDS PER ORDER THE SAME SETUP FACTS . SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE WORMFARM INDUSTRY. YOU KNOW DOUBT APOLOGISED TO YOUR VEIWERS FOR THE VIDEO CLAIMING AFTER 44WKS NO CASTINGS AN LITTLE TO NONE WORM TEA. GOOD CASTING AN TEA TO YA
Wow - its been a while since I last watched one of these Lilia Kogan video. Today this video came up in the top of my RU-vid recommendations... so I couldn't resist watching. Hopefully all is well with you!
I think you are confusing compost worms and earth worms. I only use composting worms. Earth worms won't survive in bins. I don't sell my worms. They are not the best for fishing. I think you are looking for Canadian Nightcrawler. Those are the best worms for fishing.
@@liliakogan3043 I don’t know different worms they are, but when I was in the Caribbean I would go out in the yard get my gardening fork or machete to get the worms from the soil..to take 🎣
