DIY Worm Food Ingredients Explained. Great For Vermiculture. 

Yes the video is way too long. Egg shell. Oatmill wheat flour corn mill. Now move on to the next video

My eyes were getting heavy 10 mins into the video, so I have to move on otherwise I shall be stacking 'Z's'. No offence intended ... but those 10 minutes could have been an interesting 1

Never seen so many rude wormers. Be nice!

Bob Brawley u save my internet quota kwkw.. ok next video

Yet not a single video....

Shad Oria earwigs? Yuck why do you want them 🤷🏼‍♂️😰

They'll kill sickly worms too i prefer to make sure they aren't in there for that reason I want the worms to live a pain free life kinda weird but its alive so therefore it feels pain

@@Luis-zl5cg the mites eat dead worms. So do the live worms. It is the way all life is. Worms eat dead human bodies. Anything once alive will be eaten by something. Worms can lose a part of their tail but it grows back. I would not worry about pain.

john smith boring put me to sleep

I was wondering if freezing veggies would be okay for the worms. My concerns would be getting the worm bin too cold or too wet.

Looks like some mothers forgot to teach their kids good manners and that if you don't have anything nice to say don't say nothing at all...I appreciate every bit of advice I can find to keep from making expensive mistakes later

What are your outdoor temps? Highs and lows?

That's great to hear and thanks for the kind words. We will be back with more videos but our house build and jobs take up a lot of time. Wishing you great success.

Thank you

In one year, I have quadrupled my worm population using cornmeal, coffee grounds and finely ground eggshells. Once I learned how not to kill them, they thrived. This year I plan on adding wheat flour, and ground up local bayweed after this N'oreaster blows some ashore. Rinsed, dried and ground up it will flesh out my formula nicely.

Thank you! Yes, blended food and lightly covered will work for red wigglers. Don't overwater and keep a close eye on them at first. Good luck!

Excellent question. The 2 cups is after grinding. The reason is some ingredients are already a powder/ground consistency like the wheat flour. So we try to keep the state of all ingredients the same when measuring. Best of luck!

@@HomesteadersDiscoveryThank you very much.

@@Paratrooper23 You are welcome and best of luck with Vermiculture!

@@HomesteadersDiscoveryI'm back again tp report PROGRESS! The 2 "test bins" were an overnight success. I have increased to 5 bins and then doubled them. This system is amazing. I now have to feed them every 2 days. I have a TON of worms in varying stages of life. The cocoons are everywhere. Thank you for sharing this amazing system. Oh, and best of luck building that house.

@@Paratrooper23 This is excellent news! Happy to hear you are liking this system. Be careful because you will need a lot of space because it will continue to grow fast. That is a good thing if you have the space. 😃 Thanks for the update. Looking forward to your success.

Hello. We use 5 gal buckets with small holes drilled in the side and lid. Keep them moist and shake them up. The microbes need oxygen and moisture to keep them active. 6 months is about the limit so harvest castings from your bin only when needed.

Perfect, thanks very much!

A few years. The food works great.

That is awesome! Just about any manure works well, but haven't heard about this one. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you! Feeding worm chow is not terribly expensive, but it is an expense that is hard to justify unless you absolutely need to supplement the worm's food. We did it as an experiment and to provide food for our worms when we had nothing else to feed them. They do love it. Two years later and we still have worm chow left over from what is shown in this video and we still give the worms about a scoop a month in addition to other veggie scraps, cardboard/paper, etc.

@@HomesteadersDiscovery thank you. I think that we'll try that because we're just restarting our vermicomposting again.

I have a video where I had pavement ants invade my bins. I fill the entire bottom of both of my worm factory 360s with DE. Food grade of course and put some into each tray. I put it about an inch thick in the bottom knowing the ants were coming up the legs and had to enter the bottom. They actually nested in the DE and were loving it. The worms that fell through died almost instantly but the ants made a home out of the DE. It works well on some ants but others, especially small ants that are very lightweight, it doesn't work on. I never expected them to use it as bedding but much to my surprise they did

Yes, just don't overdo it. And make sure it is wet. It will mold, and that is good. Worms like mold 😁

Our Vermiculture activities have been experimental. We have found that there are many ways to raise worms. We have never added processed foods like cereal due to sodium, sugar, etc. If you try it, let us know how it goes.

We agree. Raising worms and vermiculture is easy when done correctly. Thanks!

I hear ya! All of this has been one big eexperiment for us. It does take time and energy for sure. 😣

@@HomesteadersDiscovery you are doing a great job though.👍

As Long as they are boiled you are ok to use them.

Use 1 part... so if you used 1 cup of the others, use 1 cup of the oyster shell. Also, check out homesteadersdiscovery.com and the first post. I go into a little more detail. Hope it helps!

Thank you very much

We do, but we have veggie scraps last over that we are giving them as well.

Yes, we did at on time. We stopped feeding breads and overfeeding and they disappeared.

Homesteaders Discovery thanks 😊

Corn meal.

Those pans are cement mixing bins very common at Hone Depot or Lowes, they're great for so much-I have several.

@@cowboyblacksmith thank you very much Paul

Kitchen scraps are perfect! We used the worm chow because we were short on kitchen scraps and needed a backup food source for our worms. We don't recommend using worm chow as the only food. Thanks for watching and good luck with your worms.

Lowe's or Home Depot in the concrete Department

Probably, but watch the sodium. You don't want a lot of sodium if any at all.

Yes, three a day usually. 😃

Jim Fitzgibbon asp

Great thing you didn't subscribe..looks like way way too many negative Nancy's n Karen's in here...hope all you negative shit talkers have your worms die on you for your negativity