Worm bins don't smell, They love oranges & 1 year checkup 

***** i do care for them. They give me so much, why take what they do for granted? you know?

CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY oh no! :( Would you like me to send you some more starter worms? My bins need a division anyways.

Well, its hard to turn that down, Luke! I would be happy to pay you for them.

CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY nawww hush! I would be glad to send you some. Just message me your address :)

Fensterfarm Greenhouse oooh yes. Watermelon rinds where my worms favorite during the summer. We would put about 4 pounds of rind in between the 3 beds per week. There would be nothing left by the end of the week.

I put the juice back into the pulp. Win win

My local juice bar is full of vegans who are into this stuff. They give me all I want.

High Desert Garden totally, I have no clue who began the misconception that they stink, or smell bad. There is zero smell.

I got my inspiration for growing from my grandparents and my mother, but I was almost all self taught. I also became a master gardener and that is where I got a lot of the information, and then I modify the information to be used in organic methods.

Ilana Vorobyov Just pop a comment on a video, or shoot me a message on our facebook wall :) So glad I got you into worm composting!

Thanks so much!

Easier, blending is unnecessary and too much work.

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My worms have attempted to crawl out of my bin. The bin had become too wet. If everything is balanced (not too wet, not too dry) then mine have stayed put :)

Shasta Erts very true. This is exactly why they try to escape. They also will try to flee if they are overfed.

MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living yeah why would they try to flee if they have nice food and nice enviroment?

Theresa Wong- Worms will eat anything.. it says no meat, so it doesn’t attract flys or unpleasant smells. I have a video on worm composting, and I have more in the making.

@@dunestaniszewski2300 so can they eat meat if u can put up with the smell?

Nikita Webber- Yes. They probably wouldn’t be as productive, though. The smell would be unbearable!

I buried a large dead fish in my worm bin. The worms ate it and loved it. As long as it's buried deep it doesn't smell.

I'm in Eastern Pa, Montgomery County, also zone 6, and my worms overwinter fine.

OhHowHappyGardener that can definitely cause mites. Stop watering them as much, and slow down on the feeding, and the mites will go bye bye

Gao Ethan :)

Well I'll be a worm's uncle... didn't see that coming!

Your right, just the other day we had to have a worm funeral for granddad worm. He was 9 and a half years old. Gray headed with a long gray beard. He died of natural circumstances, the casting just would not come out.

Unfortunately, no. But they do live up to 2 years! And double in reproduction every ~90 days. They will stop reproducing if the bin is overcrowded.

very quick. They lay eggs about twice a month. But all worms will be on different cycles, so you will always have more worms reproducing.

***** couldn't agree more! #getworms #gotworms #good

Well I am a master gardener and also have been working with plants almost my whole life. Reading books, magazines, self taught, and learning from mistakes/successes. I also use a lot of common sense and find that success is very common.

Your not a master gardener. Your a *GOD* gardener! ;)

Eric Huang Well What I mean by "master" is I am certified because I took a course. I don't believe anyone should actually ever thing of themselves as a "master" because there is always room to grow and learn.

Whoops. Sorry for being so ignorant. :(

Eric Huang naww not ignorant at all!

Tom Kershaw YES! :) The red wigglers are the best, but night crawlers will indeed work.

you should! they take no effort. so being lazy is not an excuse ;)

***** LOL.. You're on to me!

I got European Nightcrawler so I can use them for fishing too

Growing Things I have never ever had fungus gnats. Keep the soil damp, but not wet, and never allow their to be food that is uncomposted.

exactly! So whoever said worms don't like oranges is just silly.

they are acidic. Every article I read sais the same! how much is safe?

Svetla Nikolova You don't want to just go giving them pure orange, of course. You also wouldn't want to give them pure tomato. But like he says in the video, it's about mixing the food. It's orange mixed in with other things, which lower the acidity. Add a water and baking soda to battery acid, and you can neutralize the PH.

+peepslostsheep thank you. Got it!

Oh geeze, I just realized that this was from 9 months ago lol

Yongly Cheng move somewhere else. Jk. It should be fine. I have tiny beetles. Never been an issue

I’ve kept mine outside year round. Going on 4 years. Year 1 I was sure my worms would have died and I bought more. Well, I was very surprised that there was a strong worm population in my bin. After being out in the rain, snow and sleet. I haven’t added any more worms since and it is still going strong. I feed them all kitchen scraps (no meats, dairy nor processed foods), tea leaves, leaves and dead flowers. The only time the food accumulates, gets eaten less and deco,poses slower is in winter (probably because it is frozen). But, by early spring, it is gone. I keep adding throughout the year. I don’t dig much. There are other critters though, slugs for example. I just let it be. Seems healthy. My trash output is minimal.

Worms tend to climb around when everything is very dark and leave castings behind. I clean my bin walls, fluff up the bedding and feed once a week. Fluffing helps introduce more oxygen and keeps the bedding not so wet. Also redistributes worms around the bedding so they can keep working it

DailyOC I think they should, I would recommend getting a lid so you don't have what happened to me. Birds and a raccoon killed all my worms!

***** thanks luke, im going to give it a go! have a nice day bud

He did, but I would guess the acidity he refers to is removed when he juices the oranges.

It's the citrus peels you want to avoid; but he says you can give them the citrus pulp.

SassiAn6el the lid was off, all the soil was removed and the worms were gone

Sassi I have a disabled raccoon, looks like he got rolled by a car, one of his front legs is fused solid and doesn't bend he has only about 3 inches left to his tail and an eye missing. We keep our garbage in those old fashioned metal cans the kind that get dented and then you have a heck of a time pulling the lid off... yeah disabled as he is, he uses the covers as flippin' Frisbees. Raccoons are SMART and they LEARN fast! Seriously if you have a raccoon the ONLY thing that works is to make sure whatever you have that you don't want him getting into is in the house,... and even at that there are multitudes of videos of raccoons having broken into people's houses! From the bottom of my heart though I wish you good luck! If they go after a worm castings bin like these I have no doubts they are seeking the veggie food you feed the worms with and I bet if you looked back on it MIgardener would find it was within 3 days of feeding them and the raccoon smelled the food and came for it... that being said I just bagged and threw out some papers from my office and zero food and the raccoon made sure my entire yard was littered with papers... face palm!

I always cover the scraps I add and I sprinkle BTI granules in my bins every few weeks. That keeps the fruit flies and fungus gnats from being able to reproduce in the bins.

So, I'm in Wisconsin Luke. What temperature is best to keep a worm farm in? Can I keep it in my basement during the winter? It gets quite cold down there. What about when it warms up....Is it best to keep it in the shade/sun? Do you start the worms off in some type of dirt? Is so, what's best?

Hmm I think the temperature should be between 40 degrees and 80 degrees Fahrenheit

@@julieparenti569 Hi, I live in California so I can say something about keeping my worms comfortable in the heat. We've had 100+ days during the summer, so I have my bins in complete shade. Also, I freeze water in old water bottles and put them in the corners of the bins to make sure my worms stay as cool as possible. I've been vermicomposting for more than 10 years and love it. I did found one thing to NEVER put in your bin--my favorite, papaya peels. Papaya is great for digestion, and yes, it "digested" all of my worms. :--( Have fun--it is an adventure. Thank you for helping save our beautiful planet. M

@@MariaLuciaGomezGreenberg Hi Maria, I'd love to learn more about your experiences with worms in the heat! I live in an apartment in Vegas and I'm going to start a small worm bin. I was considering the water bottle situation. I've also heard that keeping a wet/cold towel on top can help as well. I can tell this year is gonna be hot!!

oh yeah, its plenty warm. They eat food so fast it doesn't have time to attract a single fly.

+jbdoney Uncle JIm's is where I purchased mine, they've been a successful purchase. I heard lots of good things about them before I did so. ...or may find a friend that has some that you can get a handful from :)

Your best bet is Red Wigglers ! They stay in the bin and love eating! you need only about 500, they will multiply fast! You will have at least 5 times more in 3 months then what you started out with!

+Fishcraft123 4 farmers or online.

huh?