Worm Composting 101

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[jethrowomber]

her pussy smells like compost

[CimaraNyx]

Very cute bin...love that it's pink!!!

[jude1c9v]

very attractive to finally see girls that are not afraid of worms and compost / castings. keep up the good work, make more composting videos please.

[jesusisbling]

You are a mysophobe and a scleciphobe....

Why don't you get a life??

I guess you're also a homophobe, as well? Is your whole existence fear based? Scared little worm.... hahahaha

[Madamegato]

While I like the message, the videographer might have wanted to settle down and not swing that camera around so much. When trying to see what this lady is talking about, I felt motion sick trying to lock onto the container to even check it out. Nice to see a small container being used, though.

[jrock99618]

@Armornon

aaahhh hateful :(

I think it's a great idea to composte regardless of were you store your container. If people want parasitic worms in there home rather than outside thats perfectly fine and I personally think that were people store there compost bin has nothing to do with vermi composting's popularity people like it regardless so calm down a little k

[amazingdany]

What does one do if there is a worm overpopulation? And it's winter outside????

[TheWaldorock]

@amazingdany go fishing....lots of bait shops would buy some cheap

[Armornone]

Gross

[ThreeEyedTeddyBear]

@Armornone I'll bet $50 you've never done anything like this. How is it gross to turn what would be garbage into basically enriched soil? With this kind of thinking displayed in the video we could help end the garbage overflow and produce cheaper quicker made healthy food for the masses instead of them woofing down McDoubles.....

[Armornone]

@ThreeEyedTeddyBear Well, you owe me $50 because I have used compost before. If I have an apple core, I might hurl it into the forest instead of throwing it away. That is composting. I also throw tons of stuff out my car window which I call " nature's garbage can" I don't have a problem with composting, but it completely stupid to use live worms to do it and handle those worms. If you touch a worm, they can lay eggs inside your skin and live inside your body. They are parasites and disgusting.

[ThreeEyedTeddyBear]

@Armornone Yeah.... stupid to speed up the process to be about 20 times faster than just letting it sit and wait and becoming better fertilizer than just composting too.. what was i thinking?

And for the eggs in skin... that's a completely different kind of worm. What makes them disgusting? that their kinda slimy? be sure you don't eat pasta then cause it is too once cooked

[Armornone]

@ThreeEyedTeddyBear If you don't want to wait, you can get a compost device that allows you to turn it and mix air in it. If you add the right amount of water, you can get it done quickly. It is completely sick to handle worms. These things will live in your stomach and intestines and craw around the inside of your body. Trust me, you don't want to deal with that when you can get the same results without them. The only real compost is natural one not handling parasite shit.

[ThreeEyedTeddyBear]

@Armornone lol now you're saying worms aren't natural? do tell what planet are they from then? What secret government agency created them? They are natural. Again wrong kind of worms. You don't Vemicompost using tape worms or anything. You wash you hands after and you're good also most works can't penatrate human skin. Just like Daddy Long legs. One of the most poisonous spiders in the world... but they cant' get through out skin so unless ya eat or snort em their harmless

[Armornone]

@ThreeEyedTeddyBear You ever had a dog which worms? How do you think a dog gets worms? What about the heart worm? You think they are put there by the worm fairy ? My point is that worms are unnecessary compost will happen by its own process. Invest in a compost bin, like the eco-composer and you can throw your junk in there and get compost in a month or two without having to deal with parasites shit.If you want compost, there are must easier ways without dealing with worms.

[sinsarcasmo]

@Armornone I guess you are mistaking earthworms for trash worms.

[Armornone]

@sinsarcasmo The point is that you don't need worms to get compost. Get an eco-composter for $99 at buy.com and throw your garbage in it and wait a few weeks and you will have compost. No need to mess with filthy worms. I don't know if these people have some kind of sick fetish or what but worms are not necessary to get the compost you want when compost bin technology can give you the same thing in a cleaner way.

[chyrd]

@Armornone some of us also like to fish...

[chyrd]

@Armornone what is your beef with worms? if you compost naturally... you get worms anyway... if you use the compost and some worms get in your garden... they aerate the soil... seems like an awful lot of bellyachin over NOTHING

[kalkaline]

@Armornone Maybe if you actually did some research on the type of worms they recommend for composting you would realize they are not actually parasites. The tape worms you are refering to are found in the feces of pigs and humans. Red wigglers (the typical composting worm) are not interested in you, they much prefer to munch on decaying organic materials, specifically the microbes found in finshed compost.

[kalkaline]

@Armornone The bin shown in this video, worms included probably cost $50 and would provide you with a finished material much faster than your average thermophillic composter. Why you ask? The typical household gets 5 lbs of food scraps a week, for a thermophillic set up you need 3'x3'x3' of materials added at the same time. With worms those food scraps can be added as they come and can be processed under your kitchen sink with no smell.

[Armornone]

@kalkaline Oh my gosh, you keep that trash and the worms in your kitchen!! I should call the health inspector on you. Look, you just need a compost bin outside and throw everything in there and you are set. So even if you down have enough brown material and it turns into slush, you can still mix it with dirt and it will be fine at the end. I can't believe you people keep parasitic worms in your kitchen. This is what turns people off to composting.

[kalkaline]

@Armornone these are not parasitic worms, they feed on the microbes that help break down decaying organic matter. The problem with out door bins is they attract rodents, roaches, and other disease spreading insects like flies. The worms can do a better job and produce a more desirable product than a hot compost pile.

[Armornone]

@kalkaline Why would it be more desirable than 100% pure compost? My outdoor composting machine is completely sealed and there is no way a rat or anything like that is getting in. Having worms( which tend to escape) in the same area as you were you keep and make your food is a bad idea.

I mean, why not just buy a bag of compost at the home depot?

[kalkaline]

@Armornone the thermophillic process you are probably using (if you are doing it right), removes much of the nitrogen from the compost pile. With vermicomposting you keep all those nutrients, plus you add microbes that protect plants from disease. Please look up Cornell's website and watch Allison Jack's vermicomposting video. Read the studies on the plant trials vs regular composting, you will see the improvements in root structure.

[mmmmmarcus]

@Armornone "I cant believe you people keep parasitic worms in your kitchen".. You are more ignorant than a black jewish nazi.

[mmmmmarcus]

@Armornone "No need to mess with filthy worms" Damn why the hell are you so negative when it comes to worms? Do you suffer from vermiphobia or something? If so you're gonna LOVE this: Your body.. at this very instant... is LOADED with parasitic worms.. squirming around in your intestines.. Dont believe me? Have a stool sample analyzed. That is.. unless you're afraid of the TRUTH!

[Armornone]

@mmmmmarcus Sorry, you are the ones playing with parasitic worms not me. Its unnecessary when the same results can be achieved with technology instead of playing with worms you sick freak. Go back to San Fransisco you pot smoking hippie.

[mmmmmarcus]

@Armornone You're using a sock account. I'm going to report you.

[Armornone]

@mmmmmarcus WTF are you talking about?

[mmmmmarcus]

@Armornone You know what I'm talking about, sock.

[Armornone]

@mmmmmarcus The sock you keep in the corner of your room?

[mmmmmarcus]

@Armornone Dont play stupid, sock. I know you're being paid to do this.

[Armornone]

@mmmmmarcus Paid to do what and by who exactly? You think I am paid by anti-worm racist groups? LOL.

Yeah, you are thinking of what George Soros does in real life to Americans.

[jesusisbling]

@Armornone hahhahahah

Well now i've seen everything!! Really dude?? Your carping about other people just because they have a worm bin inside?? The anti-worm troll - that is hilarious!

[Armornone]

@jesusisbling You are a worm pedophile werido necromancer. Freak!

[jesusisbling]

@Armornone

You should use words that you know the definition. Fail!

Mysophobe! Scoleciphiobia my be your problem.....

[Armornone]

@jesusisbling It means you love to play with dead thing and worms you fag freak.

[mmmmmarcus]

@Armornone We dont want your fucking "Eco-Composter". You noob. It's all about pocket-mulching, anyway!

[mmmmmarcus]

@ThreeEyedTeddyBear "One of the most poisonous spiders in the world" You have a good message goin on there, but I must correct you. Daddylonglegs (Pholcids) have weak venom. It's actually hardly venomous enough to kill other insects, which is why you never see pholcids eating crickets, roaches, or other insects.

[WoundedEgo]

Egg shells, if crushed up well, so the chickens don't develop a taste for their own eggs, can be added to the be to raise the pH. I don't think that it is a good replacement for sand (which is present in soil, so you can just pitch in a cup of soil).

[Armornone]

@WoundedEgo You know the saying, one a chicken get a taste for its own eggs, you must bring it into your house and raise it as a house pet . It can then play with your cat and dog.

[chellegame]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[WindEnergy7]

What's the best kind of worms, the red worms? Where do I get those. Cool ideas, I'm going to start composting now that my rooftop wind turbines are up.  Check out my clips if you are interested in wind and solar home stuff. Thanks.

[213rapture]

WindEnergy 7

do a quick google for composting worms and you'll get quite a few resources.

[psion128]

You can get them easily on craigslist or ebay. 1 lb of worms sells between $20-35. Your worm population can double or triple within a year or less.

[Gtor3636]

@WindEnergy7 You need to purchase Eisena Fetida or Eisena Andrei, both of those species have a common name of, "red worm wigglers" If you live in the states expect to pay about $20 per pound, given optimal conditions they will double their population every 60 days until they reach an equilibrium.

[theroilsoil]

Use an opaque bin, or old wash tub, not transparent plastic -- that's bad for worms, and good for fungal growth.

[randomlaughingman]

If you have a regular open-ish compost bin (ie - one where you put any kitchen waste etc on the top, and take the composted soil out the bottom), the worms just migrate to it. Every time I go to the bin, I have to be real careful opening and closing the lid cause so many worms took up residence in it and they get all clumped in the lid edges. I'm not sure how much x amount of worms speeds up the composting, and this is for an outside bin over 1m high. Slugs and snails are also attracted to it.

[TheBrassHole]

Worms hate light. Sup with the transparent bins?

[Noz7777]

Yup. And its too small to take more than a few days of vege scraps.

[yeyos38]

eeeeeeeyeeeeebrows

[vodkandrpepper]

Good grief, keep the camera still...

[HTCSWEOD]

I notice that your bins are translucent and allow light? I just watched another worm bin video where they specifically mention not allowing light in, as it bothers the worms?  Are they wrong?... have you compared darkened bins as compared with light emitting bins? very curious about this detail... thanks! Great video...

[rileannas]

Red worms certainly are afraid of light, and there is evidence it can actually be harmful. A clear bin probably wouldn't be too bad, as the soil would block the light fairly quickly, but there wouldn't be any worms in the outer layers so that material would remain undigested. If the temperature got too high in the middle of the compost, the worms wouldn't be able to retreat into the cooler outside layers however.

[LeedansParis]

I agree with those that say it should not be see through and that it should be larger but I'm picturing this as being kept under the kitchen sink which would keep it dark. I guess the size would be sufficient for a single person or couple with just a small garden.

[kyle76016]

can ther be soil? i have like 3 inches of soil. ,and lots of cardboard and newspaper, coffe filters, pig manuer, sum toilet paper and 2 tea bags in mine. then of course food scraps!

[rileannas]

Soil's fine. It's a good inoculant (introduces lots of beneficial organisms) and source of minerals.

[WoundedEgo]

You need just a bit of soil also because they use the sand in it in their gizzards to grind up their food.

[chellegame]

I think I read egg shells work, no?

[WoundedEgo]

May we eat the worms?

[Noz7777]

I gather that it isn't recommended, but that it would be possible under starvation conditions - bearing in mind that control of bacteria would be important.

[WoundedEgo]

That compost thingie had a few features...

* no lower level? Other ones I have seen had a lower level;

* not opaque - I thought light harmed the worms?;

* pink?

[crock703]

Anyone know if there is an easy way to get red worms for free (or the cost of shipping)?

[aembermoon]

Your yard, LOL! My 4 year old helped me catch a ton of little ones for our composter when it last rained. Can't imagine any yard that doesn't have worms. :-)

[crock703]

They have to be "red wiggler" worms (not the ordinary earth worms in your yard.) Regular worms don't eat nearly as quickly and they die in the conditions.

[rileannas]

Farms with manure piles may have red worms living in there. Familiarize yourself with what they look like - small, red, stripey - and see if any farms in your area don't mind you digging around their manure.

[1ebric]

I have acarus, or mites, in my worm bin.

They don´t hurt the worms, I think, but they eat the food.

Do I have to get rid of them? How?

Thanks 4 your answers

[haikuwillie]

Careful ... Avocados kill worms.

[crock703]

really? why?

[WoundedEgo]

A long standing fued. They kill them because they are being loyal to their fathers before them.

[leiatyndall]

I've seen it recommended that the container & lid be opaque (not see-thorugh) as the worms tend to avoid light.

[oppossumtheking]

ı am very interest in warm composting. can you sent me your e mail adresses for sharing informaion about this. thanks a lot. take care

[liposz]

cool

[bullw]

Very nice!