How to Make a Worm Compost

[yugiohproplays]

does anyone know what to do after this?

[kenbear2725]

this music is so familiar but where is it from!!?!?

[irissoto7]

Your video is nice, the presentacion lovely the music all good but u should show the follow up a Bushdoctor68 said.

[jethrowomber]

and thats how you make sushi

[ZennLa13]

HAha, I love this kid!

[mohsin19999995]

JESUS someone hit that kid with a pan to da face!!!!

[sevenirene]

Does worms grow fat from eatting all that food?

[NoeBernardin]

Great video!!!!!!! PERFECT for beginners!!! I needed this! Thank you!! Can't wait to start my compost bin!

P. S. Loved the kid in the video! =)

[jrock99618]

Hahaha I remember using watermelon for starting my compost bin. six months later I had like fifty little watermelon plants growing out of my container I now know to make sure to use seedless;))

[NINO1560]

It is really great what you are going I love it.

[truemirror]

You have to use red wigglers the plain gray ones don't eat the compost.

[Santisantiago]

This is exactly how not to do a worm compost, but I love his passion and joy! but its not going to work!!

[jbooker1990]

You practically murdered those worms. there like 4 different things u did wrong. u added dirt which you shouldnt have. Need way more worms. added to much food. U didnt drill holes for air or holes for drainage. you used the wrong paper for bedding and you need another tub for drainage.

[Armornone]

@jbooker1990 I rest my point. Its easier to just let it rot by nature instead of dealing with these stupid animals.

Now you have to bee a freaking zoologist in order to get compost that happens naturally.

[jbooker1990]

@Armornone well your right to a point. If you put everything in a pile and just let it rot it all will turn into compost. this is called cold composting. the problem with this is it will take around 2 years for a cold compost pile to fully decompost. to hot compost you have to spend hours a week turn it, layering it just right, measuring the N:C ratio digging threw it to break up material and then watering it. Hot composting will break stuff down n about 3 months but takes alot of work.

[jbooker1990]

@Armornone I also forgot to mentions that When you hot compost you gotta get your compost to stay consistantly at around 115 degrees as for a worm bin around room temp. and Although finished compost his great. worm castings is the best type of soil/feritlizer in the world. it is called Black Gold for a reason. there is no other type of ferilizer or soil that you can buy that it as rich as worm castings.

[Armornone]

@jbooker1990 I bought an eco-composter from Costco. I throw whatever junk I can find it in and spend maybe 30 seconds every few weeks  rolling it. ( its basically looks like a big ball with a lot of air holes all around it)

I do not water it, I don't layer it, I basically don't do anything but keep it a sunny party of my yard and I get tons of compost without any worms or hassle.

everything I plant in this compost grows like its on steroids.

[jbooker1990]

@Armornone well you got me there. your absolutely right. store bought compost barrels and turners will do the trick. I was reffering to the cheap way of getting compost. you can make a worm bin for around 12 dollars plus the price of worms and compost piles are free. but yeah your right you can buy the good stuff and will do the trick. I'm offically the ass-hole of the day

[jbooker1990]

@jbooker1990im sorry i shouldnt have said you murdered them. just not the ideal environment for them

[vanhexus]

I think your worms is dead because the moisture fill the tube and worms can't swim.

[psion128]

@vanhexus Either drill holes or open the lid to let the moisture evaporate. Seriously will drown or try to leave.

[jerrydff7]

can you put all type of wors

[Armornone]

The stuff will rot and turn to compost anyway, why do you need those nasty ass worms?

[jbooker1990]

@Armornone the worms will break down the food much much faster then just letting it sit there. plus if u let it sit u have to water it every week and turn it. with the worms you just close it and in about two week its all good soil (worm castings)

[Armornone]

@jbooker1990 Then you have to dig the worms out to separate the worms from the compost. Yuck! Seriously, how are you suppose to separate the animals from the usable compost?

[jbooker1990]

@Armornone As for this questions to harvest the compost (seperating the finished compost from the worms). there a couple of methods. the method i use. I pour compost on a flat trey n shine a very bright light above it for about 15-20 minutes. this causes all the worms to crawl to the bottom cause they hate light, then I just scrape the worm castings off the top until its mostly worms then place the worms in a new bin. if you were asking about where to get red worms u can buy then by the pound.

[MsWaxqueen]

Where so you get the worms to start?

[saxman091]

@MsWaxqueen you can get them at walmart in the fishing department.

[Armornone]

This is pointless, how does putting worms in a box give you compost?

[Makenshi]

@Armornone Eureka!

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

air holes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[rileyjacktodd]

haha, those worms are pretty much dead

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@rileyjacktodd Your mom is pretty much dead.

[psion128]

Great vid on the basics. I'm not trying to be nit picky but... Where are the drain holes and the air holes? Compost needs to "breathe". ;)

[jbooker1990]

@psion128 he also added to much dirt. if those are red worms they dont live in soil like earth worms all he need is wet shredded paper. plus he also used white people which is usually bleached which hurts the worms. he should have used cardboard or newpaper and he did put way to much food for that small about of worms for that much food were looking at maybe 2 to 3 pounds of worms which is close to around 3000 worms.

[hardypixi]

very cool! great video! definitely one of the better ones on youtube! thanks! :)

[rtame]

it's pretty good that you made me got an idea.

[JipseyGod]

One thing, at the end, your supposed to add some more bedding.

[iblowdanks]

man i love this kid

[bockydo]

oh and depending on what kinda worms you have you dont wana use fruits that have high acidic juices it can kill the worms and prevent them from reproducing

[bockydo]

WTF!!!!!????

[jihadacadien]

Man you need a lot of worms.....did you just use outdoor worms?

[Astonish666]

Thanks kid you have one of the better DIY worm bin videos on here!!! Keep up the good work kid!

[mystic0276]

are u jappeness cuz dat songs from naruto well i can tell ur jappeness i am asian too :P

[mrsengeseth]

great job. :) I just finally put one together for our family to use too.

[kristerific]

does it matter what kind of shredded paper?? umm.. doesnt it need air??

[Malk284]

It does need air. Cross stitch brown branches at the bottom layer as well as other sections of your layers.

[willjbyrd]

ok so i have a thirty gallon container does any one know how many worms i should put in there

[wtfmoneyman]

dude, put as many as u want... they'll multiply.

[TheAnglersRest93]

just put however many you can find in, worms understand there habitat and will breed until they have the maximum they know should be there in there... or if you put to many in some will try and escape and some will die... and some will kill each other until once again they have the amount in there that they want....

[MHarley93]

Pretty Cool how a video whom's original audience was a 25 kid class... has been multiplied by a thousand on youtube!

[cannondahler]

I'm a newbie at the worm thing, with just a little over a year under my belt, but I have to agree with a lot of people here that this bin probably didn't do very well as a vermicomost system. No aeration or drainage holes, too much raw food in huge pieces all at once, wrong species of worms. One of those alone could ruin a worm bin, but all together they were like a guarantee that about three weeks after this vid was shot, all the kid had was a stinky box full of garbage. That's why no sequel.

[melonbarmonster]

What kind of worms do you need and where do you get them?

[treehuggintracker]

red wigglers. you can order them online.

[ArboriusOwns]

Red wigglers eat their weight in garbage every day if you use regular earth worms you need about twice as much. So 1 pound of earth worms would eat about half pound of garbage. Like he said though the garbage should be smaller & there should be drainage holes drilled in the bottom. The water that drains out can be saved & used as fertilizer on plants.

[Reaper139139]

could have done it without the gay music

[DarkJDL]

Probably really usefull for someone that is not me... huh you seem happy to do it XD

[globalgourmand]

Its a fun video that summarizes the basic process but I would say its missing the details that are necessary make a worm bin successful (aeration, drainage, cutting or processing the food into WAY smaller pieces.) Good enough to get the gist, but viewers should more research if you really want to succeed with vermicomposting. Consider putting such a disclaimer in the video info?

[cyrusj2]

You were incorrect in stating that the worms eat the food. Worms don't eat the food but instead it's microbes that consume the food. The worms are there to eat the microbes.

[saacbe]

Shouldn´t you compost the food first?

Does it really work like that?

[CaliGardener916]

Good job man I have only like 160 red wiggler.s How many worms do u have now 2 billion I assume because this was added like 1/12 years ago.

[NothingGreatHere]

bet your mom got pissed from you stealing soil from her garded!

[shreko77]

BRIGHT KID!!

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

[tresfinas]

Great movie but the music was annoying!

[kimmarie801]

very nice- good job

[Cierra1985]

LOL, ultra kaiwaii!

[cannondahler]

Umm...those are either the biggest redworms I've ever seen, or they were nightcrawlers, which wouldn't do at all well in bin like that...or that's what I've read, anyway. How did that setup work for you?

[megaman5516]

ur rly good.

[Bushdoctor68]

Hey Mr FrozenMelon sir, this video was posted about a year ago. That worm-poop should be well done by now. Where's the follow-up video? ;)

[curiousgeorge555]

Thanks!

~cg55

[islandmamma]

won't worms naturally go into a compost?

[muggyruggy]

they will if they can get into the compost container...like if it were a heap of compost on the ground in a bin or something.

[Speezerina]

Very clear instruction. Nice! :-)

[pattyloof]

He's so cute!

This actually *showed* what to do and in what order, which is more than a lot of these worm videos do ...

I agree the music was too loud, but I could still hear most of what he was saying. Good job kiddo!

[nomaughlimbaugh]

Thanks! helpful video presentation, except someone should have UNPLUGGED that music stuff ... completely drowns out the audio .. would like a non-music accompanied version, if you can.

[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

[magicsnail101]

Keep it up buddy!

[myscraper]

Good enthusiasm bad video on how to make a worm bin.

[Azathoth43]

I'm sure he will learn by doing.

It's great to see young people working on this kind of project and I applaud him.

good work little dude!!

[blacque1020]

i would like to comment on your incorrect worm bin. First your paper was too small. second you use too much water. third u use too much food. u need to chop the food up into smaller pieces. There were no air holes,for the worms to breath. Thank you and may u please do ur worm bin over. sincerly,  Student of environmental science!

[fishinatorXD]

please don't go all rspca on me but sometimes when i go fishing i leave the worms in the water ( the ones on my hook) in the water for about half an hour and take them out when i go and they still seem to be riggling around, or is that just there nerves?

[benchkid2]

They won't die that fast, i know what you're talking about cause ive been fishing. Once they start to turn dark blueish, then they're dead. If they're still moving call an exorcist.

[fishinatorXD]

haha, lol

[secretspy44]

YES SIR MR SIR! Seriously... those are great suggestions... but I'm sure it will work out fine in the end. Just needs to mix together some. (Its not like its air tight, he didnt add THAT much water, and worms survive in worse conditions) Chill out.

[qin02]

haha he making a milkshake?

i be very suprised if the worms are still all alive.

[aviewfromthewall]

LOL! "We take the hose out!" Good idea that! Interesting video. Enjoyed it!

[damanwidtheplan]

wanna see the end result

[Jhosephus]

The bin needs holes on the sides for oxygen and some holes for drainage in the bottom and they should shop up those watermelon skins they are just too big for the little worms.

[Gekiyaku]

I thought you needed screens and insulation?

[utubepunk]

I like this kid's enthusiasm! Good job!

[Molinard7]

A lot of fun watching this video. Good information, and you kept it nice and upbeat!

Good luck! Jeannemarie