How to make a WORM TOWER

[kittyfan01]

Nice vid. Worms are so adorable! I love them! But I dont want my worms to escape becuz I will always take care of them and love them forever! My dad and I are buying sum worms Sunday after church. We are going fishing!!!!! So exciting!!!!!!!!!!

[psychobunny32]

how to keep ants out?

[MsWambz]

That was a great tip it is so simple i must add that to my garden....thank thank you

[mountainhike100]

works great ! thank you

[19kicla]

Could this concept be applied to consume Pet Poo from the yard? I know you need poo eating worms for this. but do you think the earth worms would take over this job?

[poojkhgf]

you say dont use ordinary worms get special ones, but wont the ordinary sort just invade through the holes?

[roadrunnervideo1]

That was really interesting! I have been putting in large 4 inch PVC pips beside my tomatoe plants to water them. Do you need to put one of these pipes beside each tomatoe plant?

[Thepoetastro]

SO SIMPLE SO LOGICAL, WHY DO WE TEND TO COMPLICATE THINGS? I CONGRATULATE THE LADY, THE WORM TOWER IS FANTASTIC!

[jahneimultieight]

I liked her face when she said biger the better

[Mikok1234]

Did you just say... a "can" of water?

[GOP4USA]

Neat tip. Thanks

[squil35]

Awesome...thank you so much!

[hundredsroadwerewolf]

Very useful, thanks.

[bruc33ef]

Will red worms survive a Zone 6 winter outdoors?

[gardentheater]

Thanks for sharing great idea. Nice video and animation.

[gardentheater]

My husband added a tower like this to our garden in Northern California after I showed him this video. I decided to wait for the worms to come to it. It took patience and waiting about 4-weeks in winter. Now there is a small colony of red worms in the bottom of the tower and things are breaking down nicely.

[projectoutdream]

best. worm farming. video. *EVER*. thanks you!!!

[MannyHMo]

This is a wonderful idea ! Good presentation. Thank you for sharing.

[HiWay69s]

once those damn worms get out those holes they ain't coming back

[cos1463]

Great video thanks. It's a great idea and it's so simple. I guess straw would work just as well as hay? I have old manure with lots of worms in it already, little red lively ones so they should do the job. I can't wait to try it. I have never been so excited about sh*t before.

[Hender75]

Great idea to incorporate into a raised bed design. Thanks.

[565Customz]

bigger the better huh?

[FreeTalkLive]

@565Customz Yeah, I like vagina's big as a house.

[yahshuah29]

Mrfuckarabs@ Dude seriously what the f#%k is you talking about? This is a freekin gardening vid you idiot!

[IndigoPhoenix]

what about fire ants?

[saltycreefer]

@ 1:13 you say to put a pot plant on top. What kind ? Haze ? lol

[sadisticincubus]

@saltycreefer Lemon Kush 

[alanobutz]

Very good presentation

[XavierHolland]

Alot of PVC is now being recycled or made from recycled plastic. So PVC is not that bad for the environment. The point is not to leave the PVC there over 200 years....

[NufffRespect]

Great video :)

[tunicanl]

as Austin powers once said 'ITS A MAN BABY!"

[kikiangel29]

so u touched the compost with ur bear hands and so u touched the monure with ur bear hands!?!?!?!AHHH!!!"gross"

[o10ciano]

fishgay! jackash fishgay!!!

[soilfit]

PVC is in almost every home water system not a big issue, home owners spraying synthetic chemicals on lawns to make them "green" is a far more serious issue and far more toxic to humans as well.

[mjtrustfund]

pvc is not good...

[joyisaware]

Wonderful, thanks 4 sharing!

[dermatolagist]

Does anyone have any ideas of how to do "worm towers" without the use of a PVC pipe?

[moni0919]

I use a 5 gallon bucket and it look really good thanks for the idea, i just recycl my 5 gallon bucket

[angiemohr]

I love this concept but there's no way that pipe is 52 cm in diameter. It looks like it would be 30 at the most (12 inches). If that's the case, a bucket may work just as well.

[bookhound63]

Why red wigglers? Worms are worms, they all eat and poop.

[Faithless722]

Red wigglers are preferred for worm bins for several reasons.

1. They are surface feeders

2. They are good at coexisting in large numbers.

There may be a few other reasons as well, I'm not sure.

[bookhound63]

Cool. They sell red wigglers at the bait shops around here.

[Strom63]

thats where I got mine, they were labeled "trout worms"

[CRDLIBERTY]

fish are going to go bonkers

[smallziii]

that's a hell of an idea, but i think the mechanism that benefits plants is watering them through the castings, rather than the "in and out" movements of the worms. Worms definitely shit where they eat. They also breed there.

even so...infusing your irrigation water with castings is smart. This way, you're always watering with a perfectly balanced organic fertilizer.

[PostTheMissing]

why would the worms leave the tube to poo when they have everything they need inside of it...

[eatdrywall]

What's the best kind of soil to use for worms ?

[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

I think it´s better to colect the castings, but if you could have several pipes in your garden, that would work allrigth

[PhenixRising1171]

You only need to get rid of them if the worms are trying to escape. What we consider and infestation and what worms consider a mite infestation are entirely different. The mites are also helping you by keeping the worms environment in check.

Its a pain to get rid of them... If the worms try to escape open the container during the day and place it in direct sunlight. Supposedly mites do not like the light or the dry conditions and will attempt to leave.

[chiprommel]

heheh she said "put a pot plant on top"....

[sammieluvsdoomy]

lol, i caught that too

[dgoatmaw]

I thought this would work great in a outdoor compost area. My sister madea compost pile with a section of field fence with a pipe in the middle, which she could water... and with THIS idea, she could feed in the middle with her kitchen waste. She plants her herbs around the outer edge.. and had snap peas or beans that climb around the outside of the cage.. or ornamental squash? Best thing this type would be using maximun use out of the space, and keep the worms busy.

[deeglobey]

Probably a good idea to use something other than PVC for the pipe ... PVC is one of the least environmentally-friendly materials. Dioxins are involved in its manufacture - and these can be released over time in landfills - which may mean eventually also in the ground for worm towers. In general, any time some one says something is super easy I've found there are details that are getting missed - though the basic design of this tower is simple and easy - think also about the materials utilized.

[hk1997die]

what do you recommend ?

[PhenixRising1171]

I would not recommend this system. A wooden home made wooden box or just a wooden box w/o a bottom works fine too. PVC is terrible. I can not believe that a permaculture website encourages its use.

[mekanopsis1]

What's particularly terrible about it?

[PhenixRising1171]

Google PVC health effects. PVC is a terrible product that greatly increases the cancer rate of those that make it. Also if it happens to burn it releases poisonous gases.

One day I'll cave and buy a camera to record my worm farm and gardens.

[mrminator]

I don't think that they'd recommend going out and buying PVC pipe to make this. But there is a lot of PVC pipe that can be recycled for uses like this. Permaculture isn't against recycling.

[PhenixRising1171]

I do not think that they should encourage the use of PVC around food. I would also advise against ever using chemically treated wood. Its not safe. Use untreated wood and create a box. You have the same effect and possible more volume. The idea is somewhat sound but I'd def avoid using PVC simply adopt this strategy with untreated wood. Or just dig a ditch around the flower bed then add worm bedding. Treat it as you would a normal vermiculture system.

[rexenne]

PVC leaches toxins. It's fact. Is it not reasonable to assume if it leaches into your worm compost, then you spread it about a vegetable garden, that it will most certainly contaminate your veggies? Don't be a dim-wit, just google it.

[Strom63]

do you think a steel or other metal pipe would be better then pvc pipe if it were big enough?

[PhenixRising1171]

Just make a wood worm tower or if you want to make one outside just build bottomless tower with 2x12. They are easy to build. There is no need to use PVC or steel.

The entire concept of this video is misleading. Red Worms do not want to live 30 cm in the ground. You'd feed the earth worms or european reds in this system. Red Wigglers (red worms) prefer the top layer of soil.

If I had a web cam or just a video camera I'd show you my set up. Its just a wood tower.

[sistermitzi]

The worms don't need a lot of surface because they are actually living underground and using the pipe as a feeding station, from what I saw on the video. Wigglers don't live underground, it would have to be nightcrawlers to work properly, who compost and breed much more slowly than wigglers and go dormant in the winter or even die if it gets too cold:BUT if they die their egg sacs will hatch in the spring.

[damanwidtheplan]

or dandra...or something like that. european night crawler can also be used :)

[fcueto]

This is not a good method for the following reason: compost worms need a lot of surface, and this pipe is exactly the opposite of what you need. Also, not any earthworm can do composting. You need the Red Wiggly Worm (Eisenia Fetida).

[Raycheetah]

So... If I'm planting a raised bed garden, I don't even really need to use worm towers, just furnish the beds with worms?

Makes it easier for me, I s'pose! =^[.]^=

[zeldalautrec]

Fantastic! I'm off to look for a pipe