Harvesting Worm Castings - HD

[ShonitaMG]

Awesome vid! I have plenty of old broken ice chests to start a worm farm! Thank you for inspiring me! I was just gonna use them just for container gardening but I think I'll make two of them into worm farms also. Thank you again for sharing! It looks like fun!

[shamwife]

Seriously intense

[JTuesday777]

your video has made me want to stick to buying worm castings....as much as I would like to recycle my garbage + fertilize our plants at the same time....I can't really afford to spend 160 bucks on one of those fancier rolling compost bins right now and I'm far too scared of anything creepy crawly to have to do all of that handy work with the worms with a home-made bin like yours. I'm honestly considering making my own castings but guess I'll just have to wait till I save up for a fancy bin....

[daggermail1999]

what do you use as bedding?

[daggermail1999]

what are hee yellow'ish flat bean-like things? I find them in my worm bin and i don't know what they are

[lanchedgehog]

@daggermail1999 either fungi or snail eggs

[TheAlexamy]

4:08 if u saw the bug lol

[sapodotroposo]

I have mine in laundry baskets (plastic) with a lot of holes in them. I just lined it with regular black plastic bag, and added a lot of stripped cardboard and treebranches cutted in pieces in the bottom. And then i put shreeded newspaper, leafs and the like, and don´t feed them more then once or twice a week. My dream is to have a huge wormbin in cement or something :-) i mean huge! so all the waste from the household can go into it..

[fishinky365]

i think its to wet and you need to collect the worm tea

[12tman12]

@fishinky365 That's leachate and not worm tea. You get tea by passing water through vermicompost. Leachate is the stuff you get from the water running through rotting waste. Has lots of uncomposted unprocessed materials that tea doesn't. Common mistake.

[fishinky365]

i think its to wet

[allykatblue]

He's not depressed just a kiwi (New Zealander) :)

I'd say right amount of food given the number of warms!! Needed to harvest though, there was a lot of worm castings in there.

[BleekerSoL]

I just set up a wormery today so I've been trawling youtube looking for tips. This was one of the more interesting clips I found and you have a LOT of worms! Obviously I'm no expert (yet!) but it does look a bit wet, probably mixing in some shredded newspaper would help dry it out/aerate it.

[vanhalenman60]

to remove acidity use ashes from a fire place

[cliffcox66]

@vanhalenman60 base, alkaline. 

[cliffcox66]

I read you need drain holes. Also, there must be a better way, this seems too messy and labour intensive.

[PacoBell]

@cliffcox66 He did have drain holes. They were just apparently too small, which is why he said he'd drill them bigger after this harvest.

[PacoBell]

@PacoBell Oh yeah, and you can just dump the contents of your bin into a sorting bin and shine a bright shop light down on them. That way, you can sort them from the comfort of a table without having to endanger your spine or possibly get infected by hookworm by walking around barefoot on soil like this poor bloke.

[57t2]

A) These types of worms don't necessarily recquire very much depth, 12"-14". They can get by with half that.

B) Dude has a ton of worms, But it still looks like he's overfeeding for this particular bin. As all that food decomposes it drains liquid into the bin. He should split this bin into at least two more, then he could be processing more food waste

C) He should have put paper and cardboard on the bottom before dumping his little pals back in.

[ConnerKleister]

youre a badass

[WillaPhillips]

Awesome. Loved how you speeded up parts. Thanks for going to all this work to make this video. Lots of good info and visuals.

[sinsarcasmo]

You need a whole lot of DRAIN HOLES.

Besides, you are creating many more animals besides worms, which will end up cometing for food and possiby will end up eating your worms.

[PacoBell]

@sinsarcasmo I don't think so. I've had a worm bin for a couple years now and my redworms have never seen a predator in their ecosystem apart from the neighborhood birds, which the lid easily takes care of. Any other critters just help with the decomposition process and are welcome guests, IMHO.

[theroilsoil]

You have anerobic decomposition happening - due to nt enough drainage holes.

Also, your bin is overall too wet, cut back on some of the "wet" material.

However, those tiger worms breed like crazy! :)

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

you shoulda just added bedding to the bottom + drilled the holes, then left them in there to keep processing instead of harvesting.

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

you look depressed =(

[Inodie1]

I like the fact that you don't care at all about getting dirty. Brings new meaning o the phrase "getting down in the dirt". :)

[Inodie1]

I have heard that if a worm bin starts to smell, something is not right. Mine smells like regular dirt. Perhaps there is too much moisture as you said. One thing is for sure, you have a large worm population.

[Jessiele2003]

why arent he wear glove?

[TnWormsCastings]

way to many food scapes u can frezze some your going to attact rats

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@TnWormsCastings whatever works for him jew. 

[TnWormsCastings]

@zomgwtfbbqbagel what

[SpikenAL]

Looks like to much wet/juicy foods like cancio157 said add more dry foods paper,straw, grass clipping,leaves. And less Juicy food over feeding wet/juicy foods is makes it to wet..the drainage holes may let water in and wash away the good worm tea !! Control the moister by what is put in ..

[cancio157]

That's nice that there are no maggots. You're right you need drainage holes. Maybe add straw and twigs and sandy soil to help aerate and grind up all that stuff.

[TheGirlKind]

Thats just awful.

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@TheGirlKind your face is awful.

[allykatblue]

@zomgwtfbbqbagel because that's important?? Not a post consistent with your id name!

[sapodotroposo]

I wouldn´t use lime!! for reason nr 3 mostly.

You have a great population there. The thing that i can see is lacking is bedding: papper, leafs and other plantparts, cardboard and other carbon-rich materials.

It dries up the material a bit, lets air in, and "carbonizes"

[Armornone]

Dude, that is nasty

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

How many worms are in there?

[shadowgames824]

@zomgwtfbbqbagel it looks like a shit load!! lol

[vwrabit16]

@shadowgames824 Basically thats what it is. lol. its good though