Harvesting Worm Castings - HD

Removing layers of castings while the worms head downward away from light.

As is mentioned in the video much of the worm farm has become quite acidic. What I didn't do in the video was add lime, which in retrospect I should have done because the acidity had become too extreme. I don't normally use lime to reduce the acidity of compost for three reasons -
1. It's hard to re-acidify for acid loving plants.
2. Lime causes carbon loss as a gas.
3. Lime tends to destroy "anaerobic microsites"* within the compost that are beneficial in that they allow the conservation of sulfur compounds which, in turn improve the taste of produce.

* Google - ethylene-oxygen cycle

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• michael sentinella
• ossie bloke

[yung2b]

thanks 4 this vid it shows things you should not do. to wet, but still inspiring tks 4 sharing

[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

[lanchedgehog]

@daggermail1999 either fungi or snail eggs

[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

[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..

[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.