EXPANDING OUR WORM FARM

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[@A-V]

Fun stuff - thanks for the tour 👍🏻

[@evelynwoolston7]

I'd love to see what your newly hatched worms looked like. All our seedlings this year were a total failure although my husband is a very experienced gardener. Most of the seedlings didn't germinate and the ones that did were very slow to appear and were a sickly yellow and weak. Once planted out most of them didnt survive. We had to conclude that the (reputable brand of) potting compost contained long lasting weed killer because UK potting compost now mostly comes from municipal dumps. That started our interest in vermiculture and we got a small container of dendrobaena from our local angling shop (The Trading Post, Grimsby). We harvested our 6 week worm bin for the first time, mixing the castings with perlite and some of our own garden compost, so that we could plant a few late salad seeds. The plants came up in 3 days and look really healthy and strong. We won't be buying any more commercial compost any more until there is some kind of quality control.

[@MEandBlueBoutique]

My first business as a kid was a worm business. Not this sophisticated at all. I went out at night, gathered night crawlers near the river, and sold them to the fishermen who would drive up the road past our house. No honesty box, they came to our door via the hand painted signs I made. I made $50 that summer and apparently repeat customers showed up when I wasn't doing it anymore. Yay for flowers, and yay for a worm biz. XO

[@bloomandgray]

That’s such a cool story!! I hope to sell my worms to fishermen too in the future! X

[@tonywhiston6768]

Hi what a pleasure I view not only a UK based video on Vermiculture but a Yorkshire one 😁😁 Some great tips and good worm house keeping tips. I started about 3 years ago and make about 400 litres of cast from 4 harvests a year. I run them in upcycled plastic storage boxes but love the idea of the polystyrene boxes I'll keep watching and all the best in your regenerative garden projects Kind regards Tony

[@grannynjim6626]

I would never have thought I'd "like" a video all about worms, lol. But it's interesting and I'm really pleased for you both for your success in what you've achieved so far.

[@wordvendor1]

I hope you're documenting this with photos and notes, nott just video. You should write a book for flower farmers to add to their soil's and market's diversity after your experimentation. It would help us all! 💜🌱oh, yes, please show some close-ups of sifting the compost and some cocoons.

[@wormweirdo340]

Given half decent conditions, composting worms breed like crazy. It’s insane. Congrats.

[@SylvianeFARMERCHICK]

I love how your are so genuine, i really enjoy watching your vids. Thumbs up and subbed!

[@robbrown1269]

Really interesting contemplating worm farming up in Northumberland it's good to find some UK based and not hobbyist keep up good work

[@jasoncooke73]

Hi Sarah, really interesting and good luck to you. What bedding did you start with the dendro,s ?

[@flatbrokeatfifty]

Awesome will be so interesting to see the results on the plants and FANTASTIC about the selling worm products idea there is a huge market for it. Well done. Love watching your progress.

[@catherinesybillegervais7341]

This is so cool! I love that you are gardening with natural ways and bring us along with your experimentations! So fun! :)

[@ontherocksinthesoilmichael6739]

Red Wigglers (tiger worms) do slow down during cold conditions they will reproduce decently during the winter.

[@fauzanfauziah61]

Good evening my friend, thank you for sharing, I wish you more success 🇮🇩🙏

[@kathypope3010]

Loved this video. Please keep us updated. That's so great that you and Rob are doing the worms together.

[@ElderandOakFarm]

I had a couple great work bins going for a couple years, but when I had my son, & he had to be in the NICU for ~6 weeks, I didnt manage it well & almost all of them died, so I just dumped them all on the garden. As soon as its in the budget I'm going to repurchase some!

[@benkermen8360]

Worms are addicting. You are doing an excellent job. Also, where did you get the polystyrene containers?

[@AJsGreenTopics]

Great setup. Thanks for sharing. 😎

[@ahavarichardson5426]

I truly like your Worm farm, my Dad had a worm farm,as well as, his father. They are were inground raised beds. I decided to follow their footsteps. so far. I need worms for my cut gardens. TFS your experiences!

[@pawelkapica5363]

Cool video, I just got into worm farming here in Germany. Yeah I was curious about the temperature in that room as you are wearing a jacket in the video. I keep my worms in a very well ventilated workshop and I am wondering if it will get too cold for them in the coming winter.

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Sarah, this is very interesting and looking forward to seeing how it all progresses. Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂

[@danigosselin3821]

How neat! Thanks for sharing with us, I’m really enjoying following along you worm parenting 101! ☺️🇨🇦 always looking forward to your videos!

[@silencedflower8441]

Brilliant 👏🏻

[@marthaduffy8386]

This is very interesting to me. I have a worm bag set up in my house. I've had it about 2 years now but haven't separated the worms yet to get the compost.. I just keep feeding the worms with kitchen waste and water and wood pellets. They seem to be very happy. I would love to see your process of sifting out the cocoons sometime. Are you feeding them kitchen scraps now too? Love all of it!!

[@pawelkapica5363]

I would definitely sift out the worms at least every 3 months, not only to harvest the amazing castings but also to keep the bedding from getting to acidic or saline (is that the right word, when too much salt builds up). Just keep a bit of the old bedding to inoculate the new bedding for it to break down faster. Hope that helps and your plants will thank you for it as will your worms.

[@matildesoltau5074]

So interesting 👍

[@karenslater343]

Very interesting thanks

[@NanasWorms]

Ooooh, just found your channel! I love experimenting with my worms, too, but my operation is on a much smaller scale! Looking forward to catching up on your videos!

[@JenksonLtdHorwich]

Hi ,great videos👍, with the move to polystyrene boxes how do you harvest the castings/ worms as they are not vertical. Do you sieve them? Thanks

[@mikesweeney4443]

Great video, what are the large cages for?

[@juliemaple3587]

I absolutely love your channel! 💗 I live in New Zealand but still learn loads from you! Can you tell me how you sieve the eggs and worms out of the bedding so you can use the castings?

[@mauricelaurin5923]

Very interested in your recipe for tea

[@superdupertroy]

Thanks for the info! Could I ask what dimensions the boxes are?

[@grahaml8838]

Great video! Thanks! I'm just wondering how you manage the temperatures in the hot and cold periods of the Yorkshire climate?

[@karlagriffiths454]

For large scale worming have you thought of using a continuous flow bin.

[@n.w.414]

Very interesting. It sounds like you guys are doing a great job! Thanks for teaching us.

[@northeastworms]

Very nice set up, you will have a lot.of worms and casting in a very little time 😊

[@teresamuler1226]

What is the name of the containers that you are using for the worm bins?

[@jelledegrande149]

hello , good operationsetting . Can you tell of : how many times a month/weight/volume you give the nutrition to a bag of worms ? What kind of brand of the chicken cereals do you give the worms ? Good business . we don't have a supplier here in belgium of good worms/casting etc. i love your work , ciao ,

[@kathrynpatrick69]

I can’t wait to see how your soil biology changes this season with the worms help and the KNF/goop additions!

[@davidshaban8554]

Where did you order the bins from?

[@terradurham8485]

How big are those polystyrene boxes?

[@camilagurrea]

Hi great content! Just a suggestion you should try to include more bits and pieces of the process while you explain it, it is not as entertaining if you just film yourself explaining what you did but not showing it. I was expecting the sifting part or showing the 1000 eggs, but it just never came up... lookin forward to more worm content!

[@bloomandgray]

I can’t include it if I don’t have the footage 🤷‍♀️

[@camilagurrea]

@@bloomandgray 😕I get it. It woud have been great to see that. Thanks for your reply.

[@hayleygroves8164]

Hi, great video. Thanks for sharing. Just wondering how you drain the leachate from your polystyrene boxes?

[@bloomandgray]

We don’t get leachate as we are careful not to over water or add too-wet materials. A few sources I’ve read have said if you are managing correctly you shouldn’t get leachate at all.

[@hayleygroves8164]

@@bloomandgray Ahh ok. Thanks so much for your reply. Love your work 😊

[@matthewbrain7885]

I'm a small scale worm farmer aswell, can I just say though chicken or any other animal feed is a definite no no though, there are way too many antibiotics in the feed and it will very quickly ferment and make your worms ill or kill them, not a criticism just a tip, I'm literally feeding mine fairly fresh manure once a week by putting 2-3 inches over the top of the long beds

[@wybuchowyukomendant]

oh wait, you can actually use those white, styrofoam boxes? They won't dig through? You can get them for free in the restaurants sometimes, after they get fishes or some meat =o

[@bloomandgray]

No they won’t dig through. You can use them lots of times over and over too!

[@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674]

Have u European nightcrawlers?

[@iwonalasak-hughes5814]

Where did you get red wiglers in UK ? I ordered from two company but there were not red wiglers but small dems .

[@bloomandgray]

I got them from Yorkshire worms 😊

[@iwonalasak-hughes5814]

@@bloomandgray thank you so much like your programs seems that I interested the same thing as you also I do Korean farming and have worms but on little scale . Good luck with your projects.

[@snwg6780]

hi，may i ask why my worms like to run out form the box？

[@Daryl-1]

Can I ask why you put under lay on top of the worms

[@bloomandgray]

Because we have lights on in the room to keep the worms in the beds, when we feed them they can come up to underneath the underlay and not be put off by the light. But don’t escape because of the gap around the edges. Hope that makes sense

[@Daryl-1]

@@bloomandgray that’s a good idea, I’ve been thinking about starting my own worm farm what’s the best soil for them