How to set up a composting worm bin with Red Wigglers

[@thebeezneez5952]

“4 to 6 inches is all that matters”. You just got yourself a subscriber sir.

[@Grasscentral4705]

2 inches take it or leave it

[@jonathansommerfeld9080]

That advocado looked perfect.

[@jasonjarred5198]

Sounds like something a worm would say... 😒

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[@chimdinwoko7476]

Thanks for adding the 60 to 90 degrees temperature info. I was wondering.

[@pjsmith4716]

This is exactly what I needed! Thank you.

[@MyNewEra2012]

Fantastic instructions 👍 precisely what I was looking for. Many thanks 🤗

[@LuLu-kz7pg]

This is so helpful! Do you have a video on growing and harvesting Black solider fly larvae (and their compost)?

[@ericmeadows64]

Great video, Dull Drill bit 😉

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

ericmeadows64 ha seems so

[@Jessica-bd1rw]

What do you do with the bins during the cold winter seasons?

[@natandessie]

oooo too excited. Any instruction on where to get my first wigglers :)

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

Mail order works if it is not too cold or too hot, but check locally as well.

[@livefromtheground7274]

The expired oats are a fantastic idea! Thanks

[@helendennis7662]

How do oats “expire”? The date on packages is just a guide and the food is still fine for consumption long after. I would only feed to worms (or chickens) if the oats had been inhabited by bugs.

[@AJsGreenTopics]

Great bin set up.😎

[@MaryKayPerris]

Thanks for the clear info on making a worm home - I will follow that now. My worm house is full. It is very wet - I see that I have been giving them too much moist food. I need to transfer them to a new home. Do I pick them out one by one and then dry the castings before putting in the garden?

[@jessiepooh5164]

I split mine up with two bins and added peat moss

[@Paratrooper23]

Lots of paper and shredded cardboard mixed in. I mean LOTS! Then leave them alone for a couple of weeks. Then dig down and see what you got.

[@MaryKayPerris]

@@Paratrooper23 Thanks so much - that makes sense. I donated some to a friend and added some egg cartons in the bottom. Appreciate your help!

[@MaryKayPerris]

@@jessiepooh5164 Thanks Jessie, I made a new friend with a note on my community board and she came over for some to take worms home to her farm!

[@az82ce]

Yes, pick them up one by one. you can even cut them in half and wind up with twice as many worms

[@linhnguyen9255]

What is the significance of putting a handful of sand? Is it just for grit??

[@sic-n-tiredtired4273]

Good video but, just an FYI Usually you add the water to the Coco coir and mix before you put it in the bin that way you can check the consistency. PS they actually do eat it as well.

[@richpate9436]

Great video, but you stopped a little too soon. As the worms grow, what is your workflow to collect the worm castings for your garden soil?

[@JosH-lu1dy]

Well done

[@lucindawilliams6838]

How do you harvest castings?

[@alyciahindmarsh178]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

[@susanschwartz9072]

Once the worms digest all the food in the bin over time, and there is a lot of compost in the bin you want to use, how do you separate the worms from the compost?

[@JM-ym8mm]

by hand XD Jokes aside, if you look up the 3 bucket worm farm method, it shows you a way where most of the worms migrate to the new food bucket when it's time to harvest the old bucket for castings.

[@Mark-te8ky]

How high should materials occupy the trays? about 75%? thanks! great video!

[@Melicoy]

im on it. Thanks

[@winstonsmiths2449]

The coconut coir is not needed, works but worms do not prefer it. Saw another YT channel where a man put the coconut coir on one side with other fixings, none on the opposite side. The worms all migrated to the non-coconut coir side. Cannot remember if it was the pH they did not like or something else. Gee-whiz but save you some money. I did and do everything else you showed here and my worms are going nuts on consuming, reproducing. They really do not require much and can go for a long time on minimal food if you go on vacation. I use local garden soil, leaves, and some compost all mixed in. I am trying a inoculator spray this go around. Prepping the bedding for my next worm bin switch and want to see how it does.

[@jamminjamy]

Thanks for the video! How do you handle drainage?

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

I have holes drilled in the bottom just in case, but my bins don’t really have drainage. Aim to keep the bedding material moist but not wet enough to need drainage. My main goal is collecting worm castings once or twice per year for garden application.

[@jamminjamy]

@@TexasOrganicGardening Thanks! I was mostly referring to the "worm tea" that is supposed to be created after some time. I was going to try and put a bin in the basement without holes in the bottom but am wondering if this worm tea may become too much for the bin, thx again.

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

jamminjamy There is leachate, which is drippings from your worm bin, sometimes incorrectly called worm tea. My opinion is leachate should not be present in a properly operating system. This indicates too much food added, rotting and dripping, or too much water/moisture. I am aware some people flood their system with water to create gallons of leachate - I am not a proponent of that, but thats just my opinion. Real worm tea comes from taking worm castings out of the bin, putting them in a bucket with water and oxygenating them with a bubbler. There are some good videos out there on this process. We will have one up at some point in the future.

[@jamminjamy]

@@TexasOrganicGardening great thanks for the information!

[@winstonsmiths2449]

@@TexasOrganicGardening Agree, if you need to drain it, you are adding too many scraps of the wrong type, over saturating the bedding. Worm tea sounds good, but it should not be created from a healthy bin system. Worm tea can be made manually after harvesting your worm castings.

[@articmars1]

Its best to drill holes in the bottom of the bin before you fill it. Also more air holes are needed.

[@dalepres1]

This is what prompted me to ask if they've ever done what they're proposing. No holes in the bottom will create a wet, slimy, smelly, mess.

[@devin5891]

@@dalepres1 not if you water it properly. It shouldn’t be wet enough to need holes

[@virginiachai5697]

How do you know when to use the compost, how do you do that as well. Can you use any worms, or must they be red wigglers.

[@shiningwizard1]

Can I use decomposed cow Manure?

[@kanaaleilanden]

bro they love manure they are COMPOSTING worms so actually they eat MANURE but only from animals (cow & chicken horse birds etc xD) who eat greens so No dogs or cat manure

[@misstwinkle3142]

How do I make my own red wrigglers. I have a small container garden so...

[@corlissyamasaki3476]

Where did you purchase your bin? I haven't found that shallow.

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

Home Depot HDX - 27 Gal. Tough Storage Tote in Black with Yellow Lid

[@corlissyamasaki3476]

@@TexasOrganicGardening thank you!

[@craigkolstad983]

you need a better ( sharper ) drill bit. Smashing it through like that can shatter the plastic lid.

[@iwantorbs]

Looked like a masonry drill lol

[@craigkolstad983]

@@iwantorbs Yep, masonry drill, lol

[@GreenMountainGoldTrap]

I would have never thought junk mail could be added as food due to the ink.

[@dalepres1]

Have you actually raised worms following this exact process or is this the result of what you read online?

[@dferbs]

The latter I'm betting

[@ebglock]

Almost everything on KZbin is people using others ideas they have never accomplished.

[@winstonsmiths2449]

I use very similar techniques and they work. There really are very easy to maintain. If you spend more than $20 (bins?) on materials you are over-thinking it. Dirt, compost, sand or fine ground eggshells, shredded paper and cardboard is all you need.

[@TheRavendavey]

I thought any citrus is not great or onion? is that true in your experience?

[@nobackhands]

I took a 24 inch PVC pipe as a worm composting bin. I started with a half-pound of red worms with table scraps and cow manure. It is covered with a thin see through window material held tight with a bungee cord and water two to three times a week. Should I do anything about the fruit flies?

[@KyleTheShaman]

Feed less and water less, fruit flys should leave

[@ahhason]

Actually, the worms do slowly eat their bedding too.

[@darryl0harris]

Actually.. thats what he said at 3m14s

[@ahhason]

@@darryl0harris Actually, the worms eat the Coco Coir too (bedding) 2:39. Why you trying to troll me?

[@darryl0harris]

@@ahhason you said "actually the worms eat the bedding too" like you were correcting him but thats exactly what he said.

[@ahhason]

@@darryl0harris But he said that the worms don't eat the coco coir which is what I was referring to because that is also bedding. Did you miss that part? I'm guessing you did or you just want to be a troll. Either way don't matter. :)

[@ahhason]

@@darryl0harris 2:38

[@ghiblinerd6196]

The avocado fat is ok for them?

[@jorgecarmona2447]

Good Information 👍🏻 Where did you buy Bins from?👍🏻

[@chimdinwoko7476]

I've seen them at target or home depot

[@TheRukus]

Whatbdoes the sand do?

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

Provides grit to aid in digestion and helps promote a looser mix in the soil medium.

[@tyler238]

How come you don’t feed on one side at a time so you can harvest a side at a time

[@Gehbar]

Is there a difference between these red wrigglers and regular earth worms?

[@Paratrooper23]

Earthworms eat soil and glean nutrition from that. Wigglers eat food scraps, paper and corrugated cardboard mostly. Search out a book named "Worms Eat My Garbage" by Mary Appelhof. It shows you how to start small. After that IF YOU WANT you can get as big as your abilities to come up with food for them will allow.

[@KellyCrenshaw]

I have a question. I have two bins. One of them is doing fine. The other one has a lot of mold in it. I prepared it exactly as you have directed, but it does have a lot of mold. What should I do? Or should I do anything? The worms seem just fine in that bin, but I’m concerned about the mold. Should I be?

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

Kelly Crenshaw Sometimes mold happens from too much moisture, or the type food being added. Overall it won’t bother the worms.

[@KellyCrenshaw]

Lonestar Worms thank you! Had me nervous. The difference the bin with the mold is full of African night crawlers while the other has red wigglers.

[@Mysteriouso100]

Would it still be beneficial to add Red Rigglers to a compost pile that is 3' × 3' ?

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

A good compost pile will be too hot for worms, but as it cools down if it is on the ground worms will find their way into it.

[@SpiritBearRanch]

Where can I order the night crawlers and red worms

[@karenoneal6891]

How do you keep ants out of your worm bins--no poison--i have pets-garden-kids-and want live worms

[@Luis-zl5cg]

Dude if you live in a hot climate like me (arizona) or compost indoors and have alot of leaves always falling in your backyard get african nightcrawlers they are absolute monster i fed them only worm chow in a peat bin and it was only worm poop in about 3 weeks then I decided to feed only leaves in a 32 gallon garbage can and after about 6 months they reproduced enough to the point where I'm finding myself adding fresh leaves to the brim every month they are monsters

[@bijanshadnia3620]

Why add sand?

[@huehuecoyotl2]

Worms have an organ called a 'crop' in their digestive system that mechanically grinds up food they consume with the aid of hard grit, like sand, since they don't have teeth.

[@bijanshadnia3620]

@@huehuecoyotl2 thanks!

[@jeffreyglick9137]

thanks for the video its well thought out and explains every step. Next time maybe turn the water off my only suggestion

[@RudolphDocCampos]

Do you sell worms?

[@TexasOrganicGardening]

Rudolph Campos Hi Rudolph. Maybe in 2021. Right now sales efforts and time are mostly focused on our other business. Check out our KZbin Lonestar Coops.

[@ebglock]

Mine will crawl out of those holes.

[@inlovewithhumans]

A Big NO to Onions Garlic Citrus fruits like lemon, orange and their peels It will kill the worms.

[@pacman9669]

That drill bit was not the right kind of hit otherwise it would go through that lid like butter

[@noelkealey]

Oh no, you left the shavings from the drilling of the lid in the bucket, now the worms will be eating your food and plastic!

[@articmars1]

Actually they will eat around it and it will work up to the top and then can be removed.

[@srobins05]

Grab a set of good drill bits, that is a concrete bit and you could have done same thing with a screwdriver and less effort… good luck

[@maymei6742]

Not a very helpful video...What do you do after.... how do you use it???

[@gbltheolechurch5acrehomestead]

🇨🇦💩🪱🧑‍🌾That was EASY! Thanks for sharing!