How to start a worms' bedding with 600 pounds of veggies scraps

[@NanasWorms]

Thank you so much for taking us along on how you prepare your compost for the worms, Gaetano! We can all learn from your example of diversity and ingenuity. Have a wonderful weekend away - your truck is awesome! ~ Sandra

[@northeastworms]

Thank you very much Sandra 😊

[@ontherocksinthesoilmichael6739]

Good to see you posting again! Appreciate all you do friend!

[@northeastworms]

Thank you Michael

[@rickthelian2215]

Wow, that was great video, heaps of vegetables, frozen prior is good will break down quickly for the worms. It’s to have good relationships with food processors for waste and other manufacturers.😀🇦🇺

[@northeastworms]

Yes, actually I just get a call from a brewery that they will give to me all their spent grains 😊

[@rickthelian2215]

@@northeastworms that’s great news😀🇦🇺 I’m in suburbia in Sydney Australia, for my composting pallet bins I get supplies from Juice bars, Fruit shops, 7Eleven for coffee grounds and I live nearby a Racetrack so Horse Manure I call brown gold, are good inclusion to grasses and leaves with also shredded paper from my medical centre. Keeps the worms happy😀 Personal use only for my garden, which normal soil worms take over. Happy Worming😀😀😀

[@TheWormeryLLC]

congrats on the worm mobile and trailer

[@northeastworms]

Grazie Lino

[@malcolmyoung7866]

I like it too…👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@northeastworms]

Thank you Malcolm

[@AJsGreenTopics]

The master worm farmer is back. 😎

[@northeastworms]

Thank you very much AJ

[@Vermicompost]

I love the worm mobile!! Wow...That was a lot of food scraps!! What a big job layering all the pine shavings peat moss and food in!! Very cool that you sourced so much food scraps with more to come for your worms!! Great video!!🪱🪱🪱

[@northeastworms]

Thank you very much my friend

[@malcolmyoung7866]

AWESOME..and an inspiration also. I have suddenly become aware of a fair few new ideas for possibly up scaling my tiny ‘operation’..

[@northeastworms]

Go for it! You can do it

[@ale-iensbrewery8871]

Wow what a huge feeding looks awesome so jealous.

[@northeastworms]

Thank you

[@baptwins5464]

Awesome video. Keep doing what your doing. Love the grind/hard work.

[@northeastworms]

Thank you very much my friend 😊

[@A-V]

That was pretty incredible. Such a massive new bin for the wormies 👍🏻 Do you anticipate the system heating up during the first few days? Congrats on the new truck - it is a beauty!

[@northeastworms]

Thank you. Yes I let the new bedding heat up, cool down and mature for a totale of 12/15 weeks before introducing worms

[@A-V]

Wow - that long? I had no idea. The worms are going to love it in there once you have the grand opening 👍🏻

[@northeastworms]

Yes, meanwhile they finish to work the other half of the bedding, in this way I can harvest all the casting in the finished one and introduce the worms to the new bedding

[@JuanTutors]

I feel like you'd save money by buying bigger machines to process stuff. That tiny machine that you were using to process the mushroom bedding could probably be replaced by a metal shredder or something like that that doesn't require the additional thing to push down the bulk. It might leave slightly larger pieces occasionally, but given the volume, you'd probably be OK.

[@northeastworms]

You are absolutely right but being a start up my operation grow very very fast and also my needs for a different equipment, right now I have to slow down on spending money but when I will have my own place I will try to have everything I need to work quicker. Thank you very much my friend 😊

[@jerrycallison6125]

An excellent source of cardboard is either a furniture store or an appliance store. LARGE boxes that provide a lot of cardboard each. Saves having to peel labels from all of the other boxes.

[@northeastworms]

I get cardboard from Costco, will male a video on how I process large amounts of cardboard

[@clivesconundrumgarden]

"WORMOBILE" !! You gotta get a bumper sticker that says " THE CHICKEN IS GONE" !!!! 🤣🤣🤣 My man, good to see you back Gaetano!! We checked your channel last night to see if we missed a video !! Crazy. What's the main purpose/benefit to using the mushroom stuff ? Can't wait to see how it progresses !! Cheers J&C 🌱🪱🌱

[@northeastworms]

Thank you guys. Mushroom substrate contains mycelium that is one of the main components of the soil web. Fungi are root feeder and are essential part in a living soil to give to the plants all they needs. (In 2 words)

[@clivesconundrumgarden]

@@northeastworms thanks Gaetano!! Good to see you back !

[@ontherocksinthesoilmichael6739]

Great video by the way thank you!

[@mllokie9075]

Have you tried the shredder on that thicker carboard

[@northeastworms]

It is too thick. I have 2 nice shredders that can process ticker cardboard, but this is too thick. Like 2 inches

[@2005hrabak]

Can you link us the exact lime you buy at tractor supply?

[@northeastworms]

Of course :) www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/pro-aglime-pulverized-dolomitic-limestone

[@trevorlucas9971]

@notheast worms are you running with Reds or Euros in your big bin?

[@northeastworms]

They are mixed reds, euros and some Africans

[@patriciarussell8450]

At 5:20 in you state you have to pay to get cardboard that you dont get it for free. So confused when you say in your text you get it for free not sure what. ANyway nice to see your operation I am much smaller but love my worms no matter what size. Thanks for the video and sharing.

[@northeastworms]

Thank You Patricia

[@northeastworms]

I think that there are a misunderstanding. I know my accent is very strong and can lead to some misunderstanding, sorry for that. What I said (at least tried to say), that because I had no cardboard ready I bought the pine shaving. Thank You again

[@j.gregorywhitten5036]

Another question please: How or from where did you get 600 pounds of veggie scraps? Before your video, I have never heard of this quantity and nicely bagged for delivery! Do you have suggestions for other people around the country?

[@northeastworms]

Those veggies comes from a frozen veggies packaging company, they have left over unused, I don't know how they have surplus but a person that I know have contact with this company and they are more than happy to give to me what they do not use

[@burropoco]

My advice is to use a lawnmower to mulch up the mushroom substrate not a garden shredder. Just thrown it down and mulch it.

[@northeastworms]

Thank you for your advice. This is how usually I mulch leaves, the problem is that I do not have space in the wormery to do that. If I want to use the lawnmower I have to take the substrate to my house and take back too the wormery after I mulch and will be to time consuming for me

[@j.gregorywhitten5036]

Outstanding video. Question: About how many pounds of worms do you anticipate putting in the new bin after it finishes it's heat / cool / heat / cool cycle? Also, how many months do you estimate that the worms will require to turn it all into castings for you to harvest?

[@northeastworms]

-I am not weight thr worms, I will move the worms from the other side of the big bin, if I have to estimate they will be around 40+ pounds - yes is heat/cool/heat/cool cycle and it will take around 13/15 weeks to be ready. - I estimate that in 3 months this bedding will be all worm casting. Thank you for your question, this will help other people to understand better

[@j.gregorywhitten5036]

@@northeastworms Thank you!

[@joshslackslack8115]

Don't know if it's something you're able to do but you could have people deliver their yard waste to you tree leaves branches and other stuff like that and you can mulch it up and put it in your worm bins I have neighbors that give me all their leaves after raking their yard from my worm's

[@northeastworms]

The problem is that I do not have outside space to do a big compost pile, I am trying to find a place where I can arrange a drop off but look like is not easy living in the city

[@davebanner8666]

Holy cow

[@patriciarussell8450]

Dollar Tree will give you cardboard if you ask them they thru a lot of boxes. I get meine there, of course you may not have a dollar tree but they will give to you free.

[@northeastworms]

Thank you Patricia. I get my boxes from Costco, I get a truckload almost once a week because I go trough a lot of cardboard. The problem is that sometimes I do not have to shred the cardboard and I run out of the shredded ones. I am actually planning to do.a video on I am organized with cardboard

[@patriciarussell8450]

@@northeastworms ok I heard in your video that you have to buy cardboard? And I don't remember when it was filmed.

[@northeastworms]

@@patriciarussell8450 I never bought cardboard, may be there is a misunderstanding

[@patriciarussell8450]

@@northeastworms listen to your video. Have a good day.

[@robertsmith2199]

Could you fix the sound on your intro and overlays? It is very difficult to hear you during the video but, when your intro and music overlays come on, they are deafening. I have to constantly have to turn up, then back down. Sometimes deters me from watching.

[@northeastworms]

Sorry about that. On the newest video I fixed this issue