Supercharge Your Worm Tower From The Bottom Up!

Supercharge Your Worm Tower From The Bottom Up! | Vermicompost Worm Farm

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@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

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@joesoutdoorplaces 7 ай бұрын

What most people feed their worms for a meal would be a midnight snack for your worms.

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

😂🤣They are a surprisingly hungry bunch!! Thanks so much for watching Joe!!🪱🪱🪱

@wild-radio7373 7 ай бұрын

I am LOVING your videos!❤👍 My worms are so happy lately because of your guidance. 😊

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

That is so great to hear!! Thanks for the kind words!! I'm so glad your worms are doing so well!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱

@brianseybert192 7 ай бұрын

Definitely maxing out that bin. Pretty dramatic after 15 days how much material the worms actually go through. Great illustration on how to use a tower system. Stay Well!!!

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Every time I feed Autumn tells me I over did it, and then we check in and the worms have destroyed it!!! I guess that's the power of an almost 4 year old system!! Thanks so much for all your support Brian!!🪱🪱🪱

@GardeningwithBarchuckin 6 ай бұрын

Another great looking feeding Patrick. Typically the root vegetables do take a bit longer to breakdown for the worms. I need to stay active of adding more bedding to the feedings.

@Vermicompost 6 ай бұрын

It is amazing to me how quick the volume goes down...without adding bedding this time, when I rotate it under and harvest in 60 days, the tray will probably only be 2/3rds full! All root veggies tend to take longer as well for me except for the occasional carrot piece...but then again sometime carrots take forever for me too!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Rick!!🪱🪱🪱

@tory464 6 ай бұрын

❤️👍Have a Great 4th

@Vermicompost 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!! You as well Tory!🪱🪱🪱

@TerpyTen 7 ай бұрын

It's been almost a month and the pineapple top is still noticable and mostly intact, but it's getting really soft and slimy. This next feeding there will be much less of it left. It's fun experimenting 👍

@Vermicompost 6 ай бұрын

Great update!! Yes, pineapple tops take a good while for the worms and microbes to totally devour them...but it will eventually happen! I love experimenting too!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱

@dnawormcastings 7 ай бұрын

Great video 🇳🇿❤️

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for stopping by and passing on your positive feedback!! We appreciate it!!🪱🪱🪱

@A-V 7 ай бұрын

Somehow the colors of the two cameras appear to be much better matched than in the past. Have you changed cameras? Or have you done something in the video editing software to make the footage from the two camera match each other better? I like it - looks nice 👍🏻 Towards the end there when you were spreading the last of the bedding on the surface I felt as if I was watching someone prepare some kind of gourmet dish, or maybe some sorta pastry. Now I'm in the mood for a snack! :)

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Soooo, I'm glad you mentioned that...I have noticed that as well and haven't had the time to try to figure out how to match them better. I use an iPhone 14 for the A-roll and an Insta360 Ace Pro for the angled B-roll. I use Final Cut Pro on a MacBook Pro for editing. I'm hoping the Final Cut Pro software has some ability to try to sync the colors, but I probably need to watch some KZbin videos on how to do it. I just got lucky this time...or perhaps it was all the black towels I put around the area that prevented the weird lighting. Ironically Autumn takes pictures with my iPhone while we're filming and a lot of the time the HDR screws up the colors by brightening them so much that I can't take screen shots or import them into Final Cut Pro with out it washing out or being super bright in spots, especially around my gloves. No issues when I screen shot straight from the videos. Ok, lots of rambling on my part about editing but I constantly try to get better, especially as you challenged me early on to get rid of the "black rectangles" on the sides of my early VermiHut videos😂🤣😂 I'm guilty of watching worm videos hungry as well...and It's usually when your mom has given you something from her soups or deserts that make me want to snack!! Thanks so much for watching & for all the advice and encouragement over the years AV!!🪱🪱🪱

@A-V 7 ай бұрын

I haven't really had to do too much matching of dissimilar video content to make them appear to have a common color profile. I believe that the Davinci Resolve video editing software that I use has some functions that will do it more-or-less automatically.. but I don't have a great deal of experience doing it. Here n' there, when I include some short clips shot using my iPhone with the main footage that's captured with a GoPro, I eyeball it to the best of my ability to make them as similar to each other as I can. But my methods are crude at best. If the good looking result you got here was just a sort of coincidental matching, then it is unfortunate that it's (presumably) not repeatable. These are the sorts of things that I too wish I knew more about. Color grading is certainly an art form that I have only a novice-level understanding of :)

@Vermicompost 6 ай бұрын

So, I tried to automatic color match in my editing software with my video I just released after this one and it looked worse so I reverted back to the original...I'll figure it out eventually...manually eyeballing it in the software may be the way to go until the automatic features gets better.

@A-V 6 ай бұрын

I have tried the automatic feature of my software too & had a similar outcome. Eyeballing it seems to work well enough for me & might be the best I'll ever be able to do :)

@Vermicompost 6 ай бұрын

I keep trying to eyeball it on my latest videos and still no joy...maybe I need to get two of the same camera instead of using my iPhone??!? Eventually I'll figure it out!

@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 7 ай бұрын

Good morning Patrick ❤🪱❤ I have added shred to the bottom well of my Can-O-Worms to absorb any liquid, per your suggestion 👍 I'll let you know how it works out! Great amount of feeding 👌 At least, we had a few days of rain 🌧, but not flooding. Take care ❤Peggy❤

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Good morning Peggy!! It's so nice to have the rains back finally!! The garden, what's left of it, always perks up after a good rain!! Thanks so much for watching & for all your positive support!!🪱🪱🪱

@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 7 ай бұрын

@@Vermicompost My pleasure! Happy Father's Day to you and your Dad!

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Peggy!!

@madhat127 7 ай бұрын

Hi Patrick and Autumn, great video as usual. They certainly do like the avocado shells. Look at that worm ball 🤩 I did my tower earlier this evening. I harvested one tray and added two more inoculation trays. So that is three inoculation trays on my system now. Once the top feeding tray becomes the harvest tray and the oldest inoculation tray becomes the feeding tray I will add another inoculation tray to make a total of five trays. It's a good job that you understand all of that, someone else would think it gibberish 🤣 I think I'm fairly sorted now with the moisture and pot worm problem that I mentioned. I starved them and put them in the baking sun 😰No I didn't do that 😁 Have fun, Mark : )

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

I love seeing the avocado worm balls!! I just wish the avocado shells would degrade faster!! That's awesome your able to get up to 5 trays!! Yes, it's sounds complicated when I try to explain it but once got it, it makes total sense!! Or so we think😂🤣😂 That's good you got the moisture & pot worm situation under control ...Without having to give them a sun tan!! Thanks so much for the good laugh & of course thanks for watching Mark!!🪱🪱🪱

@AJsGreenTopics 7 ай бұрын

Great update.

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Thanks AJ!! They enjoyed that apple sauce for sure!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱

@mikkosgarden 7 ай бұрын

I am guessing that the tangerine peel will go quicker than the apricot. Awesome feeding.

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

That's a good matchup!! This is the first time I've done apricot so I'm interested to see how it fares against yhr tangerine and the goji berries...I have a feeling the seed will be in there forever!! Thanks so much for stopping by Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱

@annsalty5615 7 ай бұрын

Huge feeding! They really chomped down the previous feeding in your Vermihut. I just fed our outdoor composters today. Found in one an infestation of red ants! 🐜 I put some diatomaceous earth to hope they go away! I never saw them around here before.

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

It is so fascinating to see what we fed previously and then try to find any resemblance of what was in there!! Compost worms & their helpers are so amazing!! Ants!! Black ants love to try to hide in my Outdoor Worm Bin...but red ants usually mean trouble for us down here!! Hopefully DE will be a huge help for you!! Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱

@encryption1304 7 ай бұрын

Hey there! Been wanting to get into vermicomposting for a while and been learning a lot from your channel. Would you be able to say approximately when to go from a 2 tray compost bin to a big outdoor compost bin? Thanks!

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!! I'm so glad our channel has been helpful!! The one thing that's inevitable after getting your first worm bin is that you'll want another soon after!! Once you are 3-4 months in and you've kinda seen what overfeeding looks like (we all do it early on) and how much your worms eat and how fast they reproduce...and probably after you have harvested you worm bin once, I'd say that is the soonest I would make the step to a big outdoor worm bin! Big being a relative word when it comes to worm bins, the worms will reproduce to fill their bin without having a "die off" due to mass reproduction...they reproduce to fit their space. So taking some of your worms and starting a new bin will always help expand your population and your castings production! I hope this helps!! Let me know if I answered your question sufficiently. Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱

@encryption1304 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, I will definitely refer back to this comment when I get my first bin. I appreciate the speedy response as well. I am looking forward to your future videos!

@bryannakvinda8411 7 ай бұрын

What is the recommended climate temperature for these things a friend of mine bought one and she says one year it stayed too wet and caused a bunch of dead worms and the next year it dried out and killed all her worms

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Red wiggler compost worms do pretty good between 50-90℉ (10-32.2℃). In my experience the do really well (lots of casting production and reproduction) between 75-85℉ (23.9-29.4℃). The most common issue with new worm bins is over feeding which leads to bins that are too wet and begin to ferment, rot and cycle nitrogen producing ammonia. This is what happened to one of my first worm bins. The solution is to add more bedding and skip a feeding or two. Drying out of a bin usually happens due to skipped feedings or changes in season from hot to cool weather or vice versus. In Florida we turn the Air Conditioners on almost non stop starting in May and this tends to dry out the bins so the solution I use is to give them more juicy foods like cucumbers, watermelon etc. Up North they turn the furnace on in November and that tends to dry up the air as well. I try to control the moisture in my bin with the foods I feed them. These worm towers take the guess work out of moisture control because they drain out of the bottom if it's too moist and they have a breathable lid that traps moisture in real well. So as long as you don't over feed, and you give more bedding with each feeding there will not be any issues! I hope this helps!! I'm not sure what happened with your friends bin, but I hope she tries again!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱

@NanasWorms 7 ай бұрын

Hey Patrick, you do such a great job with innoculating the bottom tray, I think I have a way that you could speed up your entire system. Instead of using dry shred with each feeding why don't you use shredded cardboard from the inoculating tray? Put new shred down there and repeat with the next feeding. You could be slowing down the process by adding new cardboard in the top feeding tray instead of taking advantage of the inoculated cardboard down below. ~ Sandra

@Vermicompost 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!! That is actually a really great Idea I hadn't even thought of!! It may interfere with my 80/20 rule of worm farming (and life really😂) where 20% of the effort or work will get you 80% of the results and that last 20% of results will take 80% of the time and effort...but it is worth a try!! I'll have to figure out the logistics of doing this each feeding without making a mess...now you've got me really thinking...Thanks so much for watching & passing off great ideas Sandra!🪱🪱🪱