Worm Farm Experiment: Will My Kitchen Scraps Turn Into Castings 5 To 1?

[@Vermicompost]

Yay! We get to see if the worms are right binned or left binned!! So glad I’m not the only one who forgets grit etc. until after I bury the food😂🤣😂🪱🪱🪱

[@PlantObsessed]

My executive producer is usually upstairs shredding paper or keeping the dogs quiet while I film. It is great Autumn is there with you to help and be your secondary memory. Lol

[@Vermicompost]

@@PlantObsessed Absolutely!! We both are very lucky to have supportive EP's!!

[@mikkosgarden]

Wow 5 lbs of food. I should weigh some of my feedings. Great update.

[@PlantObsessed]

That avocado was over 2 lb. It will be there when we get back in 3 weeks.

[@gregbutler9873]

I am getting a little more jiggly, so my contribution is going to drop as far as the worm food . After the holiday , after the holidays 😂😂

[@PlantObsessed]

Think about all the starving worms in the basement. 😯

[@NanasWorms]

I remember teaching a high school chemistry class and making up a gas law stoichiometry question on the fly. I gave them a mass of helium and asked students to calculate the size of a weather balloon at STP. It turned out the weather balloon would be the size of the Hindenburg when calculated! Good thing it was just hypothetical! ~ Sandra

[@PlantObsessed]

Most teachers don't do anything as creative as making up their own questions anymore. You must have been a fun teacher.

[@NanasWorms]

@@PlantObsessed It was difficult to stay one step ahead, so I can understand the move to "canned curricula." Over my career, I wrote all original assignments and exams for 7 academic high school courses (grades 10-12 Biology, grades 10-11 Chemistry, grades 10-12 English) plus a couple non-academic ones. If a student was away, I wrote a second assignment or exam to avoid any advantage. I loved teaching and miss the interactions with students, but it was a lot of work. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! ~ Sandra

[@juliensvermicompost2561]

i'm sure the nitrogen loss is minimal since this is a cold systems. people who run very hot compost piles tend to lose a lot of nitrogen compared to people who run milder piles. might even explain why castings are richer in general

[@PlantObsessed]

That is a great point.

[@the_green_anna]

So avocado is hard for them to digest? Interesting! 🥑

[@PlantObsessed]

I think the oil content makes it slow to breakdown. The mites will move in and help out in the next week or so.

[@the_green_anna]

@@PlantObsessed Ah! Thanks! 💚

[@simonsuppertime2589]

This is the most rigorous experiment I’ve seen you do! Cool concept! I’m thinking of doing an experiment comparing similar bins but feeding one fresh scraps and the other, week old scraps. Would those results be interesting you think?

[@PlantObsessed]

Yes, will the week old scrap be refrigerated or frozen? Thank you for watching 😃

[@simonsuppertime2589]

@@PlantObsessed more proof of your genius! Thats the comparison I should do- week frozen vs week fermented scraps! That’s how I am able to feed them the same food, same food portions, at the same time!

[@juliandarch9278]

Lot of water in that feed, how do you balance that out?

[@PlantObsessed]

Usually with dry bedding. I took out most of the water. This time of year my basement gets very dry. I expect to lose 2 pounds of water over the next month. If this was spring or summer I would have put an equal mass of dry shredded paper.

[@juliandarch9278]

Ah, the dreaded dehydration. Maybe add some ground up clay pellets to your grit, would aid with water retention and air flow;)

[@sansarsingh2716]

Pl tell us that kitchen waste is brozen or normal used by you

[@PlantObsessed]

Some of the food was frozen and thawed before feeding. Sometimes I don't have time. I believe these avocados were not frozen. The banana and bread looked like they were. I will try and remember to mention that in the future.

[@sansarsingh2716]

What is used at end white powder name pl

[@PlantObsessed]

That is ground egg shells. I add that to help them eat tough food like the avocado 🥑

[@jkboy789]

I have nearly unlimited access to cardboard and am a small scale farmer (so I have basically limitless use for worm castings as well). I was wondering, do you think European nightcrawlers would be best? I'm in zone 7 but have my bins in a warm garage. Thank you! I really love your channel

[@PlantObsessed]

If I had to choose one worm for the purpose of composting it would be the red wiggler. If you want to use the worms for fishing too then go with the ENC.

[@mascatrails661]

I would think in a warm garage in zone 7 and with cardboard in abundance, African Nightcrawlers could be a decent choice for their appetite for cardboard... just gotta keep em warm enough

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Good job Worms 🪱 👏 👍 👌 🪱

[@PlantObsessed]

Got to keep them in food more often.

[@lukepalumbo6506]

That’s the biggest avocado I’ve ever seen

[@PlantObsessed]

Not affiliated but I buy mine online. Florida small business. Sleepy lizard avocado farm. He has a KZbin channel too. He sent me more when they didn't ripen. It happens.

[@AJsGreenTopics]

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[@PlantObsessed]

Lol yep

[@A-V]

Ever since I started posting pinned comments prior to going public with my videos I no longer get any of these 'first' comments - 'cause now I am always first 👍🏻 :)