It is surprising which foods red wigglers break down the quickest as they turn food scraps & cardboard/paper shredding into natural fertilizer & soil amendments in the form of worm castings for your garden!! Broccoli, lettuce stalks, strawberry tops, peppers, banana peels & apples all get the test as I try to categorize each food into fast and slow foods for this compost worm bin experiment.
In this video I also revisit the last feeding to include the bag of raspberries & I run into one of the biggest worm balls I have encountered in any of my bins! We are recovering from 2 freezing nights here in Florida and my overfeeding of the Outdoor Worm Bin seemed to keep them worm judging from how many I found deep in the last feeding zone.
Epigeic worms or composting worms are fascinating natural composters & fertilizers that are in most homesteaders bag of tricks to make free organic fertilizer & soil amendments as well as fishing bait. If you've ever thought about vermicomposting or composting with worms to make organic fertilizer & natural soil amendments with your plant based kitchen scraps or food waste, this is the channel for you. I have 3 worm composing bins which you can watch from start to finished worm castings on the 3 playlists following each worm bin. If you haven't started yet, get started now and vermicompost with me!🪱🪱🪱 Visit my Channel at [ Ссылка ]
Happy Vermicomposting Everyone!!!🪱🪱🪱
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Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin [ Ссылка ]
Urban Worm Bag V2 [ Ссылка ]
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots [ Ссылка ]
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote [ Ссылка ]
Other Worm Bins:
Worm Factory 360 3-Tray Version [ Ссылка ]
Worm Factory 360 5-Tray Version [ Ссылка ]
Bus bins [ Ссылка ]
Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) [ Ссылка ]
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) [ Ссылка ]
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin [ Ссылка ]
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz [ Ссылка ] Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz [ Ссылка ] Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: [ Ссылка ]
Blue gloves [ Ссылка ]
Spray bottles to mist bedding [ Ссылка ]
Digital handheld Thermometer [ Ссылка ]
Compost Tea Bags [ Ссылка ]
Solar powered light [ Ссылка ]
Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups [ Ссылка ]
Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: [ Ссылка ]
Cameras & camera equipment I use:
GoPro HERO11 [ Ссылка ]
Flexible Tripod [ Ссылка ]
Insta360 GO 2 camera [ Ссылка ]
Insta360 One X2 camera [ Ссылка ]
iPhone 13 Max Pro [ Ссылка ]
Canon EOS Rebel T8i [ Ссылка ]
4 Ocean bracelets I wear
Multiple colors to chose from bracelets [ Ссылка ]
Books on worms & worm farming
Worms Eat My Garbage [ Ссылка ]
Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com
#Vermicompost #wormfarm #outdoorwormbin #redwigglers #selfsufficiency #homesteading #vermiculture #wormcastings #baitworms
00:00 | Intro 3 things to look for
00:36 | Major Worm Ball !!!!!!!!
02:08 | Another Worm Ball !!!!!
03:09 | Raspberry bag checkin
05:16 | Fast vs Slow food setup
06:38 | Philosophy over coffee & grit
07:14 | Odor in a worm bin????
