A worm bin perfect for an apartment, college dorm, tiny home or camper has finally produced natural fertilizer & soil amendments in the form of red wiggler worm castings after starting with a tiny population of less than 50-100 worms 172 days ago.
In the 1st part of this video I dig into the worm bin to make sure the castings are ready...Although I could have easily let the worms work the bin for another month, I wanted to count them because I could feel the worm bin population growing each time I fed them. In another video I will restart the worm bin with the left over bedding after I sift the castings.
In order to count the worms, I use the sun to force the worms deeper into their castings while taking the top and side layers off. When I got down to the bottom the worms had formed a ball which helped me count them faster. 90% of the counting is a time lapse with a couple of humorous interludes as I get stir crazy counting all the worms!!!
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. If you've ever thought about vermicomposting or composting with worms to make organic fertilizer & natural soil amendments with your 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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Below are some of the items I use for vermicomposting & my channel's videos. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you if you use these links. Thank you for supporting this channel!
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
00:00 | Intro last time exploring Tiny Worm Bin
03:28 | Counting begins
05:55 | Milestone! + worm ball
07:08 | Another milestone & My favorite person makes me laugh
07:39 | My patient wife catches me cheating!
08:14 | unofficial results
09:30 | Official results!!!
