How to tell if you're overfeeding your worm bin & why this can lead to disaster for your worms! Overfeeding a worm bin is the #1 mistake beginners make when starting out. No matter how many worms you start with, heed this advice so you can reap the benefits of turning your food scraps into natural organic fertilizer in the form of worm castings for your garden!
This outdoor worm bin is 2 1/2 years old & has approximately 4000 worms. In this video we increase the volume dramatically & give them a huge feeding...Which can be done if you know your bin and it's limitations. Find out how I do it, while I dig around the last feeding zone, pull out some black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) and release worms from my latest worm casting harvest in a compost worm time lapse!
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 ] or [ Ссылка ] (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
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
Mosquito Dunks 6 pack [ Ссылка ] granular [ Ссылка ] or 20 pack [ Ссылка ]
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
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00:00 | Intro
00:30 | Digging in previous feeding zone
00:58 | Amount of volume used in this worm bin
01:18 | BSFL
01:33 | Worm close ups
02:33 | Worms everywhere!
03:12 | Adding unique bedding
03:44 | Adding food scraps
04:20 | More bedding & food for volume
05:12 | How much food is too much?
06:23 | The true test of overfeeding
06:55 | Amendments
08:10 | Worm time lapse
08:40 | Increasing the volume
09:09 | How I close up my fabric pot worm bin
