Vermicomposting, or composting with worms, is one of the best ways to integrate food scraps into your garden. Worms make short work of most food scraps and create wonderful BLACK GOLD, or worm castings. Castings are one of the best soil amendments you can ask for, and better yet…worms are easy to care for!
In today’s video we take a look at a DIRT SIMPLE (pun intended) system from my friends at Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm. They sent out a kit, as well as some red wigglers and european worms to start off the bin with.
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Did you have trouble keeping European night crawlers alive versus the red wigglers? Just curious.
Don't worms also need brown stuff like paper?
Hey does the bin needs to have a holes? Thank you!
Hi, Kevin! The video is pretty old, but I hope my comment from the future will not sound stupid 🙂 We also have a vermicomposter at home, we started with about 10-15 worms and a 10L container. We use red Californian worms, I guess it's the same breed you were mentioning in your video. I gotta say that the whole process seems kinda super complicated. For us it was much easier. We got our worms, we added some soil to the container (muuuuuch less that you did, but that is also due to the container size) and some finely chopped food scrapes. And watered them. That was about it. The container has a lid on it. The worms do not crawl out, so far only one somehow fell through the draining hole (he/she died 🙁 ). Overall, it's an incredibly simple process and it's a shame we started so late, honestly.
Thank you for the video! As a wannabe gardener I love your channel.
Good what you are going but see how much of pollution you do when doing such by throwing out polythene,… do it in a simple organic way,.. otherwise it looks like you pollute world just to create so called organic
Good what you are going but see how much of pollution you do when doing such by throwing out polythene,… do it in a simple organic way,.. otherwise it looks like you pollute world just to create so called organic
And this not simple, you are just doing the mixing what you purchase,..
Ewwwwwwwww uncle Jim’s over priced and worm species that love to escape.
Oh wow. This was when you were new at vermicomposting? You've come such a long way since then!
Thank you for the information!
Can you coconut husk bedding that’s for reptiles and their plants for bedding? It’s non-abrasive, biodegradable, non-toxic, and 100% toxic. I’m just wondering because I have used this in the past for reptiles and one block is 1/10 the price of coco coir strictly for composting.
short answers: worms can't drown
long answer: worms can breath oxygen throw air or water. they just prefer to go out of the dirt when the environment is wet, since the moisture on top of the soil protects them from the sun. this gives them an advantage to feed on decaying leaves on top of the ground (fresh food they can't usually get with the sun hanging around)
you get only a mixed bag of worms from jims . You don't just get red wigglers or euros. its a mixture of both in every order.
Cool, thanks for sharing! Blessings
Quick question: do you move the mulch aside when adding compost? Or do you add the compost over?
I am from Pakistan. I want to buy red wiggler. Can you send me in Pakistan…?
What is price of 10 pounds Eisenia Fetida..?
please be gentle to the worms
LOL- I love this guy! I don't feel so bad about letting worms out now. Thanks for your awesome honesty and real life mistakes we all make.
Thanks for the video.
My wife wanted me to ask you, where did you get the idea for the setup in that space of your house?
Thanks again for the idea!
How much did this whole set cost.
Do you even garden?
Pretty awesome shirt. How come this video doesn’t have many comments? I was just looking for your warm video that I saw before and I noticed I hadn’t seen it maybe just because it’s old people don’t know about it maybe you should re-post it
Hate how vermicomposting is my fave composting method but worms are my worst nightmare.
I wish you'd shown us the two types of worms side by side and taught us how to differentiate between the 2. Thanks for sharing this content, though!
I got my worms from Uncle Jim's also. They have been a great resource whenever I have had a question or a problem! Great business , Great People!
Nice video, thanks! Is it possible, to fertilize houseplants with worm castings only? Would be pretty sustainable!
https://youtu.be/mdEElnIqV5I
Do you have an updated video on this? The one you use in your garden now? I dont know the name of the box you have
It is not the red suggests that tend to crawl out so much as blue worms . bundle Jim's tend to be more blues than reds.