We are harvesting our black gold. The worm castings are ready after 2
years and we want to get them in the garden and growing tons of food
for us! We can’t wait to use them in worm tea, in seed starting mixes,
and as a very gentle fertilizer. Worm castings can cost up to $8 /pound
however we harvested almost 150 pounds for FREE! So you do the math.
Come along with us as we show you how we do it simply and easily.
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Great video!
What worms are you using? Wigglers?
i like to eat worms
I built a sifter that has a frame that sits on wheel barrow, one sifter has casters and 1/4 “screen another fits on top and has 1/2 “screen works great. Hope this helps. I find you don’t have to screen just let worms work it longer
How not to harvest worm castings, or doing it the hard way. There are many videos out there showing horizontal and vertical migration techniques. Others with bananas. Any of these will draw a large percentage of the worms together to easily separate them from their castings. The sharp metal screen probably harmed many worms needlessly.
No thought, care or preparation was given to this harvest. 1/2" screen because that's all you could find? Come on, you've had the worms how many years and didn't look to get the right equipment until you were ready to slap this video together when the wire screen might not have been there because it was out of season? Judging by the rest of the video, you just used what you had laying around. I picked up nice sifting "tools" from the dollar store the were better suited for harvesting. By the time you were done, you probably had about a quarter of your worms and ALL of the cocoons in with your "finished" castings.
You should've been feeding them smaller pieces of food in the months leading to this harvest and removed the larger pieces. Very poorly done.
Hahahahaha!! "Can't speak worm language" BAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Putting reason into an argument before starting it. Well said. I wish everyone thought like that.
I saw the tarp and thought you were going to use the pyramid method of shifting. Check it out. Other than dumping the tubs-no muscles required. Make a pyramid, wait, scrap off the top two inches-reform the pyramid, wait some more-or go cut the grass- scrap again. You end up with nothing but worms. There are many other methods. Also 3 to 4 years. I harvest after 3 to 4 months. Enjoyed your video but thought you used the hardest possible method.
9:10 Look at this guy, sneaking incredible life advice into the video!
People these are worms! Geez, have we slipped so far down mentally that we think more about worms than we do about more important things? Maybe we should lock up robins because they kill worms?
I find it hard to believe that there are people out there worried about the living conditions of worms. Please, find a cause worth concerning yourself with.
As an organic gardener, every spring when I get out into the garden I see how incredible it is to see all the worms piled up in the vegetation that I cover my garden with. They break it all down and they all seem to stay together and so the point is, I think that they don't mind being in a bin because they do that naturally in the garden!
For a worm, utopia is a place where there is always food, always moisture (but not too much), enough warmth to survive and zero predators. You have provided all these things and you know your worms are happy because they are reproducing. Worms in the wild have a much more difficult life.
People who say things like, "If you were a worm" tend to know nothing about what they are talking about. You cannot put human desires on an animal. What we need and desire is different than what say a pig wants or what a chicken wants or what a worm wants. The environment that you create in a worm bin is ideal for them. It would be like creating a high end resort for a human.
It might be easier to sift more than once. When I sift home-ground flour for (say) a pizza crust where I want less bran, I use a coarse screen first, then a finer screen. It goes a lot faster that way and is less effort.
Suspend it on strings from above. It takes all the lifting out of it.
Great video!
Just to get my fact straight you said 1/16” not 1/8” not 1/4” ?
I am looking at building a tumbler so i am thinking to start with 1/16” for the first stretch, then 1/8, then 1/4 at the end. Thoughts?
Wondering if commercial tumblers skip the 1/4” mesh and thats how they get debri and worms to cycle out of the tumbler at the end using a 2 bucket system… one catches the lighter worms which seem to go higher up the tumber wall as they exit, and one catches debri which falls out near the bottom or center of the tumbler..
Thoughts??
Appreciate it!
Good God man… Quit with the PC sh#&!!!
FREE the WORMS! lol if they were not happy, they wouldnt be so productive.
Never mind those people. Don't engage with idiots.
Some people take things too far…if I was a worm is love a worm farm…no preditors…lol.
Guess ill go dig up some worms and go fishing!!! Lol
can you please tell me can you use the casting immediately in the garden or do you have to age it like all other manures so not to burn your plants thankyou
My plan was to raise my worms and create more bins for a full year before using the castings. After watching this, I think I’ll make a similar sifter to yours but maybe make it a little bigger and suspend it from the ceiling to save my back and shoulders.
Wow didn’t know they laid eggs
Absolutely can. Ball caster wheels.
If you make a surface larger than what you're sifting in, then make a box that has a larger area than the screen, put the wheels on it… you can just roll it around over it.