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- A real handy and functional item to have in your garden is a worm tower. Not only are the worms fertilizing your soil, but you have a handy "compost garbage" bin at your fingertips. It very easy and inexpensive to make. A bucket, drill with bit and a shovel, that's it.
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You can use just about any container, put them in your garden, garden box or use a small diameter worm tower in a large garden pot.
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I used the coffee grounds as a base for all my blended scraps. I have the largest worms I have ever seen. I actually thought I had baby snakes. Enjoyed the video.
Thanks Larry, coffee grounds are great in worm beds and compost piles for sure. I actually found a worm this week that I thought was a snake at first glance, but just an extremely large worm. Thanks for watching and commenting, take care, Kim
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What a great idea for a small space. I will be giving it a try
Just beginning to garden again after renting an apartment for many years. Great ideas that I will use right away!
You sound like the "hard-headed woman" in Cat Stephen's song; which means that you are a great person and active in your life. I liked your video and appreciate your teaching on worm towers. LORD bless you.
Love this idea!!! I’ve been watching all sorts of videos on worm farms and this is definitely the most practical, economical and efficient!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I agree
I'm going to have to try this! I have a stack of 3 gal. ice cream buckets with lids from a local ice cream shop.
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Great idea! So much better than narrow PVC pipe!
Just good ol advice from a real gardener! Wisdom=priceless. 🙏🙏
Now I now what I'm going to do with all of the buckets I'll have left when I finish grouting my shower.
Excellent! Wish I saw it earlier. I will use the method this year. Thanks!
The doggies wondering around in the background stole the show. They were really enjoy the life in the garden!
I built a worm tower a couple of months ago to see if they really worked {May 27}. Today {July 11} I dumped it onto a large piece of cardboard to see the results. Oh my goodness! I've never seen so many worms in their worm castings. I'm sold! I'm building more towers, and I thank you for sharing your knowledge. And my garden thanks you.
Thanks for sharing your positive experience! I wondered just HOW well this worked given the time put into it. Though not difficult, I have to keep all movement minimized as much as possible. ANYTHING I do heats up my core and gives me hot flashes from hell. (Lifelong cancer & treatments, plus other issues - it gets old fast!)
@@SewLambitious Sorry I took so long to reply to you. computer has been in the shop. Drilling the holes in the container and digging the hole to put it in is the only work. I used the instructions from The Abled Gardner. At first I was checking occasionally to see if I had worms in the bins, then once they appeared it is just a matter of making sure they have food. No work at all to maintain. Perhaps you can get a friend to do the drilling and digging So sorry for your physical limitations. I wish you well.
What I've been doing for over fifteen years is dig a hole in the garden and throw your scraps in. It works the same but without the plastic. I really don't like plastic! It is absolutely polluting our beautiful world.
@@rhondalambert7318 the positive of this for people with rats / mice is that it might limit that....as i get rats/mice digging into mine
@@rhondalambert7318 if we did that, we'd have rats galore.
What a great video, thanks for having the idea of 5 gal. buckets and carrying through with good explanations and demos. I enjoyed it! Also, thanks for wearing gloves. There's a good example for people to follow.
Good idea I might do this too, Got thinking of using a 1/2"drill and a long metal spiral Paint mixer to chew up the pail ingredients better before the worms get into it.
Quite an awesome idea :)
Thank you.
like the buckets because you can use more compost
Wow, gonna do this today even though it is late in the season. Will use the large plastic coffee cans I put in the recycling can. Thanks for the awesome video!!
Thanks for the video. Hugs and prayers from Brasil and our garden work in progress. Lord bless you.
This was so nice, friendly and with practical advice that has convinced me to start a real worm tower. I do have a wooden box of compost that I haven't really moistened regularly because we had a terribly rainy spring and it caused me to put off planting. BUT I will prepare one or two worm towers for next April. Thank you so much; you seem like a very sweet and generous person. Roseann (in Bordeaux, France)
I love your wines, Cabernet, unless I buy them$$😲. Are you\family a negociant?
Hope the Muslim horde is dieing down.
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Thanks for sharing a wonderful idea. I hope to implement it. I think I'll experiment with burying it deeper so that the top is ground level, then for my lid, I think I'll use some kind of decorative stepping stones.
Hey what a great idea!
I’m new to this and yours sounds like a great idea. I do have a question if there needs to be exposed air holes?
@@ouachitafarmacy yes you have to have air holes in there
Sold on the worm tower concept and really think that the 5 gallon/20litre plastic buckets with lids are the way to go!! Thank you for sharing your insights, Kind Regards Geoff
instead of using a drill, i use a soldering iron. and i'd make sue the bit of the worm tower that sticks up above ground level plus the lid will be black...helps the composting biochemical process.
If your lid is black your tower will get too warm for the worms. Heat is good if you have a compost pile because it's the microbes that are doing the work and they create/need heat. In a worm tower it's the worms working and they will leave if they are not happy with the temperatures.
I just started gardening this fall and the earthworm tower is such a great idea. Thanks for the valuable tutorial. New friend here from Texas.
HI KIM!!!! Yes, I too am Disabled; A Disabled War Veteran, Retired U.S.Marine., Silver Star Recipient. After I retired from the Corps, i was recruited by Home Depot to be one of their Store Managers, and that is one of the many reasons why i wanted to chat with you. That price that you quoted on the PVC, is extremely high. PVC & ABS Pipe is quite cheap, anyways your bucket idea is far better, obviously because you can hold a lot more compost material than you can with pipe, unless you are using 4 or 6 foot lengths, but than your neighbors are going to think that you have a bomb shelter buried under your yard, and the PVC that is sticking out of the ground is one of your ventilation shafts.
Anyways, your tower idea is quite unique, makes a lot of sense, and just after watching your interesting and informative video, I just know that it will work real fine!! I will be installing two of these to begin with in my garden just as soon as i am up to it.
Aside form my Disabilities, since March of last year, I have been fighting a different kind of war. I have been battling with Cancer. Adenocarcinoma of the stomach, stage IIIB.
So i have subscribed to your site and i hope that we can stay in touch. Take care and GOD Bless!!!!
Thanx Again for this Awesome Video!!!!
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Definitely going to try this
For an added kick for the worms and your garden add rabbit manure, if you can find it. The worms love it like you won't believe. Also rabbit manure is one of the best manures, if not the best. I used the rabbit manure in a compost pile and the manure basket/bucket had the largest earthworms I'd ever seen. Rabbit manure doesn't have to be aged. If I had added coffee grounds, eggshells and other extra goodies to the manure, it may have been out of sight, Jack !!
How is this NOT brilliant....yet simple?
I meet information about the worm tower for the first time! I am from Russia. I've never heard of anyone using this! I will definitely try to use it in my garden. And it is very easy for me to understand your English! Thank you!
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Just started a worm bucket for my garden. Thanks for all the tips and information as I wasn't quite sure how to do it. 🐛
You're welcome, I still enjoy my 8 towers as small 'garbage" cans in my garden that take the refuse away and leave me with great vermicompost.
How did you keep cabbage moths from laying on your pretty brassicas back there? They look great! Otherwise you are checking for worms every day, right? Thanks for the info! You've got so much more space than I do.
+Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show I sprayed them with BT last year; I'll also get some "Tulle" from Walmart at .99 a yd. Wedding fabric is what I call it. I'll cover them with that to keep the moths off the cabbage and anything else that needs it. It works really well for citrus too, it keeps the citrus leaf miner off he leaves. Thanks for the question, Kim
BT is natural, and approved for organic growing, it is also very specific and does not bother the bees.
That's why I like it.
I ordered 50 yards of tulle for about $10 from Amazon.
Hi...I watched this video last year and put one together.....WOW! It was amazing how the raised bed was improved. Put another one together for a new raised bed this year. Works great! Thanks for sharing this video!
If you put the food for the Worm Tower in a blender Animals will leave it alone and ANTS will also.
Good video. I'm going to start work towers like yours. Thanks. Blessings.
A real handy and functional item to have in your garden is a worm tower. Not only are the worms fertilizing your soil, but you have a handy "compost garbage" bin at your fingertips. It's very easy and inexpensive to make. A bucket, drill with bit and a shovel, that's it.
You can use just about any container, put them in your garden, garden box or use a small diameter worm tower in a large garden pot.
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This is the most convenient, easiest and practical tip I've ever encountered. I have so many buckets in backyard my house painter friend gave me. I am going to use them in my garden. Thanks for this great gardening tip.
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@@gildaguio4792 please Gil. Don’t use a bucket that kept paint. That’s toxic. Goto Home Depot, it’s $5 for a BPA Free food grade bucket
Awesome garden , cute doggy!🤠🌹🤠
That’s very good idea thank you for sharing definitely I’ll use it in my garden
That is one of the best tutorials that i have seen tonight... I have lots of buckets and about 4000 sq. feet- thank you!
Good idea. Thank you
I took a large pot from a nursery and cut the bottom out and stuck in the ground a few inches and I stuck some compost in it and I've had great success and to the cover I use wet cardboard.
That's a great way to do it, good luck.
I've been composting for years and I love your idea with the buckets. Thanks for the tip. Enjoyed your video very much. I'm starting some tomorrow before the rain.
I'm glad to see the worm towers are working well. I think I'll put in at least one worm tower this year.
Patrick, I have seen the first one already working really well. I think any garden would benefit from at least one worm tower. Thanks for watching and commenting! I know you're very busy, take care, Kim
Hi, What a great idea worm towers are, I am certainly going to do that. Thanks for Sharing.
I noticed at the end of the video you said that you were making sure the stakes were in the garden to keep the cats out, I have a cat problem in my area and would like some information on the stakes.. have you a video about them or can you direct me to a site about using stakes in the garden to keep cats out. I don't want to hurt the cats just deter them.
I am a relatively new gardener and am surfing for ideas.
thanks again
Adele Wright I got the idea off a You tube video I believe. It was the idea that if you put different length sticks, like bamboo, and stick them in the ground where the cat visits, they don't like walking around where the sticks are coming out of the ground, it makes them go somewhere else. I guess cats are very particular where they walk and it would make it hard for them to scratch around if there are sticks in their area. Hope it helps, it did for me. I put a litter box in the garden and she wouldn't use it, LOL
Thank you, great idea, going to use that one also
Happy Gardening
Adele Wright ;-)
Thank you for sharing !!
I first found out about worm towers only recently, watching a video with the four inch pipe. Your solution is much more practical, efficient and most of all economical. My wife and I Juice a lot and now have an outlet to use this left over material. Thanks.
Juicing leftovers is a great food for the worms in the worm towers, they would love you for it, LOL.
You juice worms?
Tasty? Healthy? Are fish attracted to you?
@@wagnerpd5921 No. But 2 legged worms do get attracted and come over and ask silly comments like u !
Worms hate citrus peels. They will go else where.
Thanks. My wife and I made 3 of these in about an hour for our small patio raised beds with buckets I had on hand. We were using one bed for worms by just burying the kitchen scraps. We had plenty of worms and casings, but were getting hundreds of soil gnats, so we stopped with the kitchen scraps. Hope this solves that problem
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I hope so too, the only thing that I get a lot of in my towers is pill bugs. Tons and tons of pill bugs, LOL.
My wife and I just checked our 3 worm bucket towers for the 1st time since they were filled with food scraps. There were lots of big worms and the buckets were filled with fertile worm casing soil. This works great! Just have to be patient & let the worms do their work. Thanks so much.
This is one of the very few videos on vermiculture that show the success of a working process and also how to repeat it or create it. It seems most videos are made by Internet experts making their first rubbermaid tub bins. Thank you for sharing your real story of how you grow your worms.
Thanks for the instructions. I saw it a few days ago but forgot what you said to put under it. Anyway, spent a lot of time scrolling to find the videp again and ended up with a lengthy search question and found you. This time I subscribed. Now i need to search to learn what NOT to compost. Thank you so much!
You can get FREE 5 gal buckets with lids at any restaurant 😉🍀
Bakeries as well.
Thank you for the helpful tip! 👍🏻
Too bad restaurants are closed (week 5 of stay- at- home orders due to Pandemic 2019). Would fast food places have them, or Starbucks. I don't think of those places as restaurants. What sort of food comes in the buckets.
@@maggierose97 Funny you would mention. I am a waitress. I had a great job...now I don't know if it will even be 'leagal' or me to work, without a hazmat suit. Anyway, some things that would a 5 gal container would be used for, would be mayonaise andpickles.
They are probably also food-grade buckets if you get them from a restaurant. That won't be the case with a Homer bucket.
Hello! Just starting a garden soon and looking at info. Thank you for your video!
I'm just starting to worm compost. I have a can o worms composter however, I think I need more composting containers. We have a raised beds in our garden and I like your idea! The only draw back I see is that it takes up a lot of space in the bed. Thanks
Really handy idea! 5-gallon buckets are my staple, and some of them have developed leaks. This is a perfect way to give them a new role in life. Love feeding the compost mix directly to the worm who already live in the beds.
Very clever idea,wasn't sure at first but you convinced me.Thank you! : -)
***** Thanks, worm towers are not a new idea, but are usually used with a smaller pipe and it is left in the ground. I would rather be able to use the contents around other plants in addition to the benefit it provides the garden bed. It also keeps beneficial worms and microbes working your soil as long as they have something to feed on. Anyway, I'm glad you like the idea and that you watched the video. Thanks for commenting, take care, Kim
+The Abled Gardener I have worm farms at home, but this is a good way to have some "independent farms" working at the allotment (rented garden plot)for me.
+J Watson That sounds great. The worm castings are so rich, it is great to add to the other plants in the ground.
Wow, I have seen so many videos for composting but your method seems to be simplest & very economical. Will surely try this tomorrow itself and will also encourage all my friends too. Thank you very much. Happy Easter..💐💐💐
Thank you, this never would have occurred to me!
I think yours was the first video I saw on inground garden worm buckets. I now have four systems running beautifully here on Vancouver Island! I harvest it a bit differently by having my husband pull the bucket out of the raised bed and emptying it into a wheelbarrow. We then refilled the bucket with new bedding and add back the worms. We're managing to do this twice a year, which is great!
Thank you for this video. I have been trying to figure out how to keep worms in the garden, and don't like keeping a separate worm bin.
Effing wow, I never thought of this but now i need to do it
Great I never thought of doing this but I am going to this year thank you and God bless you
Great idea! Have you ever had issues with moles or something that feeds on the worms?
That's a great idea. Many pluses in many ways, thanks
saw this last summer. just now getting around to making them for my raised beds. thank you very much for the detailed explanation!
I'm just starting out with growing my own veges, and I think that's a wonderful idea, :) I had never heard of a worm tower....I have have heard of making worm "tea" from the urine of a certain type of worm, and using that as a compost.... apparently very effective, but I do like the other uses of the worm towers ...thanks for making that video! :)
Thanks for watching Jonathan, I appreciate the kind words also.
Make your own tea if deer, rabbits are a problem.
This is a great idea! 18 yrs ago, I drilled holes in buckets, added 1" gravel from my driveway, then added a nice compost/soil mix to grow tomatoes in the 5G buckets and peppers in the 1G buckets. I was a cake decorater in a grocery store, so the buckets were free!
The tomato cages fit very nice in the buckets & that setup was easier for me to weed being higher off the ground. I was able to set those plants on the edge of my large garden, but move them to dappled shade late afternoon when I thought they needed it. I used those buckets for a number of years before they became brittle & started breaking apart. I hope this tip helps quite a few people out there!
Thanks for the great tips
Put your egg shells in a baggie crashing with the rolling pin
Check with restaurants and sub shops. I buy 5 gallon food grade buckets from a sub shop. They are pickle buckets... for 3$ the vinegar slows growth in the bucket... I use then for animal water and never get growth in the bucket like I do in other plastic containers. Best part is I can use them for anything from my own food storage as they have a rubber seal even... to worm towers....
I would use this method for sure if I had the space! Very very nice Kim and you look super.
Thanks sweetie!
Thanks for sharing - I am planning herb garden and will try your system
Monica Haigh Great idea, I have found one thing if you are putting it in a raised bed like I did, I have to keep the worm towers watered as they dry out in the beds, I think it's fine though if it's in the ground just to maintain moist soil and it should be easy to keep it that way in the ground. Thanks for watching.
Go to your local grocery store bakery and ask for their empty buckets, that they get their icings, fruit fillings, donut glaze etc. You may have to clean them but they just throw them away.
Thanks for sharing this ☺️
I will be trying this soon.
I subscribed 💗
Hi! My husband n I are Seniors n try to get in our garden as much as possible. We tried our hand at having a above ground worm farm, but some thing went wrong. This is an easier approach at it.
Thank you so much for this information. I'm sure we will try it soon. One question. During the winter, so you still maintain the worm tower?
Again, thank you n may God bless u n urs.
We live in Southern MS, 40 miles from the Gulf of Mexico (Mississippi Sound).
Not being rude but the correct name is a spade bit. I an excited to implement these techniques in my garden.
The worm buckets in the garden have been such a time and space saver for me. thank you for this wonderful idea! i live in town and cannot do a compost pile. I have a 4 ft garden along my fence which equals approximately 900 sq ft of garden. I spaced 8 worm buckets in my garden, 1 about every 20 feet. They have been such a blessing in putting kitchen scraps and veggie scraps when canning my harvest. Yes, a wonderful idea!
So is this used mostly as worm bait to get worms to move through your garden bed, or more a compost/vermicompost idea to get a concentration of black gold for the next planting season?
DeadeyeJoe37 I was wondering the same thing!! Great question!
@@sherriefoster3145 I would say both are very beneficial
Good Morning ! I Love your video and am going to make a few from kitty litter containers (as one of your viewers suggested) I just shared your video with Joe Lampl's FB Group, Joe Gardener...He's from Growing a Greener World TV show... Enjoy your Day and Thank You !
Thanks for watching and good luck with your worm towers. Kim
Great idea dear
I think - west Washing machines inner plastic tub is good for this proses
Another brilliant repurposed idea, I hope others read this suggestion.
good advice
A real handy and functional item to have in your garden is a worm tower. Not only are the worms fertilizing your soil, but you have a handy "compost garbage" bin at your fingertips. It's very easy and inexpensive to make. A bucket, drill with bit and a shovel, that's it. You can use just about any container, put them in your garden, garden box or use a small diameter worm tower in a large garden pot.
do you ever get rodents getting into it?
I haven't due to the lids I keep on the towers and a good size rock or brick to keep it in place.
No, I've never had any rodents that I know of. The lids are held down tight so they can't get in. Take care, Kim
What a great idea! I've not seen one of these in action. I've GOT to do this!!! By the way, love the hat!
Thanks Mel, of all my gardening hats, this one is the most comfortable, I hope you do make one or more of these though-out your garden; a very handy "garbage can". Take care of yourself and I'm happy things are going better for you with the water issue! I hate it when that happens ;-) Bless you sweetie, Kim
I will try to do something like it. It's rather ingenious! It sure is nice to have water again..... argh!
Since having just the one all winter, it became filled quickly, now I have more to take all the scraps. I open them all on garden cleanup day and throw scraps in all day, really convenient for me. Thanks for watching again, I appreciate you as a YT friend, take care, Kim
***** Worms don't eat very fast in winter. I suspect during summer would be more productive. Also need to include bedding for them as they are surface feeders and don't burrow much like earthworms.
Darkfalz79 They do get shredded paper in addition to kitchen and garden scraps. The worms live throughout the bucket, when it's hot they like to go down where it's a little cooler. Do you raise worms or have worm towers? It is really something I'm glad I did, as the compost after a few months is so dark and rich. Thanks for commenting, Kim
I have a commercial worm bin (can o' worms). Worms made it through the hot summer and seem okay so far this winter with several nights of severe frost - they are in a sheltered area. They are eating slower but certainly still eating. Only major problem I've had so far was during summer a minor mite infestation, they tended to lay their eggs on the underside of the lid so a few weeks of rinsing them off every second day or so seemed to solve it. I haven't tried in the beds but I'm tempted, I only have a small courtyard garden though. I suspect it would just slowly fill up as the worms tend to leave their castings where they eat rather than out in the soil where you want them I would think. Besides there's only my wife and me, so between the worm bin and our compost tumbler we don't produce enough scraps to keep more going.
Darkfalz79 I don't see any difference in the worms just leaving their castings in the buckets as opposed to the garden bed. I know they travel in and out of the bucket as I look to see how many are in there and if they need to be fed. If I want to harvest the worm castings, I don't feed them for 3-4 weeks, they leave the bucket, I harvest the castings, put the bucket back and fill it up with scraps, shredded paper, garden clippings, whatever, and within a few days it's full of worms again, eating away. It makes a nice garbage can for plant clippings and garden clean-up, then you get the castings in your bed or to harvest.
Not to try my hardest to get you to put in a worm tower, it just works for me and I'm very happy with it. It's definitely nothing new as gardeners have been using them for years. Good luck with your worm bin, do you have a lot of veggies planted? I hope your gardening year gives you plenty of fresh produce to eat. Take care, Kim
I'd put one if if I could, commercial ones here are on special at the moment at my hardware store but I don't have the room or the depth in my clay beds (probably a foot until hard clay if I'm lucky).
Great IDEA!!
another good video. Thumbs up
Thanks so much and sorry for the late reply, Kim
good idea！Thank you for sharing！
I know it's been a couple of years since you made the video but I thought I'd share a source with you for free buckets. Restaurants throw these away all the time. Ask them to save some for you along with the lids. Some are round and some are square. Plus they are food grade. Oh, did I mention they are free?
FREE BUCKETS, heaven to me! Thanks! I just posted on Next Door App requesting free old buckets, so this is perfect!
Bakery's also
my gf works at a grocery store that also has a bakery, i get my buckets also for free from there. btw ty for this informative video i now also have and do love these kind of dig in the soil worm towers ;)
Great video. Also love the the name. as for trying to clear those plastic burs a "Step Bit" would work well for this it is made for sheet metal so its great for cleaning the hole as it drills. check them out. thanks again for the video. I am going to try this for sure.
***** Thanks Shawn, I'll try that bit next time, I need to make one or two more for my in-ground bed. I'll ask for that kind at the hardware store as I'm not sure what it looks like. I may have one and not know it. Thanks for watching and the advice. Good luck with your worm tower. Kim
nice video, well explained, easy to follow, keep up !!!
Why is this better than just digging a hole and putting the compostables in it? I
I have been gardening forever and this is such a great, new idea for me. Thanks. Love your videos.
Very interesting. I'm getting other ideas.
I dry my egg shells in the oven then I run it thru a food processor, comes out perfect, much easier to them to eat, process. Great video thanks for sharing.
Gabbi, put a couple tablespoons in a jar , pour in some vinegar. A chemical reaction follows which liberates the calcium, add some water and then pour it around the tomatoe plants.
I'm thinking the 5 gallon buckets are a good idea. I'm also thinking that gamma seal lids would be the perfect lid for this project. :-)
Awesome work! I wanted to know if the bucket ever gets full of castings for the compost pile? Or do the worms just keep eating and you keep filling and nothing gets taken out to use for compost tea etc.?
I believe the idea is, the castings just soak into the soil around the bucket. No need to remove any and you can keep topping up until judgement day (or until the plastic of the bucket degrades and falls apart).
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Hi Great video, I have just made raised beds and after watching this I am going to include some worm buckets. Can I ask what you do when the bucket is full, I suspect empty 1/2 it onto the bed and start filling again?
Hi. I'm watching your videos which are really informative and easy to pick things up of, I'm wondering if you are making any more ? Thanks from the UK
+john wanley Yes John, I have made at least one a week or sometimes more since starting my channel last October, one a week is about my limit. This past two weeks I've been sick, so I've gotten going again today with a Question and Answer Challenge sent to me from Martin in the UK at "retro restore" Thanks for asking and also for enjoying my channel. I wish I could do more than one a week, but that's it for now. Kim
Interesting and informative. I'm going to use my smallish plastic pots and put a small board on top. I will drill holes just like you did and insert it 6-8 inches down in the bed. I think it will work.
I like fly larva and maggots in my bins in the ground. I put chick bones in there and dairy and meet with other regular things. Maggots and larva can eat fast
I hate fly larvae maggots because they become more flies!!!!
Yikes, tried this on Friday and by Sunday some critter stole my bucket. The bucket was sitting in a hole with dirt up to the rim but only had about 25% of waste in it (I live alone so not much production). Had a 10 pound rock on top. The critter moved the rock about a foot away from the hole (strong critter -- hee hee, maybe Bigfoot is real).
The bucket is no where to be found. If that bucket reappears in that hole, I'm moving to a new location!
Now it's just me and my empty hole and a 10 pound rock. Ha!
+T Smith Are you serious? Where do you live? In bear country? A 10 pound rock? You must be in bear country with no fencing. LOL, you need to put up a night camera and some scraps in your empty hole to see what kind of critter you have! Let me know if you ever find any footprints or determine what got your bucket. I hope it was free!
I'm feeling that is a tad scary! :)
Claire Anderson Graham, had to be a raccoon. Those things are very strong! I had them take my rabbit cage off a shelf and drag it all over my yard, as they were grabbing through and killing my two rabbits. They had ruts all over my very large cage where they drug it through the grass.
Erin Dowling has
@@erindowling1129 time to offer some poisoned meat to finish them off ......or their entire families will finish your animals/chickens
You could also use a round file to knock off those burrs pretty easily.
We are currently using pretty much this system. We live in a hot and dry area (Mojave desert), so we have the top of our worm towers covered with a couple inches of mulch. I've found that this really helps to keep the compost towers cool, make them unnoticeable to the typical houseguest, and helps keep them moist (since that's a constant battle for us). Our total wood mulch height is around 6-10" for moisture retention, but the bucket is has only 1-2" of mulch on top.
The one problem we found was that because the lid is concealed, the dogs (and humans) will often walk on top of the bucket, tightly latching the lid and making it very difficult to add compost to the tower. We solved that problem when we went to Home Depot to pick up some materials for more towers; apparently they sell screw-top lids for 5 gallon buckets! Anyone reading this who also had issues with the lids snapping on tight and being difficult to remove, check the below link; they're fairly expensive, but can hold my 170 lb (77kg) weight without much give or buckle.
www.homedepot.com/p/Bucket-Companion-5-gal-and-3-gal-Screw-Top-Bucket-Lid-in-Black-LD5GRLBK006/303808738
Wow! Thanks for the lids tip - I’m going to use that for sure.
You can use a larger bit. Put it in the hole and spin the bit back and forth to remove the burr's.
i've heard some folks say that you should use food grade buckets.. do you feel this matters or not?? I've heard some folks suggest calling your local grocery store bakery and getting their food grade buckets to use as well.. i'm gonna try that.. just curious your thoughts?
Bakeries will give you free buckets. Food grade works if your eating what you grow
I would prefer my worms to stay in the garden, this would deplete the garden of worms.....use it to get a population of worms and them feed them in a different spot. This makes worms happy, not plants. I love your seat and that solar powered bird bath is the best one I've ever seen, thanks.
Pro Tip for drilling into plastic with a "Spade Bit" as I call them. Drill the hole in REVERSE, it is always nice and smooth.
Paddle bit 😆
@@jackfrost326 yeah, because spade is offensive and racist :)
@@anode505 Bit OTT... spade you dig with next they'll be saying not to use the word chocolate { or black shoe shine as a kid back in Utah i had a golli-wog money box {{ put a dime in his hand press the leaver then his hand came up to his mouth and he would swallow the dime magic... today you cannot call him a golli-wog... {{ mechanical money-box } no one took heed to racist names as kids we all played together.... maybe down South might have been different we never knew... any difference black-white so what we were friends
but the worms have to go in and out so one side will be rough
Use a hole saw.
I am the Coordinator for our local Food Bank. We grow fruit, berries, and vegetables. I have 20 apple trees and I have placed a bucket in the middle of each apple tree. I have had a worm cafe, that I will be using to add to a few of these buckets but keep some worms to keep growing more worms for the rest of my buckets. Nature is so perfect.
On my channel I tell people to never buy a bucket as so many are being thrown out after only one use. Thanks for the information!
Great Idea!