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!!!! SuperSniperSal The GUNNY USMC Disabled Vet
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.
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.
Typical vermiculture means feeding the worms, keeping them moist, and then going through a process to separate out the worms from the castings, and bringing them to the garden. Why not have a, "herd," of worms eating and pooping right in the garden? LOL I love it!
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!
I am a Kenyan farmer who has watched many 🪱 video DIY but have never come across a single one that is patient, well explained with simple step by step tips that even a two year old can understand yet very very effective 👍 I appreciate and affirm you 100%. Be 🙌
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.
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 !!
Dear Kim, my name is Daniel from Newwestminster, BC Canada! I’m just starting my new worm, business, called Going Green with worms. I purchased I’ve purchased a worm called 360 worm bins and thanks to you. I will also do the bucket worm bins as well Outside in my garden bins. Thank you and have a great season. Kind regards Danial.
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!
So wonderful to use veggies trimmings to turn it into a potent worm fertilizer! Seeing plenty of worms in the bins, boxes and garden ground......make me sooo happy! Thank You God!
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.
I made a 4'x10' fabric cover for my raised bed after the vegetables are harvested. After it rains, I would find dozens of young earthworms on top of the cover. I still don't know how those worms got there. It's as if they came from the sky during the rain. I just count my blessings and tossed the worms into my raised bed.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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
I really enjoyed your video. I love to Garden too since I was a little boy. I grow lots of veggies too. And I add lots of organic scraps from the kitchen for the worms. I started about 7 years ago to grow High bush Blueberry plants. and have added a dozen or so every year. this past July I had the nieces and Grandkids over to pick Blueberries !! We have picked about 7 Gallons this year!! I plan to plant 12 more next year . I now have about 50 bushes !!! Along with all kinds of semi Dwarf Fruit trees . I love It !! It's so rewarding for a child to plant something and reap the their reward of their labor. thanks again , bob
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.
First thing I did after watching this video was go out and put in a worm tower into my raised garden bed. I already had all the fixings including worms in my stand alone worm farm. Thanks!
I love this idea and as a newbie gardener i think it makes complete sense. I hijacked my kids protein mix containers smaller but great for the size garden they are in. with an easy to screw on lid. love it thanks a bunch.
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
I've been looking for something like this! It's a much easier system than using the huge plastic barrels, plus the worms go straight into the garden. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
+Texan In The UK Your welcome Texan, I have to admit, I didn't think of worm towers, just the 5 gallon bucket. The ones I saw to begin with were long, 5-6 inch tubes buried in the ground and never removed. I didn't like that system, so the bucket with holes and worms eating kitchen compost came up. (even that may have already been thought of) I hope it works well for you, I've just found the smaller you can cut stuff up the better, of course, and they really like waste smoothies, LOL. I don't turn it much, but do keep it moist like worms would like. Thanks for posting! Take care, Kim
I just came across the idea of worm towers..... first I had heard of it. I saw another video that was very nice, but made with the PVC pipe, but I like yours better. Mostly because I have a lot of 5 gallon buckets. :) Thanks for the video and I'll check out your others.
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.
I'm so excited to do this. I was starting my compost yesterday and this is way better. I have tons of food grade buckets from my work and this is gonna be so fun upcycling them in my garden. Thank you so much.
What a great idea i will be trying this method this coming summer for sure, lots of small drainage holes on the sides and bottom, all the great bennifishal bacteria, minerals and nutrients and fertility will go into the root zone of the plants. I will add some compost worms in my worm tower to help get started. Thank you for the great idea my medical plants will love it.
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.
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..💐💐💐
That is a awesome and very good idea, specially get red of fall-down leave put id direct in the tower, and this is the first time see somebody make worm tower in the You Tube, Thank you.
+Wagdy Ziada Thank you for watching, I appreciate your comments. Do you have a garden area where you could have worm towers. I have found them to be very beneficial and since I made this video, I still find them to be a great way to breakdown different waste into a very nice amendment for my garden. I had seen them before on You tube so it's not my idea, but the others were made from very small pipes that were left in the ground and the contents were never removed. Thanks again, Kim
Gonna try this on a smaller scale for apartment living- building a worm tower out of a water bottle/pop bottle and putting it in a big pot :) thanks for this vid!
For anyone else trying this: I believe she means a "paddle bit", not a waffle bit. My husband works construction and came home very confused when I asked him if we had one. (^_^)' I ended up showing him the video so he could figure it out since we were going to drill the buckets tomorrow. So excited to see how this little experiment goes. I know we won't be able to really start until spring, but I ours works as well as yours!
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.
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).
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.
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.
Thanks Able Gardener, This is a nice idea, I have just a small gardening area & this looks like it would be a good way to compost and not have a big pile of debris to look at. Other places I've lived had more area to have a pile, But living near the intercoastal I have a much smaller yard and this bucket composter will a good way to help the soil become better. I also use Earth grow boxes, I really like them because they have a self watering system you can hook up to them and you NEVER have to worry about your plants not getting watered. Going to make one tomorrow. Think I'll cut the bottom off my bucket though, Then I can just move it to another spot if I want. Thank you for the well narrated video. Happy gardening
Anytime Larry, I always love hearing from you! This was not my idea, actually not sure when they started, but if it works, copy it! Take care, and let me know what you're gardening this year, 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.
Thanks Kim for the wonderful ideal. I garden about a acre of mixed raised beds and on the ground. I have a compost bin but I believe this will be a great additionto my raised beds. I like your channel.
What a really cool idea. Have been planning on getting into worm composting but have been daunted by the complexity and expense of typical worm composters. But this is so simple and easy. I particularly like the idea of having one in each bed (I have 14 raised beds) to put the stuff you weed out of the bed. What a time saver.
+Shannon Doyle Sorry for the delay in responding, I try to get back to everyone, but some slip through. 14 beds is quite a lot, but how nice! to put one in each bed would take a while but I would do it knowing me. It is really nice to have a "garbage" worm pail in the bed you're working in and just chuck all your cuttings and clean-up in for the worms to eat. I have been making them smoothies from the kitchen waste that will go in the blender with no trouble, that way it's nice, small particles the worms can go through pretty fast and it adds the moisture to the bucket. Thanks for posting and once again, sorry my reply is so late, Kim
Awesome idea. I’m 65 with spine issues. Can’t do regular compost piles. But this I can do even in my containers. I already have a tabletop worm factory in laundry room but doesn’t produce enough compost. This might be just the ticket. Buckets too big but I am happy to buy predrilled pvc pipe And love the pug. I have a 2 yr old pug that thinks she’s a jack russell
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
ty so much for this helpful video. Being a woman myself it's refreshing to have a female point of view! I will be using your method this summer and will let you know how it turns out. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching many more of your tutorials.
Earth worms love cornmeal. My ex husband and his friend use to raise them and then sell the castings. We also put it in our raised beds and in the flower beds. The results were nothing short of amazing. When he fed the worms he would sprinkle the meal lightly on top of the soil each morning. The worms loved it. All the plants were beautiful!
Composting is so easy and makes such great food for all your plants. And it doesn't have to smell or take up a lot of space, also having help from our little wormy friends is great.
Yes this idea is great I like the gardening but never realized that could be a great way to do my compost all my kitchen waste. I thank you ver5y much. Abdur Pathan Wayne NJ
Wow ! June 2019. Southwest garden zone 7 here. Neat, neat well done visual instruction and very cool creative idea. You made this in 2015. May you have many return blessings to you and UR garden. Adios and hope you kept that 'hat'. Great look on you. Thanks.
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!
jeanne miller Thanks Jeanne. I think that's a great idea. I wasn't sure how well they would work, but I'm happily surprised. I'll be doing a video soon on cleaning one out and what 'll use the compost for. I'd love to see pictures of yours when you have it done. Take care, Kim
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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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.
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.
Typical vermiculture means feeding the worms, keeping them moist, and then going through a process to separate out the worms from the castings, and bringing them to the garden. Why not have a, "herd," of worms eating and pooping right in the garden? LOL I love it!
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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I am a Kenyan farmer who has watched many 🪱 video DIY but have never come across a single one that is patient, well explained with simple step by step tips that even a two year old can understand yet very very effective 👍 I appreciate and affirm you 100%. Be 🙌
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.
Great video. I'm in!
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 !!
Dear Kim, my name is Daniel from Newwestminster, BC Canada!
I’m just starting my new worm, business, called Going Green with worms.
I purchased I’ve purchased a worm called 360 worm bins and thanks to you. I will also do the bucket worm bins as well Outside in my garden bins.
Thank you and have a great season. Kind regards Danial.
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!
So wonderful to use veggies trimmings to turn it into a potent worm fertilizer!
Seeing plenty of worms in the bins, boxes and garden ground......make me sooo happy!
Thank You God!
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.
Fantastic idea, l do have worm tower made of PVC pipe in my garden.
How is your tower working? How long has it been in? Thank you.
Great idea. My friend makes a smoothie of her scrapes and her worms are in heaven.
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 made a 4'x10' fabric cover for my raised bed after the vegetables are harvested. After it rains, I would find dozens of young earthworms on top of the cover. I still don't know how those worms got there. It's as if they came from the sky during the rain. I just count my blessings and tossed the worms into my raised bed.
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
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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.
That is one of the best tutorials that i have seen tonight... I have lots of buckets and about 4000 sq. feet- thank you!
I'm adding a worm tower to my brand new raised bed, you have the best instructions on TH-cam!!💕💕❤️❤️🌿🌿🌿
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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
It's very cool. You fed the worms with all kind of junk foods but they returned something good for your garden. Thanks wormies.
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
What a great Idea. I will get to it right away. It's a lot cheaper than buying a compost bin.
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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I really enjoyed your video. I love to Garden too since I was a little boy. I grow lots of veggies too. And I add lots of organic scraps from the kitchen for the worms. I started about 7 years ago to grow High bush Blueberry plants. and have added a dozen or so every year. this past July I had the nieces and Grandkids over to pick Blueberries !! We have picked about 7 Gallons this year!! I plan to plant 12 more next year . I now have about 50 bushes !!! Along with all kinds of semi Dwarf Fruit trees . I love It !! It's so rewarding for a child to plant something and reap the their reward of their labor. thanks again , bob
saw this last summer. just now getting around to making them for my raised beds. thank you very much for the detailed explanation!
cheaper materials than any type of worm contraption I’ve seen and the least complicated. thank you!
Thanks Climbercar
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.
First thing I did after watching this video was go out and put in a worm tower into my raised garden bed. I already had all the fixings including worms in my stand alone worm farm. Thanks!
Just beginning to garden again after renting an apartment for many years. Great ideas that I will use right away!
Such a brilliant idea for a worm tower in a planter box! Thank you for sharing your idea, tips and video too!
I love this idea and as a newbie gardener i think it makes complete sense. I hijacked my kids protein mix containers smaller but great for the size garden they are in. with an easy to screw on lid. love it thanks a bunch.
Just good ol advice from a real gardener! Wisdom=priceless. 🙏🙏
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.
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I am so impressed with how clever you have been in setting this up. Great video. So simple, so affordable, practical, genius.
Wow you could have stopped at great video, lol. Thanks Thomas.
Thank you Kim, That was a big help with my worm tower. I'll wake up early tomorrow morning and work on it.❤😊😅.THANKS.
I've been looking for something like this!
It's a much easier system than using the huge plastic barrels, plus the worms go straight into the garden.
Thanks for sharing your expertise.
+Texan In The UK Your welcome Texan, I have to admit, I didn't think of worm towers, just the 5 gallon bucket. The ones I saw to begin with were long, 5-6 inch tubes buried in the ground and never removed. I didn't like that system, so the bucket with holes and worms eating kitchen compost came up. (even that may have already been thought of) I hope it works well for you, I've just found the smaller you can cut stuff up the better, of course, and they really like waste smoothies, LOL. I don't turn it much, but do keep it moist like worms would like. Thanks for posting! Take care, Kim
Enjoyed watching the video. The tower is not really difficult to make and not expensive . Thank you for sharing .
I have been gardening forever and this is such a great, new idea for me. Thanks. Love your videos.
I like your simple down to earth (no pun) approach. I get it! Thanks.
What a great idea . It literally has never crossed my mind . Thanks
I just came across the idea of worm towers..... first I had heard of it. I saw another video that was very nice, but made with the PVC pipe, but I like yours better. Mostly because I have a lot of 5 gallon buckets. :) Thanks for the video and I'll check out your others.
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.
Such a Wonderful Idea...So simple yet Very Effective...Much Love and Peace.
I'm so excited to do this. I was starting my compost yesterday and this is way better. I have tons of food grade buckets from my work and this is gonna be so fun upcycling them in my garden. Thank you so much.
Thanks for this super idea of vermicomposting right into the garden bed. I think my urban gardening buddies will find this concept really helpful.
Also, worms like cardboard, go figure!! Anything that works!
I would use this method for sure if I had the space! Very very nice Kim and you look super.
Thanks sweetie!
I like that you give such detailed instructions!
Thank you
I loved this idea! I have made three worm towers. I look forward to seeing the results. Thank you for your videos.
What a great idea i will be trying this method this coming summer for sure, lots of small drainage holes on the sides and bottom, all the great bennifishal bacteria, minerals and nutrients and fertility will go into the root zone of the plants. I will add some compost worms in my worm tower to help get started. Thank you for the great idea my medical plants will love it.
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.
Thanks for giving me another idea on worm tower below 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..💐💐💐
That is a awesome and very good idea, specially get red of fall-down leave put id direct in the tower, and this is the first time see somebody make worm tower in the You Tube, Thank you.
+Wagdy Ziada Thank you for watching, I appreciate your comments. Do you have a garden area where you could have worm towers. I have found them to be very beneficial and since I made this video, I still find them to be a great way to breakdown different waste into a very nice amendment for my garden. I had seen them before on You tube so it's not my idea, but the others were made from very small pipes that were left in the ground and the contents were never removed. Thanks again, Kim
Great idea! So much better than narrow PVC pipe!
I bought some 5-gallon buckets and I bought the screw on lids. I also bought a compost bin for my kitchen. Can't wait to get started.
Good down to earth video and beautifully presented if I might say so.
Gonna try this on a smaller scale for apartment living- building a worm tower out of a water bottle/pop bottle and putting it in a big pot :) thanks for this vid!
This is genius! The step by step tutorial is super helpful. Will definitely be trying this year with my worms! 🪱
For anyone else trying this: I believe she means a "paddle bit", not a waffle bit. My husband works construction and came home very confused when I asked him if we had one. (^_^)' I ended up showing him the video so he could figure it out since we were going to drill the buckets tomorrow. So excited to see how this little experiment goes. I know we won't be able to really start until spring, but I ours works as well as yours!
Nice video.Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Or sometimes a spade bit....all depends on where you live !
Not hitting on you, but I think that you are a fit, well muscled lady. THANK-YOU for sharing this information! The info is what made me subscribe!
You convinced me. Going to do it! Subscribed and sharing!
Great idea, much better than a pile. Am definitely gonna try it out in my garden beds. Thanks for sharing : )
Effing wow, I never thought of this but now i need to do it
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.
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).
I love this idea, I can't wait to add this to my garden,,, this will help the worms hide from my chickens.
Beautiful gardener
Good idea thanks for sharing very nice methods getting earthworms for vermicast soil! Keep it up!
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.
Gil Dagui
@@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!🤠🌹🤠
One of the most useful tips ever.
Hi! thanks for your excellent idea . This is def.the easiest method to derive Worm compost with out extra works .Greeting from Lake Zürich.CH
Thanks for watching and glad you like the worm towers. Definitely less work and that's what I like. take care, Kim
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Thanks Able Gardener, This is a nice idea, I have just a small gardening area & this looks like it would be a good way to compost and not have a big pile of debris to look at. Other places I've lived had more area to have a pile, But living near the intercoastal I have a much smaller yard and this bucket composter will a good way to help the soil become better. I also use Earth grow boxes, I really like them because they have a self watering system you can hook up to them and you NEVER have to worry about your plants not getting watered.
Going to make one tomorrow. Think I'll cut the bottom off my bucket though, Then I can just move it to another spot if I want. Thank you for the well narrated video.
Happy gardening
What a great ideal Kim. Fantastic way to enrich your bedding soil. Thanks for the tip. Take care . ;)
Anytime Larry, I always love hearing from you! This was not my idea, actually not sure when they started, but if it works, copy it! Take care, and let me know what you're gardening this year, Kim
First, I looove you bird bath...second, Its a great video. Thanks for your video.
Oh and I just find out a better way to destroy docs. :D jk
Wow! That seems so easy. I'm definitely going to implement this when I build some raised beds.
That's great, I'm glad you like them, good luck, Kim
I use blocks of wood 2 raise bed.
this is such a great idea, and informative video, and it doesn't cost a lot of money
thanks for sharing
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.
Thanks Kim for the wonderful ideal. I garden about a acre of mixed raised beds and on the ground. I have a compost bin but I believe this will be a great additionto my raised beds. I like your channel.
What a really cool idea. Have been planning on getting into worm composting but have been daunted by the complexity and expense of typical worm composters. But this is so simple and easy. I particularly like the idea of having one in each bed (I have 14 raised beds) to put the stuff you weed out of the bed. What a time saver.
+Shannon Doyle Sorry for the delay in responding, I try to get back to everyone, but some slip through. 14 beds is quite a lot, but how nice! to put one in each bed would take a while but I would do it knowing me. It is really nice to have a "garbage" worm pail in the bed you're working in and just chuck all your cuttings and clean-up in for the worms to eat. I have been making them smoothies from the kitchen waste that will go in the blender with no trouble, that way it's nice, small particles the worms can go through pretty fast and it adds the moisture to the bucket. Thanks for posting and once again, sorry my reply is so late, Kim
Not a great idea to put 'weeds' in compost.
I think this is a great way to do it. Hi from New Zealand. Take care all happy gardening
nice video, well explained, easy to follow, keep up !!!
Awesome idea. I’m 65 with spine issues. Can’t do regular compost piles. But this I can do even in my containers. I already have a tabletop worm factory in laundry room but doesn’t produce enough compost. This might be just the ticket. Buckets too big but I am happy to buy predrilled pvc pipe
And love the pug. I have a 2 yr old pug that thinks she’s a jack russell
Now I now what I'm going to do with all of the buckets I'll have left when I finish grouting my shower.
Looks quick and easy and trouble-free that's the way I like it.
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 ;-)
a very nice and inexpensive worm bucket. Thank you for your revolutionary idea
ty so much for this helpful video. Being a woman myself it's refreshing to have a female point of view! I will be using your method this summer and will let you know how it turns out. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching many more of your tutorials.
Earth worms love cornmeal. My ex husband and his friend use to raise them and then sell the castings. We also put it in our raised beds and in the flower beds. The results were nothing short of amazing. When he fed the worms he would sprinkle the meal lightly on top of the soil each morning. The worms loved it. All the plants were beautiful!
Worm castings are the best fertilizer. You can also purchase it online from seed and flower & vegetable plant companies.
another good video. Thumbs up
Thanks so much and sorry for the late reply, Kim
Great video I build these buckets in the top of my vertical gardens. Using your video to explain on my Facebook page.
Great idea thanks! I'm trying to convince my husband to start a compost in our backyard but I think I may just do it myself
Usually best to do it yourself. At least you know it WILL get done ! At least that's what I've found
Composting is so easy and makes such great food for all your plants. And it doesn't have to smell or take up a lot of space, also having help from our little wormy friends is great.
Yes this idea is great I like the gardening but never realized that could be a great way to do my compost all my kitchen waste. I thank you ver5y much. Abdur Pathan Wayne NJ
thank you. I love how you explain everything in detail. We understand fully. :)
Wow ! June 2019. Southwest garden zone 7 here. Neat, neat well done visual instruction and very cool creative idea. You made this in 2015. May you have many return blessings to you and UR garden. Adios and hope you kept that 'hat'. Great look on you. Thanks.
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!
think im going to build some worm towers for mine,,i have never seen that before,,your beds are looking good
jeanne miller Thanks Jeanne. I think that's a great idea. I wasn't sure how well they would work, but I'm happily surprised. I'll be doing a video soon on cleaning one out and what 'll use the compost for. I'd love to see pictures of yours when you have it done. Take care, Kim
Thanks for this! I've been looking into composting in place.. this makes it so easy.