Ha ha, I have cooked worms too, felt really bad about it! Love in bed vermicomposting!! One thing that I do is cut a hole the size of a small pot in the lid, and pop a potted plant in. That way I don't have to unscrew the lid to put food scraps in, I just take the pot out and put them in. Plus it looks prettier than those obvious white lids in my garden beds. Thanks for sharing - your worms look so happy!!!
What I have noticed in my compost bin when all the materials have decomposed was that the compost was always wet even if I haven’t watered it. I don’t want to dry it coz, it would kill the worms so I spread it around my plant wet plus the worms in it. Also, I put all scraps in my bin including seeds( tomatoes, squash,avocados, mangoes) and noticed afterwards, they sprouted. I get my vegetable seedlings from my bin. The small compost bins buried in the middle of the bed is an excellent idea and very practical. Thanks for sharing!
I use smaller containers and even have them in my planting containers. As long as they have holes for air flow and for the worms to travel around, any covered container will work. Also, watering them also waters the plant roots. Be sure and add used coffee grounds to the kitchen scraps.
Oh my gosh. That's awesome. I thought I would have to have a separate container with a left and right side so they could feed on one side while the other remained the castings. This seems so much less maintenance. So glad you shared and so glad I saw this.
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Hi Angela! I have been watching your videos for a couple of years now and still consider myself a newbie gardener. This video though takes the #1 spot for me out of all the gardening videos I have ever watched. I have never been so excited over worms! I believe it’s because I have seen first hand how important worms are for my garden. I immediately ordered buckets and am now on the search for worms in my area of northern California. If no luck, I’ll have to order them. Thanks so much for sharing! I can’t wait to put them in.
Excellent! I am a beginner on a budget. I buried plastic pots (with good drainage) in my raised veggies beds. Direct compost in them and put a second, slightly smaller pot inside first pots. The second pot has a little soil and something short and lightweight, like pansies. I pick the pansy pot up to add kitchen scraps and cardboard. It's happy from roots up. Compost us disposed if where dig won't get it. The worms and veggie beds are fed. Ta Da!
What happens with the compost as you add it in the winter? Do you still add it in layers with brown matter and just let it sit until spring when things thaw out?
Very good video. I have been successfully using in bed worm farms for over 10 years. Another tip; Ventilation holes are important along the top and top sides of the bucket. Grit super finely ground egg shells.
I love this concept. This keeps the bin within the same temperature and moisture ranges of the ground and allows an escape route if worms need to exit for any reason.
Great video. I noticed that here in Florida we have the same situation, where in the hotter months, the worms need to burrow deeper into cooler soil. So having the open bottom is a great solution.
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Hey! Another Tucson gardener! I love it! I am "farming" the property I rent in the middle of town (Close to Reid Park), and having a blast! I started eight months ago tomorrow with a couple green onions I got from the store, and a small pile of kitchen scraps i tossed on the ground and said, "A compost pile!" (Ya gotta start somewhere!)
Dont forget to keep on adding the shredded cardboard so the worms have a bedding. I would do that rather than adding the soil maybe use a touch of sand for the grit they need. Other than that looks great thank you for sharing
I did it. I went to AZ worm farms today and got worms. Drilled holes in a bucket and got it into my garden bed. I’ve had pest problems and had a hard time getting my vegetables to grow, so starting with the soil. I planted some transplants today from AZ worm farm and I hope they make it! Thank you for this channel! I come back to it over and over!
Well done video. I have chickens so they get all my scraps and make my compost, but if I ever stop having chickens I will do this. Great idea to have the buckets right in the garden.
Thankyou for this video. I’ve been trying above ground composting in Vietnam and also concluded that it is just too hot for good worm activity. Now I will try your in-ground methods!
I live in an apartment and I have a good sized black bin on my deck for my worms and it works great. (it is mostly shaded and I live on the California coast where it doesn't get very hot) I love your method of integrating the worm bins directly into your raised beds. Very cool. :)
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Thanks for this. I harvested my first crop of castings yesterday.So much simpler than a standard wormery which I gave up on because of tge difficult and time consuming faff of harvesting castings and rescuing worms.I love that I can be a bit less regimented with this way of composting. I also love harvesting the produce and starting the recycling process immediately by feeding the bins with the spent plants. Today I will be putting 4 more bins in beds.Its also great for helping reduce the leaf mould mountains😂 Thank you so much again Happy Gardening from Hereford UK.❤
The first time, many years ago, when I put scrap in a bucket and saw the worms, I got scared, I did not know they were helpful. Always good to make own.
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I had done this for one summer but started using a old fridge later on.....I think I'll go back to this idea again since I need to release the worms when it gets cold here in Canada!
I love your videos! I am gardening in Mexico, Baja Sur to be exact, and we have a similar climate. My worms struggle in the summer and some die - I am totally going to try this. Thank you!
I have made a similar system using lengths of plastic drainage/plmbing pipe drilled with regular holes and sunk them vertically in the root zone of each fruit tree, shaded under the leaf canopy. I have screw caps that fit the pipe to top them but an upside down terracotta planter saucer also works well. The trees with the worm farm in their root zone do much better than those without. Another tip would be to take out a fistful of the castings and put it in a mesh bag in the watering can and fill with water. The bag can be lifted out and its contents returned to the warm bin and the watering can then spreads good microbes and nutrients all over the seedlings I water with it.
2 years ago I had grown my worm bins to 32 count!!! I was originally going to sell kits at the farmers market and was set to pull the trigger when we had our Covid shut down. All that hard work. The shaded area that I stored the bins was no longer shady and I didn't have another location to store the bins so I had to make some exec. decisions. I happened to use 6 inch black pipe from a neighbor in construction and had 4 ct 3' pipes left. It takes up less garden bed space and is limited as to what you can put in. However I don't put any bedding in the bin. The worms live in my garden beds and only enter the tubes to feed. So the castings are readily available to the plants year around and the worms always move as temps require. I have some buckets that will be easy to convert to worm bins. Pretty soon I won't have any compost piles sitting around. The worms are hard workers. One note of caution: (Worms attract moles so if you hate moles you'll have to figure out if worms are the answer for you)
Tell me more about your narrow tubes. Did you put holes up and down the tube like done on the buckets on this video. Using black tubes, would that attract heat? Still don’t understand how worm castings would be readily available. I was going to do a worm farm but our Texas heat would probable kill them. Thanks!
@@TheRealHonestInquiry moles are much bigger than the holes on the buckets or tubes we use. Do you think making smaller holes will be good enough to stop attracting moles? Thank you
@@dianelanderson5504 I’m in Arizona high desert. My Vermihut sits in the bathroom for the same reason. It’s not as effective as using the worms directly in the garden, but the castings are so welcomed once harvested.
In a way that is how my grandfather gardener in 1950...and before...and the way I have planted pots on my deck...will be doing this again this coming season. Glad you shared this idea because I have no idea of how to and not interested in learning.
Thank you for the update! I have copied your beds and watering grid.(Made them ourselves) Great success so far, I want to do the in-bed worms next. I am learning how big various plants really are and how crowded the garden can get.... leading to aphids! But I just got some ladybugs and they are having a feast. Waiting for my praying mantis cocoons to hatch too. I am also in AZ (North Central Phoenix) Thanks for your great tips!
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This is great. I have a 125 gal. fish tank half buried in the ground within my greenhouse. It's a worm home plus seed starter area. But I had no way to really feed the worms without ripping up the dirt or drawing flies and bugs. So i cut the bottom off a protein shake container. Half in the dirt I screw off the top, add kitchen scraps and put the lid back on. Thank you so much for this great idea.
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Thank you for sharing ..we do love vermi composting and it has been our bread and butter for more than a decade now, but i haven't use that on my garden like how you do it, it's indeed a great idea for my plants and to my worms as well, thank you much!!!
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This video is amazing and I like how creative it is. I'm going to do the same thing thanks to your video. I'm learning a lot since I live in Arizona too
My worm composter is in my house. I'm doing the three tub method. I'd like to move to using the bucket method in my raised bed just like yours. My worry is what happens in the winter? I live in Ontario, Canada and it gets cold! Extremely cold.
I don't have experience with the cold, but I'm guessing they burrow down like the other worms in your garden naturally do and then emerge in the spring. If your beds are directly on the soil they could go further in the ground. But that is just a guess.
I live in Ontario too and I understand what you’re saying about the extreme cold. I’ve always wanted to do in-bed worm composting, but I’m unsure if the worms will survive in -30 plus weather we have here.
I place my red wiggled in my raised beds this past summer. I have the opposite problem. Our winters are freezing for months. I did not think they would survive but last week the snow melted away from my raised beds and I had 2 big black garbage bags of leaves on one of the beds and when I lifted them up the ground was covered with red wiggles. So I made an early order of 24 bags of leaves for all of my raised beds for this coming winter 2021
Love hearing this. I've been getting a lot of questions about whether they will survive freezing temps. How deep are your beds and how low did the temps go, if you don't mind me asking?
@@GrowingInTheGarden Yeah, our nighttime temperature was and still is in the teens,. 20's, and low 30's. Our daytime temperatures were mostly 20's 30's and on a warm day 40's. In the month of February, we were hit with multiple snowstorms. So the beds had a couple feet of snow on them. Which is good insulation (so I was told). My beds are about 20 inches high I have a layer of cedar blocks as the base and 2x10 on top. I did not see any worms in the other beds. It is not to say the worms did not survive just I did not see them. Only in the bed with the bags of leaves. BUT this coming fall I'm adding large garbage bags full of leaves to all of the raised beds. For insurance that my hard-working red wiggles survive our winters.
I was just wondering about this. I would like to try worm composting, but have no idea how to keep them alive in winter. Dome of my beds are made with stones and " ground level" would the worms stay? Would it be ok if they " escaped" into the environment? 🤔
Hi Angela, I have 7 bins, 30 gallons each. I added a 40 pound back of organic raised bed soil to each of them. Everyday I add all our scraps of veggies and fruits to them as my compost bins. Will worms appear naturally to my bins? Thank you, learning so much with your videos.
Great video!!! One question, do you notice that ants or other pests gravitate towards your composting bins? I really want to do this, but with how many ants are in our yard I'm worried it would turn into a big ant hill.
I am in San Diego and have used in raised bed vermicomposting for over a year and have not experienced ants or other critters. The bin I use has a screw top lid. I hope you give it a try.
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I already harvested about 1/2 lb of worms from my inside worm bins and put those in 1 bucket and just today received an order of 1 lb of red wigglers which I divided up into 2 more buckets. While waiting on those worms already materials in the buckets and Im sure microbial action is started. Looking forward to see what happens in the next few months. Hopefully I will have luck similar to your fantastic work there. Totally impressed with what youve done.
Excellent vid. We do this too, but we keep the bottoms and drill them too so you can lift the buckets we spread castings. One other thing: We rotate our bins. Fill one up, alternating browns (usually leaves or shredded mail) with greens (kitchen scraps, weeds, etc). Then move on to the next. By the time you cycle back, the first one's usually done. The biggest problem is a backlog of inputs, which we store in trash cans, during our frigid Ohio winters: we catch up by June, though.
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Wow, what a fabulous idea. I am going to add these to my garden. Because moles decimate my healthy in-soil worm populations, I'll leave the bottoms on the buckets and drill holes in the bottoms as well as the sides. Thank you ever so kindly for sharing this idea.
I’m in the midst of an experiment: in the fall I buried a 5-gallon vermicomposting bucket in one of my 4x8 raised beds, and gradually filled it with layers of kitchen scraps, straw and half-finished compost. I’m anxiously waiting for warmer weather to see how it turns out!
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I had a tote that I kept alive over our summer but I had to put ice packs on the top to keep them cool. It was a lot of work, so I'm going to try this method. I think I'll try burying a wire mesh bin and add a lid. To harvest the castings you could add a new bucket/bin close by and only add your scraps to the new bin, give them a few weeks and the worms will move over.
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Love your vids. My wife is the gardener. Her question is, “How does she get the worms? Does she supply them or just invite them in from the ground.” My answer is, “Beats me.”
Hi Angela, do you think this would insulate the worms and keep them alive when the beds freeze? Would o keep adding scraps to the bins in the winter? Will the worms eat the food, if it doesn’t freeze? I’m in zone 6
I've heard from others that they add a very thick layer of straw or mulch and the worms go dormant during the colder months. You don't feed them. Check with local gardener's to see what they've done.
im in az as well and tried to have in bucket worm composting. they did ok in the garage for the first couple of months, but eventually the heat got them. I might try this method out in our beds this year.
As Ive mentioned Im envious of what you have done there. One concern I have is when I was digging in the beds for my towers I hardly saw any worms. We shall see what happens.
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I will be starting these immediately.
Thank you for the advice!
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thank you for the video! zone 10b here. hot summers! did you notice any differences/benefits to your soil or plants?
Excellent content, smooth clean editing. Love it.
Wonderful video! How many worms do you add to each bucket?
Thank you for all the info on worms. You make it sound easy and it’s going to be fun to try!
Ha ha, I have cooked worms too, felt really bad about it! Love in bed vermicomposting!! One thing that I do is cut a hole the size of a small pot in the lid, and pop a potted plant in. That way I don't have to unscrew the lid to put food scraps in, I just take the pot out and put them in. Plus it looks prettier than those obvious white lids in my garden beds. Thanks for sharing - your worms look so happy!!!
Great tip!
Thanks for this tip. I was dreading seeing the lid! Love your idea
@@sheilahenry7279 so glad you like the idea, hope you try it!
What I have noticed in my compost bin when all the materials have decomposed was that the compost was always wet even if I haven’t watered it. I don’t want to dry it coz, it would kill the worms so I spread it around my plant wet plus the worms in it. Also, I put all scraps in my bin including seeds( tomatoes, squash,avocados, mangoes) and noticed afterwards, they sprouted. I get my vegetable seedlings from my bin. The small compost bins buried in the middle of the bed is an excellent idea and very practical. Thanks for sharing!
Agreed! So many volunteers. Thanks for watching.
I use smaller containers and even have them in my planting containers. As long as they have holes for air flow and for the worms to travel around, any covered container will work. Also, watering them also waters the plant roots. Be sure and add used coffee grounds to the kitchen scraps.
Yes I add used coffee and the filters to the towers, its all good.
Yes, such a great way to self-fertilize😀 the garden. All the best from an Aussie worm farmer Marty
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Oh my gosh. That's awesome. I thought I would have to have a separate container with a left and right side so they could feed on one side while the other remained the castings. This seems so much less maintenance. So glad you shared and so glad I saw this.
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Hi Angela! I have been watching your videos for a couple of years now and still consider myself a newbie gardener. This video though takes the #1 spot for me out of all the gardening videos I have ever watched. I have never been so excited over worms! I believe it’s because I have seen first hand how important worms are for my garden. I immediately ordered buckets and am now on the search for worms in my area of northern California. If no luck, I’ll have to order them. Thanks so much for sharing! I can’t wait to put them in.
Thanks so much. Good luck!
Excellent! I am a beginner on a budget. I buried plastic pots (with good drainage) in my raised veggies beds. Direct compost in them and put a second, slightly smaller pot inside first pots. The second pot has a little soil and something short and lightweight, like pansies. I pick the pansy pot up to add kitchen scraps and cardboard. It's happy from roots up. Compost us disposed if where dig won't get it. The worms and veggie beds are fed. Ta Da!
I appreciate that they don’t take as much room in the beds as the wooden one you showed in the video.
This advantage is the same for cold climates - in winter the worms go 50 cm or deeper to hide from the cold, no need to bring the bin inside :-)
What happens with the compost as you add it in the winter? Do you still add it in layers with brown matter and just let it sit until spring when things thaw out?
I live in zone 7b, I’ll give it a try!
I have 3 bins around my garden. Such a great ideas!!! So many warms and healthy compost. Love it!!! Thank you.
Very good video. I have been successfully using in bed worm farms for over 10 years. Another tip; Ventilation holes are important along the top and top sides of the bucket. Grit super finely ground egg shells.
Are you suggesting holes on the lids or the the top couple inches of the bucket, or both?
Snails and slugs can take over the bucket so not sure about holes above ground
I heard that fruit flies can get in, you can put a screen on the top.
Beautiful beautiful work. Lovely idea I'll implement it
I did the same thing with 4" PVC and was very happy with the results. I like the bucket idea. Great way to reuse the bucket, and it comes with a lid!
It's a simple idea that can be implemented many ways. Thanks for watching.
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Ooh! 4” pvc is a good idea for smaller spaces - good idea!
Yeah, I reckon the lid would keep off the worst of the heat and also prevent vermin going in there foraging for food scraps.
4" PVC wide enough to drop everything in there easily?
I love this concept. This keeps the bin within the same temperature and moisture ranges of the ground and allows an escape route if worms need to exit for any reason.
I love it. Hope you give it a try.
Great video. I noticed that here in Florida we have the same situation, where in the hotter months, the worms need to burrow deeper into cooler soil. So having the open bottom is a great solution.
It seems to work well.
Thank you for being very thorough! I love how you shared all parts of this process and addressed many questions and issues.
What a great update! I love your videos, Angela. You are a great presenter and I appreciate your built in bullet points! Many blessings to you for sharing!
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Hey! Another Tucson gardener! I love it!
I am "farming" the property I rent in the middle of town (Close to Reid Park), and having a blast! I started eight months ago tomorrow with a couple green onions I got from the store, and a small pile of kitchen scraps i tossed on the ground and said, "A compost pile!" (Ya gotta start somewhere!)
Dont forget to keep on adding the shredded cardboard so the worms have a bedding. I would do that rather than adding the soil maybe use a touch of sand for the grit they need. Other than that looks great thank you for sharing
You cant argue with what Angela has done , Angela keep right on truckin'.
I did it. I went to AZ worm farms today and got worms. Drilled holes in a bucket and got it into my garden bed. I’ve had pest problems and had a hard time getting my vegetables to grow, so starting with the soil. I planted some transplants today from AZ worm farm and I hope they make it! Thank you for this channel! I come back to it over and over!
That is awesome! Thanks for watching!
This was VERY helpful. Thank you! My first attempt at a standalone worm bin didn't go so well. Gonna try this instead. 👍🏾
Good luck!
What a fantastic idea! I'm trying this next year. Thanks for sharing.
Well done video. I have chickens so they get all my scraps and make my compost, but if I ever stop having chickens I will do this. Great idea to have the buckets right in the garden.
Sounds great!
Another great content with the gracious Angela
Thankyou for this video. I’ve been trying above ground composting in Vietnam and also concluded that it is just too hot for good worm activity. Now I will try your in-ground methods!
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I live in an apartment and I have a good sized black bin on my deck for my worms and it works great. (it is mostly shaded and I live on the California coast where it doesn't get very hot) I love your method of integrating the worm bins directly into your raised beds. Very cool. :)
Nice. That weather sounds wonderful, enjoy!
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Thanks for this. I harvested my first crop of castings yesterday.So much simpler than a standard wormery which I gave up on because of tge difficult and time consuming faff of harvesting castings and rescuing worms.I love that I can be a bit less regimented with this way of composting. I also love harvesting the produce and starting the recycling process immediately by feeding the bins with the spent plants. Today I will be putting 4 more bins in beds.Its also great for helping reduce the leaf mould mountains😂 Thank you so much again Happy Gardening from Hereford UK.❤
We use vermicompost extract with compost tea to inoculate transplants before planting.
You have provided the best vermicompost how-to I have seen so far. Very easy to do. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Simple and easy.
The first time, many years ago, when I put scrap in a bucket and saw the worms, I got scared, I did not know they were helpful. Always good to make own.
Wonderful.
Another perfect solution for a problem I encountered in the hot Texas summer. Great video!
I definitely want to do this! The boxes take up so much room, but two (2) gallon buckets are much easier and take up less space. Thank you!
I start now colture worms. Thank you very much sharing.bless you ma'am
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nice im doing it this year. Gonna dig down deep from the bucket flush with soil.
I had done this for one summer but started using a old fridge later on.....I think I'll go back to this idea again since I need to release the worms when it gets cold here in Canada!
I love your videos! I am gardening in Mexico, Baja Sur to be exact, and we have a similar climate. My worms struggle in the summer and some die - I am totally going to try this. Thank you!
Best of luck to you!
Thank you for taking the time out to share!
this was so helpful! thank you very much for sharing htis
You're so welcome!
I have made a similar system using lengths of plastic drainage/plmbing pipe drilled with regular holes and sunk them vertically in the root zone of each fruit tree, shaded under the leaf canopy. I have screw caps that fit the pipe to top them but an upside down terracotta planter saucer also works well. The trees with the worm farm in their root zone do much better than those without. Another tip would be to take out a fistful of the castings and put it in a mesh bag in the watering can and fill with water. The bag can be lifted out and its contents returned to the warm bin and the watering can then spreads good microbes and nutrients all over the seedlings I water with it.
2 years ago I had grown my worm bins to 32 count!!! I was originally going to sell kits at the farmers market and was set to pull the trigger when we had our Covid shut down. All that hard work. The shaded area that I stored the bins was no longer shady and I didn't have another location to store the bins so I had to make some exec. decisions. I happened to use 6 inch black pipe from a neighbor in construction and had 4 ct 3' pipes left. It takes up less garden bed space and is limited as to what you can put in. However I don't put any bedding in the bin. The worms live in my garden beds and only enter the tubes to feed. So the castings are readily available to the plants year around and the worms always move as temps require. I have some buckets that will be easy to convert to worm bins. Pretty soon I won't have any compost piles sitting around. The worms are hard workers. One note of caution: (Worms attract moles so if you hate moles you'll have to figure out if worms are the answer for you)
You could also line your beds with hardware cloth to keep moles & voles out
Tell me more about your narrow tubes. Did you put holes up and down the tube like done on the buckets on this video. Using black tubes, would that attract heat? Still don’t understand how worm castings would be readily available. I was going to do a worm farm but our Texas heat would probable kill them. Thanks!
@@TheRealHonestInquiry moles are much bigger than the holes on the buckets or tubes we use. Do you think making smaller holes will be good enough to stop attracting moles? Thank you
@@dianelanderson5504 I’m in Arizona high desert. My Vermihut sits in the bathroom for the same reason. It’s not as effective as using the worms directly in the garden, but the castings are so welcomed once harvested.
@@SharonRepici Your bin is in the house because of moles/preditors?
In a way that is how my grandfather gardener in 1950...and before...and the way I have planted pots on my deck...will be doing this again this coming season. Glad you shared this idea because I have no idea of how to and not interested in learning.
Thank you for the update! I have copied your beds and watering grid.(Made them ourselves) Great success so far, I want to do the in-bed worms next. I am learning how big various plants really are and how crowded the garden can get.... leading to aphids! But I just got some ladybugs and they are having a feast. Waiting for my praying mantis cocoons to hatch too. I am also in AZ (North Central Phoenix) Thanks for your great tips!
Best of luck!
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Great job on the worm towers, those worms are loving it. Excellent *****
I just started 3 towers in my beds.
I just love your videos - such elegance in gardening!!! Great content - keep up the great work.
Thanks so much!
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This is great. I have a 125 gal. fish tank half buried in the ground within my greenhouse. It's a worm home plus seed starter area. But I had no way to really feed the worms without ripping up the dirt or drawing flies and bugs. So i cut the bottom off a protein shake container. Half in the dirt I screw off the top, add kitchen scraps and put the lid back on. Thank you so much for this great idea.
Nice. Best of luck to you.
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Thank you for sharing ..we do love vermi composting and it has been our bread and butter for more than a decade now, but i haven't use that on my garden like how you do it, it's indeed a great idea for my plants and to my worms as well, thank you much!!!
Wonderful!
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Thank you for sharing mam, i love farming and using organic materials.
Really great idea! Your garden area is beautiful. I love how you have it laid out. Good job.
Thanks so much! 😊
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This video is amazing and I like how creative it is. I'm going to do the same thing thanks to your video. I'm learning a lot since I live in Arizona too
This is fantastic! What a great idea. I will definitely try this. Thank you ❣️
You are so welcome!
I can't believe it took me so long to find your channel.
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My worm composter is in my house. I'm doing the three tub method. I'd like to move to using the bucket method in my raised bed just like yours. My worry is what happens in the winter? I live in Ontario, Canada and it gets cold! Extremely cold.
My concern exactly. My worms are currently in my extra bathroom. The outside temperatures here in New Mexico have been in the low 20°F.
I don't have experience with the cold, but I'm guessing they burrow down like the other worms in your garden naturally do and then emerge in the spring. If your beds are directly on the soil they could go further in the ground. But that is just a guess.
I live in Ontario too and I understand what you’re saying about the extreme cold. I’ve always wanted to do in-bed worm composting, but I’m unsure if the worms will survive in -30 plus weather we have here.
You could just try it and report back how it went.
@@RORAtherose Cover the worm bucket with 4" styrofoam 4'x4' sheet & weigh down for the winter.
I just put my worms into this style set up.Thanks for videos
I place my red wiggled in my raised beds this past summer. I have the opposite problem. Our winters are freezing for months. I did not think they would survive but last week the snow melted away from my raised beds and I had 2 big black garbage bags of leaves on one of the beds and when I lifted them up the ground was covered with red wiggles. So I made an early order of 24 bags of leaves for all of my raised beds for this coming winter 2021
Love hearing this. I've been getting a lot of questions about whether they will survive freezing temps. How deep are your beds and how low did the temps go, if you don't mind me asking?
@@GrowingInTheGarden Yeah, our nighttime temperature was and still is in the teens,. 20's, and low 30's. Our daytime temperatures were mostly 20's 30's and on a warm day 40's. In the month of February, we were hit with multiple snowstorms. So the beds had a couple feet of snow on them. Which is good insulation (so I was told). My beds are about 20 inches high I have a layer of cedar blocks as the base and 2x10 on top. I did not see any worms in the other beds. It is not to say the worms did not survive just I did not see them. Only in the bed with the bags of leaves. BUT this coming fall I'm adding large garbage bags full of leaves to all of the raised beds. For insurance that my hard-working red wiggles survive our winters.
@@cqammaz53 Another video says they either go deeper or they die and you're seeing the birth of their babies because the eggs can survive.
@@cqammaz53 oh and I have ants take over whenever I add leaves but maybe there is another reason.
I was just wondering about this. I would like to try worm composting, but have no idea how to keep them alive in winter. Dome of my beds are made with stones and " ground level" would the worms stay? Would it be ok if they " escaped" into the environment? 🤔
Hi Angela,
I have 7 bins, 30 gallons each. I added a 40 pound back of organic raised bed soil to each of them. Everyday I add all our scraps of veggies and fruits to them as my compost bins. Will worms appear naturally to my bins?
Thank you, learning so much with your videos.
Great video!!! One question, do you notice that ants or other pests gravitate towards your composting bins? I really want to do this, but with how many ants are in our yard I'm worried it would turn into a big ant hill.
I am in San Diego and have used in raised bed vermicomposting for over a year and have not experienced ants or other critters. The bin I use has a screw top lid. I hope you give it a try.
Merci from Montreal, Canada.
Beautiful garden 🤩 , I’m gonna try this next to my needy papayas that I can’t seem to keep them fertilized enough !
Good luck!
This is brilliant I'm going to propose this idea to my community garden. Regular transportation of compost is back breaking work.
Best of luck to you!
This was really interesting. I have started a vermiculture bin in my basement. Is this something that can be adapted for cold climates?
I am not sure. I would check with local gardeners to see what they think.
Thanks! I will ask around!
I haven’t got room for a compost bin or pile yet so I will definitely be doing this in my raised beds
Thank you !! I will definitely do that looks way easier 😊
You’re welcome 😊
The joy of bringing a worm to bed is very relatable har har.
Thank-you! Compost that doesn't has become a problem here. Eventually it breaks down, but SO slowly! This seems like a great process! I Subscribed!
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Marvellous idea.
After watching your video I watched lots of others on the subject but yours is the one I liked the best. Thank you.
Thanks!
That’s really smart !! Let me steal this idea!!!
Very helpful video and beautiful garden!
Superb Video! Thanks For Posting!!!!
I already harvested about 1/2 lb of worms from my inside worm bins and put those in 1 bucket and just today received an order of 1 lb of red wigglers which I divided up into 2 more buckets. While waiting on those worms already materials in the buckets and Im sure microbial action is started. Looking forward to see what happens in the next few months. Hopefully I will have luck similar to your fantastic work there. Totally impressed with what youve done.
Thank you Elizabeth Moss !
Ha! Thanks for watching.
Excellent vid. We do this too, but we keep the bottoms and drill them too so you can lift the buckets we spread castings. One other thing: We rotate our bins. Fill one up, alternating browns (usually leaves or shredded mail) with greens (kitchen scraps, weeds, etc). Then move on to the next. By the time you cycle back, the first one's usually done. The biggest problem is a backlog of inputs, which we store in trash cans, during our frigid Ohio winters: we catch up by June, though.
Your way sounds so organized! I love it. Great ideas.
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@@The.Ghost.of.Tom.Joad. I could use a little more engineer, little less artist in me sometimes. That's awesome!
I am in northern MI, very cold winters. Will the worms die off?
Very helpful! I cover beds with leaves and kitchen scraps. There are lots of worms. I might try this and see if I get more worms. Thank you.
Thanks for watching.
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Just learning all I can about gardening and feeding the soil... thank you this is something I think I will try.
You can do it!
Ive neglected one of my beds and noted that there are few worms in it , going to add more compost especially around the worm towers.
This is exactly the video I have been looking for. Thank you so very much for sharing. I'm definitely going to give it a try.
Stay strong and be safe.
Planning on doing the same in my garden. Tanks for the tips Angela.
Great. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for responding to my message, I have a worm bin as well but like you said ,need a lots attention,have a good day.
Thanks, you too!
Wow, what a fabulous idea. I am going to add these to my garden. Because moles decimate my healthy in-soil worm populations, I'll leave the bottoms on the buckets and drill holes in the bottoms as well as the sides. Thank you ever so kindly for sharing this idea.
Best of luck to you!
Thank you for this video! It helped answer some questions I had.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video! Thank you so much for your support in gardening!
i love this so much. i will try it this year. i do bokashi composting and find it messy and stinky. This seems more low maintenance
Thanks so much about what I have learned in this video.❤❤❤
I’m in the midst of an experiment: in the fall I buried a 5-gallon vermicomposting bucket in one of my 4x8 raised beds, and gradually filled it with layers of kitchen scraps, straw and half-finished compost. I’m anxiously waiting for warmer weather to see how it turns out!
Nice. Let me know how it goes.
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Well done!
Fantastic explanation and I’m excited to add this to all my beds!!
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What a magical garden! Thank you for the inspiration!!!! SO doing this in the spring
Thanks for watching!
I had a tote that I kept alive over our summer but I had to put ice packs on the top to keep them cool. It was a lot of work, so I'm going to try this method. I think I'll try burying a wire mesh bin and add a lid. To harvest the castings you could add a new bucket/bin close by and only add your scraps to the new bin, give them a few weeks and the worms will move over.
Good tip thanks. Best of luck to you.
I put the bucket on top of the old one and the worms just travel up😊
Thank you sharing great job for sharingtips
Thanks for sharing great job for sharing vermicast composting! Keep it up always! God bless!
You are so welcome
Thanks for all your amazing content from your beautiful garden.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it.
Thank you Angela...find this helpful
Thanks so much.
Great video, thank you!
Thanks for this. Worked like a dream!
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Thank you so much!!! What a great way to compost!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the cool idea! As soon as the sun comes up I’ll try it.
Best of luck to you!
Love your vids. My wife is the gardener. Her question is, “How does she get the worms? Does she supply them or just invite them in from the ground.” My answer is, “Beats me.”
Some beds I added red wigglers from AZ Worm Farm and some beds I didn't add worms and they still have worms.
Hi Angela, do you think this would insulate the worms and keep them alive when the beds freeze? Would o keep adding scraps to the bins in the winter? Will the worms eat the food, if it doesn’t freeze? I’m in zone 6
I've heard from others that they add a very thick layer of straw or mulch and the worms go dormant during the colder months. You don't feed them. Check with local gardener's to see what they've done.
im in az as well and tried to have in bucket worm composting. they did ok in the garage for the first couple of months, but eventually the heat got them. I might try this method out in our beds this year.
Good luck!
As Ive mentioned Im envious of what you have done there. One concern I have is when I was digging in the beds for my towers I hardly saw any worms. We shall see what happens.