Below are my go-to vermicomposting items featured in my videos. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting my channel! www.youtube.com/@vermicompost?sub_confirmation=1 Worm Bins I use: Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin amzn.to/3w15lQt Urban Worm Bag V2 amzn.to/3XE9QsT 20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots amzn.to/3EBYhdr 3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote amzn.to/3eKDLhO Mortar Tray amzn.to/3V43KD2 Other Worm Bins: Worm Factory 360 3-Tray Version amzn.to/3AHnjqK Worm Factory 360 5-Tray Version amzn.to/3tYfWY4 Bus bins amzn.to/3fd8AvP Equipment I use: 12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) amzn.to/3xYZKYu Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) amzn.to/3gwEzb4 or amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade) Worms Red Wiggler mixes amzn.to/3yGNhwl & amzn.to/3R5tKvD ENC's amzn.to/3OkxV51 Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin amzn.to/3wIdXbO Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz amzn.to/3WTFgua Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz Japanese Garden knife amzn.to/3VEzmiN Wrigglebrew Worm Casting Tea amzn.to/46PhV2A Food Dehydrator amzn.to/3O5Uj2H Mosquito Dunks 6 pack amzn.to/3OlCEUg granular amzn.to/42KDtM0 or 20 pack amzn.to/42Br4Kf Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: amzn.to/3HnOQjg Blue gloves amzn.to/3XsBg5n Spray bottles to mist bedding amzn.to/3Fq23rN Digital handheld Thermometer amzn.to/3EWfC2j Compost Tea Bags amzn.to/3fCb5o1 Solar powered light amzn.to/3nOucAq Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups amzn.to/3FNXvt6 Other useful equipment for worm farming: 5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: amzn.to/3S2k184 Cameras & camera equipment I use: Insta 360 ace pro amzn.to/3vgdmR8 Flexible Tripod amzn.to/3CGTjcF Insta360 GO 3s camera amzn.to/3Z1CKVR Insta360 X3 360 camera amzn.to/494NOGl 4 Ocean bracelets I wear Multiple colors to chose from bracelets amzn.to/4eH5clM Books on worms & worm farming Worms Eat My Garbage amzn.to/3L4FXN2 Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com www.youtube.com/@vermicompost?sub_confirmation=1
😂🤣😂 It must really like the taste of Loofah! I gave the 4000 a more difficult task by giving them a lightly used Floofah versus the very used one I gave the garden worm! Great to see you here again!! Have a great holiday season & a Happy New Year Tory!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you Sandy!! I'm actually about to go check on this worm bin again to see how those Floofahs are doing!! It's aways fun to see how fast this Outdoor Worm Bin makes worm castings!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
I see lots of wheat grass growing but why not grow luffa gourds & birdhouse gourds too. Very easy and they vine. I had a windfall off gourds that were to small for crafts, now they will be worm food 😊. Can’t wait to post the vid 😉Think the freezer owner is going to be 😡 the compost bag is not going to shrink as expected 😳with the excess gourds going into the worm bin 😊but worms will be happy ☺️
Yes!! I grow Loofah about every 3 years because I get sooooo many gourds from just a few plants! And the best part is the can grow through the summer here in the Tampa Florida area when most other garden fruits & vegetables are overcome by the heat and pest pressure! I'm sure your worms are going to absolutely love all the gourds you're giving them!! Thanks so much for watching Kevin!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick, We are in the middle of pounding and nail gun noise for a second day 🙃 What torture 😳 Your loofah looks like it's breaking down quickly ❤and I would expect it to. It's all natural. Take care and Merry Christmas ❤Peggy❤
New roof I take it?!!?! Everything in our attic was coated with plywood saw dust after we got a new roof! The Floofahs are doing fantastic!! I realized we used the the one I put in the garden in the kitchen for over a month but the worm bin one was fairly new...that might have helped the garden out but I am seriously impressed with how alive my garden soil is!! Thanks so much for watching Peggy!!🪱🪱🪱
That water melon was demolished! 😂 By the way, was just looking at your garden bed, do you practice 'no dig' gardening? I have been looking into it. I may try with one raised bed. We got such bad soil when we first started, too much sand, and the sand still dominates. Hard to keep it full of nutrients and moisture, but the worm compost has really helped.
I kind of practice no dig in that I do not till it under. When I plant the garden beds I rake the mulch to the side and just dig a hole and plant right into it. I typically do add worm castings to the hole. When I harvest I do leave the roots of the plant in but I if I find a root in the way when I plant something new I remove the old roots. This area of my back yard has been going for about 6 years and the soil has been getting better and better. It was mostly sandy soil before it started getting compost & vermicompost! The only fertilizer I use is worm casting tea and occasionally I'll use some fish emulsion. It is amazing how well the garden grows when we let nature do all the work!! Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
Very interesting results! My vermihut worm bin is still going well with its few hundred worms, takes a long time to add new layers with so few worms though.
Thank you!! I forget, did you restart your VermiHut? I know you've had it for quite a while. It's fun to watch the population grow from a few hundred to thousands but you are right that first few months takes a while!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I grew WAY too many loofah one year so my worms have been enjoying playing in the loofah webs. I did not note how long it took them to eat the whole thing, but I think it was about 2 months. And today I fluffed and fed my worms. There was no sign of the snake skin. I think that took about 3 weeks. Next I'm going to put a variety of chicken feathers: wing, down, breast and tail. The girls just finished a molt so I have plenty of feathers!
😂 They grow like weeds here!! I only grow them once every 2-3 years because I'm left with so many!! That's crazy that the snake skin only lasted 3 weeks and the loofah take 2 months!! I'll be interested to see how long all the different feathers last! Thanks for the update on the snake skin & of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hope that you are having a good day too, was wondering if you ever encountered the extremely small soil snakes that resemble worms and eat soft bodied insects like termite sow bugs ant ect.? Appreciate your work and commitment on the content, happy composting fella.
Thank you Alex!! I don't think I have run into any brahminy blind snakes, but I will be on the lookout for sure now that I have looked up what they are!! I do occasionally get ants in this worm bin like in this video: th-cam.com/video/br27r3bQCqM/w-d-xo.html so those combined with other soft bodied insects inside might make this worm bin an ideal place for them to hide out!! I'll also look out for them in my garden...if I have Asian jumping worms in there I might also have this non native snake that has spread globally! Have you ever encountered them? Thanks so much for watching & asking about this very interesting worm looking snake!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I haven't had any up here, northwestern Indiana. I hear in central and southern areas of the state have them however, not discovered any myself. Hope that all is well and worm bins are great friend!
I thought so too!! Almost like a spider web hanging onto the Floofah! They should both be gne by next check in I would think! Thanks so much for watching AV!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick, maybe the bin loofa didn't break down as much because it was essentially buried in all new material unlike the garden that had an established microbe and isopod mix. Also, I don't recognize that type of oak leaf - do you know the variety of oak? If it is related to our types of oaks, they have very high lignin content in their leaves. That makes them slower to break down than other leaves, but excellent at supporting fungal growth. ~ Sandra
I forgot to mention it, but the one in the garden had been used in our kitchen for about a month and the one in the worm bin had been used for about a week...I think some of the difference is from that, but my garden is an absolute beast when it comes to composting food scraps based on my experiments!! I believe most of the oaks we have in our neighborhood and the ones in my yard are Southern Live Oaks. They are glossy on the top, boost the acidity of the soil if you leave them on the lawn when the new leaves push the old ones off the trees in February; and are just not that good to compost or vermicompost based on trying to rake them off the fertilized/herbicided St Augustine grass lawns we all have around here. I think you are exactly right when it comes to them being slow to break down!! If I can get them directly off the trees I'll keep adding them to my compost & vermicompost for that good fungal growth!! Thanks so much for watching Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
The Floofah sponge is a lot denser that a natural luffa sponge, will take a bit longer to break down. You have some awesome living soil in that bed Patrick, unfortunately the jumping worms are enjoying it too. At least up here in WI, the JW's die off in the winter, only the cocoons survive, down by you the JW's are probably active all winter. The only thing that can affect the JW's down by you is if you get an extended dry spell, they do not like that. Nice experiment Patrick, Stay Well !!!
Exactly right!! It is a couple of loofah sponges dehydrated and sewn together to get more bang for the buck!! I had used the garden one in the kitchen for almost a month but the worm bin Floofah had only been used for a week or so. Based on the one we are using now they could easily last 3 moths or more in our kitchen and I bet when I throw it in the worm bin it will be gone in 2 weeks tops!! Those JW have found my garden and they love it...I've dug the soil in my lawn and other places and I don't find them. Unfortunately I think they are here to stay...we don't get too many dry spells...and definitely not in my garden😂 Thanks so much for watching Brian!!🪱🪱🪱
I think it would!! I have some dried ones from this years harvest and I bet if I put them in my dehydrator and ground them up they would be a similar constancy! They certainly soak up water like coco coir! Great observation! Thanks so much for watching Lesli!!🪱🪱🪱
Yes! The worms will slow down but those temperatures a just fine for red wigglers and European Night Crawler compost worms. Some more exotic tropical compost worms like African Night Crawlers have trouble in cooler temperatures but you'd have to specifically ask for those types if you are purchasing them. Right now I have 2 worm bins I keep outside and we got down to 0 celsius for a couple of hours with no issues. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I tried eating loofah. It is supposed to be tasty if stewed before it becomes tough. I was not impressed. It seems to be a small challenge for the worms as well.
If I don't pick them 3-4 days after I see them then all the taste and tenderness is gone!! I gave the worms a harder task as the garden one was use for a month where as the worm bin one was used to a week. But it definitely shows what a great ecosystem I've got going in my garden soil!! Thanks so much for watching Joe!!🪱🪱🪱
Oh wow they love playing in the floofa. Cranberries take forever. Cool that the garden went faster than the bag. They might have recruited from a larger area? 😁👍🏼🪱
Yes, the garden has a great ecosystem going for it!! It also got the one we used for a month in the kitchen, where as the one in the worm bin got a week old Floofah. But I am super excited that my years of compost and vermicompost have created such an incredible bed of soil in my garden!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
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Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin amzn.to/3w15lQt
Urban Worm Bag V2 amzn.to/3XE9QsT
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots amzn.to/3EBYhdr
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote amzn.to/3eKDLhO
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Bus bins amzn.to/3fd8AvP
Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) amzn.to/3xYZKYu
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) amzn.to/3gwEzb4 or amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
Worms Red Wiggler mixes amzn.to/3yGNhwl & amzn.to/3R5tKvD ENC's amzn.to/3OkxV51
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin amzn.to/3wIdXbO
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
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Digital handheld Thermometer amzn.to/3EWfC2j
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Hi Patrick the worms are loving those loofahs, cool.😁👍👌💪
Yep, they are having a good time with them for sure!! Congrats on 1,000 Subscribers Nick!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
❤️👍That one worm is putting in work in the garden. The 4000 are sleeping.
Have a Great Holiday, you'll ❤️✌️
😂🤣😂 It must really like the taste of Loofah! I gave the 4000 a more difficult task by giving them a lightly used Floofah versus the very used one I gave the garden worm! Great to see you here again!! Have a great holiday season & a Happy New Year Tory!!🪱🪱🪱
Happy vermi composting Patrick. Looking forward to the next video
Thank you Sandy!! I'm actually about to go check on this worm bin again to see how those Floofahs are doing!! It's aways fun to see how fast this Outdoor Worm Bin makes worm castings!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
I see lots of wheat grass growing but why not grow luffa gourds & birdhouse gourds too. Very easy and they vine. I had a windfall off gourds that were to small for crafts, now they will be worm food 😊. Can’t wait to post the vid 😉Think the freezer owner is going to be 😡 the compost bag is not going to shrink as expected 😳with the excess gourds going into the worm bin 😊but worms will be happy ☺️
Yes!! I grow Loofah about every 3 years because I get sooooo many gourds from just a few plants! And the best part is the can grow through the summer here in the Tampa Florida area when most other garden fruits & vegetables are overcome by the heat and pest pressure! I'm sure your worms are going to absolutely love all the gourds you're giving them!! Thanks so much for watching Kevin!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick,
We are in the middle of pounding and nail gun noise for a second day 🙃 What torture 😳
Your loofah looks like it's breaking down quickly ❤and I would expect it to. It's all natural.
Take care and Merry Christmas
❤Peggy❤
New roof I take it?!!?! Everything in our attic was coated with plywood saw dust after we got a new roof! The Floofahs are doing fantastic!! I realized we used the the one I put in the garden in the kitchen for over a month but the worm bin one was fairly new...that might have helped the garden out but I am seriously impressed with how alive my garden soil is!! Thanks so much for watching Peggy!!🪱🪱🪱
That water melon was demolished! 😂 By the way, was just looking at your garden bed, do you practice 'no dig' gardening? I have been looking into it. I may try with one raised bed. We got such bad soil when we first started, too much sand, and the sand still dominates. Hard to keep it full of nutrients and moisture, but the worm compost has really helped.
I kind of practice no dig in that I do not till it under. When I plant the garden beds I rake the mulch to the side and just dig a hole and plant right into it. I typically do add worm castings to the hole. When I harvest I do leave the roots of the plant in but I if I find a root in the way when I plant something new I remove the old roots. This area of my back yard has been going for about 6 years and the soil has been getting better and better. It was mostly sandy soil before it started getting compost & vermicompost! The only fertilizer I use is worm casting tea and occasionally I'll use some fish emulsion. It is amazing how well the garden grows when we let nature do all the work!! Thanks so much for watching Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost That is great! 👍
Very interesting results! My vermihut worm bin is still going well with its few hundred worms, takes a long time to add new layers with so few worms though.
Thank you!! I forget, did you restart your VermiHut? I know you've had it for quite a while. It's fun to watch the population grow from a few hundred to thousands but you are right that first few months takes a while!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I grew WAY too many loofah one year so my worms have been enjoying playing in the loofah webs. I did not note how long it took them to eat the whole thing, but I think it was about 2 months. And today I fluffed and fed my worms. There was no sign of the snake skin. I think that took about 3 weeks. Next I'm going to put a variety of chicken feathers: wing, down, breast and tail. The girls just finished a molt so I have plenty of feathers!
😂 They grow like weeds here!! I only grow them once every 2-3 years because I'm left with so many!! That's crazy that the snake skin only lasted 3 weeks and the loofah take 2 months!! I'll be interested to see how long all the different feathers last! Thanks for the update on the snake skin & of course thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hope that you are having a good day too, was wondering if you ever encountered the extremely small soil snakes that resemble worms and eat soft bodied insects like termite sow bugs ant ect.?
Appreciate your work and commitment on the content, happy composting fella.
Thank you Alex!! I don't think I have run into any brahminy blind snakes, but I will be on the lookout for sure now that I have looked up what they are!! I do occasionally get ants in this worm bin like in this video: th-cam.com/video/br27r3bQCqM/w-d-xo.html so those combined with other soft bodied insects inside might make this worm bin an ideal place for them to hide out!! I'll also look out for them in my garden...if I have Asian jumping worms in there I might also have this non native snake that has spread globally! Have you ever encountered them? Thanks so much for watching & asking about this very interesting worm looking snake!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost I haven't had any up here, northwestern Indiana. I hear in central and southern areas of the state have them however, not discovered any myself.
Hope that all is well and worm bins are great friend!
👍 Thank you!
The remnants of the watermelon looked so cool 👍🏻 I don't think those Floofahs are going to last very much longer :)
I thought so too!! Almost like a spider web hanging onto the Floofah! They should both be gne by next check in I would think! Thanks so much for watching AV!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Patrick, maybe the bin loofa didn't break down as much because it was essentially buried in all new material unlike the garden that had an established microbe and isopod mix. Also, I don't recognize that type of oak leaf - do you know the variety of oak? If it is related to our types of oaks, they have very high lignin content in their leaves. That makes them slower to break down than other leaves, but excellent at supporting fungal growth.
~ Sandra
I forgot to mention it, but the one in the garden had been used in our kitchen for about a month and the one in the worm bin had been used for about a week...I think some of the difference is from that, but my garden is an absolute beast when it comes to composting food scraps based on my experiments!! I believe most of the oaks we have in our neighborhood and the ones in my yard are Southern Live Oaks. They are glossy on the top, boost the acidity of the soil if you leave them on the lawn when the new leaves push the old ones off the trees in February; and are just not that good to compost or vermicompost based on trying to rake them off the fertilized/herbicided St Augustine grass lawns we all have around here. I think you are exactly right when it comes to them being slow to break down!! If I can get them directly off the trees I'll keep adding them to my compost & vermicompost for that good fungal growth!! Thanks so much for watching Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
The Floofah sponge is a lot denser that a natural luffa sponge, will take a bit longer to break down. You have some awesome living soil in that bed Patrick, unfortunately the jumping worms are enjoying it too. At least up here in WI, the JW's die off in the winter, only the cocoons survive, down by you the JW's are probably active all winter. The only thing that can affect the JW's down by you is if you get an extended dry spell, they do not like that.
Nice experiment Patrick, Stay Well !!!
Exactly right!! It is a couple of loofah sponges dehydrated and sewn together to get more bang for the buck!! I had used the garden one in the kitchen for almost a month but the worm bin Floofah had only been used for a week or so. Based on the one we are using now they could easily last 3 moths or more in our kitchen and I bet when I throw it in the worm bin it will be gone in 2 weeks tops!! Those JW have found my garden and they love it...I've dug the soil in my lawn and other places and I don't find them. Unfortunately I think they are here to stay...we don't get too many dry spells...and definitely not in my garden😂 Thanks so much for watching Brian!!🪱🪱🪱
I wonder if shredded loofah would act a lot like coconut coir.
I think it would!! I have some dried ones from this years harvest and I bet if I put them in my dehydrator and ground them up they would be a similar constancy! They certainly soak up water like coco coir! Great observation! Thanks so much for watching Lesli!!🪱🪱🪱
Can you do this in winter in UK? Specifically in London where the temperature from 4 degrees to 9 degrees celsius.
Yes! The worms will slow down but those temperatures a just fine for red wigglers and European Night Crawler compost worms. Some more exotic tropical compost worms like African Night Crawlers have trouble in cooler temperatures but you'd have to specifically ask for those types if you are purchasing them. Right now I have 2 worm bins I keep outside and we got down to 0 celsius for a couple of hours with no issues. I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I tried eating loofah. It is supposed to be tasty if stewed before it becomes tough. I was not impressed. It seems to be a small challenge for the worms as well.
If I don't pick them 3-4 days after I see them then all the taste and tenderness is gone!! I gave the worms a harder task as the garden one was use for a month where as the worm bin one was used to a week. But it definitely shows what a great ecosystem I've got going in my garden soil!! Thanks so much for watching Joe!!🪱🪱🪱
Oh wow they love playing in the floofa. Cranberries take forever. Cool that the garden went faster than the bag. They might have recruited from a larger area? 😁👍🏼🪱
Yes, the garden has a great ecosystem going for it!! It also got the one we used for a month in the kitchen, where as the one in the worm bin got a week old Floofah. But I am super excited that my years of compost and vermicompost have created such an incredible bed of soil in my garden!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
I anxiously await each of your new videos. You have made my learn by doing worm farming much more successful.
I'm so happy to hear that!! Thanks for the kind words & thanks so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱