Worm Cafe Worm Farm How to Start a vermiculture
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- Welcome to the Urban Hobby Farm. This is Ben, and in this video we are going to look at how to start a worm farm of vermiculture.
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I have a worm cafe. This video helped clarify some points for me. Many thanks.
Hi Gloria, thanks for the comment - glad I could help.
Thanks for the informative video. I would like to actually ‘see’ what is happening in the trays and what the trays should look like as ‘working’ trays. .
Thanks. Good idea Peta. I'll try and get around to a second video
Thank you, very informative.
Hi Ben, my local council subsidizes the purchace price of the same worm cafe and starter and booster packs of worms. Not sure where in Australia folk my be from, however, a quick web search or phone call to your local council might be worth the effort. The subsidy from my local council is roughly 50%. Keep up the great videos and thanks.
Hi Damien. Wow - thanks for a good tip.
Great video, I have seen the recommendation to soak bread in mike to encourage the maggots and then remove them. The bread and milk does not seem to be working and they are increasing?
Hey Mate, awesome video and now subscribed and will watch all your videos. Going to Bunnings tomorrow to buy the same worm farm as yours. Thanks again, very helpful. Andre
Awesome, thank you!
Hey Ben. Great video. Can you please explain how to make the mixture/brew you talk about - 2 days with wee and castings?
Much appreciated! Thanks
You should do a fertiliser contest with a bunch of different fertilisers and compost and worm castings
Good idea, thanks
Thanks this has helped me a lot as I have resurrected an old Whoopi Worm Farm (3 bin system) and have now reached the stage where the top bin is full but worms are still in the middle bin with compost. As the top bin is full I am going to buy a Worm Café as I think it will be good to have two worm farms to enable food scraps to be distributed between the two. Do I leave off the top two trays until the first one is full? Then pop on the second until full, then the third? I cannot see how it would work if you left the whole three trays assembled. Thanks for the video it is the first one I have seen which fully explains how things work.
Thank you
G'day Ben. I bought the Worm Cafe at the beginning of November and put a thousand worm eggs (and baby wrigglers) in from the "Worm Doctor" I think they were called. Anyway, it's now January and I've been feeding them weekly with 3 handfuls of blended scraps and some leaf mulch (maybe not enough, but didn't want to overfeed them), they're now crawling up from the first working layer and feeding in the second lay (I haven't put the third working layer on yet). I noticed the bottom working layer is exclusively castings now. I don't know what to do next. Can I remove the bottom working layer and work it into my garden and make the now second working layer the bottom layer and put the new layer on top? I've only ever had worms looking after themselves in the compost LOL. We have very clay soil here and there are no worms as yet. I've just made a raised garden bed so should I add worms to that. I haven't seen any huge "clumps" of worms as yet, is that because they're underfed? Oh forgot to mention, I'm in arid Qld (hot and dry) and my worm farm is under the house where it doesn't get direct sun (they'd cook in a day).
What great video ben! I live in Mildura and it gets very hot and very cold in the winter mornings and just wondering if you had any idea of how yo cool or keeping things warm. Thank you so much 😊
Thanks Ben
How do you make that stuff you were talking about?
hi great video. i have set up my first layer of the worm farm with a layer of newspapper on the bottom, a mixture of coco choir and compost then added 1000 worms, then another layer of newspapper (all moist). i have filled it up so the second tray is touching the top of the bedding mix. Is this to full? and should i add the food scraps into the second layer? or underneath the newspaper on the first layer?
I would say the layer is full. I would suggest adding composted food scraps, maybe a handful every few days to the new layer. The worms will migrate through the layers.
Thanks mate great clip keep it up!!
I saw on another channel you should "give your worms a shower" about 1x a week to rinse off/out the pee & poop. I'd prefer not to let the castings get so wet. Is that necessary
Hi Candace, you need to keep the compost moist to keep the worms alive. I'm not sure about a shower I live in a fairly hot/ humid environment - and I usually water the farm maybe 5 liters twice a week, less in winter.
Hi, Great video (Just what I was looking for). I bought my worm cafe about a month ago and used the coconut fibre starting kit and spread the worms across is in the first tray. I have put a piece of hessian on top of it and am putting 5L of water through it a week (2.5L every Wed and Sun). The worms don't appear to be eating some carrot peelings that I put in a week ago yet they are coming up to the hessian so they appear to be 'up and around' the food... when will I know they are hungry for more food? does it actually just disappear?? (and become worm poo?) Thanks
Thanks Rod. Good news
You live in Australia, I live in TX.... I would love to have my bins outside... But I just have a fear that the heat and humidity or even the fire ants and bugs will just kill them all. Everytime I see a dead worms in the bin I just want to cry (I'm so weak). We have sprinkled DE in and around the bin, 3 days in and there were flies and ants trying to go to town. 😥 I do admit, I probably overfeed them. I went though and picked out everything and basically redid the bins and didn't feed them. Hopefully it will work. Do you use a PH and moisture meter?
Yeah - fire ants are in Australia too.
Hi there, do I have to put a blanket on the worms on initial tray and do I have to do wetting block into 2nd and 3rd tray
No. But i do.
I got one of them and I got baby worm all over the lid is there something to be concerned about and thank for your help
Thats probably to do with the PH levels. Try to adjust - let me know how it goes. Thanks.
I would like for you to back up your claim that you have made in 3:10
Kiss off eejit
Yes mate, I have 5,000 worms approx in each farm.
Urban Hobby Farm can you do a live stream with you counting them individually
Could cockroaches get inside these worm farms? That's the only thing that makes me hesitant to have a worm farm.
Possible, we sprinkle DE in their bin and around their bin. It is an all natural physical pesticide. It dries out and damages the exoskeleton system of not only Roaches, but anything like it, while also supplying the worms with valuable minerals and helps them break down their food because they do not have teeth. I know it's late, but I hope this helps.
I have the legs to my bin sitting in trays of water. It has kept the crawling pests out.
Hi Quantum, I've never had a problem with cockroaches.
Hi, DE is good product to use in these worm farms. Thanks for your comment.
Hi Keith. Thanks a good idea - thanks for the comment.