Don't Give Up -Worm Farming- Get it RIGHT - African Nightcrawlers
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- African Night Crawlers- Success through Experience
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The ANC are in my Vermibag little mammoth.
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You talking to the isopods influenced my 3yr old granddaughter to get an isopod stuffed animal. People are amazed she knows what it is, and what it does. Great teacher!
That is awesome🪱👍🏼😄
Would love to see more bag and multi tray work, including harvests.
Thank you. There will be a mult tray system update tomorrow 😃🪱👍🏼
I started with a worm tower and Memes worms then from there I went to half barrels after seeing your videos. I am staying with the barrels since it’s much easier for me since I am disabled.
The barrels are awesome. Much more ergonomic.👍🏼🪱😃
@@PlantObsessed The one thing I wonder about is how I can tell when I need to split the herd in each barrel? I don’t want them over crowded. Any thoughts on that?
@@SquigglersWigglers they self regulate when they hit the maximum population. They slow down breeding.👍🏼🪱😃
I started during early COVID with my gardening and found a worm channel. Bought 1/2 pound of red wrigglers and a 5 gallon bucket. Now I have about 12 bins and share castings. Glad to take on this hobby. Just finished a master gardener course and will set up worm composting bins at the county extension. 😊
Honestly, I learned 99.95% from TH-camrs, the rest was diving in face first into an empty pool of inexperience. We did Okay. Worms are still alive.😊
So just about the same as me. Lol. Just getting in there is the best teacher.🪱👍🏼😀
Started raising worms when I began to garden 5 years ago. Can not remember which videos I followed, but they were mostly wrong in my opinion, drilling holes in lids, covering with widow screen, on and on. Right now my favorite bins are my 50 gal grow bags, and I think my home made 55 gal drum CFT bin will rank right up there.
Most of my learning has come with trial and error, I do get good direction from you, Patrick, Peggy, Samantha and Jane to name a few. One thing I learned with my pest control business is that I will never know everything, and to keep an open mind.
Have a good day! Tomorrow is the 1st day of SPRING!!!!
Stay Well!!!
100% agree I'll never know everything. 😃🪱👍🏼
Hi Ann,
Happy St. Patty's Day 🍀 💚🍀
Great job on keeping down unwanted Critters, naturally.
That's one big wormbin!
Take care
❤Peggy❤
You can't tell but I was wearing green. Lol. 🪱👍🏼😄
@@PlantObsessed I believe you 🍀🪱
I read worm eat my garbage years ago. At that time I just wanted to reduce my garbage. I wasn't very successful, so I abandoned the effort. In 2020 (like many others) I became more serious about producing my own food. Remembering the worms, I turned to TH-cam (not even a thing when I tried the 1st time). My favorite channels are yours and Rockin' Worms. Both have been very helpful.
I'm so glad you got back into it. 😀👍🏼🪱
Hi Ann. I just move from worm towers to 50 gallons bin, with lid of course for the ANC. Thanks Anne for the inspiration
Happy worm farming. 🪱😀👍🏼
I’m still a newbie. Started just a month ago with a worm tower. I have traditional compost containers outside that contain redwigglers, so I brought some of them into my hotel. I’m learning from you a lot!
I'm glad I am helpful. Good luck😀👍🏼🪱
I find the Top down view, of your camera hard to watch , tend to listen to the info . And thanks for all that you provide.
Is that just for the African nightcrawler videos or is that include blue and the red wigglers as well? Thank you for the feedback. 😃🪱👍🏼
Watching your videos helped me be a better worm farmer. I am super visual, and descriptions like "wrung out sponge" mean very little. But when I can see how your material moves, how muddy (or not) your hands get, etc I have a much more clear idea!
Hoping for more experiment bins this year 💗
I will add experiments to the list. Thank you for the idea 😀👍🏼🪱
Holy smokes - that isopod was HUGE! Haha!! I can sympathize with having outbreaks of flying insects. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the trap...
Yeah and I will need to make another trap for the room I let them all fly into. SMH. 😄👍🏼🪱
I want to know, what is leftover wine ??@@PlantObsessed
Good boy. 😂 Enjoy the rest of your day.
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I bought one of those spouts off your links and love it!! Yep, each bin is it's own unique ecosystem that gets easier to maintain with experience and experimentation!! Another excellent video Ann!!🪱🪱🪱
Awesome! Thank you!🪱👍🏼😁
I hear you about gnats. They go everywhere in house. I've been swatting them constantly. And they wind up floating in your coffee pot (cowboy coffee with microwave). Mine are gone now! ha . No worm farm either. Good to see your update!
Thank you. They have the nerve to ask to swim in my wine 🍷 nope bad bug. 🪱👍🏼😀
after failing twice in totes and then in buckets i found worms at the bottom of a years old leaf pile. inspired by Nicole Masters use of half barrels i thought I'd imitate nature and layer compost and leaves to give home to my worms. And that combination of larger container and pre-composted bedding worked for me.
You are 100% right the larger container works the best for me too.😀👍🏼🪱
It happens Ann, now the fruit flies don’t stand a chance. Glad you show some of the issues. I know isopods are one of my issues(I know they help to breakdown bedding and food scraps), just not trying to raise them 😂
Never had any moths 🤔
I like the blended grit for a change of pace.
I had my first issue with isopods last spring in the garden. They were eating my seedling spinach. I put some mulch straw down and they left them alone. ,😃🪱👍🏼
@@PlantObsessed they love my compost pile, so I can see inadvertently adding them to the garden bed. I will need to remember about the straw
Very nice!
Thank you! Cheers!😄👍🏼🪱
I wonder if the torn cardboard is exacerbating the gnat issue because the feeding is not as fully smothered over by a thick layer of shredded bedding.
I was having the same thoughts. Next time the food will get buried like normal. 🪱👍🏼😀
I started with a tower system but the trays are huge and take a lot to get it done. And I find that for me it doesn’t need my attention span lol
So I went to just trays/ buckets. And I have the euros in a bucket as it’s deeper for them and my red wiggler era are in trays& under the bed boxes the aim is to. Make a wedge system in there but not enough worms yet for that, so atm it’s breeding them up I’m concentrating on.
Sounds like a good plan. It is best not to rush it.👍🏼🪱😃
Orange peels bring gnats to my bin faster than anything.
Interesting. There was an orange in the previous feeding. Good thing I have that trap in there with the new feeding having an orange too. 😀👍🏼🪱
Hey Ann, do you use office paper? Like white copy paper with ink? I've been thinking about doing this.. but wasn't sure if I could!
I do but it has to be mixed in with cardboard and coco coir or it sticks together like glue. 🪱👍🏼😀
@@PlantObsessed is that the majority of the paper product you use? Besides cardboard obviously. Thank you for the response!!
@@DanielScheel-m9x I use mostly cardboard. The office paper is only about 10%
Left over wine???is there such a thing lol
If it is not very good. 🍷👍🏼🪱😃
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Ugh. Gnats. When I get a bin infestation of gnats I take the bin outdoors for a few weeks and leave the lid off. The adults don't stick around long enough to lay their eggs back in the bin. If the weather is too chilly, I can put the bin in my greenhouse or use mosquito bits in the water indoors. Vacuuming before you open the lid also reduces a lot of the adults that might otherwise escape to your house! 🪰
~ Sandra
I will probably try the vacuum trick. The bin is too big to move unfortunately. Thank you for the idea 🪱👍🏼😀
I like the vacuum idea 💡 😁