HOW TO MAKE A WORM FARM - Converting an old bathtub into a worm paradise
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2021
- In this video, I show how I made my worm farm from an old bath tub, a gate hinge and a bit of tin.
Day after day, year after year, it will produce microbe rich, nutrient rich fertilizer for my garden.
See part two here: • TIPS FOR THE WORM FARM
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yeah, even though I know all this stuff i'm still eager to watch all his videos. I feel like the combination of his talents and skills with photography and his attitude and joy with learning and sharing make for an intoxicating mix heheh
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cannot understand a lot of what you say
i'm only 16 living in the u.s.a but one day i plan to visit Australia and try to meet geoff lawton. i've been watching your videos and learning a lot and putting it towards my future, so thank you. Keep doing what you do best!
If you go, meet Weedy too!
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keep on keeping on...
Its always been in my bucket list to go there but haven't yet. I really hope you make it to Australia. So much to see and learn there. Best of luck to you on our dreams!
Hello your vemiculture video started a fire with me and starting a worm farm, and after watching it I got completely hooked on your TH-cam series, I started building a few of my own. I wanted to thank you personally sir it has completely changed my life for the better . 🙏🙏🙏
That is awesome!
When you said you’re actually a photographer at the end that made so much sense.
Crikey your talent with film makes watching your channel completely addictive and completely enjoyable
If I could use only one word to describe the feelings I get when watching and listening it would be the word "FREEDOM" God bless from the US.
If only people would try there hand at planting a food garden.If you new at it there is so much good information like yours to start them off.Dont just entertain yourself with the videos do it you will never regret it.And your family will always have food on the table.Thankyou for the inspiration. Love from South Africa.
I bingewatched this whole channel today. Love it. Cheers.
Way to go! That must have been a marathon 😎 Hope you had some popcorn or chips 😆
me too nd got yelled by mom for staying up late but what can i do I am hungry to consume this content :')
@@sina1436 tell her you are learning how to grow food. She’ll understand 🤣🎃🪱
I am 70 and was born with green fingers.
What you are doing is well thought through and is exactly perfect.
WELL DONE! l hope to meet you one day.
You give off such a nice vibe, seems like it'd be amazing to sit down and have a talk.
agreed
This channel is a priceless find. This is a solution to people’s physical, mental and environmental obstacles.
I like that you are idealistic but not dogmatic in your efforts.
Well you could say that I am unrealistically aiming for perfection (that’s what idealistic means), which may be true, but I see it more like giving it the best shot from that which I have learnt and see what happens. This was the first time I made a wormfarm properly. The population has increased exponentially, and today Wormville is still thriving. I posted a little vid on FB the other week
i learned so much, thanks for being my long lost nature parent.
I'm the "odd ball" of my typical American family, so I have to rely on channels like yours to teach me things to teach my future children, because I don't want to live the way my family does.
You're a true artist mate, that ending hit deep in my soul!
Thank you for showing the tip for treating onions, now I do not have to throw away my onion kitchen waste. Great video
that last part gave me chills. the good kind .
🏆 You deserve an award for this video!
For a homeschooling project we made them out of totes. My children enjoyed making and feeding the worms.
My family is so grateful to have recently discovered your wonderful stories. ❤️ From the Messick tribe
Are you talking about totes as in 'plastic storage totes' or tote 'bags' like you would put groceries in? I'm looking for a solution using plastic storage totes, ones that stack even *without* the lids on.
Hello, hello, I stumbled across your page this morning. Now I’m not one to normally leave a comment but something about this channel has left me in awe.
Ps thanks for the tip on the onions, my papa bear and I have started to use it in our very own Wormville! Legend
Welcome to the channel 😃🪱
Hi Weedy I just made a worm bin inspired by you and Geoff, it's made from an old water tank and I called mine Wormtropolis 🌅!👍🙏💚😁
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I literally have a bathtub on the farm. It was destiny haha thanks for sharing. You rock
I did not expect this video about worms to end with such beautiful poetry. Nicely done.
I love how your garden is like a terrace farm with the heart of it being wormville. Thanks for sharing mate.🤩
The only real use for the mainstream media newspaper is worm food. Another great video well produced.
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Your voice is so calming.. love listening to you. Love from Melbourne
Love the Creator in you!
My Grandfather and Father had worm farms and used the Honesty System too. Now I'm starting a flower and market garden, as well as a permaculture methods and a food forest! I've started collecting plants for 2 years now, flowers and vegetables will be 1st! But never watched or ask about how to build beds. Now I must thank you, I was going to use a bathtub but I may just it under trees until I put in a home for them
I've watched a lot of worm casting videos. This is the most informative.
I like that you show some of the challenges, as many worm videos are more advertisement than edutainment.
I am at a loss for words! I've been looking for someone like you, all my life. I am incredibly inspired by your video. Thank you for sharing your gifts! I believe you are making a difference ❤️
Was interesting to see the blood flowing through worm vein👍. Your comment about the whale made me think the sea is like soil, lots of facets that we don't really consider but they are similar.
THAT GARDEN IS FLUSH GREEN!!! WOW! nice work!
I've had a compost bin/storage tub for about two years now, i've severely neglected my worms most the time, only changing/ air rating the soil and putting a fresh layer of cardboard on the bottom only twice.
I'm so excited to start this as a new project. My worms have so many babies all the time too so it's much needed for the little guys.
It's so great to see your progress. I'm again jealous and inspired by you and your creativity. Thank you for helping lead the way and show us things which have true value. If only one out of ten, or even 100 people did what you are doing with your land and understand the sacred life mentality in a remotely similar way as yourself, the world would would be drastically improved. Cheers to you and your ongoing participation with our beautiful planet.
Thankyou Paul. The trend is growing. Literally!
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@@lifeissacred2041 but it would. It would. 😊
Couldn't agree more with your words, great content ✌🏽
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I’ve modelled my worm farms on geoffs design but I let the rain in my worms go crazy for it, Marty’s garden is a great channel for worms 🪱 he is near port Macquarie, love the way you’re always earthing 🌈🙏😎
just a side note at 4:00 I was extremely jealous that you were able to hammer steel posts so far into the ground with such a small hammer and hit no stones. I can't even get a foot down before i'm hitting some kind of boulder lol.
The soil here is pretty good
You’re the conscious living guy that is adding the light for the whole. Blessings! Perfect life style!
Loved.. The Australian accent.. Especially the last one.. Pawah
Infinite Blessings to YOU and Your Path!
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Wow, you’re a garden zen-master. I love your wormproject AND of course your photograpy.
Tak 🙏🏻😁
@@TheWeedyGarden YES, a true zen-master would of course reply in my native language. Why am I even surprised?
Master, I bow to you!
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This guy is the Bob Ross of gardening
Awesome video! worms are incredible creatures :) I raise about 2 million worms for fertilizer for my garden and also to teach others how to care for them. No more chemical fertilizer!
This is by far the most simplistic, and wonderful worm farming video I've come across. Now to find a bathtub. Shucks, after Ian I saw a couple, but had no one to help me pick them up. Fortunately where there is a will, there is a way! Jesus is Lord!
Up date! I was I. My daughter's back yard and low and behold a beautiful heavy tub so we traded water trough for tub. God is so good!!
I love how you make due with whatever you have laying around the property. True sustainment mentality.
I try to.
Multe multumiri si aprecieri din...beatuful Romania!
I use to live in a cold/snowy climate & had a vermicompost worm bin indoors from veggie waste & a compost 2 bay system outdoors from my garden/veggies/yard waste that sat in mostly shade & I never covered the outdoor compost bays. In summer, I would water The pile to keep cool. Summers were dry & a bit hot @ times. The worm pee alone made my plants/veggies/trees so healthy!! Cardboard & watermelon/rinds would be devoured by the worms really quickly, it was hilarious. 😄 In winter I used cheap & big onions & set them out in our living space (living room/lounge) because onions are a natural air purifier. It helps when the home is closed up for months on end. Your tip to dry it out & add it to the worm bin is excellent. One of our neighbor's saw our outdoor compost & gave us his fall leaves & saw firsthand how all his leaves broke down along with the rest of our materials into a beautiful rich black earth soil. Awesome video! Enjoy the content.
You are truly an inspiration. I want to live my life like you
Amen!
Thank you Weedy, you are a legend, I grew up as a shepherd - my parents farmed fresh veg, livestock and a home only dairy. So yes I learnt a lot... your journey is so beautiful - I am inspired to go back to farming - be it a 2x4 worm farm with a few sheep etc,,, start and let it grow as the universe sees fit - again thank you for sharing your journey
You’re peacefulness your editing your storytelling your gardening is just WONDERFUL. You are beautiful and an inspiration
G'day David. Just caught up with your vermicast vid ... bit of medical time out..... As expected, an awesome educational master class in setting up Wormville. I have been worm farming for many years now, in a domestic home food garden set up. Like you, I have also learnt both the likes and dislikes of worm husbandry. One helpful hint, that has helped my worms over the extreme hot spells we experience in Melbourne over summer, is to freeze several 2 or 3 litre plastic milk bottles. Then I wrap them in several layers of newspaper and put them over the feeding zone, as well as the nesting zone to give them respite [DEADLY RESULTS!] from 40 C heat! I have 2 sets of bottles that I rotate from freezer to the worm farms each day of any heat wave! Unfortunately, long ago, I had lost complete colonies to the ravages of heat waves ...... but, haven't lost any since adopting this process! Cheers.
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Building a proper worm farm is definitely on the to do list of my farm! I will remember that technique you used on that pole the next time I need to put a piece of wood in the ground. Great video! It was very informative for me.
I click thumb before the video start.. happy gardening
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Enjoy all your videos, If I was closer Id love to come and visit. You are an inspiration. Thanks for the great content.
Glad you are appreciating it 👍🏼🎃
I have never seen a more perfect man. This world needs more like you. You are a keeper.
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You are a true artist, now to watch the rest of your videos. Thanks
please do, enjoy them snd please comment or ask questions 👍🙏🏻 It helps my channel grow 😃
I love you videos, not because it is all new information, but because it is visually engaging. Dad is a photographer too, so I grew up as an informal apprentice
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Really nice to watch someone with so much passion for nature and all its goings on .truly living the dream
Thanks for letting us know about the onions and citrus. Great info. LOVE all your work.
Thank you, inspired to build a worm farm now. The one I bought is a little small for all the worms and food scraps now. Love the worm farm, great compost and liquid, can really notice the boost the plants get from them.
As someone about to throw away a Jacuzzi Tub. I now have a use for it instead of the dump.
Unexpected and awe inspiring. First time viewer and subbed for who you are and what you are bringing to our world. Blessings. I agree with all the comments. Words really don't seem sufficient to convey what we receive from you. You are a rare soul and I hope your channel grows exponentially.
A great detailed setup of an old bath. I thoroughly enjoyed your indepth instructions. Awesome macro view of your worms too.
The quality of your videos is absolutely waouw 👏👏👏👏
What a delightful story and a fantastic explanation. We're also going to start our Wormville. You've also brought up a great idea. Thanks.
Finally ! A work farm build that I understand. Thank you for posting this. Love your energy.
god please make a worm video number 2. i loved this one so much. just overflowing with great information and you deliver it in a warm and down-to-earth way. and like others have mentioned too, the filming and video editing is beautiful. thanks so much for sharing.
I did make a part two!!
@@TheWeedyGarden hahah rad!! i’ll go check it out. thanks mate
Just found your sight excellent wonderful information. From the USA and recently started composting and helping the worms and my garden. Thank you so much.
Thanks Mark. Welcome to TWG channel
Brilliant. So glad I watched this. I have accidentally created my first red wriggler container and I am so excited to know what to do with them. Cheers!
At every given moment capturing the emotion…evocation, great expectations… you are creating, the weedy garden with lush rays of inspiration….
Kia ora Mr Weedy, thank you for your content. I am a long time
Gardener. Your camera work and editing is cleaver and beautiful. I have been chipping away on a shady seaside section for a few years. I take insperation from your work and delight in every new video.
I have always wanted to have a worm farm for my yard. This is a great video on how to get the juice for the garden. It,s a good build. Love to see Ian not the only one who likes to go bare footed.
I think it is easier to harvest casts by building a multi-storey wormville 😂
Bottom layer is the basement - a sump to collect the leachate (the bucket under your bath)
Above the sump, we need a net/mesh screen to keep worms from drowning in the leachate
The next two layers are of identical construction, and switch places as the cycle progresses.
Start with only a single layer above the sump + filter. You don't want to start with this being full IMO. Add a decent amount of bedding (brown) e.g. wet newspaper, wet carboard, coconut husk. Add your chosen amendments (egg shells, charcoal etc). Feed (green) little and often, as we want worms to eat the green before it rots. Once filled with casts, add the next layer. Holes in the base allow the worms to move into it from below (c. 5mm drilled holes or gaps between planks). Start it as before with fresh bedding, any amendments, and feed little and often. For a few days, ignore the ground floor.
After a few days, all the lovely wrigglers will have migrated to the freshly prepared penthouse, leaving a tray full of casts (and eggs) we can use in the garden. The empty tray is then ready to become the new top floor, and the cycle continues.
I drill air holes around the sides (at the top) blocking with netting to stop the ungrateful buggers from esacaping! This lets me use a decent fitting lid. I appreciate it is cooler here in the UK so a lid works for me, but might not for you.
Can build this from wood (deconstructed pallets so free) or more easily from stacking boxes if you can stomach using plastic and/or lack workwork skills.
PS, don't overlook this as a perpetual source of free fishing bait too (apologies to any veggie/vegans reading)
Yeah you can do many variations.
Great video, thanks Weedy. Simple, creative and informative. Time to build my own wormville. Stumbled across you when looking for info on swales, been binging all morning with a coffee on this wet queensland morning🌧
Awesome job with the worm farm. I’m glad you realized there was too much green material. You want to feed regular small meals and it will prevent waste from composting before the worms can eat it. Also don’t forget to add regular egg shell grit.
Had to really laugh out loud when I read the "PLEASE DO NOT USE HOOKS" on the top bag! 11:40
9:58 HAHA man you really had me going for a second. I thought I was about to learn something! 😁👌
Orange!
Great information , using dryed citrus as fire lighters., biochar and how a little bit will spread in a tennis court.
So many tips.
Sweet spot 37' for tiger worms.
You are a great teacher.
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Thanks Beanie 😊🙏
Thank you for reigniting my child-like wonder. Your love for your gardening engineers is truly magnificent, magical and deeply respectful. Blessings to you.
Great job Weedy. Definitely the best and most in depth worm farm video I’ve seen so far. Thank you so much for the info!
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You, Sir, are an inspiration. Grateful for your perspective
This was the first time I have seen one of your videos. I didn't recognize you as one of the regular worm farming channels... and at around 20 minutes into this video you revealed that you're actually a pro photographer (I was already able to tell that this was the case early on in the video). You're very talented in making engaging imagery and at telling an interesting story. Bravo - great job putting this together. Hopefully we'll get to see more of your worm farming adventures in the future! Cheers from New Jersey, USA
Thanks for watching. There will be a short Wormville update on Friday
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Thanks Weedy for yet another wonderful video. I really appreciate that you show the mistakes along the way and how to rectify them so that we can all learn along with you.
Thanks for that comment. Yeah, I think it makes my job a lot easier by just showing instead of trying to immitate a prof garden master. When I’m 100, I’ll start to say “I know”, but until then it’s “I show” 🙃✌️
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The lid!!! You're a kindred soul, to me.
What a wonderful treat this channel is; the talent with the camera is soothing.
This video of yours gave me the last push to initiate my wormbin that has been in my mind for the last few days now. Was still thinking of the complicated things that's why it got delayed further and further, but seeing your bin being a tub that gave me the push to just take it easy and followed your method. So I prepared a small bucket with alternate layers of greens and browns topped with cucumber, covered in paper and placed it under a shade. The worms looked more relaxed and at ease than being under black plastic seedling bag that was surrounded by free-range chickens. Thank you ❤️
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You are my favourite gardening TH-cam channel now! It’s like watching a tv series. 😊🥰
😃 that’s great. Welcome to the channel. Look forward to Weedy The Movie...coming later this year 🎥💚
Thank you. Really enjoyed the film skills and the information you have shared.
"Blue" threw me off for a sec lol. Great vid.
I'm a photographer too and that's the reason I subscribed. The gardening was just an awesome bonus because I have just started out too. The way you create videos though is unlike any other. I love the cinematic experience.
That gives me another reason to use the bathtub in my backyard lol. I've got bunch of worms in a rubber tote but It's difficult to get the worm castings out. Thanks!
It's an excellent video. Very practical and informative. Thanks for the onion tip. Thanks for sharing.
You’re a dead set legend mate. Thank you
Worm farms rock 🌟 Your recipe is wonderful.
Thank you.
Your videos are like a meditation, just amazing. I love how you break everything down and give the little details in a fascinating way and your touches of humour. I cracked up when you switched the label to Blue, while building the layers. I actually stopped and thought why is the grass a blue layer?? 😂 before reading 'just kidding' Thanks for sharing your journey, it's inspiring.
Ha ha. That’s funny 🤪
Yeah that is the only time I've ever burst out laughing while watching a worm farm video!
Exactly how I felt, that this was a meditation on gardening! with new little challenges along the way. I'm hoping he's still posting radical content!
I LOVED learning about burning the post end(s) - now that's GREAT info!
A compost bin with worms! Nice salad mix, lots of tasty tidbits for the worms.
I've been dreaming about getting my hands on an old broke down deep freezer. The " Hilton" of worm hotels!
Thank you. You are awesome 👌 these videos have helped me out tons. Soil bacteria helped my plants thrive. Now I learned a way how to extract my worms easier :)
Your storytelling is epic, powerful and enlightening. Thank you for sharing your craft.
Beautiful video and beautiful umbrella. Love it