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Nice video. I never thought to do this when I had to do a worm bin rescue. It had gone all muddy and the worms could hardly move through it. Had to go through all the mud and gently pull out all of the worms. Took me ages!!
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I love how little you talked in this. Normally I love your narration, but it was nice just to sit back and watch the progress. This definitely gets a muddy thumbs up
I harvest my worm castings using wet screening, de-chlorinated water using a pressure spray. Screen oversize catches the cocoons, the rest to the garden. Its rare to see wet screening, thanku for showing.
We have a spring on our property and we have pipes that allow us to capture it for irrigation water and watering our animals. In our tank, there collects a lot of worms, as you can imagine. I fish them out periodically and give them to the chickens! :D Popping by your channel as a new friend from Canada :)
So how does this get rid of the springtails? Or does it just remove them from the worm bed and put them in the garden? Think a lot went back In the bucket with the cocoons.
Hi Anne, I've been watching a lot of your videos and a question that I have especially since I was watching you use your garden hose does it matter if you have tap water or does it have to be special water that you do that with like well water, or rain water, could you let me know please?
Well she is a tough woman.I can hear all those mosquitos buzzing around...I think for a small scale starting out where you want to get the most out of your bins, this is a cool idea . But as you grow larger this method would be to time consuming . Cost wise it is kind of expensive. May be you can take to bottoms out of a couple buckets and screen the bottoms with screen .
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You just let those worms release back into the wild!!! LOL there had to be some cocoons fly away when you slung those strainers and banged them on the tub. Guess you forgot to add their trackers too? Hostas eat springtails!!! I better keep our babies out of the flower bed. And is that why you didn't use any trackers? the Hosta will eat newly released cocoons? like those springtails!!! LOL and did we find any gold yet??? looks like you have found a chicken egg though.
I try not to. This was an extreme case where I had to get the worms out of the over processed castings. I use fish conditioner in my tap water the rest of the time.
Very interesting. I have previously given some thought about how to harvest castings with water but it was more driven to reconstituting casting material separated from the water. Are you on well water or is it chlorinated city water? PH balanced? Temperature? If it is city water, you are killing off enzymes and bacteria, some of the best attributes of worm castings and creating a less hospitable environment for the worms. I appreciate people who just try ideas. I am much more a thinker and I will negate trying something by talking myself out of it, usually out of the presumption of something better. Your demonstration shown me that the concept of water harvesting is sound if one is content with the amount of liquid to be utilized, somewhat immediately. If the mixture is not oxygenated, it will putrefy anaerobically over a short period of time. Alternatively, you could add a teaspoon of molasses per 5 gallons of liquid when aerating which will create a biological explosion, doubling the bacteria every hour in good conditions. "worm tea" for more info. Is the material that is not making it through the fine mesh Coco Coir and/or other bedding? Can we assume it is since worm castings are purported as 100% humus?
It is city water. So yes chlorinated. Temperature in the summer is about 70 Fahrenheit. The kill vs concentration for chlorine is about 200 ppm 5 minutes. There is less than 5 ppm in tap water. Also since I used it immediately the water additives were mitigated by the soil. If I made brewed worm tea like in my past videos I use water conditioner to remove chlorine and chloranimines. Also the molasses and bubble over night. The left over matter is likely cococoir and paper. If I had used more coir in the begining it would not have ended up so mucky.
@@PlantObsessed Sorry but my brain just wouldn't let this go. "A chlorine concentration of 50 to 200 parts per million (ppm) is recommended to sanitize food contact surfaces including utensils, equipment, and tables." www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/food-safety/at-the-food-processor/print,use-of-chlorine.html I have not had an aquarium for several years and I had a significant brain injury since then, so I had to refresh myself. "Chlorine at high concentrations is toxic to fish; at lower concentrations, it stresses fish by damaging their gills. Concentrations of as little as .2-.3 ppm kill most fish fairly rapidly. To prevent stress, concentrations as low as 0.003 ppm may be required." users.cs.duke.edu/~narten/faq/water-treatment.html Your worms are likely not suffering much since they are a more complex and larger life form and only being submerged for a moment however, I wonder what percentage of life from the castings live on in tap water. Side note: The smell from cleaning my aquariums smells the same as my finished worm tea. I am curious if there is any correlation in biology.
Yep, it is the most simple worm tea. It is why I got into worms in the first place. Worm castings are very expensive and I have a ridiculous amount if plants. Some people might say I'm obsessed 😀
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Nice video. I never thought to do this when I had to do a worm bin rescue. It had gone all muddy and the worms could hardly move through it. Had to go through all the mud and gently pull out all of the worms. Took me ages!!
It was an ugly mess but it did work. I learned the hard way not to let a bin get overworked again. 👍🏼😀🪱
Alternatively just add some bedding and fluff a few days before unless you are selling off the castings.
You must have an amazing garden with all that worm water
I have a large garden for sure.🪱👍🏼😀
Wow! I didn't know this was an option for muddy castings! Thanks for sharing! I'm sure glad I the whole set of those screens.
Yeah that was a mess it is a last resort. Lol desperate times call for desperate measures. 👍🏼🪱😁
I like you panning skills. And you were whacking to heck out of your sifters 💥😂
Yep they are tough for sure.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I love how little you talked in this. Normally I love your narration, but it was nice just to sit back and watch the progress. This definitely gets a muddy thumbs up
Thanks. It is better let the process take for itself
I harvest my worm castings using wet screening, de-chlorinated water using a pressure spray. Screen oversize catches the cocoons, the rest to the garden. Its rare to see wet screening, thanku for showing.
I have only done it once it was a mess. Last resort. Upside I was making and using worm tea at the same time. ,😊
The worms received a nice mud bath 🛁😉 I enjoyed the band that was playing in the background 🎼🎷
The music was not planned. Nice though eh?
@@PlantObsessed that's even better 👌 a nice surprise 🙂
We have a spring on our property and we have pipes that allow us to capture it for irrigation water and watering our animals. In our tank, there collects a lot of worms, as you can imagine. I fish them out periodically and give them to the chickens! :D Popping by your channel as a new friend from Canada :)
That must be nice to have your own spring water. Can't have too many maple leaves!😁
The band music made me smile.
I'm an old band nerd. I have played that music before ....back in the day.
@@PlantObsessed me too, me too
It puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again 😆
Exactly!!
Wow lot of labor!!!! But worth the outcome I see
Yes, and a good reminder to not let the castings get too wet. lol
Yes it is a labor of love and very rewarding hobby to 😊❤
So how does this get rid of the springtails? Or does it just remove them from the worm bed and put them in the garden? Think a lot went back In the bucket with the cocoons.
The population is reduced. Nothing gets rid of them forever. 😃🪱👍🏼
Hi Anne, I've been watching a lot of your videos and a question that I have especially since I was watching you use your garden hose does it matter if you have tap water or does it have to be special water that you do that with like well water, or rain water, could you let me know please?
I try to not use tap water on the worms. However when I do there doesn't seem to be any problems. 👍🏼😃🪱
Well she is a tough woman.I can hear all those mosquitos buzzing around...I think for a small scale starting out where you want to get the most out of your bins, this is a cool idea . But as you grow larger this method would be to time consuming . Cost wise it is kind of expensive. May be you can take to bottoms out of a couple buckets and screen the bottoms with screen .
Oh this is a last resort method. I try hard not to let my castings get so sticky they won't dry nicely.
That is how you do it i like my worms clean
Yep good clean fun.😀
Does the 1/12 catch the blue worm cocoons too?
Not all of them. They are seriously tiny.🪱😃👍🏼
How did you remove the adults?
Everything went through the screen. Process. The adults in my bins don't get like large breeders.👍🏼🪱☺️
I absolutely love the way you did this😄
Thank you. It was a mess but a necessary one.
what kind of shredder do you use for your cardboard?
I have the same shredder in my Amazon links. An alternative is to find an 18 or more sheet shredder. They need to maintained more than if you just used it for paper like normal. The head needs to be disassembled every couple months and cleaned out or the dust will get in and make it over heat. I learned that the hard way.
Tat was quite a messy 🤪job. But u did great 👍gal.
Yes a big mess. The grass in that spot is going to grow twice as fast now. Lol.
You just let those worms release back into the wild!!! LOL there had to be some cocoons fly away when you slung those strainers and banged them on the tub. Guess you forgot to add their trackers too?
Hostas eat springtails!!! I better keep our babies out of the flower bed. And is that why you didn't use any trackers? the Hosta will eat newly released cocoons? like those springtails!!! LOL
and did we find any gold yet??? looks like you have found a chicken egg though.
Black gold!!!
Texas tea lol 😆
That was a workout!
Yeah I has huffing and puffing at the end.
@@PlantObsessed At the end of the day, was it more or less work overall in your opinion?
@@dizzydinonysius if you factor in I was really sorting worms and making worm tea at the same time it would be the same work .
Can you use tap water for your worms ? Tia 😊
I try not to. This was an extreme case where I had to get the worms out of the over processed castings. I use fish conditioner in my tap water the rest of the time.
It puts the lotion on its skin... Or it gets the hose again...
Absolutely 💯
Very interesting. I have previously given some thought about how to harvest castings with water but it was more driven to reconstituting casting material separated from the water.
Are you on well water or is it chlorinated city water? PH balanced? Temperature?
If it is city water, you are killing off enzymes and bacteria, some of the best attributes of worm castings and creating a less hospitable environment for the worms.
I appreciate people who just try ideas. I am much more a thinker and I will negate trying something by talking myself out of it, usually out of the presumption of something better. Your demonstration shown me that the concept of water harvesting is sound if one is content with the amount of liquid to be utilized, somewhat immediately. If the mixture is not oxygenated, it will putrefy anaerobically over a short period of time.
Alternatively, you could add a teaspoon of molasses per 5 gallons of liquid when aerating which will create a biological explosion, doubling the bacteria every hour in good conditions. "worm tea" for more info.
Is the material that is not making it through the fine mesh Coco Coir and/or other bedding?
Can we assume it is since worm castings are purported as 100% humus?
It is city water. So yes chlorinated. Temperature in the summer is about 70 Fahrenheit. The kill vs concentration for chlorine is about 200 ppm 5 minutes. There is less than 5 ppm in tap water. Also since I used it immediately the water additives were mitigated by the soil. If I made brewed worm tea like in my past videos I use water conditioner to remove chlorine and chloranimines. Also the molasses and bubble over night. The left over matter is likely cococoir and paper. If I had used more coir in the begining it would not have ended up so mucky.
@@PlantObsessed I think I will revisit the "water harvesting" method, at least for making worm tea. Thanks!
@@dizzydinonysius try it once to see if it is for you. It is a mess.
@@PlantObsessed Sorry but my brain just wouldn't let this go.
"A chlorine concentration of 50 to 200 parts per million (ppm) is recommended to sanitize food contact surfaces including utensils, equipment, and tables."
www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/food-safety/at-the-food-processor/print,use-of-chlorine.html
I have not had an aquarium for several years and I had a significant brain injury since then, so I had to refresh myself.
"Chlorine at high concentrations is toxic to fish; at lower concentrations, it stresses fish by damaging their gills. Concentrations of as little as .2-.3 ppm kill most fish fairly rapidly. To prevent stress, concentrations as low as 0.003 ppm may be required." users.cs.duke.edu/~narten/faq/water-treatment.html
Your worms are likely not suffering much since they are a more complex and larger life form and only being submerged for a moment however, I wonder what percentage of life from the castings live on in tap water.
Side note:
The smell from cleaning my aquariums smells the same as my finished worm tea. I am curious if there is any correlation in biology.
why didn't you just add bedding to dry it out?
I had several times. It was time to harvest one way or the other.
Nice job :)
Lol I hope not to need to resort to that again. Thanks 👍
@@PlantObsessed Yeah, I think we kinda got that, every time you stopped and just had to sigh .... 🙃 Job well done , either way 👍🏻
Could not see them but you must have sifted out a lot of eggs in this process ?????
Yes, the stuff I was putting in the metal bucket went into the new ENC bin with fresh bedding.
Awesome
Thanks!!
that liquid can be liquid organic fertilizer
Yep, it is the most simple worm tea. It is why I got into worms in the first place. Worm castings are very expensive and I have a ridiculous amount if plants. Some people might say I'm obsessed 😀
Interesting
Thank you 🙂