Hey I just wanted to say, I really like that you were honest and said that if you are starting out you don't need the urban worm bag. I will definity be buying some stuff from you guys once I get it up and going.
I also appreciate, how you show us how to build instead of selling us the product. My son wanted to start a worm farm for fishing. Until watching this video I had never thought about or had an interest in composting. When I move from a fishing worm farm to composting, you have my business. Thank you for this!
Such great content. I have one set up since March and a second one ready to set up when the temps drop back down as I have the first one in the garage.
Great video. I started with a bin, but ended up buying your worm bag. I like the extra volume which makes it easier to dispose the volume of kitchen scraps we generate.
great video! I have been worm composting off and on for about 15 years. I need to stay with it and be more dedicated as this is excellent for the environment. Thanks!
Hi Steve. This is at least the third time I've watched this video. Yes, I'm fairly new to vermicomposting and watching vids / reading blogs more than once does a lot to make sure I understand the 'biology' of vermicomposting fully. Congrats on 25k. Your channel is one of best out there. Thanks for the education and entertainment!
Did you mention a link to a guide? I haven't started yet and I definitely need to understand the big picture before I get going... This will be the perfect compliment to our vegetable gardens
I’ve been doing this for one year, so I’m still fairly new but have learned SO much because of your channel. I have two Lowe’s black cement trays and I started with a pretty deep bin. I wanted to go to something more shallow but still plenty of room for the worms. They seem to be thriving and the baby worms and cocoons are everywhere. I don’t have a worm bag but would definitely love to try it, plus I have plenty of worms to move to it. Thanks and congrats on 25,000 subs. I know you’ll surpass that soon!
New vermicomposter here, about 8 months in. Love my urban worm bag! Several large harvests this year. Steve is super helpful & friendly with top notch customer service. Highly recommend his high quality products.
I love my worm bin. I've been verrry hard on it and it might be a cool research project for you to examine when I replace it. If I don't win this dang contest I'll be purchasing another anyways. I am actually obsessed with this product.
I think LSU probably has the most extensive guides, and studies w/data on various agricultural offshoots than any other source in the world, it’s definitely made my life easier.
As someone who finds too much information confusing and complicated, can I just say how easy this is to follow and understand. I’m in the uk so lots of things we don’t have access too or cost too much to get due to delivery costs. But you have made this clear and easy. And covered what we can get. I’m very impressed, thanks.
im getting my worms from a local fishing bait shop. the bins from a local american store called wall mart and the coconut or other filler/bedding from my local hard ware store, Home Depot.
I started my first Worm Bin in December of 2023 in an 18 gallon Roughneck tote with 1,000 red wigglers. It doing great with the light overhead and so far no issues with smell or escapees. What is the capacity of the Urban Worm Bag (2)? Also, do you have any tips when I transfer my worms and all their bedding to the Worm Bag? I know your product is going to make my life so much easier, especially the harvesting of the castings.
I'm in the UK have just started 4 worm bins up. To breed worms for fishing. Hopefully I'll get some castings also to use in garden. But ideally I just want as many worms as possible. So have just started up a multi layer bin aswell.
@@UrbanWormCompany I’ll literally skip shorter videos or search for longer ones so I don’t have to constantly change videos. Gimme the alll the info 🤣🤣🤣 Just saying for real try it out people want it for sure
I have two indoor worm farms that work well but have started to produce a lot of fruit flies. I just replaced one of our chest freezers and used the old one to start an outdoor farm. This would make it possible for me to at least temporarily get rid of the indoor farms to get rid of the fruit flies. Is there a better way to fix my indoor farms?
Just started a couple of months ago growing worms. I started with just a couple of small plastic bins and tend to fluff up the bins about once a week. Is that to often.
I put some fishing bait nightcrawler worms in a 35gal tote that I'm growing plants in. Will they die without something like food scraps to eat? The soil is composed of 60%peat 30% perlite 10% native soil & dead tree leaf top dress.
I’m 6 months into my bedroom worm bin and I was digging around a lot at first😂. Can the worm bags be used in a grow tent to be hung over plants for carbon?
Outstanding 8 min video, maybe I missed it, but: 1. How much grit per amount of food do I add and how often? I would think they poop it out so it available again, or they keep it for life in their guts. So not sure really how often or how much. Thanks!!!!
Yeah, I didn't really answer that one and to be honest, I don't have a precise answer. I don't even know if there *is* a precise answer. The truth is that I normally forget to add any grit and the worms do just fine.
Would it be possible to make a worm bin like this for a small apartment? Is the Urban Worm Bag good for indoors as well? I have a balcony but it would definitely be easier to control temperature inside. I just wonder if there's benefit to using the urban worm bag over a DIY bin for a beginner.
So the easiest way is to use a screening mechanism like the Urban Worm TurboSift. It works great for home scale worm farms. You can manually remove worms which is kind of tedious or use what's called the Light Method where you put one or several piles of vermicompost under a bright light. The worms will dive into the pile to avoid the light and you can keep scraping finished vermicompost off of the top and sides of the pile, stopping when you see worms. Give it a few minutes and wait for the worms to dive down again. Then keep repeating that process until you're left with nothing but worms.
For someone thinking of getting into worm farming as a single person I was afraid I had to feed the worms a lot more than just a cup a week or so. I am hoping to get set up soon, to join the world of worm farming.
Hi Steve, What is your take on the shelf life of worm castings and is there any studies or science around this topic? I Googled this and the top 3 results were all different. These are straight from Google: #1 - 3 to 4 years and their performance doesn't decrease. #2 - They do not go bad or expire. They get better with time. #3 - Up to 6 months. Sometimes longer depending on the method of storage. Thanks!
You'd likely need some form of a screener to do it quickly, but you could also use what's called the Light Method that I detail in this blog post! urbanwormcompany.com/harvesting-worm-castings-break-your-back-or-break-the-bank/
I just started my worm farm today I have a question what size bag should I by if I want to get a 1000 worms I only purchased 250 worms, but I believe I should have got 1000?
what range of temps are suitable for worm composting? would a bin in a basement year round work? temps would be about 55 degrees in the winter months and warmer the rest of the year. From wisconsin so outside temps can get well below zero in the winter months. thx Dean
Hello! I drilled some holes underneath my worm bin, and I have a leachate catch bin. How do I prevent worms from escaping through the holes in the bottom? I’ve tried using cloth but it doesn’t work
Through hermaphroditic reproduction. Two worms of the same species wrap themselves around one another and trade sperm. They each form a cocoon which has 3-5 to baby worms inside which take about 21 days to hatch.
היי סטיב. שמי אושר אברהם ואני מישראל. אני תמיד צופה בערוץ שלך והתחלתינלגדל תולעים אדומות בשביל הגינה שלי בבית. אני תמיד רואה סרטונים נוספים ויש לה תיק עירוני לגידול התולעים כמו שאתה מראה עכשיו. וכל מה שהבנתי זה שאתה המצאת את התיק הזה. רציתי לדעת אם אתה מוכר שולח גם לישראל. ואני מאוד אשמח לעזרה דבר. כי כרגע אני מגדל אותם באמבט של תינוק וזה ממש לא נוח. אודה לך מאוד על התשובה ❤❤
What kind of worms are those? What I mean are they like night crawlers, red wigglers. I'm asking because, can I just go buy worms from Walmart that's used for fishing?
So they're red wigglers but the worms called "red wigglers" or "red worms" you get from Walmart are likely *very expensive* and not the real red wigglers (Eisenia fetida).
LOWE"s does sell, B. P. A. free container"s, I added a cheap, aquarium, a. Aqua. Tech 5 - 15 activated. Filter"s I cut open, add additional. Activated. Charcoal, I use, a two different stainless. Steel a 3 gallon drinking water from faucet, let it sit, for, . 48 hours, so Chlorine is, dissipated by 48 hours, then, pour that water to the Aqua. Tech Water Filter, a cheap 5 to 15 gallon size Water filter is fine, but being single, I still wash back ward the filter every few days, and store my drinking water in one gallon glass wine jars.
Fruit flies are always a risk but you can keep them at bay by burying your feedings under the surface and making sure you keep adding lots of bedding with your feedings.
I have been asking many times to remove my telephone number from your data base as I always get messages from you. I am in South Africa and don’t know how you got mt number and why this company refuses to remove my number from their advertising list.
Hi Clean, Please e-mail me at steve@urbanwormcompany.com and let me know your phone number. FYI, you can always reply STOP to nearly any SMS message to get removed from the list
You never t9ld us how to keep the worms in the bin. When I have built them before in a week they are all gone. And yes I used the light the first 3 or so days. No idea where they went or how. Mine was 4 x4’ wood by 12” high. Plus it was on a concrete floor. O trace of them. Did that twice.
Hey I just wanted to say, I really like that you were honest and said that if you are starting out you don't need the urban worm bag. I will definity be buying some stuff from you guys once I get it up and going.
Thanks Tommy! Trying to keep it real....
For real. It really seemed like this company cares not only for their worms but also for their customers.
I also appreciate, how you show us how to build instead of selling us the product. My son wanted to start a worm farm for fishing. Until watching this video I had never thought about or had an interest in composting. When I move from a fishing worm farm to composting, you have my business. Thank you for this!
Thanks John! That’s exactly my goal….educate first and leave the door open for a sale later.
I'm all about micro organisms!
You can’t fool us Johnny Sins
I love how simple you make this 0:47
It's almost 1 year since starting my worm bin. I love how the worms turn my trash into gold for my garden.
This is the video I needed. Just got started with 4lbs of reds, 12 breeder bins and a large grow out bin. Thank you for your time.
Glad it was helpful, John!
Urban Worm Farm videos are such a great resource! Thanks
You are so helpful in this journey of vermicomposting!!!!
A friend gave me her Urban Worm setup before moving, and these videos are so helpful!
Just started my own farm following your advice. Thank you.
I use brown kraft paper shredded to help and cardboard tubes that are shredded.
Yep!
I appreciate all your expertise and sound guidance. I'm watching my worms flourish. Thanks!
Love it. Thanks for easily breaking down the first steps for vermicomposting!
Heck I would have watched an hour long video of this. Great job buddy
Such great content. I have one set up since March and a second one ready to set up when the temps drop back down as I have the first one in the garage.
Hey Steve,
Just wanted to say I greatly appreciate all the knowledge you share, it has helps me tremendously in my own endeavors
Great video. I started with a bin, but ended up buying your worm bag. I like the extra volume which makes it easier to dispose the volume of kitchen scraps we generate.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I’m looking forward to starting my own vermicompost.
great video! I have been worm composting off and on for about 15 years. I need to stay with it and be more dedicated as this is excellent for the environment. Thanks!
I love your videos. So educational and inspiring!
Hi Steve. This is at least the third time I've watched this video. Yes, I'm fairly new to vermicomposting and watching vids / reading blogs more than once does a lot to make sure I understand the 'biology' of vermicomposting fully. Congrats on 25k. Your channel is one of best out there. Thanks for the education and entertainment!
Great refresher Steve! Finally becoming second nature to me after a year thanks to you!
You got it Tom!
Did you mention a link to a guide? I haven't started yet and I definitely need to understand the big picture before I get going... This will be the perfect compliment to our vegetable gardens
I’ve been doing this for one year, so I’m still fairly new but have learned SO much because of your channel. I have two Lowe’s black cement trays and I started with a pretty deep bin. I wanted to go to something more shallow but still plenty of room for the worms. They seem to be thriving and the baby worms and cocoons are everywhere. I don’t have a worm bag but would definitely love to try it, plus I have plenty of worms to move to it. Thanks and congrats on 25,000 subs. I know you’ll surpass that soon!
THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge and expertise! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for all the information you share!😊
New vermicomposter here, about 8 months in. Love my urban worm bag! Several large harvests this year. Steve is super helpful & friendly with top notch customer service. Highly recommend his high quality products.
I love my worm bin. I've been verrry hard on it and it might be a cool research project for you to examine when I replace it. If I don't win this dang contest I'll be purchasing another anyways. I am actually obsessed with this product.
I think LSU probably has the most extensive guides, and studies w/data on various agricultural offshoots than any other source in the world, it’s definitely made my life easier.
Thanks for all your info. I found it very helpful. :)
Loved the video. Simple, effective, also exciting to try my own. UK here
I love the worm chow!
As someone who finds too much information confusing and complicated, can I just say how easy this is to follow and understand. I’m in the uk so lots of things we don’t have access too or cost too much to get due to delivery costs. But you have made this clear and easy. And covered what we can get.
I’m very impressed, thanks.
im getting my worms from a local fishing bait shop.
the bins from a local american store called wall mart
and the coconut or other filler/bedding from my local hard ware store, Home Depot.
I moved from a bucket system to Urban Worm Bag and it's much nicer having the extra space for the worms to move around.
This is great! Thank you
Great advice
I started my first Worm Bin in December of 2023 in an 18 gallon Roughneck tote with 1,000 red wigglers. It doing great with the light overhead and so far no issues with smell or escapees. What is the capacity of the Urban Worm Bag (2)? Also, do you have any tips when I transfer my worms and all their bedding to the Worm Bag? I know your product is going to make my life so much easier, especially the harvesting of the castings.
Great video!
I'm in the UK have just started 4 worm bins up. To breed worms for fishing. Hopefully I'll get some castings also to use in garden. But ideally I just want as many worms as possible. So have just started up a multi layer bin aswell.
Best of luck Ian!
I bought the UWB. Can't wait to get it set up.
Hope you enjoy it Anthony!
@@UrbanWormCompany So far, I love it. I had to move it inside my basement as it is way too hot outside for the poor buggers. (90+)
Thank you for the info. Just was wondering if I need to keep the bin inside. I bet the worms don't like too hot or cold weather
can you mix dew worms and red wrigglers in same bin?
“I don’t think you wanna watch an hour long video anyways”
Buddy you underestimate my ability 🤣🤣
Ha! You should see me watch an hour of TH-cam golf every night in bed.
@@UrbanWormCompany I’ll literally skip shorter videos or search for longer ones so I don’t have to constantly change videos. Gimme the alll the info 🤣🤣🤣
Just saying for real try it out people want it for sure
Same here 😂
Very helpful!!
I love your videos what happened to wiggle Wednesdays it only takes 2 worms to start a worm bin
Thanks Steve
You got it!
It's great videos and information 👌
Good info
Are dry leaves a good option for bedding or does it need to be leaf mold?
Dry leaves are OK, but they are not absorbent. I think leaf mold is better!
I have two indoor worm farms that work well but have started to produce a lot of fruit flies. I just replaced one of our chest freezers and used the old one to start an outdoor farm. This would make it possible for me to at least temporarily get rid of the indoor farms to get rid of the fruit flies. Is there a better way to fix my indoor farms?
Bonsaii shredder is the product I use. Great shredder.
Just started a couple of months ago growing worms. I started with just a couple of small plastic bins and tend to fluff up the bins about once a week. Is that to often.
I put some fishing bait nightcrawler worms in a 35gal tote that I'm growing plants in. Will they die without something like food scraps to eat? The soil is composed of 60%peat 30% perlite 10% native soil & dead tree leaf top dress.
I’m 6 months into my bedroom worm bin and I was digging around a lot at first😂. Can the worm bags be used in a grow tent to be hung over plants for carbon?
Can I use mikrobs tea on my worm bin to boost microbial activity? Too late I just added it
How can do that when am in Kenya
Does the container have to be black?
Outstanding 8 min video, maybe I missed it, but:
1. How much grit per amount of food do I add and how often? I would think they poop it out so it available again, or they keep it for life in their guts. So not sure really how often or how much.
Thanks!!!!
Yeah, I didn't really answer that one and to be honest, I don't have a precise answer. I don't even know if there *is* a precise answer.
The truth is that I normally forget to add any grit and the worms do just fine.
Would it be possible to make a worm bin like this for a small apartment? Is the Urban Worm Bag good for indoors as well? I have a balcony but it would definitely be easier to control temperature inside. I just wonder if there's benefit to using the urban worm bag over a DIY bin for a beginner.
Can u buy red worms at a bait store?
How do I get out the vericompost and put the worms back in?
So the easiest way is to use a screening mechanism like the Urban Worm TurboSift. It works great for home scale worm farms. You can manually remove worms which is kind of tedious or use what's called the Light Method where you put one or several piles of vermicompost under a bright light. The worms will dive into the pile to avoid the light and you can keep scraping finished vermicompost off of the top and sides of the pile, stopping when you see worms. Give it a few minutes and wait for the worms to dive down again. Then keep repeating that process until you're left with nothing but worms.
For someone thinking of getting into worm farming as a single person I was afraid I had to feed the worms a lot more than just a cup a week or so. I am hoping to get set up soon, to join the world of worm farming.
Ain't the leachate just a great liquid fertilizer?
I wood have watched an hour long video. Thanks
Y soak with water at the end instead of leachate?
What about helping to keep bin cool in S Florida
This video is so helpful! Love it! The only comment i have is seeing you toss banana peels with STICKERS into the bin, that annoyed me slightly haha
Hi Steve, What is your take on the shelf life of worm castings and is there any studies or science around this topic? I Googled this and the top 3 results were all different. These are straight from Google:
#1 - 3 to 4 years and their performance doesn't decrease.
#2 - They do not go bad or expire. They get better with time.
#3 - Up to 6 months. Sometimes longer depending on the method of storage.
Thanks!
Great recommendation with the Pitt moss (not peat moss everyone!) great video 🤙
Thanks Desertness! 👍
Question. How do you harvest castings from a set up like this?
You'd likely need some form of a screener to do it quickly, but you could also use what's called the Light Method that I detail in this blog post!
urbanwormcompany.com/harvesting-worm-castings-break-your-back-or-break-the-bank/
Where do we order worms at
I just started my worm farm today I have a question what size bag should I by if I want to get a 1000 worms I only purchased 250 worms, but I believe I should have got 1000?
what range of temps are suitable for worm composting? would a bin in a basement year round work? temps would be about 55 degrees in the winter months and warmer the rest of the year. From wisconsin so outside temps can get well below zero in the winter months.
thx
Dean
A basement would be great year round., Dark, humid, and a fairly constant temperature. Very ideal.
Hello! I drilled some holes underneath my worm bin, and I have a leachate catch bin. How do I prevent worms from escaping through the holes in the bottom? I’ve tried using cloth but it doesn’t work
I really hope you can guide me about this :((
I used aluminum screen and glued it to cover the holes air and water can still circulate but worms can not get through it
For. Big commercial warm farm what I jeed?
You need worms
how does the worm population multiply
Through hermaphroditic reproduction. Two worms of the same species wrap themselves around one another and trade sperm. They each form a cocoon which has 3-5 to baby worms inside which take about 21 days to hatch.
היי סטיב.
שמי אושר אברהם ואני מישראל.
אני תמיד צופה בערוץ שלך והתחלתינלגדל תולעים אדומות בשביל הגינה שלי בבית. אני תמיד רואה סרטונים נוספים ויש לה תיק עירוני לגידול התולעים כמו שאתה מראה עכשיו. וכל מה שהבנתי זה שאתה המצאת את התיק הזה. רציתי לדעת אם אתה מוכר שולח גם לישראל. ואני מאוד אשמח לעזרה דבר. כי כרגע אני מגדל אותם באמבט של תינוק וזה ממש לא נוח. אודה לך מאוד על התשובה ❤❤
What is pitt moss
Pitt Moss is a commercially-produced soil amendment made from recycled paper and cellulose products. It's a great worm bedding.
Worms are thriving but probably need to order more to keep up with veggies scraps
Have you ever given your worms seaweed to eat. Do they eat it? Just something I'd like to know. Jim.
I haven't done this but I don't see why they wouldn't eat it eventually.
I used to work at a vet hospital I can eat around pretty much anything. Worm stuff doesn't scare me 🤣
Ha! Fair enough.....
What about this kind of dust you put in there?
That was just play yard sand
What kind of worms are those? What I mean are they like night crawlers, red wigglers. I'm asking because, can I just go buy worms from Walmart that's used for fishing?
So they're red wigglers but the worms called "red wigglers" or "red worms" you get from Walmart are likely *very expensive* and not the real red wigglers (Eisenia fetida).
cant imagine explaining to the cop at 2 am, that im just getting a cup of playground sand for my worm farm lol
I don't like soaking cardboard. I don't think it is necessary, and I don't want to rinse out the glue that holds the layers together.
LOWE"s does sell, B. P. A. free container"s, I added a cheap, aquarium, a. Aqua. Tech 5 - 15 activated. Filter"s I cut open, add additional. Activated. Charcoal, I use, a two different stainless. Steel a 3 gallon drinking water from faucet, let it sit, for, . 48 hours, so Chlorine is, dissipated by 48 hours, then, pour that water to the Aqua. Tech Water Filter, a cheap 5 to 15 gallon size Water filter is fine, but being single, I still wash back ward the filter every few days, and store my drinking water in one gallon glass wine jars.
If you keep the bin inside, won't the food attract fruit flies? I don't have a garage and I think outside will cook the worms.
Fruit flies are always a risk but you can keep them at bay by burying your feedings under the surface and making sure you keep adding lots of bedding with your feedings.
@@UrbanWormCompany, thank you.
No need to buy too many worms. They multiply quickly. Use ice cubes if you need to add moisture
I have been asking many times to remove my telephone number from your data base as I always get messages from you. I am in South Africa and don’t know how you got mt number and why this company refuses to remove my number from their advertising list.
Hi Clean,
Please e-mail me at steve@urbanwormcompany.com and let me know your phone number.
FYI, you can always reply STOP to nearly any SMS message to get removed from the list
You never t9ld us how to keep the worms in the bin. When I have built them before in a week they are all gone. And yes I used the light the first 3 or so days. No idea where they went or how. Mine was 4 x4’ wood by 12” high. Plus it was on a concrete floor. O trace of them. Did that twice.
haha where did your worms go?????
🥰
I thought johny sin has started warm farming
Smelly?
correction,,,I am very much wanting to watch a hour long clip on worm poo
Haha! Sounds like a challenge
My worm farm was destroyed by soldier flies... 😢 I am planning my way to start again ....🫶🏽
I have a worm bin. 🪱
Awesome video!