These are great worm bins, mine are 10 years old and I'm happy with them. Over the years, I learned that more bedding to food gets the best results. I use a mixture of Peat, Cardboard, Egg Crates and Dolomite Lime in addition to coffee and green waste. The pumice and mineral dust is grit for the worm's gizzard, sometimes I add a little azomite for the same purpose. The coir is good stuff but hard to find where I live, peat is everywhere but remains wet and favors pot worms. Printer paper mats down into a mess of yuck, Ii try to avoid using very much paper. Sometimes I grow extra lettuce to feed my worms LOL
thank you for the advice, mine gets very wet and heavy, I use shredded junk mail, I will try more egg cartons and cardboard and perhaps i need to change the food/bedding mix, (more brown bedding). I also have a old electric spice grinder that I use for dried egg shells. Coir, I found in the pet store, its used for bedding for hamsters and mice I think. I started with 2000 worms, probably have 3- 4000 now, the problem is, I have run out of names for them, I am just calling the small ones Junior.
Cool demonstration. If You plan on ordering worms or setting up a new bin in the future. It is best to start your worm bin. 1 week before the worms arrive. A piece of fruit or half a banana peel should be added at this time. The microbiology will establish it self within 1 weeks time. Its just better for the worms to adjust quickly. Also a hand full of your own cold compost or a hand full of top soil spread out is great form of grit to help the worms digestive system.
Thanks for the great and informative video! I just ordered my worm 360 and 2000 worms and I’m trying to figure out what to do. I do also like the doggies playing in the background & the chickens!!
Fruit flies? = 100% too much food, and probably not buried. Springtails are normal and good, some kinds of mites are normal and good, both could be introduced from leaf litter and those are the good ones usually. Worms crawling out? = probably too much food and it’s heating up; too much moisture and worms can’t breathe; not enough moisture and worms can’t breathe; ph is off; something is not right in the environment. Big grub looking maggots are black soldier fly larvae and tho not necessarily bad(especially if you own chickens) they can take over and are definitely an indication of too much food. Proper bedding environment is probably the most important part of the equation, I have the best luck with shredded cardboard mixed with goat manure/straw. I only feed my worms when I have something to feed them, but I do give them treats of single ingredient amendments like kelp meal, crab meal, bat guano, fish bone meal, etc, whatever I have on hand at the time I think of it. Otherwise they get the manure. Any “worm food” that get put in needs to be broken down by bacteria 1st, so surface area is very important, shred or chop the foods. Don’t feed “food” again until everything is gone. Let the “food” pile up in another bin, let it get all moldy and nasty, that’s what you are waiting for anyways. Oh, and if you add a handful of “food”, then add 2 or even 3 handfuls of bedding, that’s one point that is never made on a lot of worm videos. You must keep adding bedding.
I had a lot of fruit flies coming through the ventilation hole. food or not a lot of food.. they were in their walking on the substrate. I ended up cutting some cheese cloth and putting it over the holes so they couldnt get through and it worked.
Tidwell hey, I think that if you freeze your food before giving it to your worms, it might help with the fruit fly problem. I’m not actually completely sure why freezing it helps, but I used to do worms and I’m going to start next month and whenever I froze my food I didn’t get many fruit flies. Hope this could help a little :)
@@Bea-j1j Freezing breaks down the nutrients, making it more digestible. It also helps to combat any smells. Always thoroughly defrost before feeding to your worms, at room temperature. Worms have no teeth! Always remember to finely dice food, or roughly chop up in a food processor or blender before bagging and freezing. Add pure coffee grounds and tea leaves for nitrogen.
Anybody who can’t effectively use the worm factory 360 is probably feeding too much, or maybe a moisture issue(too much/lack of). These contraptions make vermicomposting so easy. I’ve had 2 going for several years. It’s a small system so it needs to be balanced as far as amount of food and moisture level. As was said in another comment- more bedding than food. Then you can increase feeding as the population grows. FYI, worms can survive on just the bedding so don’t feel like you are starving them. You also can’t expect to give 3 lbs of food to 1lb of worms every week, they CAN eat UP TO half their body weight a day, doesn’t mean they always do, they need time to process the food. Also, They don’t physically eat the food we give them, bacteria’s break it down and the worms eat the bacteria’s. Once you have a good understanding of how a worm bin actually works, you will find the 360 is a really good and convenient one.
I’m having a hard time focusing on your fantastic dogs because some guy with a beard keeps talking about worms. Seriously though, great video (and dogs). Especially entertaining at 1.5x. Sayin...
So helpful. I should I watched your video before I set mine up. Haha I'm sure it's fine, I know the basics but that video was really helpful! Thank you!
Do you lift up the damp newspaper and place the food scraps under the paper? How often do you feed your worms? A lot of food once a week or a small amount of food daily? I really don't want to kill my worms. Thank you for any help you can offer.
My worms keep leaving. I put lights up. I have plenty of food. Flies so much flies the tiny kind. Not to wet or dry. Smells very earthy not swampy. I find most of them in that catch basin dried up... Any tips
Good informations thank you for sharing. Are those beehives in the background? I couldn't see clearly but I am a beekeeper so that of course is where my mind went. Looks like hives ...
I have tried twice to use this system. Both times my worms just died and never done anything. I had leaf mulch and I kept them in the kitchen , out of the weather. I fed them, they never ran out of food.
Not sure if it was the worms I bought off of Amazon (Nature's Good Guys 2100 worms) but I split them up in 2 different Worm Factory 360s and I did like the instruction say and how you demonstrated but I got a ton of fruit flies and mites as well as spring tails. So I basically added dried cardboard, paper and leaves to cover bedding to keep the fruit flies out and I was afraid of opening the lid too often because of the fruit flies but today I took both bins outside to let out all the fruit flies and stirred up the bedding and I didn't find 1 worm. Maybe 20-30 escaped the first 2 days I added them and never saw any escapees after the dry layer of stuff I added to discourage fruit flies. Did the mites kill my worms? Where did the mites come from I kept both bins in a spare bathroom since I live in Florida and I read 90 degrees will kill them so I kept it inside to avoid killing the worms and now they are dead or they vanished mysteriously. I doubt I had 2100 worms as they claimed but still even if there were a few hundred I was surprised I couldn't find 1 live worm or even hardened dead worms.
k ma you need to maintain moisture in Bin and never feed fresh food. Fresh food ll produce heat. Vegetables waste and dry leaves combin and make half done compost and then feed worm. For bedding soak the cardbord and papers before using
I bought one of these at a yard sale and have zero experience. What is this good for? Can you sell the worms? What are castings good for? Can you use this outdoors in the winter?
Is it harmful to the worms to have ants in their bin ? If so what's a good way to keep them out. I have them in an outside tub witha lid but made holes for air
There are two ways I have successfully dealt with ants. I put old fashioned petroleum jelly on the the outside lip, and I set the composter outside in a tray of water. No ants anymore.
you can buy bussing bins in sets of 3 or 4 or more for less than 25$ make a set up really easy, you'll have to create a lid but it's much cheaper, and the bins are more durable.
Is it normal for some of the worms to always want to climb up the sides? Most all of mine are contently eating and such in the bedding but there tends to always be a handful on the sides, no matter what I do. The ph is good, the moisture is also good. Can't figure out the why for the few to not settle in. Can you help me with answers to this issue anyone?
Being a worm farmer, seeing you dump the whole bag of rocks in the made me suffer you add a little bit of the bag because it is supposed to go in all of the trays
That's pretty good brother but you don't have to spend no money on it I just took worms from underneath my grow buckets and put them in a bucket and through stuff on top of them now I have a million of them free
U need to use the hole brick half a brick is not enough for that tray there deeper then most worm bin trays u need to have the coco dirt all the way to the top not half way people fill the tray only A couple inches
Thanks for demonstrating the setup of the Worm Factory 360. Your two puppies in the background were really entertaining as well.
and the chicken peeking around the table area! :-)
The dogs are awesome
Thank you! The information was great and the dog carnival was awesome as well!
I inherited a worm dsystem similar to what you showed us here, without any instructions. So good to have the demonstration from you. Thank you.
The dogs are the stars of the show lmfao! Great video!
These are great worm bins, mine are 10 years old and I'm happy with them. Over the years, I learned that more bedding to food gets the best results. I use a mixture of Peat, Cardboard, Egg Crates and Dolomite Lime in addition to coffee and green waste. The pumice and mineral dust is grit for the worm's gizzard, sometimes I add a little azomite for the same purpose.
The coir is good stuff but hard to find where I live, peat is everywhere but remains wet and favors pot worms. Printer paper mats down into a mess of yuck, Ii try to avoid using very much paper. Sometimes I grow extra lettuce to feed my worms LOL
thank you for the advice, mine gets very wet and heavy, I use shredded junk mail, I will try more egg cartons and cardboard and perhaps i need to change the food/bedding mix, (more brown bedding). I also have a old electric spice grinder that I use for dried egg shells. Coir, I found in the pet store, its used for bedding for hamsters and mice I think. I started with 2000 worms, probably have 3- 4000 now, the problem is, I have run out of names for them, I am just calling the small ones Junior.
heavymechanic2 gggb
Do you think dandelion leaves would be good too? They are so plentiful! Or do you think they might smell up my compost bin indoors?
lol i grow extra worms to feed to my chooks , iv got 4 bins going
Boy those dogs are having fun!
Great video, showed me exactly what I needed to understand before getting my own:)
Got my worm 360 kit today. Waiting on my worms. Thanks for the video. Much easier than. Reading it all.
Cyndi Peterson how's it going?
Came for the worms, stayed for the dogs.
Very informative, and your dogs are cute! I envy your life
This is great! Thank you for sharing :)
btw...congrats on your presentation of why things are done; more specifically why they are stacked..Thanks man !!! we can now get going
Love your babies, so fun watching them play
Cool demonstration. If You plan on ordering worms or setting up a new bin in the future. It is best to start your worm bin. 1 week before the worms arrive. A piece of fruit or half a banana peel should be added at this time. The microbiology will establish it self within 1 weeks time. Its just better for the worms to adjust quickly. Also a hand full of your own cold compost or a hand full of top soil spread out is great form of grit to help the worms digestive system.
Great no nonsense instruction. Thanks, you answered all my questions.
Thanks for the great and informative video! I just ordered my worm 360 and 2000 worms and I’m trying to figure out what to do. I do also like the doggies playing in the background & the chickens!!
Fruit flies? = 100% too much food, and probably not buried. Springtails are normal and good, some kinds of mites are normal and good, both could be introduced from leaf litter and those are the good ones usually.
Worms crawling out? = probably too much food and it’s heating up; too much moisture and worms can’t breathe; not enough moisture and worms can’t breathe; ph is off; something is not right in the environment.
Big grub looking maggots are black soldier fly larvae and tho not necessarily bad(especially if you own chickens) they can take over and are definitely an indication of too much food.
Proper bedding environment is probably the most important part of the equation, I have the best luck with shredded cardboard mixed with goat manure/straw.
I only feed my worms when I have something to feed them, but I do give them treats of single ingredient amendments like kelp meal, crab meal, bat guano, fish bone meal, etc, whatever I have on hand at the time I think of it. Otherwise they get the manure.
Any “worm food” that get put in needs to be broken down by bacteria 1st, so surface area is very important, shred or chop the foods. Don’t feed “food” again until everything is gone. Let the “food” pile up in another bin, let it get all moldy and nasty, that’s what you are waiting for anyways.
Oh, and if you add a handful of “food”, then add 2 or even 3 handfuls of bedding, that’s one point that is never made on a lot of worm videos. You must keep adding bedding.
TheFrogfeeder well you're very helpful. Thank you.
I had a lot of fruit flies coming through the ventilation hole. food or not a lot of food.. they were in their walking on the substrate. I ended up cutting some cheese cloth and putting it over the holes so they couldnt get through and it worked.
Tidwell hey, I think that if you freeze your food before giving it to your worms, it might help with the fruit fly problem. I’m not actually completely sure why freezing it helps, but I used to do worms and I’m going to start next month and whenever I froze my food I didn’t get many fruit flies. Hope this could help a little :)
Thank You
@@Bea-j1j Freezing breaks down the nutrients, making it more digestible. It also helps to combat any smells. Always thoroughly defrost before feeding to your worms, at room temperature. Worms have no teeth! Always remember to finely dice food, or roughly chop up in a food processor or blender before bagging and freezing. Add pure coffee grounds and tea leaves for nitrogen.
Awesome t-shirt!
Great Video Man. Best how to Video on this Worm Factory 360. 👍🏻👍🏻
Starwars shirt, pup playing in the background lol you get my sub and like man.. Also great video thank you
Thanks for the sub!
Anybody who can’t effectively use the worm factory 360 is probably feeding too much, or maybe a moisture issue(too much/lack of). These contraptions make vermicomposting so easy. I’ve had 2 going for several years. It’s a small system so it needs to be balanced as far as amount of food and moisture level. As was said in another comment- more bedding than food. Then you can increase feeding as the population grows. FYI, worms can survive on just the bedding so don’t feel like you are starving them. You also can’t expect to give 3 lbs of food to 1lb of worms every week, they CAN eat UP TO half their body weight a day, doesn’t mean they always do, they need time to process the food. Also, They don’t physically eat the food we give them, bacteria’s break it down and the worms eat the bacteria’s. Once you have a good understanding of how a worm bin actually works, you will find the 360 is a really good and convenient one.
TheFrogfeeder also too much food goes anerobic or produces too much ammonia gas from a c n ratio imbalance which is toxic to worms
how much is too much food? Looking to start a worm factory when move into my new house this spring.
Love the dogs in the background
I’m having a hard time focusing on your fantastic dogs because some guy with a beard keeps talking about worms. Seriously though, great video (and dogs). Especially entertaining at 1.5x. Sayin...
So helpful. I should I watched your video before I set mine up. Haha I'm sure it's fine, I know the basics but that video was really helpful! Thank you!
Thanks, I wanted to purchase, and you convinced me.
Great video
I like the dogs playing in the back ground....lol
Do you lift up the damp newspaper and place the food scraps under the paper? How often do you feed your worms? A lot of food once a week or a small amount of food daily? I really don't want to kill my worms. Thank you for any help you can offer.
Any one else watching the dog fight.
why didn't he do anything
They're clearly playing and not actually fighting.
they are playing their hearts out.
They arent fighting they are having fun....its adorable
kinda hard to aviod, haha
OK it looks like he’s getting the video camera out again, 3,2,1 action🐩🐕
Looks good. I want to start vermicomposting and I’m considering getting one of these special bins.
The dog fight is what I’m watching.
Hope to find it in Mexico! Great material Thanks
How do you know when it's time for a new tray?
And that is all there is to get started.
The spigot is actually to remain open at all times and while you can collect runoff, it's primary purpose is ventilation
Thanks ! pretty informative !
the worms travel up through the holes into the next tray?
Subscribed only because we are on the same wavelength. I too reuse Arizona jugs and grow weed with this worm farm
My worms keep leaving. I put lights up. I have plenty of food. Flies so much flies the tiny kind. Not to wet or dry. Smells very earthy not swampy. I find most of them in that catch basin dried up... Any tips
Your dogs are way too cute😂
Lauren thank you!!
Good video thank you :)
Dudes got a dog fight pit in the back nice touch.
Why is no one mentioning the chicken!? hahaa so cute, great video!
Most important point is to put a light on the bin for one week in the night to avoid worms crawling out or escaping from the bin.
Good informations thank you for sharing. Are those beehives in the background? I couldn't see clearly but I am a beekeeper so that of course is where my mind went. Looks like hives ...
I have tried twice to use this system. Both times my worms just died and never done anything. I had leaf mulch and I kept them in the kitchen , out of the weather. I fed them, they never ran out of food.
if the worms keep dying you are doing something wrong. what kind of worms are you using
3:12 grappling contest starts in the backfield
Why this container has no air inlets, earthworms will not suffocate?
Hello, thanks for the great video! I was wondering if you had any issues with the worms getting out of this bin at all?
Hell, does anyone know if you can raise nightcrawlers in the worm factory bin?
Thanks for the video. Do you only feed the tray one time a month? When you start the second tray, you no longer use the bottom tray?
Not sure if it was the worms I bought off of Amazon (Nature's Good Guys 2100 worms) but I split them up in 2 different Worm Factory 360s and I did like the instruction say and how you demonstrated but I got a ton of fruit flies and mites as well as spring tails. So I basically added dried cardboard, paper and leaves to cover bedding to keep the fruit flies out and I was afraid of opening the lid too often because of the fruit flies but today I took both bins outside to let out all the fruit flies and stirred up the bedding and I didn't find 1 worm. Maybe 20-30 escaped the first 2 days I added them and never saw any escapees after the dry layer of stuff I added to discourage fruit flies. Did the mites kill my worms? Where did the mites come from I kept both bins in a spare bathroom since I live in Florida and I read 90 degrees will kill them so I kept it inside to avoid killing the worms and now they are dead or they vanished mysteriously. I doubt I had 2100 worms as they claimed but still even if there were a few hundred I was surprised I couldn't find 1 live worm or even hardened dead worms.
k ma you need to maintain moisture in Bin and never feed fresh food. Fresh food ll produce heat. Vegetables waste and dry leaves combin and make half done compost and then feed worm. For bedding soak the cardbord and papers before using
I bought one of these at a yard sale and have zero experience. What is this good for? Can you sell the worms? What are castings good for? Can you use this outdoors in the winter?
google
Is it harmful to the worms to have ants in their bin ? If so what's a good way to keep them out. I have them in an outside tub witha lid but made holes for air
There are two ways I have successfully dealt with ants. I put old fashioned petroleum jelly on the the outside lip, and I set the composter outside in a tray of water. No ants anymore.
Great video, thank you for sharing this.
What isthecost of worm bin
you can buy bussing bins in sets of 3 or 4 or more for less than 25$ make a set up really easy, you'll have to create a lid but it's much cheaper, and the bins are more durable.
Pls help..
how to avoid ants and cockroaches in worm compost?
I'm here for the dog fight, and only the dog fight!!!!
Is it normal for some of the worms to always want to climb up the sides? Most all of mine are contently eating and such in the bedding but there tends to always be a handful on the sides, no matter what I do. The ph is good, the moisture is also good. Can't figure out the why for the few to not settle in. Can you help me with answers to this issue anyone?
how many worms did you buy?
worm compost is interesting
Those dogs!
Being a worm farmer, seeing you dump the whole bag of rocks in the made me suffer you add a little bit of the bag because it is supposed to go in all of the trays
Lol me watching the dogs to and listen Lol
Sorry homie, didn’t mean to start spouting off on your video, it’s a good video :)
You also shared dampened and all that stuff
That's pretty good brother but you don't have to spend no money on it I just took worms from underneath my grow buckets and put them in a bucket and through stuff on top of them now I have a million of them free
You don’t use earthworms for worm castings.
DISHSOAP AND BEER KILLS SLUGS AND SNAILS AS WELL.GOOD LUCK WITH THE WORM FACTORY.
U need to use the hole brick half a brick is not enough for that tray there deeper then most worm bin trays u need to have the coco dirt all the way to the top not half way people fill the tray only A couple inches
Behind you the dog has fight white vs black 3:41
Some WWF dog wrestling going on in the background
Your dogs are taking your thunder away...
Was I the only one who noticed the dogs fighting in the backgrounds
this is not 360,
BeThe CREATOR yes it is, says so right on the lid, I have 2 of them, it’s the newer design but several years old at this point....
it is the 360. easy to use if you can follow instructions.
Well Diatomaceous earth hurt my worms
What's this video about? To busy watching dogs horse around. Lol