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I never understood the "absolutely don't feed ..." They eat what they can in the wild. The only inconvenience I see is the time for certain foods to be eaten and as you said the flies.

I love your videos! Many I tell about my worm love may make faces at this, but watching your worm balls is so therapeutic for me :). i don't remember where I asked you if using cinnamon powder to repel gnats's ok, so I'll just let you know how it worked out for me right here. even in my beginner bin, it worked well, and the worms didn't seem to be bothered by it at all. Thanks for giving me a space to chat about mah wormies 🌱🪱🌱🪱

Worm bin not a mice bin. 👍

LOVE watching your videos! Tell me what you are starting for fall planting! I am going to start another round of brassicas this week!

I would love to know more about your bonsi plants. could we see them??

Just started my first worm farm. I have read at least 4 books and I find I have absorbed more info from your video. The visual helps a lot. Thanks

This morning, a baby yard lizard managed to get in my bin. I helped her out and sent it on its way.

Hi Ann….. don’t know if you would have the time to help me? But I’m intrested, have been for a while in making a wedge system in a large under the bed box. I live in the uk and have autism, I know I’ve commented before but thought I should say so you can understand me a bit better. I have my box and some bedding in it in coir and worms in it, and they making castings and all that but atm it’s just in the bottom all the way across, as I can’t work out how to get them to finish one area, as when I tried to do what you show in the beginning here, the finished end was still coir, after a few months, maybe I don’t have enough worms in there but I do have 2000ish babies that I’m feeding up to put in there. They are red wigglers, should I just put the babies in there and feed them up in the larger container?

how do you take the worm liquid out of the barrel?

Do you ever blend your food scraps before giving it to the worms? I’m curious if there would be any benefit in that

Love watching your videos and learn lots!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Question...can you ever have too many worms in a bin?? I know there is a life cycle, but wondered if I need to start new bins to lower the numbers??

Nice worms and systems they are grown

Hi Ann, As always, watched completely and enjoyed thoroughly. Good tips and info❤ ❤Peggy❤

Lots of healthy worms and great set up 🇳🇿❤️🪱

How often do you harvest your bins?

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Dug into my leaf mold pile today and found SO many worms. Have a couple bins that could use a few more friends so its perfect timing!

What city in cen Il? I used to live in Peoria and Im originally from jacksonville/bluffs are. Now I live in Fl.

An additional system means more Plant Obsessed content... which is always a good thing 👍🏻

Been watching your channel for a while now and enjoying the content! This is my first year with my raised bed garden and thankfully everything has been going well so far. What vegetables are you beginning to plant now for a fall harvest? I live in SE Wisconsin, so similar growing zone to you

I didn’t know chipmunks ate worms until they ate all of mine. I just started last fall and I learned from the best, YOU, I watched many different channels but yours is the best. Well I guess I have to start all over again, I can’t afford to buy worms so all of mine were caught in my garden where I already bury scraps. It was a light winter so I was out in Feb digging up worms out of my garden. Right now we are going through a bad dry spell, so I can’t find any, and I even use a soaker hose in my garden. But I much appreciate your videos, God Bless you.

i've had two good experiences with nusoil and most of my worm deliveries have some form of escapees!

Not to be a stickler, but 4 gallons is about 16 litres. Very informative video as I am going to be starting a wedge system in September or October.

I only started the journey of vericomposting a few months ago. Had to buy a bag of worm castings with cocoons in it cos every time i order worms, it takes too long for them to get to me. the cocoons in the castings a bought survived tho. got arounf 30-50 worms maybe more starting off. since the population was so small i put them in a small shoe bin until the population gets bigger. they ate up a good bit and i was able to get half a gallon sized ziploc bag of castings. was gonna make use of it right away before i paused and said, hold up, just in case eggs are in here let me leave the castings in the bag for a bit. Sure enough tiny worms are in there.......like a lot and i keep seeing them even tho i keep taking them out and putting them in the main bin to increase the population. clearly i need to sift and get as much as possible. I still don't have enough for my likeling but in another 3 to 6 months i think i'll have enough to have a decent size bin.

Was that one of those jumping worms at 1:52

It's all about space -- for worms, plants and us. We are considering where my indoor worms and seed starting will go as we choose our next home! ~ Sandra

I have found cooked, and then frozen items (specifically one test with banana skins and pumpkin pieces) are consumed quicker than just one of these processes. Hence, I freeze and thaw my meal scraps before feeding my congregation. 😊

My experince, worms tend to escape when its rainy. I guess it is related to air pressure change in such weather. Worms have intinct to detect air pressure changes. we got worms from nature, soil with their behaviour in such weather. When they feel air pressure change they climb to surface to prevent drowning in rain water due to their instinct in nature

Your demeanor is abrasive. Whether or not this means it improves the farming, I don’t know. Could be the perfect personality for the task, or other tasks.

Hi Anne, Thank you for a simple trick to not have the shredded cardboard and paper stick together. I've been making vermicompost and vermicompost tea for about four years. This is a huge game changer for me -- especially because I've had about 50 gallons of peat moss on hand for five years without using it! Thank you very much. Jennifer zone 8B

Man, waaaay too dry, aim for 80% moisture

I have a similar tote from Costco. I've had it as my primary worm bin since 2019. The holes I've made was just for air flow up top, I haven't seen them looking worse than the day I bought it. I'm thinking that some of your damage may be from moisture and debri expanding in the small cracks from those holes making it break faster. Maybe running a lighter or something around the holes when you make them could seal and slow down that breakage, I'd be careful though since plastic can catch fire fast if your not careful

I have red wrigglers. I've noticed a few gnats in my bin and i have thought about using mosquito bits to help, but I plan to use the worm castings for my vegetable garden and my concern is that the bacteria from the mosquito bits would have a harmful effect on my veggies, which we eventually plan to eat. What are your thoughts on this?

I once had a 3 foot diameter 3 foot tall wire mesh cylinder red wiggler outside bin filled with fresh waste greens from the local vegetable shop. When I added meat, bones, and fat - that type of thing - the worms just swarmed these items. I wondered if the worms loved this type of food merely because their otherwise green only diet was lacking in protein. Any thoughts ?

Freezing freezing your veggies and or seeds puts the seeds in a dormant state I freeze my leftover seeds i plant in my own garden sometimes 2 or 3. Years before planting again

I have some screen I used in a diy sifter. It catches cocoons and most worms. Would that be an idea for the bottom bin? It would prevent ANY worms getting into the leachate bottom area, and it is flexible and easy to pull up and dump out for sifting finished compost. Also, get idea to use the risers! Thanks for this video!

How cold does it get in your winter?? I’m in MN and i’m keeping my worms indoors. I would like to start a large “blue” but don’t have the space indoors. what to do??

Question. Do you prefer shredded newspaper or shredded cardboard? Thanks. I enjoy your channel.

Running an experiment here with frozen worm-rritos. Excessive amounts of food scraps wrapped in sheets of kids' schoolwork. Hoping they are loved as much as the stuffed tp tubes I've seen on other channels.

You have me really thinking about making those little risers for my Vermihut. I like the experiment, I would figure the frozen would go faster but who knows what the worms will do. I’m with you it’s easier to add some bedding to the bottom and clean it out every once in a while. 😁🪱🪱

Mosquito bits works very well. I add some into my 5 gallon buckets I have outside for collecting rain water. Nice feeding Ann, I like your indoor tomato plant. Maybe the tomato pieces can grow in your ANC bin

You need to create a new collective noun. I suggest a wriggle of worms. Better than a herd.

Ann, wow, that's warm for a basement. Nonfrozen apples took a surprisingly long time for my worms as well. Makes me question the whole worm in an apple meme! ~ Sandra p.s. the worms want those little plastic surfboards!

Hey Anne! That's a decent handful of grown up worms you've got from the 'juice collection tray'. They sure will help in the working tray. ;) EDIT: Just checked my collection tray, just emptied 2 weeks ago and here they're all again... 😂 I'd go with all frozen any day, if the freezer compartment wasn't choke full bc of... ice cream boxes. But we're planning on getting a real freezer soon (or shall we say, I'm giving in to my wife 😅). Subscribed already boss! 🙌 Cheers, have a great week! 🪱🪱☀️ -Thomas

Your tower is really producing a lot of awesome castings. I find plastics in my natural bedding too, from raking up leaves, if the worms don't eat it it should not be in the garden. Freezing explodes the cell walls of the food, makes it more available to the microbes and the worms. This time of year, most of the food my worms get come out of the garden, the natural bedding has a ton of microbes that help break things down, 90% never makes it to the freezer. I had to start maintaining bedding below my CFT bin, started finding a few worms down there, now when I feed, I do what you do, take the bedding with the worms and put back on top. Nice video! Stay Well!!!

Is it just the lighting and or age of your vermipost that makes it look so light brown? Mine is always black as night once the castings start building up? Also what species of compost worms do you use, Red Wigglers? Ive been using Euro reds for about 3 years and never had a problem with how fast or slow they produce castings, i actually have just the opposite problem. Not only do i have a ridiculous amount of castings compared to what i sell, but i literally have to depopulate my smaller bins and move a hell of alot of worms to my big outdoor bed. I also collect eggs because i thought maybe i could sell some of the excess and use one bin as what i call the nursery. I guess i cant complain beacause having the problem of to much should be a blessing but i went from the newbie overprotective worm parent the first year to damn guys take it easy, your supposed to be the bigger slower family member. 🫣😬 P.S. sorry for my bla bla bla, i honestly didn't mean to turn my comment in to a bookment. 😆🤐😬

I was given a worm tower and I borrowed your idea of using the pvc risers for the stackable trays. It sure helps to keep the trays from getting stuck. Also, I added fresh grass clippings with the shredded paper for my ENCs and they are loving it. We shall see if the castings and breeding will be successful. Thanks for your videos and valuable information. 😊