Harvesting worm castings from the Bathtub Worm farm..
Decided it was time to harvest ½ of the worm castings from the bathtub farm on the weekend.. As always, I was surprised at how well they break the manure down into castings that the garden will love.. Planing on using some to make up worm cast tea in the coming weeks as well.. The link for the "How to build a bathtub worm farm" clip can be found below for anyone who is interested.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvIWLu3o5OY Subscribing to us here at Bits Out the Back is as easy as clicking below, http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bnbob01 You can also find Bits Out the Back various social media where we post mini updates on the aquaponics, chooks, worms, wicking bed gardens & other small tidbits daily. www.facebook.com/Bitsouttheback http://bitsouttheback.tumblr.com/ http://instagram.com/bits_out_the_back @bits_out_the_back https://www.pinterest.com/bitsouttheback/ https://twitter.com/RobsUrbanFarm @RobsUrbanFarm
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Dear Mr Rob Bob, really enjoyed your videos, so much so that I decided to set up some of my own a few months ago in April at my allotment. The bed you are looking at is under my favorite cider apple tree which produced a marvelous harvest this year. There are plenty of Eisenia foetida, Eisenia veneta and Lubricus terrestris around my plot already as I do a lot of composting, however I also got a couple cartons of the anglers' worms (gold tips, European night crawler) which are supposed to be good for worm farming too (when I got them back I couldn't help feeling sorry for them in that little carton) anyway I set them free in the bed - cardboard laid at the base, 5 inches of matured horse manure, cardboard covering the top, then some straw and the another board sitting on t of the bed for more shade etc. I kept it moist and they romped around the bed for 5 months then last week they just disappeared, I have a suspicion someone raided the bed but they may just have left. Anyway MY QUESTION is if the resulting castes are ready yet (my profile pic), it looks a bit brown to me but doesn't smell of manure anymore, some of the straw bedding has got mixed into it which I guess I could remove....thanks for any advice :) E
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Your bathtub worm farm is so impressive I am worm envy! You mentioned feeding pumpkin purée to the right side of the tub which takes care of the greens. Do you not add Brown materials as well?
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hey i have just started making my own worm farm but i have not got any animal waste. Shall I dig some soil from my garden then mixed it with kitchen waste and put some worms in there to make my own compost ?
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Cow dung would be a better bet than horse manure. Of course, one can use what's available.
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Lots of info the way he touched poop
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hello, I'm just starting a worm farm now. I love your videos! I am planning on making a bathtub farm (or two).. thank you very much for such great information..
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Hi Rob, love the videos! I had a bit of a question for you. We are interested in started a worm farm for our composting, but we live in hardiness zone 9a... It's very hot and dry here in Southern California! I am afraid the worms will not do well because of the heat. Have you found that even on your hottest days, they stay well?
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what is the white stuff you put on top of the pumpkin
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really like your videos. lots of good info. I like the fact that you trial and error everything. what's a day in new queensland like?
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Harvested several tubs from my Can O Worms. There were still clusters of worms in the lower layer. Backbreaking work that took me all day... got to come up with a better method but don't have the space for something like that.
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Great info mate! Enjoyed what I've seen from you so far.
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For those of you starting out, you can learn from one of my major mistakes. Yesterday we had a massive rain and plenty of water must have seeped through the air holes on the top. The worms were flooded! I lost maybe 50% of them. The mistake I made was that the drainage holes I drilled on the bottom were too small and too few. Drainage is crucial!
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I tried raising worms for castings but failed several times. My worms never got as big as yours, not even close. They died on me after a few months. I restarted and they died again. I gave it up this year after 4 failures. Sad for me.
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Good video keep them coming
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Hi Rob, how do you keep your wrigglers alive in extreme heat conditions, I note you have most of them under your Queenslander (good spot) but how about those days of extreme conditions, any tips?
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I have chickens but no horse, could I use chicken droppings under the food scraps?
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Hi Rob, I have had my worm farm going for about a month now (albeit in a 5 level worm farm factory). From my research I see that some people feed their farms shredded newspaper. What are your thoughts on that. Also do you think it is OK to add the sawdust shavings from our guinea pig cage into it? They pee a lot so I imagine it would have a fair amount of urea in it also.
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Man that's a lot of horseshit.
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Hello and thanks for getting back to me. I was wondering if you could give me some advice on the bedding I keep your worms in. Do you turn over your bedding weekly? I mean, do you mix your bedding, bringing the lower stuff to the top to keep it from packing down? I wonder if this disrupts the worms habitat or if it's needed to keep air throughout the bedding. Plus, how long after you see you worms mating will you be able to see actual eggs? What is their gestation time? Thanks for any info.
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Hello and thanks so much for all your info. I just started my first worm bed and have much to learn. I really enjoy all your videos and will put the information to good use. I'm starting with 1 pound of Euro Worms so it'll be interesting to see how things progress. I hope I can ask you a few questions as they come up? Here is Wisconsin we have about 5-6 months of below freezing weather so my worm bed will be kept indoors. Okay Rob Bob, thanks again!
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