Converting Old Freezer Into Outdoor Worm Bin

I'll cut a piece, I'll still come there and raise the piece and the silicone on these smart hoes and then I want to steal a comb, that space and feeling in all these little holes where the fruit will be airtight, mark and Lisa, Tunisians, thank you directly. edge here sisters doing it sounds like a crow bunny Rainier Oh, Irene, he says everyone's wrong, which I guess is what I say whenever we go somewhere. I've been working on

converting

this old

freezer

we had into an

outdoor

place for learned men. I have drilled some holes and filled some of the other holes to make it waterproof.

I'm going to put it in my garage and we'll be able to put a lot more food scraps and bedding and everything in it and it's very well insulated so it should last through our sausages. We'll most likely take one of my kidney beans and throw it in here to put the

worm

s in and we might even find more

worm

s, but let me spin. this camera and I'll show you everything that's been done to it so far and I'll just tell you what I have left to do to get started. I took out all the equipment, I took the compressor and the different electrical cables and everything I could get out of it and I took a two inch hole saw and I drilled 12 holes around towards the top, we're going to put some mash on them right here in a minute, by the way, worms can do it.

I don't go out and no mouse or anything can get in and then in all the larger holes or openings I put some plexiglass and I still put everything in a cone shape and put silicone in the cracks to make it airtight inside the aquarium. safe silicone stay away it's safe for worms it has a drain I'm going to let it drown and put a piece of mesh on top that way it'll be like a safety, I don't plan on it you end up producing leachate. I'm going to try to keep it like I do with my beans now and just keep a perfect moisture level in them, but if it ends up filling up for some reason, it'll drain out of that hole over there, so it'll come out pretty good.

I'm going to go ahead and work on cutting the mesh to put these holes in and we'll go ahead and put all that in and then we'll just have to let this set and let all the silicone dry. and we'll be ready to put some worms in it, okay, 12 main circles and that took a lot longer than it was supposed to. I see the stainless steel mesh though, so it shouldn't rust or anything, it's pretty sturdy stuff, but let's stick these on and they'll have all the modifications done from scratch, we'll be ready to set it up after that, okay, so I have how the mash is with silicone over the top of the holes.

He's just going to put them in there and then I made sure the silicone was on the sharp edges covering them that way they don't trap us when they all freeze in the container and I put that last little strip of mesh on top of this drain, I don't know if I can tell that there's a little valley there so I seal it off completely so there's actually an open spot along there so it's about a 1 foot wide section that water can drain through if I have to keep knowing the ages of the cracks that were on the edges.

I applied silicone plexiglass on top of all of these larger hoses and put silicone in and all the little screw holes where the shelves were and stuff, so that should make it airtight. The liquid that enters will end up going to that drain. All we have to do now is let all this silicone dry for two or three days and we'll be ready to set it up again and throw in some worms. Of the materials I used I got them from Amazon, the plexiglass, the aquarium safe silicone and the mesh, so we'll leave it in the description below that way, you can buy them if you want to do the project like this.

It ended up being about $60 worth of stuff and the

freezer

was going to the junkyard so this is a huge $60 worm bin and like I said it's 10 square feet so it's going to be a pretty good surface where we'll be able to put in all of our food scraps and stuff we're going to let this sit and dry and then I'll come back to you and show you how to lay out the bedding and introduce it to the worms okay I've got it set up I just propped it up. up on a couple of cinder blocks in the back it's right here behind my garage it should stay pretty shady back here and it won't get much sunlight so it should be in a pretty good spot for what I did, I tagged it. this way, but it's actually uneven in that direction, that way anything that needs to come out of it will go in and out of that drain and I'll just keep a bucket or something under that drain to catch all the leachate if It needs to be about two inches lower on this side and then on this side, so it should help everything drain pretty well.

Now all we have to do is prepare the bait to put it here and let it sit for about a day with it we put bait on it and then we put the worms in, so for bait I want to do about four inches in the bottom of this and I'm not going to allow it to exceed one foot to 14 inches high in total, that is ten cubic feet. So if it's ten nice, it was 10 square feet, so one foot deep, 10 square feet makes 10 cubic feet, so we want to make a third of that to be four inches, so a third of that is three and one third of cubic feet. that's approximately the amount of material we want, what I'm going to use.

I'm going to use a whole bale of coconut fiber. It says it actually expands up to three cubic feet, but you usually get about two somewhere out there and I'm going to use a 1.5 cubic foot bag of 100% Organic Leaf Grow Soil Conditioner because I don't have compost right now. . I'm just going to strain this through my half inch mesh, mix these two together and place it. the container and then I'll cover it with some shredded cardboard. If you are purchasing a bag material, make sure it is organic. You want it as similar as possible to normal organic fertilizer.

You don't want any added fertilizers or chemicals or anything. Right now all I have is a couple big piles of manure, but they are still cooking at about 120-130 degrees inside, making compost, so I can't use them right now without harming the worms, so this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to go ahead and strain this and I have another bale of this that's already rehydrating and we'll mix the two together and put them in the being and let them sit for about a day before we put the worms in. In this leaf girl there is really good material, since I understand that everything is compost.

Leaves and forest matter you will occasionally find a stick, but they are well decomposed, so you will have to worry about it getting hot. in the worm bin or anything. I have used it for years on my potted plants and in our garden beds, whenever I don't have homemade compost or aged manure, the only thing they took away from me. I told him I was done. filter it out, so I probably put it in there as it was, but I like to break it up and get all the big clumps out of it, which is just a few sticks and twigs and stuff, so nothing major, so now I'm going to filter it out.

All my coconut coir, like I normally do, I soaked it in water and I'm going to squeeze it anyway, most of the salts come out, but we're going to mix these two together and put them in. here in the container and it will be ready for worms in a day or two. Okay, there's all the coconut fiber. I ended up with four and a half five-gallon buckets of that brick and that was one of the 11-pound bricks. Of the largest bricks you can buy, the coir ends up being a little over two cubic feet, the cubic foot is about eight gallons, so two almost full five-gallon buckets have one cubic foot, which is usually what I get from one of those bales, so now I'm going to mix this up pretty good with my shovel and then I'm going to dump it into the bin and level it out.

I'll top it off with some shredded cardboard and paper, here we go. that's about a little over three and a half cubic yards, so it should be a little bit above our four inch mark once it settles, it's probably about five or so, right now it's at the bottom, so yeah, it's about four inches or so, that will be perfect. I'm going to top this off with some shredded cardboard and we'll let it sit until morning and then we'll pop some worms into it. I'm just going to take one of my kidney beans that I've made at home and just dump the whole being on this side of this side of this container and that's how I'm going to get the worms in here and I'm going to make a five gallon bucket of paper and shredded cardboard that just went through my cross-cut paper shredder.

I'm going to spread this evenly over the top and it's supposed to rain a little bit today, so I'll probably leave the lid on this thing up and let it rain in just a little bit. a little bit to moisten this cardboard and give the bedding a little more moisture because it's a little drier than I want and you can't get better water for a worm bin or a garden than rainwater if I end up having the water, this man, that's probably what I'll do is just lift the lid, let it rain and that looks good, well, let it rain there and wet the cardboard a little bit and in the winter make some worms on it. in the morning we'll see how it goes well, we're up here, the next morning we have our worms, we're going to put in what I plan to do, so I'm going to take this container that we had down there in our utility room and I'm just going to throw it in there , worms and all, and that will inoculate this being with some worms and the good bacteria that they like.

This one was actually almost ready to harvest, but I'm going to go ahead and put it in. There, Hinksey, in the lead, can you see them? There are some tiny babies in there, so there should be plenty of worms in there to grow and complete this being. I'm a little grieving, you see all the little ones, man. I'll hold them the eggs are down there the cocoons the cocoons are down in the bedding those are something that just hatched yeah, we'll put them in there I mean, it's looked pretty good, it's been kept very moist, so I had lots of cardboard, but there are a lot of worms down here, it probably hasn't been fed in about a week, so after throwing it in there, I have some leftover food.

I'm going to throw them in there with the next tool. I'm thawing out in the house, so this should put a lot of worms in the being. It's more likely that you'll end up ordering a few more, maybe 2,000 more, maybe, and put them there because it's just so you can hold on. about twelve to fifteen thousand worms every time it is working well, whether you like playing with worms or not, it's a word from mom, the techne tail has a red spot. Oh, so I'm going to set up this camera and show you how. I'm going to put these in the bin, in the new bin there's a piece of food of some kind, so to put them in the bin, I'm going to write this cardboard on top and throw out all the worms that are covering everything. out of the smell bin and on this side for this quarter and then every time I come up here, I'll feed the food here and I'll just feed this half of the bed for a few months and then I'll migrate them. to the other side and we can harvest this, you're probably 46 months old somewhere over there, you don't have a baby worm, right, buddy?

It didn't rain last night, so this is still dry, but we're supposed to get some rain, so after I put these worms in and cover this, I'll probably leave it open and let it rain for about 30 minutes or so, right? are you ready to throw out the worms? friend, are you ready? Yeah, here we go, it smells pretty strong like a really good worm castings, man, we could have shouted this out and used it, but I'm going to go ahead and put it here to inoculate this bed. the quickest way to get this bag up and running and we started having too many worm bins in our utility room.

Oh, what are you doing so well, you just have that one big enough for you, okay, I think I'm going to go get maybe a watering. can and a little bit of water and I'll see if I can wash this in the bin to make sure I get all these little worms off, then all I'm going to do is feed it and cover it with this cardboard. and let it rain a little bit today to water everything well, I have my watering can, that's when I use it down there with the containers in the utility room and some non-chlorinated water, so I'm just going to rinse that lid off. and I'm going to try to get all the little baby worms out of here and I'm going to rinse the bucket, there's a little bit of OB and I'll see if I can't get the worms out too, okay, that should be all of them.

So now I'm going to go down there and pick up the food scraps that I have stagnated and I'm going to feed this section of the being right here, just bury it under this material that I like and then I'm going to Take all this cardboard and cover the top with cardboard. Well, it's been a couple of hours since I put the worms in the container. It's been raining, so most of the paper is wet. Now everything I did because I just took everything. that paper and I slid it to this half and I'm just going tograb some new paper I have a new cardboard and I'll cover this section after I'm done feeding it so it's a gallon of food scraps.

I'll cover it. Scoop out with some coffee grounds and some dry worm food and then cover it and place some more cardboard on top. We'll see how it looks in a week or so. Here we go. I put in another twenty and a half five gallons. bucket full of dry cardboard on top now I'm going to shut my mouth and we'll come check it from time to time and I'll do an update video here and maybe a week, ten days or so and we'll see how much they've processed that food, thanks for watching.