How I Start A New Worm Bin

Hey guys, I'm Josh, sit on the roots. I have everything together to

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my new

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bin so I'll make a video and explain a little bit about how I do it. There is about a week left until it plays in order. No. Worms If you want your bedding to be completely prepared, remove food scraps from bedding and everything for at least a week, if not two, before ordering your

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s, worms work with beneficial bacteria to break down the food scraps. food in your bedding and make vermicompost if you hydrate your shredded cardboard and throw your worms into it.

They will want to leave. They don't like sterile environment. They want the beneficial bacteria to help them break down the food. So you want to make sure you

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your bed at least a week before you ordered the first worm bed I made, I put hydrated cocoa 4 and a being through the worms and half of them tried to escape the next morning. It's very heartbreaking, they finally settled in after the bed was made. a while, but you'll have a better chance and I've done better with my bins than after that by setting up the bin before ordering worms at least a week or so and letting the bedding age a bit.

Ingredients I want to use. I have my cardboard scratched. It's already a bit spammed, so I don't plan on adding any more to it right off the bat. Anyway, the only thing I'm going to do with it is moisturize it. I put my non-chlorinated water directly from the tap into the bucket and let it sit for about four days, not all the chlorine will evaporate. I have my food scraps in there packed much thinner than normal because I love them. to meet the baby oil and break down a little bit quicker that way they'll be ready for the worms when I put them in there and I've got coffee grounds, used coffee grounds on top, I've got my eggshells and then I've processed.

I made a video about them. You can go back and watch it if you haven't already. I'll put them on the bed to help buffer the pH and give them some sand to break down the food and this. one is completely optional, but I have a cup of filtered compost that I want to mix with it or a living bed. You don't have to use this, but it has all the beneficial bacteria that worms want to use. you want to live so it's best if you can use this and I would recommend it but it's completely optional if you want to use it and you don't have the compost you can use horse manure or you can go out into your garden and dig up a few cups of moist garden soil , it will have the beneficial bacteria you need, but like I said, it's completely optional.

I want to use it because I have it, food scraps have all the bacteria you need, but you might be able to I have to let it sit four or five more days if you just use shredded cardboard and food scraps, so I'm going to inoculate it with beneficial bacteria by putting the fertilizer I like numbers and proportions, so I'm going to give you the measurements of what I'm putting here so you can duplicate what I'm doing if you want, but you can do any proportion, just place the food scraps, place your baby there, there is no exact science if you put when bathing, you put food and it is along the temperature, humidity, the worms will block it and thrive.

It's about 12 inches deep, we'll say it's a 20 gallon bag just to make measurements easier because an extra gallon will be like a half inch in the container so it won't matter much. I want about three inches of material. at the bottom of this to start and then they built it up from that, as you add more material, there's more bands, more food, so to get those three inches, we're going to go in at 12 inches, which is the depth of this average, four. times, then 20 gallons divided by four is five gallons, which means I need five gallons of bedding at the bottom of this to give me my three inches, so I need if I'm in the bucket full of baby, so what glide?

What I do is I dump about half of that water into one of these other buckets. I'm going to put my shredded cardboard in that water and I'm going to wring it out after it's absorbed the water like a wrung sponge because that's the moisture you want it to be wet but not soaked, he wanted it to be like a wrung sponge and then I'm going to put it in the other bucket until that bucket is full, so it will give me my 5 gallons of bedding. Okay, so I'm going to make 10% of that with food scraps. 10% of 5 gallons is a half gallon or two quarts, so this is a two and a half quart mixing cup.

I have it up to the two-quarter mark. I have two chopped food scraps and coffee grounds and then I'm going to add five percent live bedding, so like I said, it's completely optional, you don't have to use this, it's a quarter, which is five percent of my five gallons of bedding and then I'll add about a quarter cup of my ground eggshells to help buffer the pH. I don't know what the percentages of that are, but a quarter cup of Center is good for me, so I want to put it on a tripod here and I'll show you how to rehydrate by debating real quick and then I'll come back to you and we'll mix up the bands and the food and everything. together and we will put it here in my being.

Okay, I'm going to put some of this water. In this bucket, about half, then I'm going to put my baby inside you. Stir it, let it absorb all the water it can. Do the same with this bucket. Calculate it. Just say it for a minute beforehand. It just absorbs all the water and then everything you do after it absorbs the water, you take out a handful, take out all the water and see how much it was, I hope you read the water so that it's like a wrung out sponge. moist, but not soggy, exactly what warms you up, scooping out water like a wrung out sponge, then all you have to do is keep doing it until you feel if I have a bucket or the amount of curvature you need for the size of the container what do you want.

I'm using, so I'm going to go ahead and continue doing this. I'll fill my bucket and then I'll come back to you and show you how to mix the food and the eggshells and everything you're okay, there's five gallons of that. Cardboard that took me about 10 minutes to fill, but now all we have to do is mix it with our food, live baby, while you're ready to sit for the worms, just to go over my proportions again so you know what I'm putting in. Here, how much do I have five gallons of hydrated cardboard. I exchanged cardboard.

This went through my cross cut paper shredder. This is a 19 gallon bag. I need about three inches of material, so five gallons will give me three inches of material. and this 19 gave them a total of ten percent of the five gallons and a half gallon, which is two quarts of food scraps, so that's ten parts bedding to one part food scraps and then five percent. Percent of that will be my screen and subscription or any type. of live bait and you can use horse manure compost with garden soil screen, something like that, that's five percent, so it's 20 parts bedding material to one part live material and then I'm going to put a quarter of cup of processed eggshells for sand and therefore pH.

What I'm going to do is start since these have a lot of water at the bottom. I don't know if you can see that or not. I'm going to put a couple handfuls of dry bait in the bottom of this. container to absorb moisture after setting it up the next day, you can go back and dig to the bottom if there is moisture at the bottom the next day, all you need to do is get more dry bedding and mix. with the beds and will eventually absorb it, so you won't have any moisture at the bottom.

You don't want moisture to sit on the bottom of the belt if you're putting food scraps on it, which I'll explain here. more every time I go into the feeding videos, if you put wet food scraps, you know there's going to be a lot of moisture coming out of all my cucumbers and mail and stuff like that, you gotta put some dry bedding down and then put their food in that distance , the dry baby will absorb that food and not let it go to the bottom of the container because if it gets wet at the bottom it will end up going anaerobic in the bathroom stain, so put a few handfuls, just a very thin layer on the bottom, you can see.

I won't throw away some of these food scraps. Now wait, that was unpleasant. I'm going to put some of my live bedding on. Go ahead and I'll measure out a quarter cup. Probably not. breathe this dust well, even though it's organic, put some of that in there and then it's time to make a bench, baby, now I'm going to get gloves for this, you don't have to wear gloves, but I don't like messing with nasty food. If I don't have to throw this in a little bit, make sure you mix the food scraps in the strips where you're going to do this and your batch of bait, mix it really well and put the rest of my drops on my baby. don't take all that, what I'm going to do is not come out here once a day, once every two days, I'm just going to stir this up a little bit more so it stays nice and anaerobic, you're basically making compost. in this container right now what you are doing even though there is food scraps in it, it has enough carbon material, your browns mixed with the vegetables which are your food waste, it almost smells very bad if you put too much food scraps in it'll end up smelling like that worm composting a little bit more than my three inches by about four inches.

I'm going to go ahead and throw the rest that fits in there, get started, that's all you have to do, it took us in agitation. every once in a while what is today once every other day give it about a week maybe two weeks if you don't use a lot of bedding and then sort your worms and put the Oh minute they'll love it. I will come here tomorrow and register. the bottom, if there's moisture on the bottom, I'll mix in a little more dry bait right now, that feels pretty good, you can squeeze it really hard and you don't get any moisture out of it, just a drop. or two, which is exactly how you want it to be, that's how it's done.

My settling pond, let's go in here, it's going to be about four inches or so of material, three and a half inches, you're going to love this after it settles. about a week, that's how I do it. I want to water most of the worms here per week. I'll make a video putting them up and then maybe update the video so they're looking just to let you know how they're doing but if you have any. Questions or comments just leave them in the comment box below subscribe if you haven't already to follow this series and thanks for watching until next time