Every year after harvesting my potatoes from their buckets I then turn the buckets into individual worm farms. I use the previous soil that the potatoes grew in and then I add food scraps and a hand full of worms from my wormery. I then cover the buckets with grass clippings, leaves and shredded cardboard followed by a thick plastic bin bag secured tightly to the bucket with elastic. Every now and again I feed the worms and keep them moist with rainwater. I live in Cornwall, England so I can leave the worm farms outside all winter. By the time springtime comes around again my buckets are full of worm casts!

The most important thing I hope people got from the video is that you don't need to be spending a fortune on a complex system. They are simply amazing creatures, and amazingly simple to tend to. Don't overcomplicate things! 🙏

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

yes thats exactly what I want people to take away from this!!!

Been raising worms for 5 years now, right now I have 6 different bins going. I use natural bedding over paper or cardboard, leaves, unfinished compost and leaf mold. I do see a huge difference in the biology when compared to paper bedding. I generate approximately 100 gallons of finished castings a year, depending how much attention they get. My garden definitely benefits from the biology, enzymes and nutrients the castings offer. I do use a microscope to see exactly what is in the castings and have sent samples to the UW soil lab for testing. All good stuff. I have a small channel, Brian's Garden with my worm bin setups if interested. Stay Well!!!

@mikecain6947

3 ай бұрын

What kind of worms do you use?

@brianseybert192

3 ай бұрын

@@mikecain6947 Started with one pound ( probably around 1000 worms} of red wigglers. I like the red wigglers because they survive outside during our WI winters, although I start fresh bins every fall and bring into the basement.

I have had my bin going for a few years now. In the beginning I was feeding too many kitchen scraps and my bin was too wet. Which encouraged soldier flies. A worm guy at a local plant sale told me to grind up a bunch of cheap birdseed and add to bin. Said it's same as worm chow, worms love it and dries out the bin. Works like a charm. I also get free bags of used coffee grounds at Starbucks the worms love them!

@NicoleMolloy

3 ай бұрын

wow that's so cool i'll have to try that! i have an insane amount of sunflower seeds lol ive started to just plant them

@meuandthelot

3 ай бұрын

B.S.F and vermicompost best of both worlds 🙌 as long as separate

Great video and I really appreciate the fact that he lets the eggs("cocoons") continue in the final product. That actually is excellent as he's also spreading his good worms to all buyers! Excellent!

Worms LOVE the underneath side of my rabbit hutch. I dug a deep hole, set a frame for my hutch. My hutch has a rabbit wire bottom with areas for my doe to rest. She’s a spoiled girl. Her hutch is enormous and my dream breeding hutch even though I don’t breed her. I grow ENORMOUS worms underneath my rabbit hutch with no extra effort.

AWESOME NATE! Many thanks for the promised video. Your Friend has really great set up and certainly knows his stuff. I have a old bath tub, which our daughter & son-in-law gave to me as a surprise gift. My husband made a metal stand and a metal frame to cover the top. I covered it with 80% shade cloth. To keep rats out. Its stays in the garage. I started with shredded paper, added coffee grounds, coco core, ground up egg shells and food scraps. I bought 1,000 red rigglers earthworms. I also put Kale, Callard leaves etc from the garden. I don't have access to wood chips yet. I have a leaf mould bin started in August last year, so I am going to add that too. I have just brought cast iron bath from a local scrap yard. My husband is going to make frame for that too. We going to set it up outside under the fir tree in the vegetable garden. Got a lot of extra new tips and information from your friend. As usual this was excellent video, short sweet and to the point. I will be sharing this video, as per usual. As you people in American 🌎 move into spring, here in South Africa 🌍 are going into winter. Much love to you NATE, you the BEST! And thanks to all of you people who show their support by watching your video, typing a comment, sharing your video and sending thumbs up. 👍👍 💚🪱🍁🪱🍂🪱🥬🪱🥦🪱🥕🪱🥑🪱💚

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

that sounds like a wonderful setup my friend and if I had the conditions I would also do it permanently outside like that!!... thank you always for the positive radiant energy!!

I read somewhere that worms like avocados. So when I finished the next one, with bits of avocado still on the peel. I put them in the worm farm. OMG!!! YES, big worms, baby worms! Truly a beautiful thing.

I have inadvertently released red wigglers into my garden through worm castings. I'm glad that BTEV doesn't find that to be an issue. I've also heard they would die outside when temperatures drop, which is not the case. Not under my ridiculous leafbeds.

That's pretty much how I'm raising my worms and harvesting my castings on a smaller scale home garden scenario. It's nice to get confirmation. I raise red wigglers and European night crawlers. They are in 55 gallon drums sliced in half, top to bottom. A piece of plywood for a lid on each half drum. In the winter, I cover them with a tarp with a couple of heat lamps under the tarp. I'm in north GA. One complete year doing this and so far it's a success.

Thanks Nate, I've a 4 tray worm tower, I feed them kitchen scraps but before I put them in I freeze the scraps first which helps to breakdown the cell structure and make it more digestible for them, I also add ground egg shells too as worms have gizzards, a worm bin is like a giant amplifier of biology and nutrition for your plants, I always add lots of shredded paper and cardboard too and cover the top tray with a few sheets of newspaper any liquid that drains goes down into the sump and I open the tap to drain it, its rocket fuel for plants, full of biology.

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

fantastic advice thank you for sharing!!

I have 2 raised garden beds for composting...I went from hardly any worms to hundreds of thousands in one season...I feed ground up leaves, food scraps, coffee grounds and grass clippings....no water..but fully covered. Turn off and on...and now harvesting for my spring garden uses.

I have to thank you for all your videos.. I've learned so much from you... I have a nasty situation on my property and am trying to regenerate and heal the soil so I can grow in it... you've helped a lot!!!! so again... thank you

His machine he built looks like a gold rig kinda 😂🤣! Pretty cool he had the ingenuity to do that. Amazing! Thanks Nate!

Nate, I’ve been tracking your subscriber amount lately passively. Every time I come to your channel I see what your count is just to celebrate the growth. - few weeks/months ago I noticed you hit 150K and now it looks like you added at least another 3k in subscribers. Love your content. Love seeing your channel grow. If memory serves me correct your most viewed video is a survival crop/calorie crop. Good shit bro.

I found a couple of Green Turtles sandboxes in the trash, and use them for mixing soils and amendments and stuff, and I have always had an old bathtub for composting, the way my dad did it for compost and compost tea, back in the day, works great. I have made room for one more bathtub, so I'm looking around, and if it's FREE...It's for ME ✌🌿

@Emiliapocalypse

Ай бұрын

Great idea! I was keeping my eyeballs peeled on trash day for things like buckets I could turn into pots. Didn’t get lucky that day but I’ll keep looking

Thank you Nate for sharing your very knowledgable buddy's awesome "everything worms" farm and contact info. Ordered 2 kits from them, which will certainly help rejuvenate some of my tired raised beds and container soils! Very much appreciate your ever present gardening wisdom and spirit of sharing that wisdom to help us all grow as we grow things :)

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

I'm so happy you are feeling it my friend thank you for the positive energy!!

Your man knows his business. Thank you

honestly, thank you so much for setting up the video in such an easy format! i retained so much more info because of it! :)

Great 👍 information about vermi compost making. Thank you for the visiting factory and disclose many eye opening facts 🙏

This was awesome! So simple, I love how it was broken down for us home gardeners!

Impressive thanks Nate for the indepth look! I'm going to pour my self a coffee and read all that good info on their website

Awesome video! Their website seems to have a lot of great info as well. Going to grab a kit to try out!

Awesome! Thanks Nate!

Awesome! Thank you for sharing,!

Great video, as always, thank you!

Thank you, Nate❤

Nice video Nate and Nick. Good info

Love this video

Thanks for taking us along, Nate! Very informative!!!

Great show, thanks for sharing 🌱

I love this! Now to find a place to put a worm bin…

Thank you 🙏🏼

GREAT VIDEO 👍

Thank you. Nice video.

Very informative. Thanks

Good work Viking!

Thank you both so much for this! Very educational! ❤

Awesome info!. Thanks for sharing.

Love your videos. 😊

As always, great video. Love all the Garden Like a Viking videos.

Another Great Information Video!!

really nice

Great stuff like always of course!thnks Nate!

Great video Nate.

Exactly 💯 percent what I am needing to hear. Gracias mi amigo 🎉

Thank you so much for this information my friend. Grow Like a Viking awesome 🙏

TYVM, you have inspired me to give worms a try again.

Awesome video, very informative and efficient. Thank you

Awesome information. Thank you for putting this together!

lI ove the field trips with good producers, nice relevant product!!!

Hi Nate. Thanks again 4 the vid. I asked you awhile ago about any reputable organic or organic heirloom seed companies that are semi local. I'm in zone 7b-8a here in md. You told me once and I forgot 2 screenshot it and when I went 2 order I couldn't find the message 2 save my life. If you wouldn't mind repeating yourself I would be super greatful. Thanks for everything either way. Love the thrive content as well. Got me working thru some stuff 4sure.

Amazing video Nate. Thanks for all your wonderful work.

Expertise extrordinaire ♥️ And great interviewing and editing ♥️ Thx Nate, much appreciated♥️

Awesome video!! I just started worm buckets last week.

Who knew worm castings could be so interesting. Tks for sharing. Great interview - those were the questions I would have asked.

Everything you put out is as pure as Ulfberht Steel.

Great break down of Vermiculture

Very cool brother, I did learn some things. I'll have 2 bathtubs going this year, both were free to boot, my father had 2 when growing up in the 60's and 70's, black gold, and live worms for fishing, thanks Nate my man ✌

Thank you! I have done vermicomposting but I feel with this info I can take it to the next level!

I use cfts in my basement. I have a 5x3x3. Next will be 5x6x2.5 and test this size. I also have 20 breader bins set up for worm sale.

This is one of the things I've been wanting to get going. Thanks for the tips. Also, I'm outside of Louisville now. I shouldnt be too far from you now.

Wow, I want me some!!

Great information. I try bubble wrap next time.

Dude your an angel ❤

You asked every question I would have asked. : )

Great stuff I have been raising worms too to keep it simple build a compost pile and build your pile right on top of grow bed. What was living can live again. Keep it simple reduce cash inputs buy building your own.Layer gardening

So much great knowledge! Amazing that your friend would share so much about their process to everyone. Do you think the Regenerative Garden Soil Kit would be good for container growing?

Good video

Very cool and informative video. How does he drain the worm bins? So the water doesn't just collect on the bottom?

Hell yeah!!!!

A+

Great video, very interesting. PD: We need your compost tea recipe!

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

coming soon!!

Another great and very informative video. I used to raise worms, on a ‘just for me’ small scale. Looking towards doing it again. One thing you didn’t ask, was how does it keep the content in bins moist? And not too moist? How moist is moist enough? Just my observation. Thank you for everything you do!

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

thats a great point and for brevity and the algorithm I had to leave that part out lol... he says if you have any "worm juice" runoff then its actually a sign the food and bedding is too wet... you should not have any runoff at all... he using tarps to regulate the moisture of the food and that regulates the overall moisture... the black bubble wrap keeps it all locked in there

My original worm bin was a bit too successful over the winter. I think there are just too many for them to even bother migrating to the food corner. Probably gonna break it down into smaller bins before the aummer heat.

My worms always die and I fail to raise them. Thank you my friend, I will apply all the tips in this video

Cool beans

Thanks for sharing what is that around your neck?✌🙂

Would these castings make a good elements to brew compost tea with?

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Amazing.. dumb question, where do we get the worms from??

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Thanks for the great video Nate. Question: My compost bins have a lot of these worms in them. Is this kinda worm farming?

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

definitely my friend thats actually a great way to do it and if you're not trying to separate the castings then it works great and my compost bins are essentially worm farms as well

I’ve been feeding my worms for 20 years. Now I’ll see how.

Greatest way to setup a worm bin. Where do we purchase the dark bible wrap?

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Thanks Nate. For sneak peak into this scale. How many tons do they make over what period. His quality looks great. The superior benefit of earthworm humus is "colloidal suspension of nutrients in a readily available for." #asiflifeonEarthMatters

That's incredible. 1/4 food sources recommended in the bin bottom and the worms made the rest to fill the bin? What kind of worms does he recommend for starting? Local I'm sure but are there bad worms Nate? If we can do it one of our grandsons might like to try it at his home. He's all boy. We dug up worms by the goldfish pond and he fed the fish. lol. What a memory.

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

the standard Red Wigglers are going to be the best for the home gardener because they are specifically "composting worms"

$70 for a single bag of worm 🪱 castings wow 🤩 that’s crazy 🤪 expensive 😢

@DebRoo11

3 ай бұрын

I saw that as well 😬

Good show, cheers Nate. I wonder how long a cycle takes from full bin to cast harvest. The vermi-compost tea guy from Rodale makes thermophillic compost in his back yard, feeding it to the worms in his basement after the thermophillic stage, composting it first takes all the guesswork out of mixing the worm food to keep a consistant environment in the bins. He said you want min 60% browns to make fungal dom vermicompost suitable for aerated compost tea. If you think about it, adding worms after the thermo stage is the same principle as the Johnson-Su bioreactor, my first Johnson-Su took 16 months, tho the compost was much better at 20months. I'm guessing vermicompost is done in less time, but wonder how that effects biological diversity, the J-S literature remarks on the diversity (using DNA) being orders of magnitude greater at 12 months compared to 9 months.

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I wonder if you could do this small scale in one of those small tumbler compost bins?

@gardenlikeaviking

3 ай бұрын

seems like you could but it'd be hard to separate the castings... I am going to make a similar setup with just a cheap concrete mixing bin from Home Depot with some tiny holes drilled into it

Nate: Great video! New sub - have been binge watching your channel. Do you ever conduct meet & greets. Everyone packs their own picnic lunch? LOL. Admission FREE. Meet the master. ❤

Does it mean that only worms make casting for gardening? Nate

Hello from sabah ❤.

The ratio for the mix. Is that by volume or weight?

@nicksorg170

3 ай бұрын

Volume

This was fascinating! Thank you Viking!

Ok, in southern CA. It’s warm enough, I’ve got plenty of worms in a stackable black bin but also lots of pill bugs and earwigs. Will the bubble wrap help?

@DebRoo11

3 ай бұрын

I never had an issue with earwigs or pillbugs until 2 yrs ago. Now it's become a real issue in my vegetable gardens. Very frustrating

@timmmmmmmmmmy1

3 ай бұрын

​@@DebRoo11diatomaceous earth..

@DebRoo11

3 ай бұрын

@@timmmmmmmmmmy1 i tried that last year and it didn't help much at all. Had to reapply after every rain or watering which just isnt a solution in a big garden. Even when it was dry it didn't help in my case. I used soya sauce traps which did help some. Worked especially well for the earwigs but still had my celery totally infested

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