How To Dry Your Worm Bin Before Harvesting Castings | Vermicompost Worm Farm

Описание: Feed & add bedding to your worm bin while also drying it out using this technique!! We are about 40-50 days away from a full worm bin harvest in my Tiny Worm Bin, so I am starting the drying process. The goal is to be able to use the worm castings right away!

In this video we'll dig through to find out how much of our last feeding    • When To Stop Feeding Compost Worms Slow Fo...   which consisted of slow food, is left and see if leaving the plastic off the top of the worm bin is continuing to slowly dry the bin out...it was starting to get very moist, almost muddy. We also get some close ups of red wigglers and babies showing how the have their distinctive coloring and patterns even when they are babies!

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Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin https://amzn.to/3Xs1eGe
Urban Worm Bag V2 https://amzn.to/3XE9QsT
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots https://amzn.to/3EBYhdr
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote https://amzn.to/3eKDLhO

Other Worm Bins:
Worm Factory 360 3-Tray Version https://amzn.to/3AHnjqK
Worm Factory 360 5-Tray Version https://amzn.to/3tYfWY4
Bus bins https://amzn.to/3fd8AvP

Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) https://amzn.to/3xYZKYu
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) https://amzn.to/3gwEzb4 or https://amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin https://amzn.to/3wIdXbO
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz https://amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz https://amzn.to/3WTFgua Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Food Dehydrator https://amzn.to/3O5Uj2H
Mosquito Dunks 6 pack https://amzn.to/3Oe4Sl0 granular https://amzn.to/42KDtM0 or 20 pack https://amzn.to/42Br4Kf
Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: https://amzn.to/3HnOQjg
Blue gloves https://amzn.to/3XsBg5n
Spray bottles to mist bedding https://amzn.to/3Fq23rN
Digital handheld Thermometer https://amzn.to/3EWfC2j
Compost Tea Bags https://amzn.to/3fCb5o1
Solar powered light https://amzn.to/3nOucAq
Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups https://amzn.to/3FNXvt6

Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: https://amzn.to/3S2k184

Cameras & camera equipment I use:
GoPro HERO11 https://amzn.to/3jkRpLa
Flexible Tripod https://amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera https://amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera https://amzn.to/3nqV6hp
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Canon EOS Rebel T8i https://amzn.to/3HcBuX6

4 Ocean bracelets I wear
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Books on worms & worm farming
Worms Eat My Garbage https://amzn.to/3L4FXN2

Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com

Channels I mentioned in this video: @peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 and @RockinWorms

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00:00 | Intro & Recap
00:45 | What we fed last
01:12 | Exploring last feeding zone
01:47 | Red Wiggler identifying color patterns
02:15 | Previous harvests
02:35 | Plan for the next month
03:30 | New bedding technique for dry castings
04:24 | Last fast food feeding
04:50 | Dehydrated veggies for worm food
05:34 | Adding amendments
06:05 | How make my worm food
06:30 | Thank you!