Looking for a way to compost your organic waste? All you need is a bunch of worms and a plastic storage tub with a lid. How big the tub needs to be and how many worms you need depends on how much food waste you want to process per week. To give you an idea, a pound of worms can process half a pound of waste per day. You drill a few holes on the bottom and sides of the bin and follow a few more quick steps to finish the worm bin.
If you’re okay with having a box of worms in your house or apartment, it sounds like a cheap and easy way to make some high quality compost and make the world a little bit greener. If you’re worried about it stinking up your place, the guys in the video claim that it is almost odorless.
We’ve had one of these in the garage for the past year and its been great in decomposing waste and making liquid fertilizer for the plants.
We have been using one of these
http://www.originalorganics.co.uk/the-original-wormery.htm
Dudes,
i like your video! But if i keep them outside during the summer no one tells me how to treat these guys in the winter. Can I leave them outside (maybe buried in their bin) or do i have to bring them in? even tho i really do believe they don’t stink (i kept these guys in the tropics when i lived there).
nancy
They cant be in extreme cold or heat. My kids left a tub of worms in the garage last summer and I forgot to followup and make sure they brought the worms inside. The garage heated up and the worms literally exploded from it.
Likewise they will freeze to death in cold weather. A plastic tub like in that video offers no insulation. If you have an out of the way place or a basement (ideal I would think) then keep them there. Otherwise you are going to be limited (IMO) to where and how long you can maintain them.
Also you can use a smaller bin and a smaller amount of worms if your place is small.
I used a plastic container that was about 10″ x 18″ x 10″. I put 3 dozen air holes on the top. NOT pin holes but not big enough for a worm to get through. I put 4 larger holes on the bottom for drainage and lined the box with mesh. I soaked shredded newspaper then let it sit for a day to dry out some. I put that in the box along with a couple of handfuls of dirt and some good food like cantelope and such. I gathered some large and and seemingly strong nightcrawlers from our compost bin outside and put them in the container and placed them under the sink and left the house for the afternoon. When I came back home I found several nightcrawlers on my kitchen floor, some flattened from pushing so hard through the container and it’s cover.
Do you have any suggestions as to why they wanted out? I can only imagine that perhaps the paper was too dry, or that the mix of food to paper to dirt was disproportional. Or maybe there were too many worms for a bin that small. When I see advertisements for Red Wigglers it seems they are talking about a hell of a lot more worms per square inch than what I attempted.
I thank you in advance for your help.