When Is A Worm Tower Ready For Another Tray On Top? | Vermicompost Worm Farm

How to know when to add another worm tower tray to the top to actively feed it as your compost worms turn food scraps & shredded cardboard into natural fertilizer & soil amendments! In my VermiHut worm tower my compost worms give me about 60 pounds of worm castings a year but how do you know when to rotate your trays? Watch this video to see what I look for!

We also checkin on the last three side feedings to include the kombucha SCOBY piece & add the last feeding before this worm tray, full of red wigglers & blue composting worms, gets put down a level as it finishes consuming the last bits of food scraps & shredded cardboard. Finally stay tuned to the end where I add a new inoculating tray to the bottom and get my VermiHut back up to 4 trays!

Epigeic worms or composting worms are fascinating natural composters & fertilizers that are in most homesteaders bag of tricks to make free organic fertilizer & soil amendments as well as fishing bait. If you've ever thought about vermicomposting or composting with worms to make organic fertilizer & natural soil amendments with your plant based kitchen scraps or food waste, this is the channel for you. I have 3 worm composing bins which you can watch from start to finished worm castings on the 3 playlists following each worm bin. If you haven't started yet, get started now and vermicompost with me!🪱🪱🪱 Visit my Channel at    / vermicompostlearnbydoing  

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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
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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
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
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Spray bottles to mist bedding https://amzn.to/3Fq23rN
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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
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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

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00:00 | Intro What to look for
00:41 | What should a tray look like?
02:03 | Kombucha SCOBY check
03:01 | All bedding is food
03:18 | 85% castings? What does it look like?
04:30 | Tomato & forbidden foods!
04:56 | Banana peel checkin
05:27 | Another reason to rotate trays
06:13 | Last side feeding
08:38 | Oats on top
08:55 | New inoculating tray