Do compost worms really eat frozen food faster? Let's find out as we setup our experiment with a 2 day sneak peak included! I'm always trying to help my worms turn food scraps & cardboard shreds into natural organic fertilizer in the form of worm castings for my garden in a more efficient, faster way. Freezing your food scraps helps to physically breakdown the plant material faster...But let's have the worms give us the real data when it comes to finding out if they turn it into worm castings any quicker!
In this video I also explore the last feeding zone, show you how fast my worm tower rotation method works and discover some leftover slow food that is taking the worms a while to break down. And as always there are some great red wiggler and blue worm close ups! Don't miss the time lapse at the end!! Update...Here is the results video: https://youtu.be/oPZi3BXd1bA
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 https://www.youtube.com/c/VermicompostLearnbyDoing
Happy Vermicomposting Everyone!!!🪱🪱🪱
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Worm Bins I use:
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Equipment I use:
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Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) https://amzn.to/3gwEzb4 or https://amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
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00:00 | Intro & Experiment Plan
00:40 | Digging into last feeding
01:15 | Worm closeups
01:52 | How long does vermicompost take?
03:23 | Mango seed invasion?
04:30 | Pineapple update
05:01 | Prepping bedding for experiment
05:59 | Raw Food
06:45 | Frozen Food
07:29 | Experiment Sneak Peak!!