Welcome to Marty's garden a place where you can learn how to grow fresh food
organic food for backyard in today's video we're going to discuss how to
solve the top common seven problems with worm farms with today the compost worm
can easily take care of your garden by spreading vital nutrients around and its
castings it even moves the microbes around and that's a part of the
droppings the castings as well but how do we get them right so we can move them
from the worm farm into the garden to create the right environment first we've
got to get our worm farms correct and solve all those little problems that you
know we have along the way so problem number one is over feeding guys and this
problem creates actually future problems for other things in your worm farm
now when you overfeed what happens is it gets smelly it becomes sour it can
become acidic and it can attract nasty pests such as ants and cockroaches and
all different types of little creepy crawlies that like to hang around in
worm farms when there's too much food in them so what you need to do is go and
pull out some of the food in there leave enough for them to eat just little
tiny bit then come and check back the next day and see how much they're eating
and then guys start feeding him slowly slowly but surely and then you won't
have a problems what happens is if you build up and put too much food you get
these layers right and so when you put the water in these layers stay nice and
dry and then the ants and everything will come and feed and hover on top and
the cockroaches and stuff and then you've got future problems to come on so
one way to solve this for overfeeding is to actually just stay away from
putting too much food in at first and get used to how much food you're gonna
put into your worm farms and watch them over time
keep feeding that way and if you're really worried just put in some
newspaper start wetting that down but tiny little bit of food they'll come up
and eat the newspaper they won't get hungry because they'll be eating the
bedding and at the same time eating the newspaper and the food
you give them so let's get into problem number two it's a problem number two
guys it's the right food finding the right food to feed them and the wrong
foods are things like citrus and onions they will eat it but they really don't
like it and it can create more problems in the farm down below over time so
you're better off just skipping that type of food and just giving him other
stuff now the smaller you chop it up the basically the quicker it will start to
break down and then the worms will start getting it see they actually eat the
little fungi and stuff that's growing on the side of the food and as it starts
fermenting in that then they start breaking it down so worms like something
that's already starting to decompose and they're actually eating the decomposition to
composition off the side of the food so I highly recommend that you just stay
away from anything like cheeses and meats you're gonna attract more flies
and different bad things in the farm and the worms don't eat that at all and if
you can get a chance to get a bit of leaf litter and throw that in there as
well then you from start providing a little bit of habitat break up a little
bit of newspaper and stuff and fluff it up and then wet it down and they'll come
through and aerate that and eat that as well so that's a great way to get your
farm actually rolling along is by providing the right types of food and
other foods such as grains and legumes and things that have got high in
protein will also get them going into a bit of a feeding frenzy so they lay more
eggs they like a lot of protein if they've got protein they will breed more
and you'll get more worms and your worms will eat more food and you get more
castings so problem number three is the bedding actually lots of worm farmers
get this wrong and even I did right at the very beginning of my first farm and
I used it cheap type of peat which wasn't really very good at all and the
worms seemed to avoid it as much as they could and hardly even chew through it
and over the years I figured out that actually this type of cheap peat coco
peat is actually full of salt and it just takes ages and ages for the water
to flush through flushing the farm flushing the farm
until eventually it gets rid of all the salts and then the worms will start
moving you know it so they avoid it like the plague so I recommend that you use a
good quality peat if you are using that a coco peat in your worm farms another
type of bedding that I highly recommend is the mushroom compost because I just
love that stuff and it looks basically it's straw and chicken manure and a few
other things put it in a blood and bone and different stuff in it and the worms
will feed on that when they're hungry and they're not looking for other foods
and they can burrow through it easily it actually breaks down over time and then
it becomes a pliable great worm casting that's really really fertile so the
bedding is super important and also the bedding is obviously the top layers of
where your worm farm is so one thing about the bedding that I've found that
I've started using recently as I'm putting I have put straw or sugar cane on the
top level about yay high and fluffing it up and just wetting it down and that's
that starting to decompose they really like it and I'm finding that that's
really possibly the way to go and just to create that aeration and a little
places from the wiggle and hide and it just seems to give them just some more
of a natural type of habitat so I'm out here in the early hours of the morning
because I wanted to get some worms out of my worm farm here I've just put some
in and basically what I'm doing is I want to keep this worm farm cool so I'm
going to put some water through it this morning is best times in the morning and
the evenings to put the water through apparently if the worm farms hot it takes the oxygen out so
that's probably a very bad thing to do now I've got some worms in here
and these are just little baby worms really they're not old at all I probably
say they're probably three weeks old something like that and I've got about
probably a hundred in my hand or wrapped up here and I really need to put them
back because they don't like being out of the worms farms very long at all so
I'm gonna put it back and to talk about the temperatures here's basically look
worms love the same temperatures that we as we do in Australia
around about 18 to 24 is optimum temperature really for these guys now
once it starts getting very hot they start burrowing down they start sort of
like hiding in the corners and looking for the wet spots getting underneath
little bits of newspaper doing anything they can really to keep cool and they go
quiet and it's the same with the cooler times if it's too cold they basically
will go down deep and wrap themselves up and trying to find a little blanket so
to hang out so I find that I get the best performance out of spring and
autumn really but in winter you can actually put more food in and warming up
because the composting process will warm the worm farm up but in the summer what
you've got to do is you'll be a bit careful because if it gets too hot then
you put in a composter in the compost is getting warm as it's breaking down then
can warm up your worm from too much as well so consider how much food you're
putting in in the seasons keeping it in the shade as much as possible and not
putting too much compost broken-down stuff as well as the bedding because
that can still be breaking down and create heat put a little layer of straw
or something like that or I find that I'm just putting newspaper at the moment
and I'm going to be putting some more sugarcane in there very shortly
all right little fellas I'll put the water for you soon you'll be feeling
great I really love my worms seven hearts these guys have got how could you
not love them so let's get into number five when we're talking about pests so
going right back to the beginning about too much food and overfeeding well
that's one of the problems it generally happens with pests and can create other
problems as I discuss which we're going to talk about in a second now
one thing that I did actually I've got a little slot at the end of my farm and I
forgot to put the little slot in where the air breathing holes are and I found a mouse
was getting in there and eating my worm so if you've got some mice around
sometimes they will get in there and they'd like to eat and feed on the
protein but anyway it all comes down to really too much food and overfeeding
creates many pest problems okay going into number six
is water now a lot of people in the beginning stages forget or they don't
know that you shouldn't use chlorinated town water on your worms and this will
burn them or fry the eggs and all kill them over time unfortunately and make
them really sick and then they won't breed on and you why are my worms just
not breeding and they're falling back the other way so what we do is we fill a
nice drum of water over 24 hour period and the chlorine dissolves out
of that and boom you've got you can use if you've got a bubbler around an
oxygenator something for a water tank or something like that takes about two
hours for the water to get out now I can put too much water in and it can become
soggy can become anaerobic and can drown your worms since we're worm start getting
a bit pink in color and yeah they can start dying and things so you want to
have a lot of oxygen through your system you want to keep your farm not too over
wet not too dry just nice and moist and if it's dry you need to soak it add more
leafy products such as lettuce and things like that was too wet don't put
things like lettuce and cucumbers and stuff in so if it's too wet cut back on
the wet foods and put in more carbon all right so moving in to number seven which
I've got on my list here didn't know I had the list down there did you guys
actually I'm pretty good I remember most of the time but I didn't want to make a
mistake on this one is the farm being too acidic see what happens is again it
comes down to feeding the type of foods we're putting in is it acidic food are
we putting in too much of it and are we allowing enough oxygen to get through
our worm farms is it compacting down so it's becoming anaerobic then things can
start becoming a bit acidic and generally you can tell just by the smell
if you're putting your hand in and grabbing a bit of castings and a bit of
that compost and smelling it just got that earthy smell generally pretty fine
you're starting to give me that funky sour smell you know that's going
anaerobic and start becoming acidic as well so you can get little testers
from the pet food shops and from nurseries and things like that to test
the pH and generally just put in a bit of powder
they've got certain ones you can buy from the shops which contain a bit of
dolomite or a bit of lime powder and that will put it back right in their
balance alright so listen guys if you've got anything else that I would have
missed because I'm sure I don't know everything about this and it's such a
huge thing to cover alright let us know down below in the comment section if
I've missed anything something else that you'd like to add in there or if you've
got any questions about worm farming in the problems that you're having with in
your farms at home have a great day happy gardening and we'll see you at the
next video real soon I look forward to hearing from you down below bye for now
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