do you want a simple and easy do-it-yourself warm box in this video
I'm going to show you how to build very simple and easy do-it-yourself worm bin
that you can do with just a Rubbermaid containers
hi this is Jeremy starke from green thumb Gardner here to give you some tips
tutorials and reviews for all your gardening needs in this video I'm going
to show you how to build a very simple and easy do-it-yourself worm bin box
that anyone can do with just simple materials that you get from from Walmart
or Home Depot or Amazon basically one of the main materials that you're gonna
need is a Rubbermaid container but before we get started if you have any
questions or if you have any comments about you know what you do for compost
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so basically today we're gonna go over a very simple method on how to build a
warm box now if you guys don't know what an actual worm bin is or if you've never
seen one Verma composting you know check out the link above right there you'll
see a little box pop up there and I actually did a live video basically
showing you what you know one of my warm bins that I have what it is and what it
does so if you want to check it out before you do this go ahead and just
click on up there and I'll take you right over to that video but what I'll
do is I'm gonna show you the steps and very the the materials that you need the
steps that you need to do and the very simple way to actually put this together
and then I'll show you what you can do the best practice to get started with it
and as always I will always have in the in the description below I'll have a
link to all the materials that I use but let's get into the show and I'll show
you how to do this in the house how simple and easy it is for this project
you may need 310 gallon Rubbermaid bins that you can find at Walmart your local
hardware store or you know on Amazon I'll put a link in the description below
so that you know exactly you know which bin it is but one of the things that I
would look go for which what's neat about the bins that I actually got is
they have this little groove right here and what that does is
that when you put the two bins together it leaves a gap between the bins and the
bottom and I'll show you well that's really important when we want to start
to build this because on the bottom part right here this is where the bottom bin
you're gonna have is you're not gonna put any particular holes in this one
this is just where you're gonna collect the the liquids that drain off from the
composting so it's really important to have a little gap in there so that so
that the you know the liquid doesn't come in to where it's composting and and
because the worms don't like it too wet or you know drenched in water when
you're first getting started you only need to have you only need to have two
of them because you know you're gonna be just starting out with one of them but
as you get as your compost builds and you want to be able to harvest this
you're gonna start the you're gonna put the other container on there and I'll
show you how to do that but first let's get started the first step that you want
to do is once you get your bins is on the bottom of two of them what you're
gonna do is you're gonna put you know a bunch of holes in the in the actual
bottom of the bin so you want to you want to get a drill so you can get your
regular hand drill and I use a half inch drill bit to do this so what I'll do is
I'm just going to go through here and just drill some holes in here
all right once you once you've completed that you want to have the whole bottom
of it it's gonna be all holes on the bottom of it you want to do that for the
other bin as well so you know do that for the second bin the third bin like I
said you don't need to do this for once you once you get through that and you
have all the holes drilled in there the next additional step that you want to do
is on the side of the bin I like to just put some holes in there maybe like three
or four holes and I use a much smaller bit so I use a quarter inch or an eighth
inch but if you have that do we want to put you know four in each side right
here of the of the actual bin and then what that does is that that allows the
the air and oxygen to to get to the worms because when you have this closed
up and you have the cover on top you know it can be not completely airtight
but that way they will ensure that you do have air in there so I just say to do
that plus one the other things too is if you leave this bin outside you're gonna
get some some other critters that are gonna come into the bin that actually
really help but you don't want it too big because you don't want the Flies to
get in there so if you have really small holes though the particular the Flies
that you see the common houseflies and things they won't be able to get into it
so you know if you're an eighth inch or a quarter inch bit all you need to do is
drill that so once you get that all situated when you're first starting this
out you just want to have two bins like I said so the bottom bin is where you're
gonna be collecting all the compost tea in here so once you get all your holes
drilled out you want to basically put the second bin in make sure that it's
it's nice and snug and then what I do is I take some newspaper and then I just
line the very bottom of the bin itself what this does is that it will prevent
the the worms and you know any of the things from going into the the bottom
container but yet it will still be able to drain out because it is newspaper and
eventually it's going to kind of break down in there but I put the on the very
bottom the first time I do it is I put just a layer of newspaper and then one
of the other materials I like to use in the in the warrant the worm compost bin
is some shredded paper or shredded newspaper so I do also just put a little
bottom part of the right on the bottom of it
and you just want to make sure to kind of just you know it's all over the place
just so that it's nice because the raw material is one of the things that you
do need for good compost and then the next thing that you want to do is is you
want to get the worms itself now these worms and all the ones that you find in
your garden so you you know you can't use those particular worms in here
they're not going to the same amount of work that that you want to have the
worms the particular ones that you want to have and I'm not a worm expert but
they're called red regular worms and they're or night crawlers I believe you
could use them I think a lot of people use them in their bait fish and bait as
well because they wriggle and they fish seem to love them but they they're
basically special type of worms that that you know the I guess they're native
to certain parts of the country but uh but uh what I'll do is I'll also put a
link in the description below and I'll have where you can actually get the the
worms itself and where I got my worms but when they when they come they're
basically gonna arrive in like a bag like a almost like a cloth bag or
something like that and they're gonna have some kind of peat moss maybe a
little food in there you know just to help get it started so you know this
basically you know will come in some kind of bag and as you can see I have
these are from my other warm bin if you haven't seen I put a link in the
description below so you can see what the actual worm bin is itself but in
this one I'm basically though all the worms will come in here and so what I do
is is I'll put I'll put the actual worms in one corner of the bin and then I'll
start feeding that particular area of the bin I'll kind of move across and as
I'm feeding I'm putting in more of my material in here and then eventually the
worms are actually gonna reproduce and they're gonna just basically fill this
whole bin up so you have a whole bunch of whole community of worms that will be
in there so you do that and you just put your food you know like food scraps you
know I just throw some broccoli in here I mean usually they like to have smaller
scraps in this but you know like I said I try to keep it simple I'll throw this
in there and that's pretty much it I'll cover it up with that and then you also
have a cover that you want to put on top so you'll put the cover on top and when
I leave this outside I don't really do anything with it I
just keep it raised up off of the ground and it's very simple the only the only
drawback that I don't like about it and I do have this in a covered area because
of this is that the covers sometimes the they'll have a place where the water can
pool so I just I try to keep mine you know in a covered spot outside if I can
so I don't have to worry about the water getting on there but you know every once
in a while you just have you might have to do that because you don't want to get
water in these bins because the worms don't like too much water they do like
some moisture but not not all they don't want to be drowning in this so you want
to make sure that you don't you keep them you know somewhat dry but hopefully
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