Blended vs Whole Food Scraps In A Worm Bin | Vermicompost Worm Farm

Hi Patrick I don't have time to blend but I'm lazy 😂.🤠👌👍💩🪱💪 Vermihut camping for you 😂

The time lapses are terrific. In one of my systems I didn't freeze the pomegranate skins and had to break them apart to small pieces and eventually they all went. Who knew. Blended was so effective?? 🪱🪱🪱🪱

Great video, as usual! It doesn't surprise me that the blended food went faster than the whole food. Same principle in a compost bin- smaller pieces of material make the bin work faster. I gotta say, I loved the arrows pointing out which food the worms were eating next. Really helped me see how things were working in the bin!
I don't blame Autumn one bit for threatening to put you and the vermihut out of the house. It seems from the sneak preview that the worms weren't going for the shrimp tails very quickly this time. I hope for her sake that it doesn't stink up the house! 😂 Can't wait for the final verdict on this timelapse. 🪱 Hoping I can get a vermihut set up in the next few weeks! Thanks for all the inspiration and knowledge.

Looking good! 👍🪱🪱🪱🪱

Gotta love a little Autumn vs Patrick/worms action! My bet is always on the Executive Producer. The salty seaside smell will subside soon (there's a tongue twister for you)!
~ Sandra

Stinky shrimp. 🙂

Thank you for doing this experiment as I requested 🥹 I was always debating on how I should feed my food to worms, and these results definitely helped me get a better understanding! Unfortunately I don’t have a blender that I’m willing to sacrifice 😂 but it could probably be worth the investment for the worms and my garden!

In regards to your cardboard bedding or bedding in general: Are the ink and dyes harmful to the worms? Would recycled copy paper with black ink be acceptable bedding?

Great information, I blend my worm scraps, but lately I have just frozen them, thaw and feed to worms! Ground egg shell is fantastic too!

My bin loves lobster shells!

Seems stupid to me. Of course the blended (broken down) foods didn't take as long. Normally the worms have to break their food down. If you break it down for them, that eliminates the longest step out of their process.

That looked pretty definitive that the eggshells where not just getting shifted around and lost under castings. It was also interesting to notice that error there was food in both sides the activity levels were about the same. So maybe it's possible to rule out advanced communication or communication that travels very far, as well as to much migration once a food source is found. There was something else but i forget

One thing that i have noticed with some of the time lapse videos from worms vs the world and others, they film at an angel it from the side. The different angels allow you to see the worms push up and build up a mound of castings around the food item.

One thing that might help is if you made it ask the company that makes Vermihut if they with make a transparent red lid. Growing up everyone said if you wanted to catch worms for fishing you need to take a red light out at night. I add a bunch of worms to my dirted aquarium in the hope that if i kept the water well oxygenated they would live, but that they would help keep the substrate rich with nutrients rather than waiting 1 to 2 years for stuff to diffuse and sift through the sand back into the soil substrate.

They did well until they lost weight and the goldfish realized they could eat them, and that they could swim with half a worm hanging out of its mouth. At night i would use a red light to film them on the surface and in the substrate near the glass and none of them ever fled.

A red transparent lid should allow you to record the worms without having to remove the lid and for longer periods than just a minute. This would also allow for you to see more of their travel and behavior around feedings... Like do the go and eat and then randomly just leave like they are full or do they stay in place until the food source is gone and then look for something else, do they have something they are eating on and travel straight to a different food source or do they seem to randomly zig zag around until they bump into something else. I have seen time lapse videos in which they used clear containers and got plenty of activity with light, but with your time lapses you can see when that minute is about done because the number of worms progressively drops...

Always most interesting experiments.

If the follow-up video to this experiment begins with you & your VermiHut out in the yard in a tent, then we'll know right away that the shrimp was too stinky to keep inside - haha! That blended mound of food got consumed so fast - very cool to see :)

I wonder if you could put some activated charcoal inside the lid liner to help with odor control?

Thanks for another awesome video! I got my vermihut two weeks ago and started with 2000 red wigglers. I’m hesitant about adding citrus, but I love clementines and hate to throw out the peels! Should I wait a little longer until my bin is established to add the clementine peels, or am I okay to start adding a little bit at each feeding?

Thank you for all the information you share! Your worms are lucky to have you!

I was shocked how fast shrimp shells disappeared in my bin. Just a few days. No smell. Baked and left semi-whole. Just added more today. Crab shells too, the softer parts.

Hello
Very interesting experience. I've occasionally mixed the food, but I quickly noticed a significant increase in humidity in my worm bin. Have you observed the same? Also, I'm not sure if it's related, but it led to a mite infestation. Since then, I avoid blended food. What is your opinion on this ?
I'm curious to see if the worms will consume shrimp carcasses, likely providing a good amount of calcium and more.
Thanks for all your highly interesting and informative content.🤚

Have same bin. Installed an aeration tube in center of trays so air can flow to all trays. Blend food and noticed all is consumed within 2-3 days if spread over each tray

How do you decide when to remove the castings for use in your veggie beds? How do you know if there are still cocoons to hatch. (I am yet to spot any cocoons in my castings)

Love your time lamps videos 🇳🇿🪱

When I had my worm bin. I use to cut up zucchini slices lay them in top. They would be gone rapid speeds, about 2 days. The weird thing is they weren't rotten zucchini either freshly sliced. My raised beds have worms in them, I'll try it again this year with them

Hello! I follow your channel since long time ago and I love it. Thank you for showing us all of this. Regards from Barcelona.

I think that the blended food experiment is not quite as scientific as should be to determine if it's convinient to blend the food or not. It's pretty obvious that a blended food would dissapear first when you feed animals with no teeth but, in order to know how much it's better, the test should be done with no choice beetween each kind of food. First one option and then the other one. Or even better at the same time but in a two different bins with the same environment and ammount of worms.

Amazing! Very telling. Thanks

I dehydrate then blend all worm food it works better even egg shell

I enjoy these time lapses a lot. I’m pretty new to this and learning all the time. Is there a reason that sometimes the food is buried and then sometimes left on top like this? It probably doesn’t matter, as long as they’re fed. I’ve watched some people feed just on top and was wondering if there was a better method or if it depends on the type of worm bin. I’m 53, but I’m in the ‘baby’ learning stage of vermicomposting, so thanks! 😄

Blended is always faster! What happened to all the worms that crawled out??? I don't suppose I'm the only one asking. If you do a time lapse like that again, first take a spatula (That Very soft, one that. came with the trays) and clean off the castings and stuff from the sides of the inside of the bin. I think that might help. Keep up the good work patrick.

Yoooo !! You didn't pin your comment. It's like forgetting the amendments at the end 😂
If you open that lid with the Exec in the room, you might not have one in the future lol !
Have a great weekend!! 🌱🤞👍🤜🤛

I love your dedication

I have found that egg shells go first in my bin too. Thanks for the content!

Thanks for the reminder to blend when I have more scraps than I think the worms can get through. Giving them that boost toward digestability would go a long way

Do you have a video of starting a fresh bin by taking worms and castings from an existing bin?

So are you sleeping outside yet?😂
Nice avocado shell experiment Patrick. I have started the count of my Vermihut. Now I have to get back to it 🤦‍♂️😉

Blending produces more surface area for bacteria, fungi, etc...to decompose the material faster. The worms then slurp/suck the residual decomposed goo. They don't have teeth to eat anything. Tiny gizzards do the grining of biota for them.

Worms love the smooth style of feeding. Major casting production and egg production this way also.

I have a question? Can you give earthworms crushed waste in a mixer? It is a mixture of various waste.

I have a magic bullet blender that I blend my food in, and I put banana peels, egg shells, bread, lettuce, and anything else you would feed into it first to break it down and my worms go through all of it in about 4 days. Even the slow food like banana peels will be gone super fast. The added surface area vastly speeds up the process. Its great for large amounts of food that needs to go fast.

Great video man. Would you recommend the vermihut to a beginner?

Hi Patrick and Autumn, great video as always. I really enjoy watching the time lapse vids. Looks like the next one should be good too, if not a tad smelly lol. Executive producer is going to ban you from having any indoor bins. Have fun, Mark : )

Curious, Do you use a lid on your traysystem? I was wondering that becauae I'm testing a commercial wormbin in France (eco-worms) and there are no holes in the lid.
When I see other commercial stuff on the internet it looks like more systems have no air circulation.
I'm after a few hours testing at the point going to drill holes in the system.

❤👍Hope all is well.

Can I ask you a question? It feels like you're giving your worms everything. Also 'forbidden' things like onions and citrus fruits. What about aloe vera? Have you tried this before? I've had my worm bin for a few days and have too many aloe vera plants. Can I give them to my worms? I would be very happy about an answer. 🤗 Thank you for all your great videos . I am watching since hours and days and nights all your worm videos and cant stop 😅

Can you and or the executive producer please make a full vlog style video on how to start a worm tower?

Looking at the worms to buy at whichever widely available store(s) sells them. As well as how many to buy, and which species.

How to acclimate them to room temperature, without half of the tub dying ( I speak from experience 😑)

Looking for a low cost shredder. Which types of paper and cardboard shouldn't be used in a worm tower.

And old pantry items food be worm chow.

I'm asking a lot but my worm tower has been sitting empty since I was given it around...a year ago.

Oh no I hope you didn't have to stay outside with your shoulder booboo. 🎉🎉 Can't wait for the update.😁👍🏼🪱

"How much worms..." Really? Which Venezuelan English teacher gave you your "Dick and Jane" primer?

What can I do about the trays staying really moist? I just came across these videos and it seems in order to get to what ur stuff looks like I’d have to dump everything and start over. Pls send suggestions.

It’s interesting that worms would eat harvested beets but not beets that are actively growing, I presume.

Blended food is small bite size for the worms. Just started a indian blue culture with blended food. I learned here i should not overfeed a starter.