Discover the Secret to Effortless Indoor Worm Composting

Have you wondered what it takes to make an indoor worm compost? It is actually pretty simple! This Gardening in Canada video looks at how to make a worm compost with a single bin and no holes for drainage. This worm compost setup has no smell, and minimal moisture.

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[SnakesandDoggies]

Thumbnail sounds like a good place for Canadian Prepper! After the woodchipper! 😉✌💖🍁

[camperjack]

Wow. Much simpler than the worm farm instructions.

[beardannyboy]

Good timing, I'm just getting into vermicompost

[geckowizard]

You didn't mention the heat loving African Nightcrawlers, when you suggested putting the worm bin in a cool environment. Overall it's a great video. Thanks for the information!

[waynesell]

Im on a roll watching a mix series. Liking alot! Onions are coming along pretty good thanks. Seeded peppers yesterday yeah!

[VOTETAJ]

I never had a bin but for 3 house plants I had a worm or two in the pot. Never ever used any commercial fertilizer for these plants.

[stephanieserblowski]

Hey! Do you get fungas gnats when you take them inside?

[timothyshanley]

You rock love your videos. Ok that said, question where do I get worms to start compost? Should I just take them from my existing compost area out in my garden? 😮 Thx Tim

[allysonvollmer]

Aweosome
Video! I was really just looking for a reminder to not just dump everybody into a giant garbage pail again, and to stick with the bin… hehe We will definitely never get rid of worms at this point on turtle island 😬 there’s a really awesome book. I think it’s called beyond the war on invasive species

[oreopaksun]

I am thinking of a way to do vermicomposting in Florida as an addition to the regular compost bin, and bokashi, cause worm castings are so good for my plants. I think the micro organisms from the worms' guts really help breakdown the nutrients in the soil to make them available to my plants. So even though my commercially bought castings only have 0.5-0-0 as NPK ratings, the spoonful or two I add to various pots really do make a difference. And those castings are alive; I get red wigglers on my pool deck after a big rain, even though I do not have them in my compost bin (just bog standard healthy earthworms which are lots bigger than the wigglers).

[seagullvictim]

I believe some Azomite might help keep the clumping away. It works in other applications.

[kromsnavelfun]

Here also single bins without holes and horizontal migration. Good to name this

[nadinegaudet]

I successfully did this for a few years, however this summer I lost all my worms. Where do you all source your worms locally?

[jackieow]

How many days for the starvation period in order to jerk the worms into higher reproduction?

[MomEmpowered]

I was using old potting soil for my worms and ended up with a TON of fumgus gnatts. Does using peat and coconut fibre prevent that?

[gregmartinsask]

do you dig wormsfrom the grden and start with ten or do you buy worms from bait shop that are used for fishing as most of these worms are the ones for compost anyway? or do you buy 1 pound of worms on order for the $50

[craigbeck]

What is that plant over your right shoulder in the background near the structure?

[c.o]

Do you ever have problems with fungus gnats?

[SteveEh]

Almost exactly the same way my current worm bin is set up! One thing I did was embed a 5gal bucket, with the bottom cut out, in the pile. This allows me to open it, dump stuff in, and keep fruit flies out. Every so often, I just pull the bucket up some and continue on.
I did a cannabis grow in a 100L bin like this, while continually feeding the worms. This worked so well, completely organic, amazing stuff!!
I stopped feeding my worms any uncooked potato, they won't eat it, and the sprouts get out of control.
Great video!!

[timcoolican]

It seems funny to think that worms are not native to North America, or more specifically Canada. If memory serves me here, thinking all the way back to high school now, the glaciers started to retreat somewhere around 11, 000 years ago. That's a few generations of trees, with regards to our forest here in Saskatchewan, which I assume didn't exist when the glaciers moved in. If the worms were scared up by glaciers, wouldn't they become part of the ecosystem as well?

I'm not trying to be a pest here...I just find that to be very odd that I would need to be wary of using worms, from the soil in my own yard, because they could be invasive??? It doesn't seem to make sense.