3 Ways Using Newspaper on Top of A Worm Bin Helps You Manage Your Bins - Plus Bonus BREEDER BIN TIP
Summary
TLDRIn this informative video, Jayne from RockinWorms demonstrates three distinct situations where using newspaper in worm bins can effectively indicate the health and needs of the worms. She covers the use of newspaper in nursery cocoon bins to monitor food consumption, in drying down bins to facilitate horizontal migration, and in regular grow bins to assess the necessity for action. Jayne also shares her method of using leftover food scraps and breeder feed to maintain a healthy worm ecosystem, encouraging viewers to consider incorporating newspaper in their worm management practices.
Takeaways
- 📰 The video discusses three ways to use newspaper coverings in worm bins to monitor and manage worm health and conditions.
- 🔍 Newspaper coverings help in making quick assessments of the worm bin's status without disturbing the worms.
- 🌱 In a nursery cocoon bin, the disappearance of newspaper indicates the need for feeding as it suggests the presence of hungry worms.
- 🍽️ The breeder feed consists of worm chow, veggie powder, and eggshell or oyster shell powder for grit and calcium.
- 👶 For very young worms, it's important to feed lightly and often to avoid overfeeding and to maintain a healthy environment.
- 📦 In a drying-down bin, the reduction of newspaper signifies that the food supply is dwindling and worms need to be encouraged to move to a new section.
- 🌾 Horizontal migration is a technique used to move worms to a new area of the bin with fresh food and conditions.
- 🌽 The use of corn on the cob and breeder feed as an experiment to attract and retain worms in a specific section of the bin.
- 🗂️ Regular grow bins can be managed by assessing the newspaper status to determine if immediate action is required or not.
- 📝 Keeping labels updated is crucial for tracking the feeding and condition of different worm bins.
- 📈 The status of the newspaper at the end of a breeder cycle can inform the amount of food needed for future cycles to maintain healthy worms.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of using newspaper in worm bins as described by Jayne?
-The main purpose of using newspaper in worm bins, as described by Jayne, is to provide a quick way to assess the condition of the bin and determine whether immediate action is needed or if it can be left for later.
What does Jayne suggest using newspaper for in a nursery cocoon bin?
-In a nursery cocoon bin, Jayne suggests using newspaper to monitor the disappearance of the newspaper, which indicates that the cocoons are hatching and the worms are feeding, signaling the need for additional feeding.
What does the disappearance of newspaper in a worm bin indicate according to Jayne?
-According to Jayne, the disappearance of newspaper in a worm bin indicates that the worms are actively eating, which suggests that they are hungry and need to be fed.
What is Jayne's breeder feed recipe, and why is it used?
-Jayne's breeder feed recipe consists of worm chow, veggie powder, and eggshells or oyster shell powder for grit and calcium. It is used to provide a balanced diet for the worms, promoting their health and growth.
How does Jayne decide when to feed her young worms in the nursery bin?
-Jayne decides to feed her young worms when she notices that the newspaper has been consumed, indicating that the worms are ready for more food.
What is the purpose of adding pre-compost mixed with sifted cow manure to the worm bin?
-The purpose of adding pre-compost mixed with sifted cow manure is to introduce biota, which includes microorganisms that make up the ecosystem in a worm bin and serve as food sources for the worms.
How does Jayne use corn on the cob in her worm bin?
-Jayne uses corn on the cob as a food source to lure the worms to the working end of the bin and to encourage them to stay there, aiding in the process of horizontal migration.
What is the significance of the status of the newspaper in a drying-down bin?
-In a drying-down bin, the status of the newspaper indicates the level of food remaining. If the newspaper is almost gone, it suggests that the food is nearly depleted, and it's time to move the worms and replenish the food supply.
How does Jayne manage the horizontal migration of worms in her bins?
-Jayne manages horizontal migration by moving the worms to the working end of the bin and setting up a new feeding zone with fresh food sources, such as corn on the cob and breeder feed, to encourage the worms to stay in the desired area.
What is the bonus tip Jayne provides regarding the use of newspaper in breeder bins?
-The bonus tip Jayne provides is that at the end of the breeder cycle, the status of the newspaper can indicate whether enough food was provided. If the newspaper is gone, more food may be needed for the next cycle; if it's still mostly intact, the food amount may have been sufficient or even excessive.
What alternative sources of newspaper can Jayne suggest for those who want to try this method?
-Jayne suggests that people can obtain newspaper from public libraries, which often have paper forms of newspapers, or from local stores that may have sale circulars that can be used in worm bins.
Outlines
📰 Using Newspaper in Worm Bins for Monitoring
In this paragraph, Jayne from RockinWorms introduces the concept of using newspaper in worm bins as a tool for monitoring the health and needs of the worm population. She explains that the presence or disappearance of newspaper can indicate whether immediate action is required or if the bins can be left undisturbed. Jayne shares three different scenarios where newspaper is particularly useful, starting with a nursery cocoon bin. She demonstrates how the state of the newspaper can signal the need for feeding, as hungry worms will consume the paper, and emphasizes the importance of quick assessment to determine the next steps in bin management.
🌱 Managing a Drying Down Bin with Newspaper
In the second paragraph, Jayne discusses a different situation involving a drying down bin with mixed-aged worms. She uses the newspaper to monitor the progress of horizontal migration, a technique used to move worms to a new section of the bin. The disappearance of the newspaper indicates that the food in the bin is almost gone, prompting Jayne to add more food to encourage the remaining worms to migrate. Jayne also introduces an experiment using corn on the cob and breeder feed to attract worms to the working end of the bin, demonstrating a practical application of newspaper in managing worm bin ecosystems.
🐛 Regular Growout Bin Management with Newspaper
The third paragraph focuses on a regular growout bin, where Jayne uses the newspaper to assess the status of the bin without disturbing the worms. She notes the presence of castings and the need for horizontal migration, then proceeds to move the worms to one end of the bin to prepare for more castings. Jayne also discusses the use of pre-composted materials and biota to enrich the bin's ecosystem. Additionally, she provides a bonus tip on using the newspaper's condition at the end of a breeder cycle to determine the adequacy of food provided to the worms, offering insights into adjusting feeding strategies for future cycles.
📋 Final Thoughts on Newspaper Topping in Worm Bins
In the final paragraph, Jayne wraps up her discussion by encouraging viewers to consider using newspaper toppings in their worm bins if they aren't already doing so. She provides a quick overview of the benefits and the types of bins she has covered, including cocoon nursery, drying down, and growout bins. Jayne also suggests alternative sources for newspaper, such as public libraries or local stores, and invites viewers to share their experiences with newspaper in the comments. She concludes by reminding viewers to check their worm bins and consider incorporating newspaper as a management tool.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Newspaper covering
💡Worm bins
💡Cocoon Nursery bins
💡Breeder feed
💡Horizontal migration
💡Casting
💡Biota
💡Grow bin
💡Breeder bin
💡Sifted cow manure
💡Pre-compost
Highlights
Jayne from RockinWorms shares three ways to use newspaper coverings in worm bins for immediate action decisions.
Newspaper coverings help in managing worm bins by providing quick assessments without disturbing the worms.
In a nursery cocoon bin, the disappearance of newspaper indicates the need for feeding due to hungry worms.
Cocoon Nursery bins should be lightly fed to avoid overfeeding small, young worms.
Breeder feed is a mixture of worm chow, veggie powder, and eggshell or oyster shell powder for grit and calcium.
Horizontal migration is used to move worms to a new section with fresh food and newspaper.
The status of newspaper in a drying-down bin can signal when to initiate horizontal migration.
Using corn on the cob as an experiment to attract worms to the feeding zone in a drying-down bin.
Sale circulars from grocery stores can be repurposed as newspaper coverings for worm bins.
In a regular grow-out bin, the presence of newspaper indicates that the worms still have food and no immediate action is required.
Setting up horizontal migration in a grow-out bin prepares it for increased worm activity and castings production.
Newspaper status at the end of a breeder cycle can inform adjustments in food quantity for future cycles.
Breeder bins should be monitored to ensure worms are well-fed and healthy for successful breeding.
Newspaper coverings are a simple and efficient method to manage worm bins without needing to disturb the worms.
Libraries and local stores can be sources for free newspaper materials to use in worm bins.
Jayne encourages viewers to consider using newspaper coverings to improve worm bin management.
Transcripts
hi everyone I'm Jayne at RockinWorms welcome what I'm going to be sharing
with you tonight are three ways I use the newspaper covering I use on my
regular worm bins to inform me to tell me where the bins are and whether or not
I need to take basically immediate action or not now I know some people
don't use a newspaper topic you know again what works for you and your worms
is what's most important but maybe at the end of this video you'll think about
giving newspaper a try and seeing if it helps you manage your worm bins all
right so let's get into it um these three situations I'm going to talk about
are entirely different from each other as well but newspaper helps okay the
first I'm going to show is a nursery cocoon bin okay and and the whole point
of using the newspaper is to be able to peek into your bin make a quick
assessment and decide whether you need to do something or you can put it back
and come back to it later so again this is a nursery bin and what I'm showing
here is the newspaper is in really good shape you can see I have some smaller
Wiss here but they're they're small so there's a lot of cocoons in here yet
that haven't hatched cocoons don't eat so I don't have to feed them and one way
I can tell if I need to start feeding my cocoon Nursery bins is if the newspaper
starts disappearing right that means hungry little mouths are eating the
newspaper so this bin is in good shape I don't need to do anything but I come
over to this bin pull it back no newspaper so it's been eaten so let's
pull this spin out you know again a quick look I need I need to do
something so let's just pull it onto the work table here and if I look
at my Lia even though it says young worms it's
very young worms it tells me that I last fed this some pre- compost basic bedding
mix and some breeder uh breeder feed so leten me
continue that process right cuz again these are very young worms I'm not even
going to disturb them because again they're so tiny I don't want to you know
get them all riled up you know what I was going to I was going to do the
breeder feed first let me do this sorry this is what I call my breeder feed okay
it's worm Chow veggie powder and eggshell or oyster shell powder for grit
and calcium and I'm showing them you know broken out like this so you can see
the three main ingredients in my breeder feed but here is a little container
where I've mixed them all up okay so I'm just going to give them a light feed
ignore that got ahead of myself again just a light
feed cuz uh you know whisps are small they have tiny mouths and they don't you
know eat a lot individually and I'd rather come back and feed them a little
bit more often than take the chance of overfeeding them
when they're so young and small okay so that's all I'm going to do this I'm
putting on top is the pre compost mixed with the sifted cow manure
so this addition here is chalk full of biota which biota means all the little
microorganisms that make up an ecosystem in a worm B that could be
bacteria virus um little tiny you know animals fungi you know those kind of
things those are all food sources for your tiny little
worms but it has zero chance or almost zero chance of going Anor robic right so
or heating up so I can just add it in oops I I do want to put on newspaper
right I want to replace that
newspaper so these guys are now handled one bin
down and this is mainly again driven my action is driven by the status of that
newspaper being gone all right so let's put it back on the Shelf I'll update my
labels which are very important to me um after okay so that's kind of how
you can use newspaper to tell where you are with a cocoon or Nursery or very
young worm bin now let's go to an entirely different situation of a bin
hey nice socks oh you like them right I'm just going to wear high heels and
Pearls but you know I was thinking the socks might do it I'm feeling kind of
50s right so um yeah so this is a drying
down then all right so this is a regular grow bin has mixed ages in it and it's
full of castings and what I need to do is I'm actually going to bring this out
put it on the work table um and and talk about it it's a
little bit easier on camera man if I work on the table as opposed to on the
shelves so um yeah so it's on the shelf right I peek back and what do I see the
newspaper is almost gone this is again a drying down bin so that
means I am using horizontal migration to move the worms out of this section
there's still a few left here let me uh turn them over you can see there's still
a few worms that haven't quite got the memo to move down to the working end of
the bin and you can see why there's you know still lots of little bits of food
here and I'm not in a rush to have them move down to the the working end of the
bin cuz I have a lot of castings right now but I still do want to move them
down because eventually they're going to eat this up and I want them down on the
working end so I can easily sift these castings out okay so the stus of the
newspaper it's almost gone that indicates to me that the food in this
Zone that I'm using as the lure to to lure the worms down and also keep the
worms that are in this side of the bin in this side of the bin might be almost
gone right so let's just do a little real quick look see and you can see a
lot of worms did get the memo and they're down here in this end of the bin
where I want them to stay while they're lazy compatriots you know move on down
so and you can also see that there's not a lot of food here so I want to reup the
food a little bit without disturbing the bin so these guys will stay here and
then you know hopefully it'll be yummy enough that the uh stragglers will come
along so I'm also fun fun fun going to set this up as a little experiment at
the same time so what I'm going to do is put in my required napkin and again
these paper towel napkin aren't anything special it's just a way for me to use
them you know when we use them for lunch or dinner cuz I don't want to throw them
out so I just use them in my worm bin this one's a little sticky here we go
okay so I'm going to put that in now what yummy food am I going to use to
keep these worms down here and lure the other guys down I'm going to see how
corn on the cob does we literally had this corn on the CB for dinner tonight
um this is mine and I'm going to put a corn cob in here and there was quite a
few worms so I'm actually going to put in two corn cups set that aside and I'm
going to use some of that breeder feed to up the antee here and just put it in
and I can sprinkle beyond the napkin cuz again the napkins just there to be
eaten and now I've repped the feeding Zone and I'm
just going to cover it back up with these guys because I want these guys to
stay here all right there we go okay and then once
again okay this is just pretty much where my newspaper was to delineate the
dry down section and see how the the newspaper and this these are sale
circulars I get from a local grocery store so you know they have a gazillion
out on the I like it the other way I like with the fold so the worms don't go
in between the paper so much um they have a gazillion of these out every day
I don't go to the grocery store that often to be honest with you but they
change their ads um this grocery store happens to be
on uh Thursday so on Wednesday you know if I'm at the store I
can grab a little handful and that gives me plenty of new
newspaper or Sal circular to get me through you know several several weeks
of wormery okay so now these guys are ready
to go back on the Shelf waiting for the rest of the horizontal migration to
happen again this action I took because I saw what the status of their newspaper
was in a drying down bit now let's go to just your plain old r regular growout
bin I'm not doing anything special with these worms just you know keeping them
ticking along so I pull out a bin I peel it back I see you know lots of uh
newspaper so I really don't have to do anything with this bin right now okay I
don't have to I could if I wanted to but I don't have to that's indicating me
they still have food indicating two na I should say so now let's pull out this
bin and oh here it is there's just a little newspaper around the edge this
bin needs some action so let's take it out take it over
here and open it up let me grab a
little bin to put that in okay all right so now I'm going to see what the status
of this bin is again lots of castings I've got a lot of horizontal migration
to set up it looks like and I need um you know to get ready for a lot of more
castings coming my way so what I'm doing here is I'm just doing a quick ation and
I'm moving the worms down
to this end of the bin so I can take the opportunity to set up a horizontal
migration and these little strips of news paper can just go into the working
end of the bin because I do want to keep let me pull some of these
out anything that is uh you know more food like for these worms down in the
working end of the bin sorry cameraman he hates it when I put my hand in front
of the uh lens here but I'm just smoothing that out okay let me get some
of these worms off my hand okay so I'm just going to do a quick fee now while I
work on this I'm going to give you uh a bonus right because I already did
three I did cocoon Nursery I did drying down and now I'm doing a grow up bin so
the bonus prize is breeder bin I can use the same
analysis of the status of newspaper covering at the end of my breeder cycle
to tell me whether or not I gave my breeders enough
food during their breeder cycle to keep them you know growing and chunky all
right so if I go into my breeder bin at the end of uh the 21
days and all the newspaper is gone I know for next time for that breeder bin
with that amount of breeders I'm going to want to add add a little bit more
breeder feed okay and
alternatively if I go into a breeder bin at the end of the cycle and the
newspaper is you know pretty much pristin except being damp then I know
that my food amount was either good or perhaps a little on the heavy
side okay and if I think it might have been the heavy side then I can just back
off on the next cycle a little bit for that amount of worms all right so again
here we're setting up that little experiment with the uh corn
cob and we're going to see how they do little uh breeder feed on top and some
pre compost which again is chalk full of natural foods for them with the uh biota
let me get that newspaper to refresh them
and I'm going to get this bin right back on the
Shelf here we go and again maybe you know you're not
using a newspaper topping and again it can be newspaper like you know go to
your Li Library if you have a public library a lot of them um do get the uh
paper form of newspapers and if you ask nicely at the circulation desk you can
and find out if they'll you know give you a couple sections all right or hit
up your your local store to see if they have Sal circulars that uh you can Avail
yourself of all right so this is just a real
quick way to use newspaper toppings and again if you're not using them you might
want to think about giving it a try right so I would just go on with the
rest of my bins this this one's in good shape look at we got some decent size
worms in here okay um but it's in good shape so I can you know put them back
and then move on to a bin that may need more immediate help let me see what this
one looks like see so this one needs more immediate help so I'm going to
actually work on this bin and I'm going to let you guys go so you can go look at
your W worm dens and see if you know using newspaper might help you manage
your worm situation more efficiently all right so hit me up in the comments let
me know if you're using newspaper not using newspaper what you think about
this method of again helping you manage your worm bits all right otherwise I
will see you on the next video and I remain yours in the dirt Jayne
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