 Trash Can Worm Composting -- DIY with plastic barrels, trash cans, worms
www.learninghydro.org Old trash cans and barrels can be composters. Composting of hydroponic waste and garden cuttings does not require purchased composters. Do not waste money on the machines and devices on the market. I have much waste from my garden, my orchard, the weeds, dead squirrels, whatever wanders onto the property and poops, or dies. For example, rock wool disappears into the composted mass of leaves, fruit, twigs. Chop it up with a shovel. Why put rock wool in the city trash? After use in hydroponics, the scrap rock wool can become an excellent soil amendment. In this video, I show three simple devices --- a 40 gallon barrel with both ends cut out, three barrels interlocked to make a tube, and a short section of a 40 gallon barrel. All function as high-efficiency composters. Commercial composters feature air venting, access doors, rotating axels, screw on lids, computerized thermostats --- all a waste of money. Worms live in the dark. They flourish in semi-wet organic debris. Make an environment for the worms and the worms will reduce all the organic debris to worm sludge -- which costs money at garden supply shops. I used discarded lids on the tubes. Keep the compost moist. This dark, wet environment will produce the organic materials to sludge. The tubes do not need air holes --- do worms have windows underground? I show the low-tech modification of the first composter. I found this barrel behind the HydroSuppli...
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