Good ideas! Thx for watching and commenting. If u make a video of yours please let me know I would like to see how u make it 👍

Great idea! Thanks for sharing it

Heat gun works great

I did that! And it works amazingly so! We dumped a carton of adult fishing worms (all big) into the planter, and a few months later had baby worms in the barrel. Also the compost coming out of the tube is sooo rich. Works really well 👍

😁😁😁 smart idea! A jigsaw would be safer for sure. you would have to start a hole with something else for the jigsaw blade to fit in to get started, or jam the jigsaw blade forcefully inside. Or are you envisioning drilling a big enough hole on each end of the line that the jigsaw blade would fit in? that might be worth trying, because then the bottle might slip in easier 👍

@@anesthesiadreamin Yes, a hole at the end of each line for the jigsaw. Start the holes with a standard drill bit.

It has holes drilled up and down it, and then you drop kitchen scraps in it, and as that breaks down into compost, the worms come in and out of the white tube and feed on that, and then the compost leeches out of the white tube through the holes into the surrounding soil as you water it. So it self-composts 👍

Then after two or three months, you open the hole in the bottom of the white tube, and get the compost out, and then bring it back to the top of the dirt barrel and put it in the top of the dirt. Of the dirt. Now that compost will leach down through the soil to the bottom of the barrel

I wish I knew the answer to that, I would just be guessing, but I think if you have worms constantly breaking apart the soil, making worm castings, and you recycling the nutrients dripping from the bottom and pouring back on top, I think the soil should last at least a year or two. But again that's a guess. Nature doesn't "change the soil" per se, but maybe analyzing the soil with the soil test kit might be something to keep on top of every few months, just to make sure the pH, phosphorus, etc don't get far out of whack. Maybe ask this same question to one of the KZfaq video posters that's had their barrel video out for longer, or someone that has done a bunch of barrels. Sorry I'm not more help, but thanks for watching, and for your question 👍

Also, check out Tim Burrows on youtube, he has made a bunch of barrels, and he might be able to answer your question better.

@@anesthesiadreamin ty so much

Put vermicompost tube in the middle made from pvc with holes so the worms can go in and out

Wider? Yes. Taller? I think it might get too hot maybe?

I mean too hot for worms, not compisting :-)

Probably, have not tried it, could make it more brittle, but it might work just fine, IDK for sure. Try it out, and let us know!