The Original VermiHut® Plus 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin – Indoor & Outdoor Vermicomposting System, Continuous Flow Food Waste Recycler for Organic Composting & Gardening - Dark Green

I love my vermihut towers! I have never had enough leachate to need (or be able to) use the spigot, but every other aspect works perfectly. I have several and have used them for years. They have never broken. The base does not leak. No odor. No bugs. Great indoor tower. My stack- top bin1- empty ( i use this bin to put other bins on when i deconstruct my towers so i don't smush worms.) Bin2- feeding bin Bin3- old feeding bin, finishing up and worms leaving to go up Bin4- even older finishing bin. This bin is harvested next time the tower is cycled. (I skip this one if i only have 5 bins) Bin5- new bin filled with new damp bedding. It is being inoculated with the microscopic life worms need to live. Bin6- older new bin. This will be my new feeding bin when the tower cycles. The tower cycles about every two months.

So well made and easy to use and assemble

I’ve had this thing for several years, and it is assisted me with many crops of new red wigglers!

I have been wanting to start worm composting for a while now. This was a birthday present to myself. It is well constructed and easy to get started. Looking forward to "worm farming"!

This is a great set to get you started. I went and stopped by the local fuel station and bought some red wigglers for fishing, I'm not spending 50 bucks for a bag of worms,it would be too many for these trays anyway. I'm learning with the worms, they're fat, happy and healthy. It comes with coco coir, instructions, advice, and all the tools you need to succeed and successfully breed your own worms for the garden, fishing, soil health or just composting your kitchen waste. It helps you troubleshoot, gives insights on common issues, I'm very happy that I made this purchase, and look forward to vermicomposting for the rest of my life. Highly recommend 🪱

The Vermitek worm composter is a high quality product. Plenty of room to expand and sturdy, I found the instructions confusing as I received pieces that were not described in the instructions. Also the picture of the white opaque piece that fits into the composter lid was pictured upside down. Once I put the cover on my bin I got some mold growing. No harm done but mold should not happen. The setup instructions said to put a piece of cardboard in the bottom of tray #1. But no liquid can get to the liquid collection bin as cardboard absorbs it. The cardboard sheet also limited air flow. After watching a YouTube video I learned that the two thin white sheets of porous material are to use in place of cardboard to cover the bottom of tray #1. The other sheet goes under the first bin on top of the liquid collection bin. This allows the liquid produced to drain into bin with spigot while preventing worms from moving down or escaping as well as increasing air flow throughout the unit. Today I will switch out the cardboard. The other issue was the coconut coir brick took 2 days to break down. I used the claw scraper (provided) to pull off the wet outer layers so water could get to the dry coir. I used the coir that I got loose to set up first bin and let the rest of coir to soak overnight. I continued the soaking and scraping throughout the next day until the brick was completely loosened. I will add the rest of the coir as I redo the first bin today. I do recommend this product. I also recommend the Vermitek company update and clarify the instruction manual.

If you’re a beginner in raising wiggler to generate warm castings for your gardens, I strongly recommend this worm bin. The instructions are fantastic and take you step-by-step through set up on into the future. It helps prevent some beginner mistakes and wasted money.

I'll start with saying that all of the vertical stacking worm farms operate pretty much identically. There's no big differentiator between them in terms of producing worm castings. With that said, I bought the Worm Factory 12 years ago and it's produced a large amount of worm castings over the years, but with that amount of time, a couple of things cropped up; 1) the trays are starting to crack at the corners, and 2) I don't feel the legs are designed well to support the weight of five full trays; the legs have been splaying out over time. Given that they all operate on the same principle, it came down to design and, to a lesser extent, price. I like the base on the VermiHut as there's no way the support legs will splay out over time. I also like the rounded corners of the trays as I believe this design relieves some of the stress that my Worm Factory experienced with cracking at the tray corners. And I'm happy that everything's allegedly made from 100% recycled materials. I guess the second criteria for selecting a product is what's included. Mine came with a brick of coconut coir and a woven mat made of some kind of organic fiber. I don't need either one as I just moved the contents of my existing trays to the new VermiHut. I also didn't use the included sheets of nylon mesh as I'm using mine outdoors, nor did I need the trays for preventing ants from invading (good design though). The one thing the Worm Factory came with that the VermiHut didn't was a small bag of vermiculite that worms apparently like for digestion (it deposits in the worms' guts), but I haven't used it in years and it doesn't seem to impact the quantity of worm castings produced. As another reviewer mentioned, you should be producing little to no leachate. If you are, you're ecosystem has too much moisture and the whole bin is likely to smell pretty bad. When I moved the contents of my old trays to the VermiHut, there was literally zero smell at all, no liquid in the base, and thousands of happy worms. We've tuned what we put in the bin over the years and are now down to just espresso machine coffee pucks (very low moisture), banana peels and the occasional overripe banana. The worms love it, but I think it comes down to the moisture level that makes them and the ecosystem thrive. The VermiHut is clearly designed for very little leachate production based on the volume of the base which is fine with me. All in all, I'm a satisfied customer and expect the VermiHut to last at least as many years as the Worm Factory. I did contact VermiHut to ask about a couple of things not mentioned in the owner's manual and they promptly clarified everything. I'll close with a lesson learned a long time ago.... you should never give your worms hot chili peppers. I literally murdered almost every worm in all of the bins and felt horrible about it! Poor little guys.

like the product, easy set up step by step instruction,a ton of worm tea that is a great product for plants and garden also.And you have the convience of bait for fishing anytime u need.

Es de fácil uso e instalación, muy útil para realizar la propia composta en casa y reutilizar los desechos orgánicos

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The pack I received was faulty and did not have any user manual or direction guide on how to use it.

Its much smaller than I expected. The worms are not doing much, they eat nothing, after 3 months still not got any compost out of it. Overrated and Overpriced, I am now buying 50litre bags for £3 from garden shop.