Sounds great ya harvesting is probably the most labor intensive part of verimcomposting I found a metal office trash can 
with small openings from bottom to top thank works great and another thing I use is those large net pots that hydro users use those are great for quick turnarounds and you can shake those with one hand when 1/2 full the other I use is 1/4 hardware cloth on a frame of wood I built that I slide back and forth on top of my wheel barrel will take pics and try to post
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Do u @Tommy_McCain use them casts everywhere? Lawns , flower beds, garden beds and such? If not you should give it a try!
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Iām working up to that right now! My veggies have started getting castings and leaf mulch and boy are they loving both!
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Yea itās that time for me also will probably use up 3/4 of a 5 gallon bucket today along with just recent compost which is ready to apply now time for the stretch and flowering mode to kick in gear! Broke down and bought a 25 lb bag of biolive yesterday and the grow shop! Excited to give it a go!
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Great minds think alike. Though I do the opposite, I have a square bucket with a hardware cloth lid. I take a handful and rub it against the hardware cloth and into the bucket. Anything that doesnt fit through the hardware cloth gets run through the bin again.
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Yup I do something similar saves on the back if liken it To rubbing some cheese across a cheese grater the bulky stuff is going on to the garden and Cannabis beds and the fine stuff goes in containers and ornamentals pots
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My outdoor beds get some castings every year but I have so many worms in my outdoor bedsā¦Iām kind of on the no til cycle outdoors. I have a lot of all of these things(lawn and beds) so it would take 100 gallon pots for everything. I use about 20 yards of lawn waste mulch a year in my beds. A lot of this mulch is leaf matter and the worms go crazy outdoors for it. I mulch everythingā¦pathsā¦bedsā¦treesā¦everything.
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I finally found one!!!
This is the base for my future binā¦
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Mustee-23-in-x-25-in-White-Freestanding-Polypropylene-Laundry-Utility-Sink-with-Drain/50111056
Half the price of what I was seeing AND $10 cheaper than the Despot.
Now, hereās the question, I was going to put 1/8" hardware cloth on the bottom tray and 1/2" cloth on the others. Is 1/8" small enough to where nothing will drop down into the sink, where the liquid will be collected, or should I use something like landscape fabric?
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If I thinking what you might be doing are you building like a stackable screen level type system then ? Iād just do away with the fabric barrier and just lay a piece of fitted cardboard it will deteriorate over time when the casting build up theyāll hold in place cause they get really dense and compacted over time IIRCC a lot of flow through system work this way.
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Dingā¦ Dingā¦ Ding!!! You, sir, are correct!!!
I have heard this, but figured I would put something there that is a bit more substantial. Besides, I have both already. My main objective is to not impinge on the flow-through, but keep as little āgritā out of the bottom as possible.
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I just put a piece of newspaper between my bins. When I harvest, I scoop out any worms and gunk that have collected at the drain.
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Inside my worm bin I have not only worms but a complete fauna. I donāt know their names but I see what I call small white mites, micro black beetle and skinny translucide worm.
They are so small it is hard to take a good picture with my camera:
Their number changes depending on the amount of fresh food, they live on the surface/top bedding , the worms seems to thrive just bellow. As I feed quite a few chunky pieces they seems to be doing the first round of composting.
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Those are translucent worms are your baby reds so their multiplying nicely , little white ones are probably hypoaspis miles beneficial also , if ya see jumpers their spring tails also good! ā¦ I get quite a few of the Rollie pollies as well! You have a good worm bin there.
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Now that Iām looking at your 2 nd pic those look like springtails ! Great jumpers if you disturb them a bit.
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I dint know what the jumpers were!
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Yes there might be a few different species in what I call white mite! Some are definitely jumpers and the pictures of hypoaspis miles I found are looking what I see.
And thank you for the confirmation about the red wigglers babies, I wasnāt sure! They seems to have different habits, and I never saw them getting bigger to a normal red wiggler size.
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Iv never seen Hugh reds in a contained bed but some in compost bins and such some have been getting as big as a number 2 pencil or better almost the size of small nigh crawlers
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