Part III Worm Stories from 4 years ago.
Here Is another Story from 4 years ago, After reading this story, you will soon know the story was wrote before I got my Fanning mills( winnowing machines) to harvest my worm castings. ENJOY!!!!
Vermicompost is 100% organic fertilizer.Harvesting vermicompost is a very time consuming job, using various sizes of screens to bag the final product. I am still trying to get the little baby worms and the egg capsules out of it. This is why I am calling it Vermicompost instead of worm castings. Worm castings are free of worms and egg capsules, and completely composted. Vermicompost is about 75% composted material , with some little worms and some egg capsules, never the less these little worms and future worms(egg capsules) are great for any soil you use the Vermicompost in. A gardener will tell you how important it is to have worms in your garden.
I have 50 lbs of European Nightcrawlers working for me, making about 500 - 750 litres of vermicompost every 10-14 days. The vermicompost can be added to your soil at a ratio 1 litre vermicompost to 3-4 litres of your soil or potting soil, and you can top dress your flower beds, gardens etc. every 30 days to keep the plants nutrients at their very best. The vermicompost will retain alot of water too! so in the summer your beds will stay moist for a longer period of time.
The next thing that I am planning on is to educate some elementary classes in Massey, at S.Geiger Public school and St. Mary Catholic School before the end of the school year. So far, I have a worm observatory at S.Geiger School in the grade 2 & 3 classroom. The students are watching the worms work the soil. It is my goal to keep the students enthusiastic about the science in our Natural world. See ya till next time.
The friendly worm guy.
Written by Jeff on April 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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