Worm Castings or Vermiculture
Posted on: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
I’ve been Worm Castings or Vermicompost for many years as a fertilizer and for pest control. When White Flies became a major problem at the farm, we were reluctant to use conventional chemical controls which could make our plants toxic for fish. We called our friends at Organic Control who supply us with LadyBugs, Beneficial Neamtodes, Praying Mantids and other beneficial insects. Their suggestion was to use worm castings. We were very skeptical but we tried it and we’ve been white fly free for 5 years!
At first we were getting Vermicompost from California, then we discovered that one of our customers Charlie and Lil of Diamond B Farms have a worm farm and produce Vermicompost! Not only is Vermicompost organic and safe but locally made---double green points for us and for you!
Here are just a few facts about Worm Castings or Vermicompost:
so safe you can sprout seeds in pure worm castings.
because it’s safe at any concentrations there’s no mixing or measuring just use as little or as much as you want.
- Improve the drainage and aeration of your native soil.
- Provides strong beneficial control over plant pathogens and insects as we learned from our own experience with white flies.
- Provides trace elements and micro-nutrients in both a water soluble and time released form. This characteristic makes nutrients available over a long period of time.
- Worm castings are alive with beneficial microbial life which help breakdown nutrients already present in your native soil making those nutrients available to your plans.
- Worm mucus present in keep nutrients from washing away and help hold moisture better than plain soil. .
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