Comments on: Beneficial Growth Using Organic Worm Castings Fertilizer

By: Leaf Mulcher

Leaf Mulcher — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:03:53 +0000

Really interesting article! Seems to work well with your plants. Going to try this out on a set of my plants and see if it works just as well. Thanks for the post!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:12:24 +0000

Yes it is true the Internet is full of false information…. Reason being for much of it is the fact many of the so called worm farms out there do not raise any worms but rather use a third party to send all their orders off… This is why I started from scratch and working on a series of articles. The first one, Facts on Raising Worms Part 1

Bruce

By: Herron Farms Dawsonville

Herron Farms Dawsonville — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:21:28 +0000

Great info. I am to cheap to buy your book. but have experimented with the Africans to the point, I am thinking of writing my own. Not much info. on them. The web is saturated with misinformation.

By: Worm Castings Fertilizer Or Soil Builder | Worm Composting

Worm Castings Fertilizer Or Soil Builder | Worm Composting — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:28:29 +0000

[...] soil or potting mix benefits the plants compared to those planted without worm castings. One such worm castings experiment was posted on this blog. It has also been proven that the addition of worm castings does revitalize [...]

By: Solway Recycling

Solway Recycling — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:01:49 +0000

Great article. Very impressed by the growth after just one week.

By: Kayle Zimmerman (Zim)

Kayle Zimmerman (Zim) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:31:07 +0000

I have been raising worms for about 2 years in Iowa. Last winter, I was using a salamander kerosene heater in an enclosed heated room in my machine shed with 25K red wigglers. The first time, I lost a lot of the worms through freezing because the heater ran out of fuel. The second time, the thermostat dropped in a worm bin and cooked everything, so I almost had to start from scratch. Some of the cocoons made it through until spring and without purchasing any more red wigglers, I have more than doubled that population although they are a little hard to count with so many being produced every day. I had purchased 5K bait size Europeans and these had been my favorite since I have 10 grandchildren that have a problem getting the red wiggler on the hook. I had also purchased Africans this summer and have recently changed my mind about them being just a curiousity. One of my original intentions of raising worms was the castings since I am an avid gardner and hoped to also help pay for my hobby farm. I was getting way to much left over leaf particles even though I had ground them up about the size of pepper to begin with but the brown shows up like a bright light against the black castings, so most of the casting I have already done will end up in my garden or my wife;s house plants. Since purchasing the 14 day e-book, I have learned more about the Africans than I ever thought possible and I am really looking forward to the new end product. I look forward to more information and discussions on this forum.

By: kenn

kenn — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:44:57 +0000

Im new to this forum, so I would like to say greetings to all. I have been growing worms and composting for about 4 or 5 years now, but just recently got serious about the whole process. This past summer,(2010), I purposly made a comparative garden using worm castings at different intervals throughout the whole growing process of my garden, but only on certain plants. I noticed a remarkable difference between those germinated in a casting blend of soil, topdressed once transplanted, and watered with castings’ tea. I dont have pictures of this, but next growing season, I will. It’s amazing how these overlooked and under appreciated little creatures can enhance the quality of the food’s we grow and eat, clean up contaminated soils, improve soil substrates, and a list of other feats, and they have literally been right there under our feet all this time.
I guess it only goes to show how some of our most valued gifts from nature can be overlooked and under appreciated, and the answers are right under foot all the time.

By: Tropicalworms

Tropicalworms — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:49:53 +0000

During the past year I was producing about 25 kgs weekly with worms bedded in recycled styrofoam boxes used to ship grapes from California (I’m in Manila). The boxes were a good choice when we suddenly found ourselves with 6 feet of water in the house. Just like Noah, they floated around until the water subsided. Although everything in the house was lost, no worms abandoned ship.

I’m using a composted mix of spent mushroom substrate, Starbuck’s coffee grounds, fresh fruit scraps mixed with fresh leaves from one of our sustainable tropical leguminous trees. After the worms are in their new bedding, they get fed with fresh vegetable scraps. We also collect shells from 400,000 eggs monthly, pulverize them in a hammer mill and add them to the bedding mix.

Our next beds will be rice straw and hog manure, mixed with spent mushroom substrate. Very few horses or cattle in our area. The small ruminants are mostly backyard operations, without significant manure accumulation.

These worms are a livelihood project for rural farm residents as we transition them to organic high value crop production. We were just granted a shredder, capable of about a ton per hour. We plan to be producing about six tons of vermicompost monthly by the end of the year. Then we’ll have to start thinking about mechanization.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:03:30 +0000

Susan

Welcome to the forum and worm composting

Bruce

By: rosebud01922

rosebud01922 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:41:59 +0000

I’m starting composting as soon as I get my worms in the mail . Susan Cole