MoonShadows
Almost Self-Reliant
Bought a Vermihut Worm Bin for the kitchen. While we have our compost pile outside, I like to dress directly around plants with worm castings, but they can be expensive to buy, and a worm bin will also help to produce even more worms than we get in our outdoor compost and garden naturally.
As worms digest the organic materials they consume, they refine them. Nutrients, including minerals and trace elements, are reduced to their most usable form. The castings have a neutral pH of 7.0. Castings are completely finished and unlike some other manures, don’t smell strongly (they smell like forest soil) nor will they burn plants due to too much direct nitrogen. Castings do contain 4% to 5% more nitrogen than your average garden soil, but in a slow release form due to the mucous the worms secrete as they digest. Castings make soil more absorbent, making moisture more consistently available to plants and prevent soil from completely drying out. Worms introduce uncountable numbers of beneficial microbes and bacteria into the finished product (up to 10,000 different kinds) that aid plant growth and help fight off disease. Castings give you the healthiest soil possible. In addition, castings contain humic acid which aids plant nutrient absorption. Studies show that germination and seedling growth is improved by planting in worm castings. Worm castings are the super food of garden plants.
As worms digest the organic materials they consume, they refine them. Nutrients, including minerals and trace elements, are reduced to their most usable form. The castings have a neutral pH of 7.0. Castings are completely finished and unlike some other manures, don’t smell strongly (they smell like forest soil) nor will they burn plants due to too much direct nitrogen. Castings do contain 4% to 5% more nitrogen than your average garden soil, but in a slow release form due to the mucous the worms secrete as they digest. Castings make soil more absorbent, making moisture more consistently available to plants and prevent soil from completely drying out. Worms introduce uncountable numbers of beneficial microbes and bacteria into the finished product (up to 10,000 different kinds) that aid plant growth and help fight off disease. Castings give you the healthiest soil possible. In addition, castings contain humic acid which aids plant nutrient absorption. Studies show that germination and seedling growth is improved by planting in worm castings. Worm castings are the super food of garden plants.