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Harvesting Vermicompost

<h1><span style=”font-size: x-small;”>Did you know that worm castings are the absolute best enriching material you can put in your soil around your plants?</span style></h1>

This past spring I have personally found out how superior to synthetic fertilizers and other liquid fertilizer even a trowel full of soil with worm castings in it can be.

Here’s more about my experience with composting worms and using the castings at http://www.plantsandgardeningtips.com/.

Harvesting the nutrient filled soil or worm casting can be somewhat work intensif.  If you use a whole container or, as in my case,  the whole window box without dividing into sections for feeding the wigglers, it will take  a little more work to remove the nutrient-filled soil from the container and replace it with new soil because you have to be so careful about not harvesting your worms also.  You went them to remain in the new soil which you will use for bedding.

When I feel there is sufficient nutrient-rich super soil in the entire window box and I want to use it, I begin by Read the rest of this entry »

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