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Vermicomposting (Worm Composting)

Vermicomposting (Worm Composting). Why?. Go Green Worms help the environment by eating our food scraps and other plant based material. This saves our landfills. GO GREEN Worm castings make excellent natural fertilizer.

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Vermicomposting (Worm Composting)

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  1. Vermicomposting(Worm Composting) Why?

  2. Go GreenWorms help the environment by eating our food scraps and other plant based material. This saves our landfills.

  3. GO GREENWorm castings make excellent natural fertilizer.

  4. Go Green Worm tea is another natural fertilizer and disease control agent.

  5. Go GreenWorms are Mother Nature’s core aerators.

  6. Go GreenWorms provide bait for recreational fishing.

  7. Our Visit with Ron Crum • Local worm expert • Community lecturer on worm composting • Guest educator at local schools • Soon to be an author of a children’s book • Provider of worms, compost and bins • Located on Forge Road, about 300 yards past the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service annex • Phone: 757 291-6675

  8. Ron’s Outdoor Worm Homes

  9. Ron’s Indoor Bins

  10. Ron Extracting Worm Castings

  11. Ron’s Homemade Bins

  12. Our Bins

  13. What We Learned 1. Worm compost and worm tea are more useful and easier to make than we thought. 2. Red wigglers are most commonly used for vermicomposting. 3. European night crawlers are growing in popularity as a composting agent. 4. European night crawlers are hardier and can be released into the garden. 5. Favorite worm foods: melons, bananas, pumpkins, grits, newspaper, canned vegetarian beans. 6. Enough worm castings for the garden can take from three to six months to form. Be patient.

  14. What We Learned (cont.) 7. A double bin construction makes it easy to make worm tea. 8. Formula for making worm tea: 1 part worm liquid to 10 parts water, and add 2 Tbsp. molasses. 9. Castings can be used sparingly around individual plants to be effective. 10. Worms won’t eat seeds. 11. Each worm lays an egg every few weeks. Each egg contains as many as 20 baby worms. 12. We found some inconsistencies in information.

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