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I have had a worm farm for many years, in the city and on the farm. I love my little worm community and I adore the many uses the end product gives me and I wanted to share the concept with you!

Worm castings is often referred to as ‘Black Magic’ or ‘Black Gold’ and the worm pee or ‘tea’ is also worth it’s weight in gold, both are the gardening World’s best kept secret!

Imagine having the BEST organic fertiliser for FREE because if you have a worm farm you’ll never have to buy seed raising mix or fertiliser again…and all for recycling your kitchen scraps – it’s really that easy!!

What is a worm farm?

Worm farming is the process of using tiger and other compost worms in an artificial ecosystem known as the ‘worm farm’ to convert organic waste into nutrient-rich fertiliser a process is known as ‘vermiculture’

Solid castings called ‘vermi-cast’ and a liquid called ‘vermi-liquid’ are produced as worms digest and excrete the food and paper waste. These by-products are packed with the beneficial nutrients, of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and when they are incorporated into the outside garden soil or used as a liquid feed, they have the effect of encouraging strong, healthy plant growth.

Why have a worm farm?

Recycle vegetable and other household scraps

Every house would benefit from a worm farm, whatever it’s size as every household generates a moderate amount of recyclable waste, that would normally just be thrown in rubbish bin and tossed into the overcrowded land fill sites.

A worm farm allows you to ‘use’ this waste to maximum advantage by feeding it to your worms who dutifully ‘recycle’ it and convert it into two usable items, for FREE!!

A worm farm is the best household recycle solution and what’s so great is that is doesn’t have to be a huge farm to produce the best soil improver and the best plant food.

It makes the best soil fertiliser

Vermi-cast can either be diluted into a liquid fertiliser for plants or be used in solid form as a compost-like soil conditioner to mix in with soil to transform it into a magical growing medium.

I have both chickens and a worm farm, as I know the ‘compost’ worms which live in a worm farm and their ‘castings’ are a ‘gardener’s secret weapon’ and do a job nothing else can achieve and indeed make a fertiliser that is not matched by anything else either.

It makes the best worm ‘tea’

Vermi-liquid also called worm ‘tea’ or worm ‘wee’ is the liquid produced in a worm farm.

There is some controversy surrounding what ‘worm tea’ is, is it the ‘run off ‘ liquid found in the bottom bin or do you have to ‘make’ it from the castings by soaking them in water for an hour or so?

Any worm farm after a few months will begin to fill the very bottom bin with a brown odorless liquid and while the majority of people, myself included, call this worm tea and use it as such, always, but you always have to dilute to the colour of ‘weak’ tea, roughly 100 to one ratio, otherwise it will be too strong and burn the plants.

Some people refer to it as leachate and advise it can ‘burn and poison’ your plants because it is a product of an overly moist worm farm and contains undecomposed materials.

Well, in MY experience I have always used the run off in the bottom bin. I have never ever had any problems, infact I have has such good results I am loathed to sell my ‘liquid gold’.

And as I mentioned, as long as it is really diluted, the weaker the better, as the undiluted liquid will burn and poison you plants.

I hope you are inspired! Please check out my Worm Farm Guide for everything you need to  know about having your own worm farm …and more

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