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Special Event - May 26th - 11am-3pm - Ask
the Experts about the benefits of worm castings and worm teas. Yelm Worm and
Castings farm will be here to answer all of your questions about worms and vermi-composting.
Check out the tea brewers! So easy to use and so good for the garden!
Worm Tea
Composting Worms will "EAT YOUR GARBAGE".
They will eat all of your "GREEN WASTE" ie,
paper, cardboard, kitchen refuse, grass clippings etc. (They will not eat
plastic, glass, metal, bones and preferably no meat as it takes too long to
digest) All the above can be reduced and converted to a useful bi-product at the
place where the waste is created. The Bi-Products are WORM CASTINGS and WORM
TEA.
WORM TEA is collected by the spraying of the
worm pits. The worm urine as well as the other nutrients are combined and
recycled. The end result is a liquid plant and soil enhancer that can be diluted
to a 1 part Worm Tea to 50 parts Water. (1-50 ratio). This can be used as a
fertilizer as well as insecticide.
It is the best all-natural fertilizer
available, hands down!
The
Benefits of Using Worm Tea
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Worm Tea will out perform
chemical fertilizer. Increasing both plant size and yield. This is due to
interaction of Worm Tea microbes with the soil microbes and protozoa, soil
particles and the roots of the plant itself.
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Worm Tea used as an
inoculant for potting soil will suppress airborne pathogenic fungi that can
readily infect sterile potting medium. The organisms in Worm Tea also produce
hormones, vitamins, nutrients, enzymes, amino acids and minerals needed by
seedling cuttings and young plants. Inoculation should be done two weeks prior
to planting.
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Plants grown in soil treated
with Worm Tea are healthier due to the symbiotic relationship between the
plant and the microbes in the root zone. Plants feed the microbes and the
microbes produce or make available all of the food and medicine the plant
needs to thrive.
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Plants grown in soil treated
with Worm Tea are more nutritious than plants grown in soil treated with
chemical fertilizer. The food value of these plants is increased due to the
availability of minerals, vitamins, enzymes and amino acids.
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Worm Tea can remediate soil
that has been damaged by agricultural chemicals. With repeated application the
microbes will adapt to the soil, convert and metabolize organic and inorganic
chemicals. They will also sequester heavy metals not required by plants.
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Worm Tea can treat lawns
affected with thatch, which is a condition caused by sterility in the
underlying soil. Chemicals usually cause sterility. Worm Tea will repopulate
the soil with microbes, enrich the roots and break down the thatch turning it
into food for the grass.
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Worm Tea applied to the soil
improves water retention. Many of the microbes manufacture protective mucus
that acts as glue to agglomerate soil particles. Microbial colonies also make
a bio-slime that is mostly water and is retained to protect the colony. The
water retentive property of healthy soil can be 3-4 times greater than
unhealthy soil.
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Our Worm Tea includes
powdered minerals such as: granite, limestone and rock phosphate which have
been through the gut of a worm & is then immediately available to your plants
& will supply 95% of everything the soil needs. The other 5% is organic
material applied as mulch or litter on the surface of the soil or as dead root
material under the soil surface.
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The microbes in Worm Tea
turn organic matter into humus, storing energy for later use. This is the
basic unit of soil fertility.
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The microbes in Worm Tea
feed other organisms in the soil food chain. Protozoa and nematodes feed on
bacteria and fungi directly while worms ingest bacteria laden soil particles.
All life in the soil depends on microbes, directly or indirectly.
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Worm Tea applied, as a
foliar spray will act as a fertilizer. Plants will produce more foliage and
larger stems. This is a good treatment for plants that are stressed or lacking
enough sun.
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Worm Tea applied to a
compost pile will accelerate the breakdown of plant material reducing the
amount of time to make compost. It can also be used to re-inoculate the pile
after it has gone through its hot phase, which inactivates or kills many of
the beneficial microbes. Re-inoculation increases the population of beneficial
microbes, which continue to breakdown organic matter and form humus.
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Surprise to us was the value
of Worm Tea when applying it to sun burn. We have testimonials from Australia
where after a painful sunburn – placed worm tea on one shoulder and arm and
another product on the other. The cooling effect was immediate and by the
following day, saw tremendous difference between the two arms.
Another Testimonial here in
Apopka, FL. We have many nurseries growing Pothos and Diffenbachia. Some workers
break out in a rash and have constant itching. Again – experimenting found the
Worm Tea gave a cooling effect, the itching stopped and the rash disappeared.
The testimonial given was that, "Finally she had a restful night's sleep".
Interested in Yelm Worm Farm Worm Castings?
For
More Information about Worm Castings
Worm Factories - for $89.95.
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