Worm castings getting ready to make worm tea

Worm tea - Brewing worm tea from worm castings - How to make worm tea

My soil less potting and seed starting mix recipe - Plants love it!

Here is how I made my own soil less mix recipe. It's very easy to make and it seems that seeds love to germinate in this mix. It is said you should avoid starting seeds, (or certain seeds anyway), in native dirt/soil because of bacteria etc that can kill the seed - damping off it's called.

You only need a few things to get started:

1.) (4) 5 gallon buckets with lids

2.) Bag of vermiculite

3.) Bag of perlite

4.) Bag of sphagnum moss

5.) 1/2 to 2 pounds worm castings (optional)

Pour each ingredient into it's own 5 gallon bucket.

Use a measuring cup to take equal  parts of each product and pour into the last bucket. (If you choose to add the worm castings do not need a bucketand shoud be stored somewhere else.) This is your completed soil-less mix for starting seeds or using as house plant medium. You can even use this as hydroponic medium if you has a netting to hold it together.

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2.5 pounds of worm castings total after 3 months

Here is a photo while we were harvesting our worm castings. We got a total of 2.5 pounds of worm castings and have since started to make worm tea, used the worm castings in our indoor garden and have mixed the worm castings into a home made soil mix consisting of perlite, vermiculite, peat moss and worm castings.

Worm tea is brewing

I now have the worm tea brewing!

Here is how I am  making my worm tea:

- 5 gallon bucket filled with water
- 2 tablespoons of unsulfured molasses
- Air pump for a fish tank
- Drip iirrigation tube for air hose
- 1 drip irrigation "T"
- 2 adjustable drip emitters
- Pantyhose to put worm castings in
- 2-3 clothespins to hold drip irrigation line to pantyhose to keep air blowing from the bottom

I'll let this worm tea brew for about two days. I plan on pouring the finished worm tea into a two gallon pump spray and use on my entire garden and landscape. Pictures to follow...

Just finished harvesting the worm castings

All finished with the worm castings. It took about an hour to harvest all the worms castings, which by the way there was a total of 2.5lbs. of worm castings. Yes, thats right, 2 1/2 pounds of worm castings in three months! I found many, many baby worms while digging through the castings. Overall the worm composting bin seems to working great and is in excellent working order. The worms seems happy and are reproducing at a very fast rate. Photos to come later....