This year I discovered access to a large amount of night crawler worm castings on my property. I will be using that for the rest of the season, but I want to be able to use the castings in the winter grows as well. So, I've decided to build a simple indoor worm farm that will go into the grow room.
I found some very detailed and excellent information in regards to using Worm castings for your plants, and getting a great tea from it to feed the plants. In addition, a nice simple homemade worm bin post.
The site is called "World of Worms", or world of worms dot com. You know how to put that together.
The "tea" is actually called "Leachate". It is not the same as a compost tea.
A personal note from me, you will want to use the liquid as soon as you can. Do not leave it sitting around without aeration of some sort or it will go anaerobic on you and start to develop bacteria and smell quite bad. I wouldn't want that in my buds....
If you have ever smelled stagnant water outside, that's what happens. It's where mosquito larvae begin in addition to other critters.
I have collected rainwater in buckets for a few years. If I leave those buckets unattended for two days or more, the larvae are there.
Here's some information and a process for making a worm bin to harvest castings and for getting tea out of the same bin:
Wormcastings Usage:
Simple indoor Worm Farm from a rubbermaid or other tote:
I found some very detailed and excellent information in regards to using Worm castings for your plants, and getting a great tea from it to feed the plants. In addition, a nice simple homemade worm bin post.
The site is called "World of Worms", or world of worms dot com. You know how to put that together.
The "tea" is actually called "Leachate". It is not the same as a compost tea.
A personal note from me, you will want to use the liquid as soon as you can. Do not leave it sitting around without aeration of some sort or it will go anaerobic on you and start to develop bacteria and smell quite bad. I wouldn't want that in my buds....
If you have ever smelled stagnant water outside, that's what happens. It's where mosquito larvae begin in addition to other critters.
I have collected rainwater in buckets for a few years. If I leave those buckets unattended for two days or more, the larvae are there.
Here's some information and a process for making a worm bin to harvest castings and for getting tea out of the same bin:
Wormcastings Usage:
Simple indoor Worm Farm from a rubbermaid or other tote:
