Two goals this week: add more food residues (to increase microbial diversity) to the two new vermicomposting beds described in last week’s blog and apply the vermicompost that is finished to the ...
Discussion of vermicompost teas used as soil drenches and foliar sprays is being put off to a future blog.
Last week we referred to Farmer Al’s slide comparing thermophilic composting and verm...
“A nectarine… is half plum, half peach… a fine fruit… even rotten; I’d eat a rotten nectarine over a fine plum any day”
Mel Brooks as the 2000 year old man
Contrary to popular belief, the nectari...
So far this week we have spent 2 days harvesting compost from worms (vermicompost) and we will probably spend another 2 days. The harvesting includes general maintenance.
Let’s refer to Farmer Al...
Last week we applied a bacterial vermicompost tea as a foliar spray on pear and apple trees infected with the Fire Blight bacterium. In the past few weeks we have drenched the soil around our tomat...
More details on the use of compost/vermicompost teas will be described in next week’s blog. This week a vermicompost tea (containing bacteria, fungi, protozoa but dominated by bacteria) was brew...
We are starting a three part series on compost teas , specifically vermicompost teas. In this blog we will start with some general definitions.
One of the basic principles of the modern organic agr...
Continuing with Farmer Al’s presentation entitled “Compost: the new rage in sustainability”, we will refer again to one of the introductory slides with the heading “Soil texture at Frog Hollow F...
